“I said: 'A line will take us hours maybe; Yet if it does not seem a moment's thought, Our stitching and unstitching… — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
American poetry is this country's greatest patrimony. It takes a stranger to see some things clearly. This is one of them, and… — Joseph Brodsky Copy Share Image
The language with which I make my poems has nothing to do with one spoken here, or anywhere. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I'll Vacuum up my stale hair, I'll pay all my neighbors' bad debts, I'll write a poem called Yellow and put my… — Anne Sexton Copy Share Image
Most victims of my autobiographical verse are either far too polite, remarkably understanding unaware that I have written poems about them. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The poet ranks far below the painter in the representation of visible things, and far below the musician in that of invisible… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
All poetry has to do is to make a strong communication. All the poet has to do is listen. The poet is… — Stevie Smith Copy Share Image
When I'm writing poetry, 99.9% of my writing begins in English. I spent most of my life in English, although I am bilingual. — Pat Mora Copy Share Image
“… People have (with the help of conventions) oriented all their solutions toward the easy and toward the easiest side of the… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
“To mee, who with eternal Famine pine, Alike is Hell, or Paradise, or Heaven, There best, where most with ravin I might… — John Milton Copy Share Image
“at man’s height the mouth utters its cries, tosses forth its oracles, gives vent to its puns. To allow words to come… — Michel Leiris Copy Share Image
“And Iseult rose up where she sat apart, And with her sweet soul deepening her deep eyes Cast the furs from her… — Algernon Charles Swinburne Copy Share Image
“Robert Frost didn’t like to explain his poems—and for good reason: to explain a poem is to suck the air from its… — Tony Leuzzi Copy Share Image
The base of all artistic genius is the power of conceiving humanity in a new, striking, rejoicing way, of putting a happy… — Walter Pater Copy Share Image
Words... They're innocent, neutral, precise, standing for this, describing that, meaning the other, so if you look after them you can build… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
“Well, being a poet is a funny kind of jazz. It doesn’t get you anything. It doesn’t get you any money, or… — Daniel Klawitter Copy Share Image
All men are poets at heart. They serve nature for bread, but her loveliness overcomes them sometimes. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Poetry is a search for ways of communication; it must be conducted with openness, flexibility, and a constant readiness to listen. — Fleur Adcock Copy Share Image
I couldn't believe verse was supposed to be hard. It was a snap for me. I loved Shakespeare. — Ted Lange Copy Share Image
The best work in literature is always done by those who do not depend on it for their daily bread and the… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“We are metered only by our own machines, while the book is a clock that forgets her machanics.” — Amy King Copy Share Image
People were usually much better in their letters than in reality. They were much like poets in this way. — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
“Wise is the one who flavors the future with some salt from the past. Becoming dust is no threat to the phoenix… — Curtis Tyrone Jones Copy Share Image
My works really begin in a very simple way. Sometimes it's an image, and sometimes it's words I might write, like a… — Bill Viola Copy Share Image
Poems for children help them celebrate the joy and wonder of their world. Humorous poems tickle the funny bone of their imaginations. — Charles Ghigna Copy Share Image
We don't read and write poetry because its cute. We read and write poetry because we are members of the human race.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“she lived with hurricane eyes and fell in love with the way the waves collapsed against her cheeks.” — Christopher Poindexter Copy Share Image
My poems are more my silence than my speech. Just as music is a kind of quiet. Sounds are needed only to… — Anna Kamienska Copy Share Image
It's possible to like other poetry and still like mine. It's also possible to be not that into poetry and still quite… — Tim Key Copy Share Image
Yes, there is a Nirvanah; it is leading your sheep to a green pasture, and in putting your child to sleep, and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
For Aliki Barnstone, poetry seems a natural medium. The vision and cadences of these poems suggest a sensibility for which poetry is… — Robert Pinsky Copy Share Image
Solitude produces originality, bold and astonishing beauty, poetry. But solitude also produces perverseness, the disproportianate, the absurd and the forbidden. — Thomas Mann Copy Share Image
If I'm excited by something bodily, and curious about it, I generally want to delve into it and explore it with poetry.… — Pattiann Rogers Copy Share Image
To me the poets are closer than I am to the idea of voice, to a sort of primeval song that we… — Francesco Clemente Copy Share Image
I think that poetry is important when you are shipwrecked, when the ordinary structures that hold you up are gone. — Robert Bly Copy Share Image
The poet is a man who lives at last by watching his moods. An old poet comes at last to watch his… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I hope to go into a poem sober and come out a little drunk. And if I do then that's a real… — Dannie Abse Copy Share Image
I say, doctors are the profiteers of death and unclaimed cadavers that were once inhabited by homeless and wondering poets! — Rawi Hage Copy Share Image
Early on, if I was alone two three nights in a row, I'd start writing poems about suicide. — Jack Nicholson Copy Share Image
It is the hour to be drunken! to escape being the martyred slaves of time, be ceaselessly drunk. On wine, on poetry,… — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
