Solitude gives birth to the original in us, to beauty unfamiliar and perilous - to poetry. But also, it gives birth to… — Thomas Mann Copy Share Image
“Change, change, change it all Fuck the egg, it'll crack And they point and condemn Those these and them Digiting a shower… — Kat Clark Copy Share Image
Even though poetry was written for the 'minds ear' as well as the physical ear, the minds ear can be trained only… — Yvor Winters Copy Share Image
“Being a star is depressing. It twinkles but is distant and cold. I'd rather be the moon, Shine in your glory and… — Avinash Matta Copy Share Image
One of the most intuitive nature writers of our recently past century, Peter Matthiessen, lends a poets voice to the desperate effort… — Ron Franscell Copy Share Image
“The lives and deaths of characters in stories and poems, however tragic, help us to learn about the world and - if… — Nicola Morgan Copy Share Image
I don't think the nature of my poetry is satirical or even ironic, I think it's essentially lyrical but again I don't… — Kenneth Koch Copy Share Image
I've been most happy to be an advocate for the kinds of grassroots things that people are doing who care about poetry. — Natasha Trethewey Copy Share Image
I was very rebellious, but my family was strict Christians - they would ask us, "What's the shortest verse in the Bible?"… — Benjamin Clementine Copy Share Image
“Werther identifies himself with the madman, with the footman. As a reader, I can identify myself with Werther. Historically, thousands of subjects… — Roland Barthes Copy Share Image
Literature remains alive only if we set ourselves immeasurable goals, far beyond all hope of achievement. Only if poets and writers set… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
“The mass starts into a million suns; Earths round each sun with quick explosions burst, And second planets issue from the first.… — Erasmus Darwin Copy Share Image
I dream of a collaboration that will become so complete that, often, the poet will think as musician and the musician as… — Arthur Honegger Copy Share Image
I've always been a fan of poetry. I grew up with Lawrence Ferlinghetti and the Beat poets. I really followed that stuff… — Ric Ocasek Copy Share Image
“I had let it all grow. I had supposed It was all OK. Your life Was a liner I voyaged in. Costly… — Ted Hughes Copy Share Image
“Each poem holds the voice of a moment. Held within, they are contained, damned to silence; released, they fly into the world… — Noa Daniels Copy Share Image
“There’s no money in poetry, but then there’s no poetry in money either.” - Robert Graves” — Robert Graves Copy Share Image
Reading poetry is an adventure in renewal, a creative act, a perpetual beginning, a rebirth of wonder. — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
Poetry is the silence and speech between a wet struggling root of a flower and a sunlit blossom of that flower. — Carl Sandburg Copy Share Image
“You who are sitting before me have the power to change my consciousness into painting, poem, melody or anything else!” — Suman Pokhrel Copy Share Image
I write some country music. There's a song called 'I Hope You Dance.' Incredible. I was going to write that poem; somebody… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
That young man with the long, auburn hair and the impudent face - that young man was not really a poet; but… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
But you, oh gardener, poet that you be / Though unaware, now use your seeds like words / And make them lilt… — Vita Sackville-West Copy Share Image
Wanderer, there is no road, the road is made by walking. The poem tells me it’s no big deal that I’m not… — Helen Oyeyemi Copy Share Image
“...that imperial guard which poets and humanists mount in relay around any great memory.” — Marguerite Yourcenar Copy Share Image
“Every move, every sigh, every moan; everything you do for me is poetry from your soul to mine. You are my favorite… — Kirk Diedrich Copy Share Image
I have always believed that poems beg to be read aloud, even if the reader is in a world all her own. — J. Patrick Lewis Copy Share Image
Once every five hundred years or so, a summary statement about poetry comes along that we can't imagine ourselves living without — A. R. Ammons Copy Share Image
“The human spirit is poetry enough and I understand that, but I write to make it transparent to a world in love… — Christopher Poindexter Copy Share Image
“The head's a cloud anchor that the feet must follow. Travel light, he said, or don't travel at all.” — Jim Harrison Copy Share Image
“Our ignorance often accelerates us. So much of what we know of motion propelled by what we don’t know about impact.” — Michael Schmeltzer Copy Share Image
“...and I laugh and I spin and dance and frolic in ecstasy and I... I hurt no more, while you...you petrified little… — Kellie Elmore Copy Share Image
“So many questions but nothing to say, in this current moment we are still so far from the answers.” — Liz Newman Copy Share Image
Poetry is the hardest thing that there is. It fascinates me, so I want to write more of it. — Steve Earle Copy Share Image
And all poets love dust and mist because all the last answers. Go running back to dust and mist. — Carl Sandburg Copy Share Image
“You’re not a bad person, you’re just a little bit different and I’m a sucker for that.” — robert m drake Copy Share Image
I started out as a writer. Poetry and prose and also kind of satirical David Sedaris-esque stuff. — Pauley Perrette Copy Share Image
Love is a great poet, its resources are inexhaustible, but if the end it has in view is not obtained, it feels… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Poetry, to me, is a type of shamanistic chant capable of chasing away the darkness within us.” — Leila Samarrai Copy Share Image
What happens on the football field matters, not in the way that food matters but as poetry does to some people and… — Arthur Hopcraft Copy Share Image
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