Cold hearts don't bleed. Still they pray for eternity, never seeing tomorrow. — Ja Rule Copy Share Image
“Now the fire rises and offers a dozen, singing, deep-red roses of flame.” — Mary Oliver Copy Share Image
Poetry is the only hopeEven if you do not believe it, you have to do it. — Andrei Voznesensky Copy Share Image
Poetry is on earth to make you serene, not corrupt your mind, thoughts,or emotions — Lisa See Copy Share Image
“We ain't got time for a goddamn poetry recital. An' your juices feel like rain on the inferno? What the fuck is… — Garth Ennis Copy Share Image
“... You can't be with God and be neutral. / True contemplation is resistance. And poetry, / gazing at clouds is resistance… — Ernesto Cardenal Copy Share Image
I've been influenced by poets as diverse as Dylan Thomas, Lewis Carroll, and Edgar Allan Poe. — Jack Prelutsky Copy Share Image
“The one who can draw your widest smile is also the one who can throw you to the farthest exile” — Sam Haidy Copy Share Image
Poetry is partly sympathy, don't you think? If it's any good, it gets people to think about others' points of view. — Edwin Morgan Copy Share Image
Then read from the treasured volume the poem of thy choice, and lend to the rhyme of the poet the beauty of… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
Poetry is most just to its divine origin, when it administers the comforts and breathes the thoughts of religion. — William Wordsworth Copy Share Image
“I love loving you. I love our silliness. I love our passion. I love our friendship. I love how you and I… — Steve Maraboli Copy Share Image
I wanted to be a writer for a while. I was an excellent child writer. I won multiple poetry contests. I was… — Aya Cash Copy Share Image
Poetry is ultimately mythology, the telling of stories of the soul. The old myths, the old gods, the old heroes have never… — Stanley Kunitz Copy Share Image
“I’ve been worried since I left the womb Like a schizophrenic on shrooms Like a hypochondriac on crack Never shy with the… — Justin Wetch Copy Share Image
“THE POEMS OF OUR CLIMATE I Clear water in a brilliant bowl, Pink and white carnations. The light In the room more… — Wallace Stevens Copy Share Image
“Someties it is hard to criticize, one wants only to chronicle. The good and mediocre books come in from week to week,… — Randall Jarrell Copy Share Image
“Miaow Consider me. I sit here like Tiberius, inscrutable and grand. I will let "I dare not" wait upon "I would" and… — Mark Haddon Copy Share Image
It is hard to compare cultures without overgeneralizing, but I think a lot of American poetry has an assertiveness - an upbeat… — James Arthur Copy Share Image
The basic rhymes in English are masculine, which is to say that the last syllable of the line is stressed: 'lane' rhymes… — James Fenton Copy Share Image
The best prose is written by authors who see their universe with a poet’s eyes. — Vera Brittain Copy Share Image
The scholars and poets of an earlier time can be read only with a dictionary to help. — Carl Sandburg Copy Share Image
Only those ignorant of what poetry means will ask the question: what is it good for? — Orson F. Whitney Copy Share Image
“That's called man skills, yo. (On a student's poem about a poem)” — Peter Charles Melman Copy Share Image
After the last line of a poem, nothing follows except literary criticism. — Joseph Brodsky Copy Share Image
