Never durst poet touch a pen to write Until his ink were temper'd with Love's sighs; — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
We ask the poet: 'What subject have you chosen?' instead of: 'What subject has chosen you? — Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach Copy Share Image
For instance, it's a little better now than it was two or three years ago, but something like 70% of the poems… — Peter Davison Copy Share Image
“Judaism takes the verse in Genesis, 'Be fruitful and multiply,' as part of its statutory law. Because it is the first law… — Herman Wouk Copy Share Image
I have some weak poems in that new collection, which is why I'm not ready to send the collection out yet. — Shirley Geok-lin Lim Copy Share Image
Poetry is the honey of all flowers, the quintessence of all sciences, the marrow of wit, and the very phrase of angels. — Thomas Nashe Copy Share Image
Against barbarity, poetry can resist only by confirming its attachment to human fragility like a blade of grass growing on a wall… — Mahmoud Darwish Copy Share Image
Listen, real poetry doesn't say anything; it just ticks off the possibilities. Opens all doors. You can walk through anyone that suits… — Jim Morrison Copy Share Image
“A philosopher and a social revolutionist, a painter, a singer, a poet, a writer, and a country gentleman, all engaged in sipping… — Elizabeth Breuer Copy Share Image
“Ah, sweetie. If the poets couldn’t unriddle them, then you certainly can’t. Be kind, and keep your ears on offer if she… — Allyse Near Copy Share Image
“In this mortal frame of mine which is made of a hundred bones and nine orifices there is something, and this something… — Bashō Matsuo Copy Share Image
Poetry, I'm returning to it, never leaves me. It's my genre completely. In poetry I contemplate myself exuberantly. It's my unique strength.… — Nicole Brossard Copy Share Image
In today's world it is deceptively easy to lose sight of our direction and the things that matter and give us joy.… — Roger Housden Copy Share Image
Crows appear in many of my new unpublished poems. In these walks, they take on a symbolic life apart from their irritating,… — Shirley Geok-lin Lim Copy Share Image
You cannot believe what you are saying." "Well, no. Hardly ever. But the philosopher is like the poet. The latter composes ideal… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
I don't think anybody in my family meant there to be any pressure for me to write. But our parents were incredibly… — Hallie Ephron Copy Share Image
“I tried hard to imagine my poems or any poems as machines that could make things happen, changing the government, or the… — Ben Lerner Copy Share Image
“To be human is to be broken and broken is its own kind of beautiful.” — robert m drake Copy Share Image
This dwarf still observes the world from his own self-imposed height. — Dejan Stojanovic Copy Share Image
Our poems will have failed if our readers are not brought by them beyond the poems. — Muriel Rukeyser Copy Share Image
“Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman.” — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“But to cast my life away just like that for nothing at all -- that I won’t do.” — Jaroslav Seifert Copy Share Image
Poetry is an awareness of the world, a particular way of relating to reality. — Andrei Tarkovsky Copy Share Image
Having my poems set to music by Eric Moe has completely knocked my socks off. — Matthea Harvey Copy Share Image
