Poetry itself hasn't been well served by poets who fled to the margins. — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
“For Rhime the Rudder is of Verses, With which like Ships they steer their courses.” — Samuel Butler Copy Share Image
The worst tragedy for a poet is to be admired through being misunderstood. — Jean Cocteau Copy Share Image
Fiction will always be my greatest love, with poetry close behind. — J. Courtney Sullivan Copy Share Image
“Wildflowers can't be controlled, and neither can the girl with a soul boundless as the sky, and a spirit as free and… — Melody Lee Copy Share Image
Like a poem poorly written we are verses out of rhythm, couplets out of rhyme in syncopated time. — Simon And Garfunkel Copy Share Image
Elizabeth Barrett Browning could write a poem two pages long. Could she have brought it to a music publisher? — Dorothy Fields Copy Share Image
If the poem has no obvious destination, there's a chance that we'll be all setting off on an interesting ride. — Paul Muldoon Copy Share Image
“We both knew something wasn't quite right, but we clung on, used each other like cigarettes: casual, habitual, slow death. Why?” — Vironika Wilde Copy Share Image
“. . .criticism is to poetry as air is to a noise: it allows it to be heard; and even if we… — Annie Finch Copy Share Image
“Because who hasn't tried to pull their arms from the sleeves of gravity's lead coat? Who doesn't have at least one pair… — Lucia Perillo Copy Share Image
“In our time, they say there is no penalty for writing poems. They say this. This is the penalty.” — Muriel Rukeyser Copy Share Image
“A critic can call any poem 'doggerel.' That is no more than a slur. 'Doggerel' or 'maudlin' or 'sappy' or 'sentimental' is… — Jimmy Webb Copy Share Image
We have not all had the good fortune to be ladies. We have not all been generals, or poets, or statesmen; but… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The 'idea' for the poem, which may come as an image thrown against memory, as a sound of words that sets off… — Muriel Rukeyser Copy Share Image
High school was the first time I ever saw spoken word poetry. The first place I ever performed a poem was at… — Phil Kay Copy Share Image
“For we the people will always be arriving a ceremony of thunder waking up the earth opening our eyes to human monuments.… — Sonia Sanchez Copy Share Image
“The season was waning fast Our nights were growing cold at last I took her to bed with silk and song, 'Lay… — Roman Payne Copy Share Image
“Juliet and Romeo Awake the scene, a twilight chamber’d dream, Two angels both alike in dignity: One imaged misadventure on the screen;… — Tiger Lewis Copy Share Image
I published, privately, a collection of my serious poetry I had written over the years. I only published 50 copies, which I… — Tom Glazer Copy Share Image
“My life has been the poem I could have writ But I could not both live and utter it.” — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“Things are more like they are now...than they have EVER been before!” — Uncle Arnie Mamath Copy Share Image
In poetic thought, the role of the subconscious is played by euphony. — Joseph Brodsky Copy Share Image
Sculpture and painting are moments of life; poetry is life itself. — Walter Savage Landor Copy Share Image
Poetic knowledge is born in the great silence of scientific knowledge. — Aime Cesaire Copy Share Image
“i am sacrificial but i am also strong i know better than to love you to death” — Nkateko Masinga Copy Share Image
For a poet, making poems is a way of viewing the world, being in the world, breathing. — Robin Morgan Copy Share Image
“If you love peanut butter pie, you are either Dolly Parton or someone who loves her.” — Kate Lebo Copy Share Image
A film is never really good unless the camera is an eye in the head of a poet. — Orson Welles Copy Share Image
“Bella came into my office. I was working on a poem. The poem was about butts.” — Justin Grimbol Copy Share Image
