When Auden said his poetry didn't save one Jew from the gas chamber, he'd said it all. — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
Poetry for me is as much a spiritual practice as sexual ecstasy is. — James Broughton Copy Share Image
clarity need not be equivalent to / readability. How readable is the world? — Rae Armantrout Copy Share Image
“Love, is an unknown passion, for an unknown person, for an unknown reason.” — Hamza Hassan Sheikh Copy Share Image
The language you use for your poems should be the language you use with your friends. — Robert Bly Copy Share Image
Poetry is the honey of all flowers, the quintessence of all sciences, the marrow of wit, and the very phrase of angels. — Thomas Nashe Copy Share Image
“Judaism takes the verse in Genesis, 'Be fruitful and multiply,' as part of its statutory law. Because it is the first law… — Herman Wouk Copy Share Image
I have some weak poems in that new collection, which is why I'm not ready to send the collection out yet. — Shirley Geok-lin Lim Copy Share Image
Listen, real poetry doesn't say anything; it just ticks off the possibilities. Opens all doors. You can walk through anyone that suits… — Jim Morrison Copy Share Image
Against barbarity, poetry can resist only by confirming its attachment to human fragility like a blade of grass growing on a wall… — Mahmoud Darwish Copy Share Image
For instance, it's a little better now than it was two or three years ago, but something like 70% of the poems… — Peter Davison Copy Share Image
We ask the poet: 'What subject have you chosen?' instead of: 'What subject has chosen you? — Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach Copy Share Image
The record of poetry in the 20th century isn't all that great anyway. Most of the poets who weren't fascists were Stalinists. — Robert Hass Copy Share Image
Reagan wrote out many of his radio commentaries and newspaper articles as well as many of his own speeches. He wrote poetry,… — Charlie Sykes Copy Share Image
“…The heavens could not bear my debt And wrote me as a madman in my fate. But lovers bled their hearts And… — Hafiz Shirazi Copy Share Image
An emperor knows how to govern when poets are free to make verses, people to act plays, historians to tell the truth,… — Will Durant Copy Share Image
Poetry can be criticized only through poetry. A critique which itself is not a work of art, either in content as representation… — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Copy Share Image
Peculiar as I was, and remain, I was trained to be practical. I'm still amazed at the radical temerity of my friends,… — Debra Dean Copy Share Image
Working with artists and other poets has made me aware that there was a bigger "me" that I hadn't been quite aware… — Ron Padgett Copy Share Image
“This is freedom. This is the face of faith, nobody gets what they want. Never again are you the same. The longing… — Jorie Graham Copy Share Image
“Contrasts The windows of my poetry are wide open on the boulevards and in the shop windows Shine The precious stones of… — Blaise Cendrars Copy Share Image
