He confided his deepest secret to you; be always wary of his secret. — Dejan Stojanovic Copy Share Image
The poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
In the streets the children screamed. The lovers cried, and the poets dreamed — Don McLean Copy Share Image
“To me faith, science, poetry, all same, many lanes to lift our one humankind.” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
My business is words. Words are like labels, or coins, or better, like swarming bees. — Anne Sexton Copy Share Image
“The truth is, we die a little every day. Yet somewhere between the ashes and the dawn, We must learn the quiet… — Jack Jizmejian Copy Share Image
The pure work implies the disappearance of the poet as speaker, who hands over to the words. — Stephane Mallarme Copy Share Image
Basically, my musical life is split between raving with drugged-up kids and reading obscure 75-year-old poetry, drinking very nice red wine with… — Henrik Vibskov Copy Share Image
Voices and movements approach loss and remembrance profoundly, making poetry of the mundane and seasoning it with wit. — Deborah Jowitt Copy Share Image
“Some people go to priests; others to poetry...I to my own heart, I to seek among phrases and fragments something unbroken.” — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“I had no time to hate, because The grave would hinder me, . . . The little toil of love, I thought,… — Emily Dickinson Copy Share Image
The greatest lovers are like twin blooms, each reflecting the passion and the glory of the other. — Jonathan Lockwood Huie Copy Share Image
“She just needs someone to remind her of all the things she already knows about herself.” — Liz Newman Copy Share Image
There's always some reason not to be writing and I regret the times I give in to that, because then writing feels… — Joan Larkin Copy Share Image
Why do we smile? Why do we laugh? Why do we feel alone? Why are we sad and confused? Why do we… — Benjamin Alire Saenz Copy Share Image
“Writing the poems, I came to think that regarding is a form of love, but the regarding is not necessarily accurate. In… — Joy Katz Copy Share Image
A friend of mine encouraged me to try rapping, so I started experimenting with it, writing verses, seeing if I could fit… — K. Flay Copy Share Image
“So—I went on, on my own—deeper and deeper into the silent Tunnel of the Ride—not so sure of where I was and… — A.S. Byatt Copy Share Image
“Recall what used to be the theme of poetry in the romantic era. In neat verses the poet lets us share his… — José Ortega y Gasset Copy Share Image
When I was awarded a fellowship in poetry by the National Endowment for the Arts (for "Alphabets"), I felt myself suddenly (vaingloriously)… — Norman Lock Copy Share Image
Prose gets divided up into fiction and nonfiction and short fiction and long fiction and autobiographical nonfiction and so on. Poetry can… — Robert Hass Copy Share Image
“A versifier arranges sounds; a poet arranges meaning in the sounds.” — Dejan Stojanovic Copy Share Image
In America they make too much fuss of poets; in London they make too little. — Caitlin Thomas Copy Share Image
The reason a poet is a poet is to write poems, not to advertise himself as a poet. — Yehuda Amichai Copy Share Image
I am the scroll of the poet behind which samurai swords are being sharpened. — Lester Cole Copy Share Image
“depth and substance. the two most exquisite qualities. be it in a poem or a person.” — Sanober Khan Copy Share Image
Poems seem to have a life of their own. They tell you when enough is enough. — Thomas Lynch Copy Share Image
“And you’re a tall drink of water because we’re so fucking thirsty” — Andrew Faulkner Copy Share Image
