“A mask you ask? Optional I find! Masks lend appeal of a mysterious kind.” — E.A. Bucchianeri Copy Share Image
“the glory of the protagonist is always paid for by a lot of secondary characters” — Tony Hoagland Copy Share Image
Poetry makes possible the deepest kind of personal possession of the world. — James Dickey Copy Share Image
The great poem must have the stamp of greatness as well as its essence. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“In this universe there are no time machines or keys that can turn hearts back around.” — Sarah Tregay Copy Share Image
I have a muse who's very powerful, but I'm still a hopeless deadbeat of a poet. — Shirley Geok-lin Lim Copy Share Image
“If you put the words on a page and you believe in them, then it’s a poem.” — Ewuare Osayande Copy Share Image
“I lived for so long without you, only dreaming of the concept of you. And, now that I know you, I can't… — Liz Newman Copy Share Image
The romanticised life, where all the great poetry and music and art of the world comes from, is great but it requires… — Laura Marling Copy Share Image
“Without play at many levels of language, from phonemes to logical structures, a poem is merely prose with linebreaks added.” — Helen Vendler Copy Share Image
The central fact of my life has been the existence of words and the possibility of weaving those words into poetry. — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
But the lover's power is the poet's power. He can make love from all the common strings with which this world is… — Amelia Barr Copy Share Image
All the modern verse plays, they're terrible; they're mostly about the poetry. It's more important that the play is first. — Denis Johnson Copy Share Image
Religion is no more possible without prayer than poetry without language, or music without atmosphere. — James Martineau Copy Share Image
Living is the original art. As a young man I wanted to be a poet and I learned along the way that… — Mark Nepo Copy Share Image
There is no merit in being truthful when one is truthful by nature, or rather when one can be nothing else; it… — Eugene Delacroix Copy Share Image
“It is a pity that no one in Paris bothered to quote Coleridge, who wrote, long before cubism, that the true poet… — LeRoy C. Breunig Copy Share Image
“He welcomes the chance to do fatherly things with the little girl, and those ten morning minutes with dear little four-year-old Ruby,… — Scott Spencer Copy Share Image
Though God alone never tastes woe, Yet that man is happy, and poets sing of him, Who conquers with hand or swift… — Pindar Copy Share Image
“I had thought so once That it was I who saw in your eyes The raindrops pinging on the windows; Hearing only… — Ilchi Lee Copy Share Image
“Welcome the small cracking of your hard-clodded shell, Embrace the warm sting of tears, Kiss the shadow which frightens you awake as… — Jacob Nordby Copy Share Image
I think that the casual reader and the lyric and confession are trickily tied up together. I mean often when I read… — Shane McCrae Copy Share Image
“Poem (the spirit likes to dress up) The spirit likes to dress up like this: ten fingers, ten toes, shoulders, and all… — Mary Oliver Copy Share Image
“Beware of the compound adjective, beloved of the tyro and the 'poetess'.” — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
If poetry and the arts do anything, they can fortify your inner life, your inwardness. — Seamus Heaney Copy Share Image
“Burning the witch Giordano Bruno is one more wound inflicted on Christ’s body.” — Dejan Stojanovic Copy Share Image
Almost any poem has to be read twice, first for strangeness, second for clarity. — Peter J. Daniels Copy Share Image
I love indices! They are poetry in and of themselves, depending on the book. — Wendy C. Ortiz Copy Share Image
The passionate heart of the poet is whirled into folly and vice. — Alfred Lord Tennyson Copy Share Image
You have no idea, how much poetry there is in the calculation of a table of logarithms! — Carl Friedrich Gauss Copy Share Image
My poem will be always incomplete because it cannot be as beautiful as you are — Nishant Grover Copy Share Image
