My intention is to write poems. That's what I've been doing most of my life. — Joseph Brodsky Copy Share Image
But I don't think that poetry is a good, to use a contemporary word, venue, for current events. — Diane Wakoski Copy Share Image
Learning from books is so empowering - whether it be from history, a novel or a poem. When you come away from… — Lisa Lucas Copy Share Image
I am a romantic poet that sings your songs and crave your touch; until that day comes I will continue to inscribe… — Mai Love Copy Share Image
If the poet would avoid pepsis in his patients, his scalpel must be as clean as the surgeon's. — Austin O'Malley Copy Share Image
That's the thing with me being a former athlete: in the way I attack characters and attack poetry is from the base… — Omari Hardwick Copy Share Image
“I’ve turned down too many gods to Start inventing my own now Or believe in yours either.” — Joanna McClure Copy Share Image
My mom is Irish. She is a poet and a humanitarian who believed in ensuring that people around her had a better… — Amala Akkineni Copy Share Image
“ Smile. Steel it. Keep steeling it. Laugh. Trill it. Keep trilling it. Love. Feel it. Keep feeling it.” — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
“Is this where the light faded out forever? Where the cat was finally killed by caught tongue? Where hand no longer wandered… — Mellon Black Copy Share Image
“In the art of literature there are two contending parties. Those who aim to tell stories that are more or less well… — Gauguin Copy Share Image
“A friend who teaches at a top university once asked her class to memorize thirty lines of the eighteenth-century poet Alexander Pope.… — William Deresiewicz Copy Share Image
Every poet and musician and artist, but for grace">Grace, is drawn away from love of the thing he tells to love of… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
When you and I met, the meeting was over very shortly, it was nothing. Now it is growing something as we remember… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“What has preceded in verses 1–37 is designed not to mitigate the harsh circumstances of verses 38–45 but to be a foil… — R.W.L. Moberly Copy Share Image
“Title: Blue Light Lounge Sutra For The Performance Poets At Harold Park Hotel the need gotta be so deep words can't answer… — Yusef Komunyakaa Copy Share Image
“Besides, Fi was convinced that instinct could determine a body's literary needs, just as physical cravings pointed to dietary shortfalls. She'd experienced… — Masha Hamilton Copy Share Image
There is a certain flimsiness of poetry which seems expedient in a song. — William Shenstone Copy Share Image
I alwaysthought of myself as a competent, minor poet. I know who I'm up against. — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
There is no heroic poem in the world but is at bottom a biography, the life of a man. — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
“Poets are never happy with the things that are happening in our world.” — Avijeet Das Copy Share Image
The true poet has no choice of material. The material plainly chooses him, not he it. — J. D. Salinger Copy Share Image
“Inside these letters, the eye will see Nearby are your friends, and VFD.” — Lemony Snicket Copy Share Image
