“There are days when my imagination in my enemy. It likes to keep me company in my darkest of times and romanticizes… — Alfa H Copy Share Image
'The Narrow Road to the Deep North' is one of the most famous books of all Japanese literature, written by the great… — Richard Flanagan Copy Share Image
I may as well tell you, here and now, that if you are going about the place thinking things pretty, you will… — P. G. Wodehouse Copy Share Image
Poetry is not only a set of words which are chosen to relate to each other; it is something which goes much… — Tahar Ben Jelloun Copy Share Image
Living in a state of psychic unrest, in a Borderland, is what makes poets write and artists create. — Gloria E. Anzaldúa Copy Share Image
“I'm always crazy around you Rose. Here, I'm going to write an impromptu poem for you. 'Rose is in red But never… — Adrian Ivashkov Copy Share Image
When the theater gates open, a mob pours inside, and it is the poet's task to turn it into an audience. — Franz Grillparzer Copy Share Image
Sometimes a poem should just be about a girl jumping rope. It doesn't have to be something that is imbued with more… — Clint Smith Copy Share Image
Your compassion travels beyond your own inner circle. And then you breathe out an alternative version where you mentally and emotionally and… — Anne Waldman Copy Share Image
When I began to dare to be clear, because I think clarity is the real risk in poetry because you are exposed.… — Billy Collins Copy Share Image
“Sonnet V I touch you as a lonely violin touches the suburbs of the faraway place patiently the river asks for its… — Mahmoud Darwish Copy Share Image
“THIS IS WHY He will never be given to wonder much if he was the mouth for some cruel force that said… — Michael Ryan Copy Share Image
O brave poets, keep back nothing; Nor mix falsehood with the whole! Look up Godward! speak the truth in Worthy song from… — Elizabeth Barrett Browning Copy Share Image
“I began a poem in lines of one syllable. It's rather difficult, but the merit of all things lies in their difficulty.… — Alexandre Dumas Copy Share Image
“I want to be the one you run to. I want to be the one you miss. I want your arms to… — Rachel Nicole Wagner Copy Share Image
At the end of the day, no amount of investing, no amount of clean electrons, no amount of energy efficiency will save… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“There is a time when the soul closes its eyes and kneels before its own divinity; and a time when it rises… — Heather K. O'Hara Copy Share Image
There are certain things in which mediocrity is not to be endured, such as poetry, music, painting, public speaking. — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
Mephostopheles is the name of a male gigolo I knew. When he's reaching up to grab me, I suppose it's an erotic… — Thom Yorke Copy Share Image
“Why can’t I quiet the thoughts running through my head? Put down the pen and climb snugly into bed?” — Amanda Leigh Copy Share Image
Most poets are elitist dregs more concerned with proving their skill with a dictionary than communicating ideas with impact. — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
“Poetry is like...first all you have is... A line weaving through your mind Like the tail of a child's kite Unfettered by… — Vaddey Ratner Copy Share Image
I used to buy scented poetry books on tour and read aloud to the band. Not what you'd expect, huh? — Suzi Quatro Copy Share Image
“There is no human society, however isolated, that has not developed and employed poetry as a cultural practice.” — Dana Gioia Copy Share Image
For poetry, more than any other art, except music, has a compelling hold upon the spiritual side of life. — Lizette Woodworth Reese Copy Share Image
“How they had dreamed together, he and she... how they had planned, and laughed, and loved. They had lived for a while… — Elizabeth von Arnim Copy Share Image
To starve a child of the spell of the story, of the canter of the poem, oral or written, is a kind… — George Steiner Copy Share Image
“This poem serves to remind That food, it tends to spoil Leave it in your memory Not in the fridge, in foil.” — Madeleine Blais Copy Share Image
A poem is an invocation, rebellious return to the blessedness of beginning again, wandering free in pure process of forgetting and finding. — Susan Howe Copy Share Image
It is the essence of poetry to spring, like the rainbow daughter of Wonder, from the invisible, to abolish the past, and… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“If we all die and become stars then I must believe that our souls live in the stars. Now I know why… — Nicola An Copy Share Image
“Now, there's a twisty summer storm outside, and I desire nothing but this storm to come. The calm voice on the TV… — Ada Limon Copy Share Image
I am composed of contradictions, which is why poetry is a better form for me than philosophy — Czeslaw Milosz Copy Share Image
Straight photography, following the medium, is intoxicating - trying to wrestle it into the form of a poem. — Thomas Roma Copy Share Image
The poets are almost always wrong about the facts. That's because they're not interested in the facts, only the truth. — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
“I started this chapter with some lines from T. S. Eliot’s poem “East Coker” that I’ve always loved:” — Hillary Rodham Clinton Copy Share Image
“When put to the best use, poetry has not only the power to stir one’s emotions and thoughts, but also the soul… — Alok Mishra Copy Share Image
“To toil, to think, to long, to grieve,— Is such my future fate? The morn was dreary, must the eve Be also… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
Not the poem which we have read , but that to which we return , with the greatest pleasure, possesses the genuine… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
Poetry is what I've done my whole life. And every important thing in my life had found itself into poems. — Donald Hall Copy Share Image
