A great poet does not express his or her self; he expresses all of our selves. — Gary Snyder Copy Share Image
Poetry is to philosophy what the Sabbath is to the rest of the week. — Augustus William Hare Copy Share Image
Words become luminous when the poet's finger has passed over them its phosphorescence. — Joseph Joubert Copy Share Image
I've learned about marrying poetry and prose and making both accessible. — Jacqueline Woodson Copy Share Image
“Names sound nice because no one peeks behind the cover to see the sad face of a poem crying for meaning, while… — Dejan Stojanovic Copy Share Image
Every poem I write falls short in some important way. But I go on trying to write the one that won’t. — Dorianne Laux Copy Share Image
A poet, to whom no one cruel or imposing listens, Disdained by senates, whispers to your dust. — Carolyn Kizer Copy Share Image
There is no better way of exercising the imagination than the study of law. No poet ever interpreted nature as freely as… — Jean Giraudoux Copy Share Image
Poetry is itself a thing of God; He made his prophets poets; and the more We feel of poesie do we become… — Philip James Bailey Copy Share Image
I was learning 'Changes' at the time that my mom was sick and she was leaving me. And those last verses in… — Charles Bradley Copy Share Image
The record of poetry in the 20th century isn't all that great anyway. Most of the poets who weren't fascists were Stalinists. — Robert Hass Copy Share Image
Maybe you're one of those people who writes poems, but rarely reads them. Let me put this as delicately as I can:… — Kim Addonizio Copy Share Image
“Ephesians 1:7 In Him we have redemption through His blood, the forgiveness of our trespasses, according to the riches of His grace.… — JoAnn Durgin Copy Share Image
Men and women who are lonely create. Those who are gregarious rarely do... Any poet would rather bed with a girl than… — Burton Rascoe Copy Share Image
If you like to read, sometimes it's interesting just to go and see what the reality is, of the word, of the… — Harold Brodkey Copy Share Image
“Decades from now, my grandchild is going to be a poet... And she's going to write about how she's a living testament… — Danabelle Gutierrez Copy Share Image
“What else is a poem about? The rhythm and the images buried in the language. All the ways you can build an… — Garret Freymann-Weyr Copy Share Image
“I used to be a gibber-poet. . . . assemblages of appropriated text from cereal box side panels. I’d spell every third… — James W. Blinn Copy Share Image
“I know this life isn’t fair. I know that beauty will fade and hard times will grip our hearts and darkness will… — Liz Newman Copy Share Image
In history class, I wrote a poem, 'The Royalists and the Roundheads.' I would write poems about driftwood in art class and… — Judith Viorst Copy Share Image
“Between my finger and my thumb The squat pen rests; snug as a gun.” — Seamus Heaney Copy Share Image
I like it when someone gives me a new book of poetry by a poet I haven't read. — Nell Freudenberger Copy Share Image
A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language. — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
You know, people speak in poetry all the time. They just don't realize it. — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
What made me a comedian was that I wasn't really a songwriter, I was more of a poet. — Tommy Chong Copy Share Image
“My poetic aspiration Is to become, A Jack of all styles And a master of pun.” — Clive Blake Copy Share Image
I'd rather be hissed at for a good verse, than applauded for a bad one. — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
I tend to like poems that engage me - that is to say, which do not bore me. — Mark Strand Copy Share Image
