“Lie beside me, oh my beloved! For thy thorns are more pleasurable than the petals of the world. Hold me in thy… — Faraaz Kazi Copy Share Image
Gertrude Stein's prose-song is a cold, black suet-pudding… Cut it at any point, it is the same thing ... all fat, without nerve. — Wyndham Lewis Copy Share Image
“I hurt in places that you brought back from the dead. Now I have to lay them to rest again.” — Alfa H Copy Share Image
Poetry can be dangerous, especially beautiful poetry, because it gives the illusion of having had the experience without actually going through it. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“When you are composing a verse, let there not be a hair's breadth separating your mind from what you write. Quickly say… — Robert Hass Copy Share Image
Tennyson seems to be the patron saint of the wishy washies, which is perhaps why I admire him so much, not only… — A. N. Wilson Copy Share Image
Well - I started writing - probably in the early 60s and by say '65-'66 I had read most of the poetry… — Robert Adamson Copy Share Image
“Learn to use your third eye and you’ll be able to see beyond the sky. There is no limit, except that which… — Melody Lee Copy Share Image
“O come all ye faithful..." I began. "Joyful and triumphant..." Liam joined in. We made it through the first three words of… — Tammy Blackwell Copy Share Image
I can't understand how people can settle for having just one life. I remember we were in English class and we were… — Dan Chaon Copy Share Image
“Spring is like a perhaps hand Spring is like a perhaps hand (which comes carefully out of Nowhere)arranging a window,into which people… — E. E. Cummings Copy Share Image
“I'm not afraid of anything anymore. I've found out Ghosts don't hide under my bed or in my closets either. They exist… — Alfa H Copy Share Image
“Unending Love I seem to have loved you in numberless forms, numberless times... In life after life, in age after age, forever.… — Rabindranath Tagore Copy Share Image
“The poet wishes to strike beautiful notes, not new notes... To ask or expect a poet to strike a new note in… — Alfred B. Douglas Copy Share Image
You can be a thorough-going Neo-Darwinian without imagination, metaphysics, poetry, conscience, or decency. For 'Natural Selection' has no moral significance: it deals… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
“It’s the poet we love in Caeiro, not the philosopher. What we really get from these poems is a childlike sense of… — Álvaro de Campos Copy Share Image
If people connect me with the Romantics in general, they probably connect me most with Keats. But Wordsworth is the poet I… — Andrew Motion Copy Share Image
“Anything that is worth being written on pretty paper is worth being written on ugly paper.” — Elevetha Houre Copy Share Image
If you would hit the mark, you must aim a little above it; every arrow that flies feels the attraction of earth. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
I can't understand these chaps who go round American universities explaining how they write poems: It's like going round explaining how you… — Philip Larkin Copy Share Image
“we live in a world full of fear and hatred, where it is our custom to conquer our own fear and hatred” — Samuel Lebea Copy Share Image
“The heart's actions are neither the sentence nor its reprieve. Salt hay and thistles, above the cold granite. One bird singing back… — Jane Hirshfield Copy Share Image
“and in the times of suffering the body neglects the soul the way the rivers neglect the ashes of the dead they… — Arushi Singh Copy Share Image
“While they all ink their skin, I crave something permanent within. Bare your soul Open your heart Tattoo your love within.” — Melody Lee Copy Share Image
“Dark, dark my light, and darker my desire. My soul, like some heat-maddened summer fly, Keeps buzzing at the sill. Which I… — Theodore Roethke Copy Share Image
“The child is father of the man….attributed to Sigmund Freud, but believed to have been coined by a well-known poet years before… — Shirl Solomon Copy Share Image
Both the poet and scholar are trying to learn something. The poem for me is a pursuit. Some of the answers are… — Gregory Pardlo Copy Share Image
“ Consummation is consumption We cannot consummate our bliss and not consume All joys are cakes and vanish in eating All bliss… — Wilfred Owen Copy Share Image
What happened to poetry in the twentieth century was that it began to be written for the page. — James Fenton Copy Share Image
Goethe tells us in his greatest poem that Faust lost the liberty of his soul when he said to the passing moment,… — Robert Kennedy Copy Share Image
However, I began to submit poems to British magazines, and some were accepted. It was a great moment to see my first… — Helen Dunmore Copy Share Image
Poetry is the special medium of spiritual crazy wisdom, the form of expression that comes closest to creating a bridge between words… — Wes Nisker Copy Share Image
Once a year I try writing a poem, usually because I've read some poetry that amazed me and I want to do… — Steve Toltz Copy Share Image
“You can only hurt a woman so many times before her fangs grow sharp, her claws scratch deep, and her eyes become… — Melody Lee Copy Share Image
Master, Master Poet, Master of our silent desires, The heart of the world quivers with the throbbing of your heart, But it… — Khalil Copy Share Image
There's nothing sentimental about a machine, and: A poem is a small (or large) machine made of words. — William Carlos Williams Copy Share Image
Painters and poets alike have always had license to dare anything! We know that, and we both claim and allow to others… — Horace Copy Share Image
The scientist and engineers who are building the future need the poets to make sense of it. — Jason Silva Copy Share Image
No man was ever yet a great poet, without being at the same time a profound philosopher. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
“Loneliness is a disease spread by people who try to use other people to cure their loneliness.” — Vironika Wilde Copy Share Image
