“In practicing the art of confusion, there is no better weapon than poetry.” — Susan Hubbard Copy Share Image
“I - will have poetry in my life. And adventure. And love. Love above all.” — Marc Norman Copy Share Image
In the sea there are countless treasures, But if you desire safety, it is on the shore. — Saadi Copy Share Image
“Take me to that special place where you kiss me and the world forgets to exist.” — Melody Lee Copy Share Image
Maybe the example of Southern fiction writing has been so powerful that Southern poets have sort of keyed themselves to that. — Robert Morgan Copy Share Image
I can't believe there is a poet who hasn't eagerly put down a word one day, only to erase it the next… — Stephen Dobyns Copy Share Image
When I write a poem, I do not have to worry about using a higher Urdu vocabulary because I know the reader… — Gulzar Copy Share Image
“As if you can measure literary excellence with precise instruments; as if there were a science of writing, governed by equations that… — Justine Picardie Copy Share Image
“For if my poems have always been about survival--and I believe they have been--then survival too keeps revealing itself as an art… — Jane Cooper Copy Share Image
“Time is in essence separation; separation produces pain; pain poesis; and poesis is what constitutes the unending stream of human life in… — Ananya Vajpeyi Copy Share Image
People go on quarrelling and fancying this and that, and thinking that the world is full of romance and poetry. When they… — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
“Today is Sunday It will be Sunday forever Black birds fly over In this one instance May we never recover From this… — Lourd Ernest H. de Veyra Copy Share Image
“We have not all had the good fortune to be ladies. We have not all been generals, or poets, or statesmen; but… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“In twenty-four years of proofreading, flocks of words flew into my head through the windows of my soul. Some of them stayed… — Rohinton Mistry Copy Share Image
Everyone wants a perfect ending. But over the years Ive learned that some of the best poems dont rhyme, and many great… — Ritu Ghatourey Copy Share Image
“...another comber of far pleasure followed the first, for his books came suddenly before his eyes, row upon row of volumes, row… — Mervyn Peake Copy Share Image
The sincere love of books has nothing to do with cleverness or stupidity any more than any other sincere love. It is… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“You read and write and sing and experience, thinking that one day these things will build the character you admire to live… — Charlotte Eriksson Copy Share Image
“Always write exactly what you’re feeling at the exact moment when writing something like poetry or an emotional novel. Put yourself, pour… — Nina Jean Slack Copy Share Image
“Lee said, “Remember, Mr. Hamilton, I told you I was trying to translate some old Chinese poetry into English? No, don’t worry.… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“If anything can be said in prose, then poetry should be saved for saying nothing.” — Pierre Albert-Birot Copy Share Image
Poetry is always slightly mysterious, and you wonder what is your relationship to it. — Seamus Heaney Copy Share Image
Fact is not truth, but a poet who wilfully defies fact cannot achieve truth. — Robert Graves Copy Share Image
“With dark raven paper and twinkling white ink, I wrote my heart in the night’s sky.” — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
“As with life’s finer things, Poetry is created to be savored, not consumed.” — Branch Isole Copy Share Image
“I have clung To nothing, lov’d a nothing, nothing seen Or felt but a great dream!” — John Keats Copy Share Image
If you want to change the world's spirit, I will suggest that only poetry can do this. — Andrei Voznesensky Copy Share Image
Poetry is my politics. It's an opportunity that gives me a way to speak. — Eileen Myles Copy Share Image
