“You are full of fear—lucky. You have so many opportunities to be brave.” — Vironika Wilde Copy Share Image
Poet and sculptor, do the work, / Nor let the modish painter shirk — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
Stadium rock and commercial rock are the opposite of what poetry needs. An audience of around 200 is ideal for poetry. — Adrian Mitchell Copy Share Image
“...so i will greet you in a way all loved things are meant to be greeted with a tear in my heart… — Sanober Khan Copy Share Image
My sonnet asserts that the sonnet still lives. My epic, should such fortune befall me, asserts that the heroic narrative is not… — James Fenton Copy Share Image
In the future, a new generation of artists will be writing genomes as fluently as Blake and Byron wrote verses. — Freeman Dyson Copy Share Image
Not always can flowers, pearls, poetry, protestations, nor even home in another heart, content the awful soul that dwells in clay. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I was writing poems and little freestyle raps in my notes throughout all of elementary and high school. — Ice Spice Copy Share Image
Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal; bad poets deface what they take, and good poets make it into something better, or at… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
One problem we face comes from the lack of any agreed sense of how we should be working to train ourselves to… — James Fenton Copy Share Image
“You claim that the evidentiary miracle is present and available, namely, the Koran. You say: 'Whoever denies it, let him produce a… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Association is the delight of the heart, not less than of poetry. Alison observes that an autumn sunset, with its crimson clouds,… — Robert Aris Willmott Copy Share Image
Antagoras the poet was boiling a conger, and Antigonus, coming behind him as he was stirring his skillet, said, "Do you think,… — Plutarch Copy Share Image
“I find everything poetic, and it’s in the corners of my heart which are sometimes mysterious that I catch a glimpse of… — Paul Gauguin Copy Share Image
“The artist (I suppose) usually pays for the privilege by some sort of partial insomnia, by the possession of one faculty that… — Mary Lascelles Copy Share Image
“The Children's Hour Between the dark and the daylight, When the night is beginning to lower, Comes a pause in the day's… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
“Poetic style, when address'd to the Soul, is less definite form, outline, sculpture, and becomes vista, music, half-tints, and even less than… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
Truth is far and flat, and fancy is fiery; and truth is cold, and people feel the cold, and they may wrap… — Stevie Smith Copy Share Image
“between the word and the world lie fading eternities of soon” — Laura Riding Jackson Copy Share Image
A poem is, so to speak, a way of making you forget how you wrote it. — Randall Jarrell Copy Share Image
That I make poetry and give pleasure - if I give pleasure - are because of you. — Horace Copy Share Image
Oh for a seat in some poetic nook, Just hid with trees and sparkling with a brook! — Leigh Hunt Copy Share Image
Most people ignore most poetry because most poetry ignores most people. — Adrian Mitchell Copy Share Image
