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
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
“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
“you said, “your bones belong in museums” i said, “when you kiss me, fireworks electrocute my spine” my mother is dying and… — irynka Copy Share Image
“Ognuno sta solo sul cuor della terra trafitto da un raggio di sole: ed e subito sera. (Everyone stands along on the… — Salvatore Quasimodo Copy Share Image
It is important that we have the inner richness to be able to look up at the stars or the moon and… — Daisaku Ikeda Copy Share Image
I don't remember the first poem that I wrote because I've been creating poems since I was around 2 or 3. I… — Sarah Kay Copy Share Image
There are certain things in which mediocrity is intolerable: poetry, music, painting, public eloquence. What torture it is to hear a frigid… — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
I usually begin a poem in longhand. I like to sit where I have a nice view, ideally, although I worked on… — Pat Mora Copy Share Image
What I search for continuously in my art is adequate language, language I hope can stand beyond any particular occasion. What I'm… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
The "biggest" poems I ever made are based on the psychological principal of the "Johari Window:" what the self freely shares with… — Denise Duhamel Copy Share Image
The [book of the bible] Song Of Songs is an amazing erotic love poem that the church has tried very hard not… — Alan Green Copy Share Image
“Her happiness floated like waves of ocean along the coast of her life. She found lyrics of her life in his arms… — Santosh Kalwar Copy Share Image
A life is not sufficiently elevated for poetry, unless, of course, the life has been made into an art. — Mark Strand Copy Share Image
“Did the hospital specialize in poets and singers, or was it that poets and singers specialized in madness?” — Susanna Kaysen Copy Share Image
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
“Outside the window Sky and earth exchange silver. In the moonlight I forget I’m human.” — Wang Xiaoni 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
Poetry is a slipknot tightened around a time-beat of one thought, two thoughts, and a last interweaving thought there is not yet… — Carl Sandburg Copy Share Image
“It [Bach's cello suites] is like a great diamond," said [Mischa] Maisky in a thick Russian accent, "with so many different cuts… — Eric Siblin Copy Share Image
“From this the poem springs: that we live in a place That is not our own and, much more, not ourselves And… — Wallace Stevens Copy Share Image
A phrase may come to me as I am walking, and, once I write it down in my journal, the rest of… — Stephen Vincent Benet Copy Share Image
“... and all the hurts and scars / Of everyday were healed, and I would sleep / Safe with the good-night memory of stars.” — Jane Merchant Copy Share Image
“We have to hand it to the little tyrants who devise the picturesque abuses of authority that give the moral populace the… — John Popielaski Copy Share Image
You are not your poetry. Your self-esteem shouldn't depend on whether you publish, or whether some editor or writer you admire thinks… — Dorianne Laux Copy Share Image
“She's fire. But she won't burn you... she knows all too well, how it feel to live with ashes.” — Alfa H 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
“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
“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
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
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