“Evanescent grace, you vanish as a vapor does, or love in open air.” — Jill Alexander Essbaum Copy Share Image
Poetry, for me, conveys the essence of narrative rather than its particulars. — Delia Sherman Copy Share Image
“Three birds sit on a wire One bird poops Three birds shit on a wire” — Eric Mancini Copy Share Image
In my late teenage years, I developed a real passion for it, and wrote a lot of poetry. — Danielle Steel Copy Share Image
“In his laughter, he found echoes of all the happiness he ever wanted” — Kakarot Hancock Copy Share Image
I myself have never called what I write anti-poetry. I also think that my poetry should not be only known as the… — Ernesto Cardenal Copy Share Image
A poem is but a thought, a mere memory caught at play. From hand onto paper, bleeding thoughts emerge. — Robert M. Hensel Copy Share Image
Careless of censure, nor too fond of fame, Still pleased to praise, yet not afraid to blame, Averse alike to flatter or… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
A comic matter cannot be expressed in tragic verse. [Lat., Versibus exponi tragicis res comica non vult.] — Horace Copy Share Image
I'm probably much more influenced by film-makers and painters than I am by other songwriters or poets, — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Grunge, man, that was incredible. It was dangerous. It was not verse/chorus. Songs could be short, long, a lark, majestic. You were… — Martin Popoff Copy Share Image
Beginnings are dreary, and endings too hard, spirit of life is always vast, neither do we meet, nor do we part, the… — Senora Roy Copy Share Image
I wrote some of the worst poetry west from the Mississippi River, but I wrote. And I finally sometimes got it right. — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
I look into your eyes baby gurl, its not always the package that rocks my world. I was attracted to the body… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Poetry is perhaps what teaches us to nurture the charming illusion: how to be reborn out of ourselves over and over again,… — Mahmoud Darwish Copy Share Image
“For we were not always burdened by debt, dependent on foreign aid and handouts; in the stories we tell of ourselves we… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
“I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where. I love you simply, without problems or pride: I love you… — Pablo Neruda Copy Share Image
“Oh, Buenos Aires, I have traveled around the world, but I’ve never been separated from you,” said Argentine poet Jorge Luis Borges.… — Alejandro Jodorowsky Copy Share Image
The great post-Holocaust poet, Paul Celan, said that a poem is a message in a bottle sent out in the not always… — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
“Hem, you know I don't think that owner's wife where you live likes me. She wouldn't let me wait upstairs for you.'… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
“Some would say it is madness to want a woman this way, but I think it must be love. Not the tepid,… — Bettie Sharpe Copy Share Image
“...the feelings that pass between us are deeper than fleshly touches...” — John Geddes Copy Share Image
“I did not foresee my words becoming such a reverie of mimic and refrain.” — Joshua Kryah Copy Share Image
No man ever raised a monument to a cynic or wrote a poem about a man without faith. — Louis L'Amour Copy Share Image
Poetry is only born after painful journeys into the vast regions of thought. — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
I love to read poetry but I haven't written anything that I'm willing to show anybody. — Abraham Verghese Copy Share Image
Poets, in their way, are practical men; they are interested in results. — Allen Tate Copy Share Image
“Shakespeare, the greatest of poets, was the greatest reader of Nature and life.” — Kaiten Nukariya Copy Share Image
“Well that's too bad. Because it's too late. She's gone. She slipped away.” — Amanda Leigh Copy Share Image
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