It is strange, how quickly people want to obligate their poets, as it were, on the exile. — Peter Bichsel Copy Share Image
“Emotional pain was the price I paid on the path to becoming a woman. So excuse me if I’m not clueless like… — J.A. ANUM Copy Share Image
Prose pretends to be straightforward in its application to the truth, but truth itself is a dissembler. Poetry, much more honest, knows… — Laurence Overmire Copy Share Image
Drawing is the poet's written line, set down to see if there be a story worth telling, a truth worth revealing. — Irving Stone Copy Share Image
“I sink into it completely, letting everything else fall away so all that's left is this. A moment like a poem.” — Jessi Kirby Copy Share Image
“My anxiety house a house and a fence and a deer in the yard. A zip code. A plague of starlings.” — Kristy Bowen Copy Share Image
“Where have all the poets gone? Rhyme with passion left unsung, Even now my heart it yearns, Until my poet prince returns.’ ” — Heather Burch Copy Share Image
In a notable family called Stein There were Gertrude, and Ep, and then Ein. Gert's writing was hazy, Ep's statues were crazy,… — Bennett Cerf Copy Share Image
“Do you know what people do when they read poetry? They try to figure out what was going on in the poet’s… — Debora Geary Copy Share Image
I'm around a lot of people all the time and as much as I seem social, I'm really an introvert and I… — Doechii Copy Share Image
“I once saw many flowers blooming Upon my way, in indolence I scorned to pick them in my going And passed in… — Heinrich Heine Copy Share Image
If you were going to make sculptures of them, the swivel poems would be disparate objects all attached with hinges and the… — Matthea Harvey Copy Share Image
Precise, graceful, and generous, the poems in SuperLoop, seem to be born out of a deep, careful attention and a profound compassion.… — Ada Limon Copy Share Image
Poetry exists partly to undermine the certainties of an accepted intellectual system, by opening a fissure of awareness at which the reality… — Germaine Greer Copy Share Image
I have the idea that lyric poetry is a poetry that's driven by a sense of the presence of death. That there's… — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
I am a poet writing about pain I am a person recovering & trying to gain. I am your daughter who is… — Brittany Snyder Copy Share Image
I consider myself a poet first and a musician second. I live like a poet and I'll die like a poet. — Bob Dylan Copy Share Image
I exaggerate. I oversimplify. I generalize. But there’s no cynicism here. American poetry is a mess. Long live American poetry. — David Biespiel Copy Share Image
“Kindness went out to play all on a summer's day. With her about many smiles came out and joined in sweet array.… — Sara Loo Copy Share Image
Prose exists to convey meaning, and no meaning such as prose conveys can be expressed as well in poetry. That's not poetry's… — Basil Bunting Copy Share Image
Nine-tenths of English poetic literature is the result either of vulgar careerism or of a poet trying to keep his hand in.… — Robert Graves Copy Share Image
What other people may find in poetry or art museums, I find in the flight of a good drive. — Arnold Palmer Copy Share Image
She had reached a turning point. She no longer believed that a situation could be made better by writing a poem about… — David Nicholls Copy Share Image
“a poetry express dreamer man of action, his every line thinking about. thinking about a woman.” — Tom Phillips Copy Share Image
To me, poetry is a rational act. I never write a poem if I'm not sure what I am going to say… — Luljeta Lleshanaku Copy Share Image
We have a motto at Naropa: 'Keep the world safe for poetry.' It's humorous but has some real bite to it. If… — Anne Waldman Copy Share Image
Prose is admittedly an art rooted in social intercourse, and a fiction writer is faster to find a common denominator with his… — Joseph Brodsky Copy Share Image
“You want to be a poet and you’re not. By the time you realize you’re not doomed, your life is going to… — Tarryn Fisher Copy Share Image
“One spring patio is for rodeos niggled with iodine figures, weaved tapestries inside vast Tuileries. But that reminds me, how exactly do… — Adam Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
You had turned my life to a poem and its rhythm makes my dears and nears to rejoice ever and ever Happy… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“He pushed her so far away that when he tried to find her again... she was light years beyond his reach.” — Alfa H Copy Share Image
If I'm the people's poet, then I ought to be in people's hands - and, I hope, in their heart. — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
A lot of poets too live on the margins of social acceptance, they certainly aren't in it for the money. William Blake… — Jim Jarmusch Copy Share Image
One should always be drunk. That's all that matters...But with what? With wine, with poetry, or with virtue, as you chose. But… — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
“Dearest Shell, If you let me I'd always keep you 400 miles away and write you pretty poems and letters. . .I'm… — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
Poetry should describe itself, and always be simultaneously poetry and the poetry of poetry. — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Copy Share Image
Never did Poesy appear So full of heaven to me, as when I saw how it would pierce through pride and fear… — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
The South produced statesmen and soldiers, planters and doctors, lawyers and poets, but certainly not engineers or mechanics. Let the Yankees adopt… — Margaret Mitchell Copy Share Image
Pound's translation of Chinese poetry was maybe the most important thing I read. Eliot a little bit later. — Robert Morgan Copy Share Image
Love grows by not giving to us. And if our passion for poetry lives on and persists, it is because poetry offers… — Kiki Dimoula Copy Share Image
