I have been writing poetry for a long time now. I started writing in my school days. — Kapil Sibal Copy Share Image
A poet must need be before his own age, to be even with posterity — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
“Scatter as a prayer escaping my lips... as orchids blooming in clouds.” — Sanober Khan Copy Share Image
None but a poet can write a tragedy. For tragedy is nothing less than pain transmuted into exaltation by the alchemy of… — Edith Hamilton Copy Share Image
Poetry cannot block a bullet or still a sjambok, but it can bear witness to brutality-thereby cultivating a flower in a graveyard. — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
I am not just a lesbian. I am not just a poet. I am not just a mother. Honor the complexity of… — Audre Lorde Copy Share Image
The urge to write poetry is like having an itch. When the itch becomes annoying enough, you scratch it. — Robert Penn Warren Copy Share Image
There is no gilding of setting sun or glamor of poetry to light up the ferocious and endless toil of the farmers'… — Hamlin Garland Copy Share Image
Just as we don't spend a lot of time worrying about how all those poets out there are going to monetize their… — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
I understand the phrase "Honor the Women" all too well: the poet has probably a wife of his own, but he prefers… — Franz Grillparzer Copy Share Image
I often wonder if I am suffering from some mental dysfunction because of how weird and baffling my poetry seems to so… — John Ashbery Copy Share Image
We aren't suggesting that mental instability or unhappiness makes one a better poet, or a poet at all; and contrary to the… — Dorianne Laux Copy Share Image
June Jordan once said something which is just wonderful. I'm paraphrasing her-that her function as a poet was to make revolution irresistible.… — Audre Lorde Copy Share Image
One of the best gifts you can give a poet is to present them with field guides - to rocks, to stars,… — Marge Piercy Copy Share Image
“A Very Short Song Once, when I was young and true, Someone left me sad- Broke my brittle heart in two; And… — Dorothy Parker Copy Share Image
Anna Journey, in her new book of poems, Vulgar Remedies, creates an alchemical self whose shimmering limbic / alembic lyrics distill the… — Carol Muske-Dukes Copy Share Image
“The Psalms are not only poetry in themselves; they are to be the cause of poetry in those who sing them, together… — N.T. Wright Copy Share Image
“We love men because they can never fake orgasms, even if they wanted to. Because they write poems, songs, and books in… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
“Then Jip went up to the front of the ship and smelt the wind; and he started muttering to himself, "Tar; Spanish… — Hugh Lofting Copy Share Image
“Roses are red, violets are blue, I’m no poet, I just wanna kiss you! love u zakiya” — Zakiya and Majid Copy Share Image
The poets who do this are uniquely conscious of this silence, this stillness. — Russell Simmons Copy Share Image
“If poetry is an escape into the woods, then music is the journey back home.” — Akash Mandal Copy Share Image
If epic poetry is a definite species, the sagas do not fall within it. — Lascelles Abercrombie Copy Share Image
“It is your final gift to me: this room where I shall bleed and knit, as spinsters do.” — Jill Alexander Essbaum Copy Share Image
Latino poets, are really having a significant impact on American poetics today. — Kwame Dawes Copy Share Image
The function of a book or a poem or a story is to delight, to enchant, to beguile. — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
The poems are part of my attempt to understand being in the world in an honest way. — Dan Beachy-Quick Copy Share Image
Prose, narratives, etcetera, can carry healing. Poetry does it more intensely. — Ted Hughes Copy Share Image
