For the poet the credo or doctrine is not the point of arrival but is, on the contrary, the point of departure… — Joseph Brodsky Copy Share Image
“...they wore their hair long like a poet who hopes that romantically flowing locks will make up for a wretched inability to… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
And If the surgeon is like a poet, then the scars you have made on countless bodies are like verses into the… — Richard Selzer Copy Share Image
Teaching writing over the years intrudes on your own writing in important ways, taking away some of the excitement of poetry. — Robert Morgan Copy Share Image
“Outside the window Sky and earth exchange silver. In the moonlight I forget I’m human.” — Wang Xiaoni Copy Share Image
Rhyme, that enslaved queen, that supreme charm of our poetry, that creator of our meter. — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“I wrote my first poem about a bunny. ‘Bunny, bunny, hop hop hop. White and soft like a little mop.” — Wendy Mass Copy Share Image
The language is spare and under control and has a genuine immediacy...The poems never preach but are lined out with a cool… — Vern Rutsala Copy Share Image
Nearly all men and women are poetical, to some extent, but very few can be called poets. There are great poets, small… — Orson F. Whitney Copy Share Image
You told me I wrote that poem because I was afraid of dealing with myself. And I used my mom as an… — Jay Asher Copy Share Image
“Say to your soul—"Come, soul, wake up: thou art not now about to read the newspaper; thou art not now perusing the… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
“Snow-flakes By Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Out of the bosom of the Air, Out of the cloud-folds of her garments shaken, Over the… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
“And when I stand in the receiving line like Jackie Kennedy without the pillbox hat, if Jackie were fat and had taken… — Kathleen Sheeder Bonanno Copy Share Image
When I was writing 'The Satanic Verses,' if you had asked me about the phenomenon that we all now know as radical… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
No, life cannot be understood flat on a page. It has to be lived; a person has to get out of his… — Donald Miller Copy Share Image
What is poetry? Do not enquire. The secret dies by prying. How does the heart beat? I fainted when I saw it… — Elizabeth Smart Copy Share Image
“Drugs to me have always been a pretty girl with a sly smile beckoning me with a finger down the dark path… — Atticus Poetry Copy Share Image
After you have pumped your brains for thoughts and verses, there is a better poetry hinted in whistling a tune on your… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I did not have a very literary background. I came to poetry from the sciences and mathematics, and also through an interest… — Robert Morgan Copy Share Image
“Take you example by this thing,/ And yield to each his right,/ Lest God with such like miserye/ Your wicked minds requite” — The Children in the Wood Copy Share Image
Dare, to Scream out your verse, whisper the secrets of your heart, and embrace, the truth; of your Soul. — Eric Nickel Copy Share Image
I like the one about the little soulworms that fly out of the nest for the resurrection. — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
I used to hold a fiery wind and I tried to determine the direction where poetry would fly. — Alda Merini Copy Share Image
This round of green, this orb of flame, Fantastic beauty; such as lurks In some wild poet, when he works Without a… — Alfred Lord Tennyson Copy Share Image
I've always written pop songs. I tend to take inspiration from more experimental genres, like ambient music, but at the root of… — Washed Out Copy Share Image
Periods' are largely an invention of the historians. The poets themselves are not conscious of living in any period and refuse to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The poet may say or sing, not as things were, but as they ought to have been; but the historian must pen… — Miguel de Cervantes Copy Share Image
“These pastoral-poet guys with their bleating goats and oaten pipes can stuff their phalaecean hendecasyllabics where the sun don't shine.” — David Wishart Copy Share Image
“Poems were too close to prayer, rousing regrettable passions. Waiting for God to rescue you when it was up to you.” — Colson Whitehead Copy Share Image
“No man can reveal to you aught but that which already lies half asleep in the dawning of your knowledge.” — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
“There are a handful of poems, which perhaps might need their own warning for the people who are frightened, disturbed, or terminally… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Poetry, the genre of purest beauty, was born of a truncated woman: her head severed from her body with a sword, a… — Andrea Dworkin Copy Share Image
“You are the remedy of intensity i need in my life, to spin me out of the miserable monotony of working on… — Curtis Tyrone Jones Copy Share Image
That's the main business of the poem!-to see if you can't make up a language that sets all your selves talking at… — Richard Wilbur Copy Share Image
“...you fantasize about me reading my poems to you - it doesn't work that way - I write down everything later -… — John Geddes Copy Share Image
If a poet would work politically, he must give himself up to a party; and so soon as he does that, he… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
...after a night spent writing poetry, one is almost happy to hear the milkman at the door. — Wallace Stevens Copy Share Image
“Dance is that delicacy of life radiating every particle of our existence with happiness.” — Shah Asad Rizvi Copy Share Image
“…A bird enters spring like a lance Your eyes flash their secrets A kiss grazes the rainbow The rain rains…” — Al-Saddiq Al-Raddi Copy Share Image
The simple Wordsworth . . . / Who, both by precept and example, shows / That prose is verse, and verse is merely prose. — Lord Byron Copy Share Image
