“Tell me about the love you've lost. Maybe my story won't seem so horrifying.” — Alfa H Copy Share Image
20th century poetry is a piñata. Images break from the earth when the poet strikes it. — Diane Glancy Copy Share Image
It is what man does not know of God Composes the visible poem of the world. — Richard Eberhart Copy Share Image
Lord Byron is only great as a poet; as soon as he reflects he is a child. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
“Nobody has ever measured, not even poets, how much the hearth can hold.” — Zelda Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
The exact day I became a poet was April 1, 1965, the day I bought my first typewriter. — August Wilson 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
There's something about the shape that a poem takes in my mind before I write it that has to do with suddenness. — Dana Goodyear 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
A poet is the creator of the nation around him, he gives them a world to see and has their souls in… — Johann Gottfried Herder Copy Share Image
I get to a point when I've collected together enough words that seem like they want to be songs rather than poems,… — PJ Harvey Copy Share Image
I will have my voice: Indian, Spanish, white. I will have my serpent's tongue - my woman's voice, my sexual voice, my… — Gloria E. Anzaldúa Copy Share Image
“We didn't just bump into each other or randomly meet. It was more like a soul collision, meant to be.” — Melody Lee Copy Share Image
“She was sunshine on a rainy day, a rainbow against gray clouds, hope in a Catholic school uniform. She was why poetry… — S.L. Scott Copy Share Image
A play's an interpretation. It is not a report. And that is the beginning of its poetry because, in order to interpret,… — Arthur Miller Copy Share Image
I say sometimes that I'm a poet but I work in the novel form. That's what I do. That's what makes sense… — Douglas A. Martin Copy Share Image
A poet who makes use of a worse word instead of a better, because the former fits the rhyme or the measure,… — Horace Walpole Copy Share Image
Just as the good actor perform well whatever role the poet assigns, so too must the good man perform whatever Fortune assigns.… — Bion of Borysthenes Copy Share Image
I was shy at school, but not at home. We had a boiler that had tiles around it, so if my sister… — Sarah Millican Copy Share Image
My father was a fun guy and a good poet and singer, had friends in the film industry and was so generous… — Arshad Warsi Copy Share Image
“...Eugene Sue's The Mysteries of Paris, a brilliant reenvisioning of one's own city as an exotic locale. Sue, who was too poor… — Andrei Codrescu Copy Share Image
