The greatest poem ever known Is one all poets have outgrown: The poetry, innate, untold, Of being only four years old. — Christopher Morley Copy Share Image
I spent years of being a ghost / Unsure of where home is anymore / I tell them I feel nothing /… — Needa Muy Copy Share Image
Poetry is certainly something more than good sense, but it must be good sense, at all events, just as a palace is… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
Respect the language in which you write. Be kind, develop good vocabulary, and be creative in writing beautiful sentences. Your prose should… — Ruskin Bond Copy Share Image
And Robert Lowell, of course - in his poems, we're not located in his actual life. We're located more in the externals,… — Mark Strand Copy Share Image
A true poet does not bother to be poetical. Nor does a nursery gardener scent his roses. — Jean Cocteau Copy Share Image
“We survive. We're Irish. We have the souls of poets. We love our misery, we delight in the beauty of strange places… — Eilis Flynn Copy Share Image
Poetry is of so subtle a spirit, that in the pouring out of one language into another it will evaporate. — John Denham Copy Share Image
Once a poet always a poet, and even though I haven't written poems for a long time, I can nonetheless say that… — Jack Driscoll Copy Share Image
“Leaves I twist between my fingers, closing my eyes as thoughts drift. Into the momentous winds of time, the red-orange will soon… — Susan L. Marshall Copy Share Image
If I could write the beauty of your eyes And in fresh numbers number all your graces, The age to come would… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
I see that it is impossible to remember a long poem without practice and repetition; so is forgetfulness of the words of… — Xenophon Copy Share Image
Memory exercised in a particular way is a natural gift of poetic genius. The poet above all else, is a person who… — Stephen Spender Copy Share Image
All poetry is supposed to be instructive but in an unnoticeable manner; it is supposed to make us aware of what it… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
We don't attempt to have any theme for a number of the anthology, or to have any particular sequence. We just put… — James Laughlin Copy Share Image
When we come down into the distant village, visible from the mountain-top, the nobler inhabitants with whom we peopled it have departed,… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“Poetry is a distinct faculty, - it won't come when called, - you may as well whistle for a wind.” — George Gordon Byron Copy Share Image
“She bid him farewell, And scrutinized his silhouette, That slowly faded in the shadows. She whispered, "Au-revoir" To the nocturnal mist.” — Ruqayya Shaheed Khan Copy Share Image
What a writer can do, what a fiction writer or a poet or an essay writer can do is re-engage people with… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
I am what libraries and librarians have made me, with little assistance from a professor of Greek and poets — Heraclitus Copy Share Image
one reason why I like writing poetry - you can say so many things in it that are true in poetry but… — Lucy Maud Montgomery Copy Share Image
But I am not political in the current events sense, and I have never wanted anyone to read my poetry that way. — Diane Wakoski Copy Share Image
I'd say people do need some help with poetry because I think poetry just helps takes us to places that Americans aren't… — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
Baudelaire's L'Héautontimorouménos was long seen to be a sexual sadomasochistic poem, it is now generally accepted that the poem is about writing… — Stephen Dobyns Copy Share Image
His writer's words poured over her like poetry, and she couldn't find a single wisecrack to put up between them. — Susan Elizabeth Phillips Copy Share Image
“Poetry is simple when you write what you see and feel, searching for the words only makes it difficult” — Rayvon L. Browne Copy Share Image
As an actor, I come to set, and I have already broken the character down by writing a poem about the character.… — Omari Hardwick Copy Share Image
Because I was writing verse, my instructor suggested I study Shakespeare. The Shakespeare teacher insisted you couldn't understand the text without seeing… — Jamey Sheridan Copy Share Image
There is no peace to be taken With poets who are young, For they worry about the wars to be fought and… — Joyce Kilmer Copy Share Image
I was around in 1970, and now I am around in 2015 ... there is no poetry and very little romance in… — Don McLean Copy Share Image
“Seseorang memberiku gaun puisi. "Pakailah,"katanya."Kau tak kan jenuh lagi." Tetiba cuaca mesra, matari biru, aku menapak di atas laut.” — Helvy Tiana Rosa Copy Share Image
I don't like a kind of workshop that is about editing--I don't want to sit there and be an editor. I don't… — Natasha Trethewey Copy Share Image
Literary poetry in a painter is something special, and is neither illustration nor the translation of writing by form. — Paul Gauguin Copy Share Image
Poets know how useful passion is for publication. Nowadays a broken heart will run to many editions. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“Till the time you realize your conquest you already reach that stage when you start losing the grip.” — Neel Preet Copy Share Image
“I didn't dare look at Conrad. I was afraid my love for him and my need for him to say yes would… — Jenny Han Copy Share Image
“I do not know which to prefer,/ The beauty of inflections/ Or the beauty of innuendos, / The blackbird whistling/Or jus after.” — John Green Copy Share Image
My passion is bringing storylines around and constructing a full body of work rather than just a 16-bar verse. — Kendrick Lamar Copy Share Image
Each genre exerts a considerable spell, as a kind of "form" to be filled, as a Shakespearean sonnet is filled. — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
“Like the bioluminescent creatures of the deep sea produce their own light I also have the ability to create my own light… — Rhys Blanco Copy Share Image
![“Leaves I twist between my fingers, closing my eyes as thoughts drift. Into the momentous winds of time, the red-orange will soon afloat. For Autumn hues are unravelling through the waning summer days. ‘Tis the season of yearning passion and lyric to my heart and mind. [Ever Changing Rhythms of Life]” quote by Susan L. Marshall](https://sms4smile.com/q/i/cb2/susan-l-marshall-26831_autumn_leaves-i-twist-between-my-fingers-closin_1624289.jpg)
