There’s plenty that poetry cannot do, but the miracle, of course, is how much it can do, how much it does do. — Mary Szybist Copy Share Image
Modern poetry, for me, began not in English at all but in Spanish, in the poems of Lorca. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“On an average trip he brought two physics books, a few philosophy books, several volumes of poetry, and one thesaurus” — Amanda Gefter Copy Share Image
Ted Hughes has been appointed poet laureate to succeed Sir John Betjeman, which is a bit like appointing a grim young crow… — Philip Howard, 20th Earl of Arundel Copy Share Image
I think all poets must feel this: that there is constantly something new to be discovered in the language. It's like a… — Carol Ann Duffy Copy Share Image
“Unconditional love is furnished by many 4 legged creatures, but chiefly by human kinds best friend DOG!” — Ladee Basset Copy Share Image
The strength of the poetry as we enter into whatever it is we are entering into, will be determined by the clarity… — John Trudell Copy Share Image
“I sell black markers on the black market. I am personally responsible for 50% of all truck stop urinal poetry.” — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
Gel'fand amazed me by talking of mathematics as though it were poetry. He once said about a long paper bristling with formulas… — Dusa McDuff Copy Share Image
We may live without poetry, music and art; We may live without conscience, and live without heart; We may live without friends;… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Continuing the plea for unity that began in the first line of the song, the first verse begins with a quotation of… — Dean MacNeil Copy Share Image
“So when the soul of the poet has come to ripeness of thought, she detaches and sends away from it its poems… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I love when I meet generous poets, and generous meaning nice people, who give to the poetry community, who do interviews, read… — Victoria Chang Copy Share Image
Philosophy is antipoetic. Philosophize about mankind and you brush aside individual uniqueness, which a poet cannot do without self-damage. Unless, for a… — Robert Graves Copy Share Image
I felt like my favorite writers have almost musical hooks in their work, whether it's poetry or a hook at the end… — Taylor Swift Copy Share Image
One of my greatest joys is poetry. I read it almost every day, and I've even taken a stab at writing some… — Maria Shriver Copy Share Image
A poet feels the impulse to create a work of art when the passive awe provoked by an event is transformed into… — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
RICE-WATER, n. A mystic beverage secretly used by our most popular novelists and poets to regulate the imagination and narcotize the conscience. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
“I woke up wanting to read a poem by that name, and I found one with a lifeguard’s chair, a broken shell,… — Michael Broder Copy Share Image
It is a function of poetry to locate those zones inside us that would be free, and declare them so. — C.D. Wright Copy Share Image
“Poetry, rather than being a phenomenology of the mind, is a phenomenology of the soul.” — Gaston Bachelard Copy Share Image
I was an English major in college, so I really liked spoken word and poetry; it was what I did before I… — Mat Kearney Copy Share Image
“Ô, Wanderess, Wanderess When did you feel your most euphoric kiss? Was I the source of your greatest bliss?” — Roman Payne Copy Share Image
If you were going to choose a way of making your way in this world and a place to start from, you… — Simon Armitage Copy Share Image
I would like The Discovery of Poetry to be a field guide to the natural pleasures of language - a happiness we… — Frances Mayes Copy Share Image
Good poetry seems so simple and natural a thing that when we meet it we wonder that all men are not always… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
At this point, in 2008, if you put out a book, a movie, or write a verse, paint a painting, it should… — Black Thought Copy Share Image
Our poetry emulates the recent progress in military strategy: Our army's strength is the foot soldiers. — Franz Grillparzer Copy Share Image
The love of nature is religion, and that religion is poetry; these three things are one thing. This is the unspoken creed… — Reginald Horace Blyth Copy Share Image
“I swear we'd lose our hearts if they weren't with elastic and butterfly pin clasped safely in.” — Todd Boss Copy Share Image
“Keep yourself as busy as you can. Try and forget. But even with 7 billion other distractions... you don't forget me.” — Alfa H Copy Share Image
Stand still, true poet that you are! I know you; let me try and draw you. Some night you'll fail us: when… — Robert Browning Copy Share Image
“It is dishonest to give me a poem and pretend to want my opinion when what you really want are reasons to… — Deborah Levy Copy Share Image
[The story of Adam and Eve] it's poetry. One must interpret it as poetry. The first 11 chapters of Genesis [the Primeval… — Frank Moore Cross Copy Share Image
The world is full of poetry. The air is living with its spirit; and the waves dance to the music of its… — James Gates Percival Copy Share Image
Read somewhat in the English poets every day. You will find them elegant, entertaining and constructive companions through your whole life. — David McCullough Copy Share Image
I write the poems first, with only a few exceptions for odd reasons, where I'm given the illustration first. — Jack Prelutsky Copy Share Image
The meaning of a poem is in the cadences and the shape of the lines and the pulse of the thought which… — George Oppen Copy Share Image
“The piano is kind of like a dance floor for our thoughts you know? A very woody foundation so that we can… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“- Why are your poems so different from one another? - Because the years are different.” — Marina Tsvetaeva Copy Share Image
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