Poetry affords us a respite in which we may gather renewed strength for the old struggle to adapt ourselves to reality. — Robert Haven Schauffler Copy Share Image
“all they want to do is tie the poem to a chair with rope and torture a confession out of it. They… — Billy Collins Copy Share Image
If you want to see mankind fully, look at a family. Within the family minds become organically one, and for this reason… — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Copy Share Image
And as to experience-well, think how little some good poets have had, or how much some bad ones have. — Elizabeth Bishop Copy Share Image
“What you’re feeling now, and the person you may reach with your words five years from now-that's why you write poetry.” — Colleen Hoover Copy Share Image
“It must be a little love, - a baby, sort of, It shies away when the cars honk and hiss, But adores… — Vladimir Mayakovsky Copy Share Image
“Death is the easy part, the hard part is living and knowing you could be so much more then you’re willing to… — robert m drake Copy Share Image
One of the greatest, most noble, and most sublime poems which either this age or nation has produced. — John Dryden Copy Share Image
To the extent that this world surrenders its richness and diversity, it surrenders its poetry; to the extent that it relinquishes its… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
In a way, you are poetry material; You are full of cloudy subtleties I am willing to spend a lifetime figuring out.… — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
Art-making is learned by immersion. You take in vocabularies of thought and feeling, grammar, diction, gesture, from the poems of others, and… — Jane Hirshfield Copy Share Image
The real biographies of poets are like those of birds, almost identical - their data are in the way they sound. A… — Joseph Brodsky Copy Share Image
“To Malcolm X, thank you for teaching us the kind of self-love that can never be taken away, To Malcolm X, thank… — Dumisani Tafadzwa Mayele Copy Share Image
“Driving home from work, our white and yellow plates will clog the streets; at the checkpoints, cars will stretch far into the… — Dalia Taha Copy Share Image
“Even the common things he carried with him—the food and the brandy and the loaded pistol—took on exactly that concrete and material… — G. K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Anyone who says, “Here’s my address, write me a poem,” deserves something in reply. So I’ll tell you a secret instead: poems… — Naomi Shihab Nye Copy Share Image
“The abyss and the light of the world, Time's need and the craving for eternity, Vision, event, and poetry: Was and is… — Martin Buber Copy Share Image
Talk of poems and prayers and promises, and things that we believe in. How sweet it is to love someone, how right… — John Denver Copy Share Image
Truth is hard-hearted and unrelenting, too clear, precise; a lie is much more imaginative. — Dejan Stojanovic Copy Share Image
“Dance resides within us all. Some find it when joy conquers sorrow, others express it through celebration of movements; and then there… — Shah Asad Rizvi Copy Share Image
Sometimes my poetry is an attempt to keep off existential terror; sometimes it is a grappling with philosophical problems; sometimes just fun. — Gwen Harwood Copy Share Image
Have you reckon’d a thousand acres much? have you reckon’d the earth much? Have you practis’d so long to learn to read?… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
“and I can still write a poem (sometimes), don’t forget that, and even if they don’t pay off, it’s better than waiting… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
Crisp autumn night moon casts its light down, reassuring us of light in the darkest of nights. This is a gift that… — Caitlin Martin Copy Share Image
They say poets write mostly for themselves; if anyone else likes it, well and good, if not, it doesn't matter; certainly, not… — Tom Glazer Copy Share Image
There is no life of a man, faithfully recorded, but is a heroic poem of its sort, rhymed or unrhymed. — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
I think poetry is as old as language, and both come out of the same thing - an effort to try to… — W. S. Merwin Copy Share Image
The works of great poets have never been read by mankind, for only great poets can read them. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“Tall buildings have always intimidated me, but I somehow feel comforted, by an even taller tree.” — Akash Mandal Copy Share Image
What is it that escapes the observation of poets? What is that act women are incapable of doing? What will drunken people… — Chanakya Copy Share Image
For me, poetry is the colour of Elizabeth Taylor's eyes, or the pauses in Pinter's plays - only the pauses, not the… — Roger Lewis Copy Share Image
Tyranny, like fog in the well known poem, often creeps in silently 'on little cat feet.' — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
Do you know the legend about cicadas? They say they are the souls of poets who cannot keep quiet because, when they… — John Berger Copy Share Image
Cancel me not - for what then shall remain? Abscissas, some mantissas, modules, modes, A root or two, a torus and a… — Stanislaw Lem Copy Share Image
Never discuss the poem you contemplate writing. It's like turning on the outside spigot. It takes all the pressure off the upstairs… — Robert Frost Copy Share Image
“A person who wants a pure and simple life can start a war within themselves and with society” — Lisa C. Miller Copy Share Image
As poets, our lamentations are glorious, filled with the virtues angles would learn to envy. — Masiela Lusha Copy Share Image
“And we who loved the world must learn the language of absence: days foreshortened, empty rooms, the irrevocable distance between the goodbye… — Joe Bolton Copy Share Image
“He viewed us, as we passed him by, With calm and yet with questioning eye, But moveless still, as though the stone… — Edward Robeson Taylor Copy Share Image
“Somehow, when a person you like reads your poem and says they like it, the poem seems all fresh and new afterwards.… — Matthew Lipman Copy Share Image
