Be yourself. Don't imitate other poets. You are as important as they are. — Gwendolyn Brooks Copy Share Image
A sentimental aphorism is even more a surprise than a hard- boiled sonnet. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
The poets have familiarized more people with history than have the historians. — Barbara Tuchman Copy Share Image
“Sexual intercourse began in nineteen sixty-three (Which was rather late for me) between the end of the Chatterley ban and the Beatles'… — Philip Larkin Copy Share Image
The poet complains or points out the discontent that lies at the heart of man, the individual man, and how can that… — Derek Walcott Copy Share Image
“Xifeng tilted her face, a pale moon in the evening of the water. She felt like a goddess in the shimmering light.… — Julie C. Dao Copy Share Image
Many of my poems try to use a comic element to reach a place that isn't comic at all. The comic element… — Stephen Dobyns Copy Share Image
There is also poetry written to be shouted in a square in front of an enthusiastic crowd. This occurs especially in countries… — Eugenio Montale Copy Share Image
Most poetry in the modern age has retreated to the private sphere, turning its back on the political realm. — Terry Eagleton Copy Share Image
You can tell it's a poem because it's swimming in a little gel pack of white space. That shows it's a poem. — Nicholson Baker Copy Share Image
The Helicon of too many poets is not a hill crowned with sunshine and visited by the Muses and the Graces, but… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
The poems were the only thing I wrote that was not for everyone else. Then my editors at Penguin, who were also… — Guy Gavriel Kay Copy Share Image
“leads to Bear Down-- Bear Down gives way to little crown-- Crown concedes the Head-- then Head produces All-- Snip the fruity… — B.J. Ward Copy Share Image
I would come to understand there is no poem separable from its source. I began to see that poems are not just… — Eavan Boland Copy Share Image
“Could any State on Earth Immortall be, Venice by Her rare Goverment is She; Venice Great Neptunes Minion, still a Mayd, Though… — James Howell Copy Share Image
Tennyson and Browning are poets, and they think; but they do not feel their thought as immediately as the odour of a… — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
I'm not going to tell people how to write, but we do have a skill set, and the more we put ourselves… — David Biespiel Copy Share Image
“Definition, like poetry, is the project of revivifying the familiar. Making things we think we know seem newly strange. To estrange, according… — Alena Graedon Copy Share Image
“Time ain’t nothing, but time. It’s a verse with no rhyme, And it all come down to you.(«El tiempo solo es tiempo.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The poem is a little myth of man's capacity of making life meaningful. — Robert Penn Warren Copy Share Image
It ought to come like the leaves to the trees, or it better not come at all. — John Keats Copy Share Image
Each memorable verse of a true poet has two or three times the written content. — Alfred de Musset Copy Share Image
Even the dog is described by the poet to have received justice under Ramarajya. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
I really enjoy doing my poems. So that's it; I'm condemned in some way to be a poet. — Tim Key Copy Share Image
Poetry for me is as much a spiritual practice as sexual ecstasy is. — James Broughton Copy Share Image
When Auden said his poetry didn't save one Jew from the gas chamber, he'd said it all. — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
“My poetry, I think, has become the way of my giving out what music is within me” — Countee Cullen Copy Share Image
“Love, is an unknown passion, for an unknown person, for an unknown reason.” — Hamza Hassan Sheikh Copy Share Image
clarity need not be equivalent to / readability. How readable is the world? — Rae Armantrout Copy Share Image
The language you use for your poems should be the language you use with your friends. — Robert Bly Copy Share Image
There is no born lover, there is no born Don Juan, for we are all lovers. — Dejan Stojanovic Copy Share Image
