“August is dust here. Drought stuns the road, but juice gathers in the berries.” — Robert Hass Copy Share Image
Roses are red, Violets are blue, The sun shines as bright as my love does for you. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“I will be your poet, I will be more to you than to any of the rest.” — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
I believe that there is a kind of poetry, even a kind of truth, in simple fact. — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
Ginsberg's Collected Poems contains a wonderful poem about making it with Neal Cassady. — Thom Gunn Copy Share Image
“Even wolves let their guard down from time to time and become a hunter’s favorite game. Hunted. Captured. Deceived. Betrayed.” — Melody Lee Copy Share Image
Love cannot be proved with Poems, Promises Or presents. Sometimes, Only Pain, sacrifices and patience can prove it. — Anurag Prakash Ray Copy Share Image
“Then, the door opens and there he is; silhouetted in the hall light. Long hair, long legs, and a heartbeat in tune… — Hunter S. Jones Copy Share Image
“Since the majority of me Rejects the majority of you, Debating ends forthwith, and we Divide.” — Philip Larkin Copy Share Image
If your house has Cold Mountain poems They are better for you than sutras Hang them up where you can see them… — Hanshan Copy Share Image
In poetry, even discourse about doubts must be cast in a discourse that cannot be doubted. — Mikhail Bakhtin Copy Share Image
“We are each what never leaves us, what we never see the back of is the self. But what loves us is… — Christina Davis Copy Share Image
I find purer philosophy in a Poem than in a Conclusion of Geometry, a chemical analysis, or a physical law — Wilfred Owen Copy Share Image
Faith is mind at its best, its bravest, and its fiercest. Faith is thought become poetry, and absorbing into itself the soul's… — Charles Henry Parkhurst Copy Share Image
“I want my own will, and I want simply to be with my will, as it goes toward action. And in the… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
Musicians must make music, artists must paint, poets must write if they are to be ultimately at peace with themselves. What human… — Abraham Maslow Copy Share Image
“The future says: Dear mortals; I know you are busy with your colourful lives; I have no wish to waste the little… — Nick Drake Copy Share Image
“All I can offer is this (without a single remembrance or image, or even incoherent wisp of correspondence), even so I knew,… — Tanith Lee Copy Share Image
“Mark 9:8, "where their worm does not die and the fire is not quenched," comes directly from Isa. 66:24, but whose voice… — Robert M. Price Copy Share Image
“An old liar told me here To think ahead and save my money. I should have spent it on ribbons. I should… — Menzies McKillop Copy Share Image
When you touch me there, honey, makes my blood perspire, you got my body flaming like a California fire. Pulsing, pounding, pushing… — Alice Cooper Copy Share Image
You snipe so steady, you snub so snide, so rip and ready to diminish and deride. — Joni Mitchell Copy Share Image
“She seemed to have apprehended all of the composer's coldness and none of his poetry.” — Kate Chopin Copy Share Image
He consorted with prostitutes and poets...and with persons even worse. — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
Pain is filtered in a poem so that it becomes finally, in the end, pleasure. — Mark Strand Copy Share Image
“He sighed. “But I’ve never been crazy about those ‘wait on God’ verses.” — Kim Cash Tate Copy Share Image
To name oneself is the first act of both the poet and the revolutionary. — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
Gender is the poetry each of us makes out of the language we are taught. — Leslie Feinberg Copy Share Image
...it will not always happen that the success of a poet is proportionate to his labor. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Poetry is a type-font design for an alphabet of fun, hate, love, death. — Carl Sandburg Copy Share Image
“an English girl might well believe that time is how you spend your love.” — Nick Laird Copy Share Image
“trying to translate into a language that's known a poem writ in the language of stone” — Kenneth White Copy Share Image
