Growing up as a kid, I took creative writing classes, and I was always into poetry. — Ivan Moody Copy Share Image
I give credit of my success to my parents. My father was a poet philosopher. — Manoj Kumar Copy Share Image
“The name does not deserve the poem, but the poem deserves the name.” — Dejan Stojanovic Copy Share Image
In autumn, when the leaves are brown, Take pen and ink, and write it down. — Lewis Carroll Copy Share Image
Each piece of writing I undertake, whether a story, novel, play, or poem, begins with an image. — Norman Lock Copy Share Image
Dark is a way and light is a place, Heaven that never was Nor will be ever is always true "Poem on… — Dylan Thomas Copy Share Image
“If you could have walked on the planet before humans lived here, maybe the Ivory Coast would have seemed more beautiful than… — Dejan Stojanovic Copy Share Image
Poetry has ceased to be a public art and has become, as Whitehead said of religion, "What man does with his aloneness. — Kenneth Rexroth Copy Share Image
Gradually I became aware that professing English because I loved poems was like practicing vivisection because I loved dogs. — Michael Donaghy Copy Share Image
“The accepted view appears to be that Neruda represent the real Chile: a place of poetry, freedom of spirit and international enterprise.” — Brian Keenan Copy Share Image
In song the same rule applies as in dramatic verse: the meaning must yield itself, or yield itself sufficiently to arouse the… — James Fenton Copy Share Image
My method is simple: not to bother about poetry. It must come of its own accord. Merely whispering its name drives it… — Jean Cocteau Copy Share Image
The only band I was really over-into was Cream. And the only thing I really liked about them was their live stuff… — Eddie Van Halen Copy Share Image
There has been a time on earth when poets had been young and dead and famous - and were men. But now… — Tom Wolfe Copy Share Image
“The most important thing is to be excellent, interesting, authentic, or useful. To be the thing, not the thing that sells the… — Andrew Essex Copy Share Image
“For with his little secret that he cannot divulge, the poet buys this power of the word to tell everybody else's dark… — Søren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
“Campfire Companions” poem: “What a longing they touched in me! Ah, would that I could lose myself in the wilderness, become a… — Elizabeth Barrette Copy Share Image
Nature as a poet, an enthusiastic workingman, becomes more and more visible the farther and higher we go; for the mountains are… — John Muir Copy Share Image
“My stupidity gave its blessing to succouring nature, on her knees before God. What I am (my drunken laughter and happiness) is… — Georges Bataille Copy Share Image
“I know you don't think that any tongue I speak is mine; it must be rented. I am always denial, or pretense.… — Jasmine Ann Cooray Copy Share Image
In the earliest ages science was poetry, as in the latter poetry has become science. — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
A poem is an instant of lucidity in which the entire organism participates. — Charles Simic Copy Share Image
To be a poet at twenty is to be twenty: to be a poet at forty is to be a poet — Eugene Delacroix Copy Share Image
For me, poetry is an impish attempt to paint the colour of the wind. — Maxwell Bodenheim Copy Share Image
To a poet, silence is an acceptable response, even a flattering one. — Sidonie Gabrielle Colette Copy Share Image
I would rather read poetry than eat my dinner any day. It has been so all my life. — Laura E. Richards Copy Share Image
“Source: The Daily Mail, they heard it through the grapevine, so it must be true” — Ellie Fearn Copy Share Image
“I'm everyone everywhere with you without you unbound set free in limbo lost at sea.” — Bryan Lee O'Malley Copy Share Image
Poetry's task is to increase the available stock of reality, R P Blackmur said. — Jane Hirshfield Copy Share Image
It does not need that a poem should be long. Every word was once a poem. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
If a poet writes to save his soul, he may save the soul of others. — Richard Eberhart Copy Share Image
Not gods, nor men, nor even booksellers have put up with poets' being second-rate. — Horace Copy Share Image
I believe that poets have to be inside their poems somewhere, or the poem won't work. — Joy Harjo Copy Share Image
I would like a simple life / yet all night I am laying / poems away in a long box. — Anne Sexton Copy Share Image
