“He thought, in fine, that the dreams of poets were the realities of life.” — John William Polidori Copy Share Image
“The imperfect is our paradise. —WALLACE STEVENS, “The Poems of Our Climate,” 1938.” — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
I'm skilled in the Twitter and Instagram sense of the social media verse. — Victoria Justice Copy Share Image
Politics can be the graveyard of the poet. And only poetry can be his resurrection. — Langston Hughes Copy Share Image
Whom the gods do not intend to destroy, they first make mad with poetry. — Irving Layton Copy Share Image
How fortunate we are to exist in the moneyless economy of poetry! When you take money out of the equation, anything goes… — Kenneth Goldsmith Copy Share Image
“If you cannot be a sun that illuminates the light, be a moon that never tires of reflecting the light.” — Subhan Zein Copy Share Image
Any poet, if he is to survive beyond his 25th year, must alter; he must seek new literary influences; he will have… — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
“What song, what home, what calm or one clarity can I not quite come to, never quite see: this field, this sky,… — Christian Wiman Copy Share Image
All my life, my heart has sought a thing I cannot name. Remembered line from a long- forgotten poem — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
I hear poets complaining: 'We face what our forebears did not face. We face TV. We face radio. We face this and… — Felix Dennis Copy Share Image
“I am the weaver of hope, searching shadows for silver strands of stars. I make light out of darkness. I make dreams… — Christy Ann Martine Copy Share Image
If somebody writes a great poem, people don't run around applauding the pencil, saying 'Oh, what a great pencil'...I'm a pencil in… — Keith Green Copy Share Image
Writing that gets rewritten as the earth moves. If you look at the sky that way, it's this massive shifting poem, or… — Maria Dahvana Headley Copy Share Image
“I can give not what men call love; But wilt thou accept not The worship the heart lifts above And the heavens… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
Attempt to be creative for the joy it brings… Select something like music, dance, sculpture, or poetry. Being creative will help you… — Richard G. Scott Copy Share Image
Now the power of the imagination is a unifying power, hence the force of metaphor; and the poet is the supreme manipulator… — R. S. Thomas Copy Share Image
“Wild creatures' eyes, the colonel said, Are innocent and fathomless And when I look at them I see That they are not… — Stevie Smith Copy Share Image
“It appears from this verse that the Vaikuṇṭha planets are full of all opulences. There are airplanes in which the inhabitants travel… — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupāda Copy Share Image
I've been an inveterate reader of literary magazines since I was a teenager. There are always discoveries. You're sitting in your easy… — Marilyn Hacker Copy Share Image
The genesis of a poem for me is usually a cluster of words. The only good metaphor I can think of is… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
I secretly assumed, as poets do, The duty on me to define the moon. — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
He that would earn the Poet's sacred name, Must write for future as for present ages. — Christopher Pearse Cranch Copy Share Image
“THE SEA: I’ve swallowed so many hearts and, oh God, I’m still mine alone.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Allow me to feel, Then I bow to you to heal, Looking to release With peace.” — Bri Miller Copy Share Image
“the poem of the world is uninterrupted, but few are the ears that hear it.” — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
This is my heartbeat like yours, it is a hatchet It can build a house or tear one down. — Andrea Gibson Copy Share Image
