The Black Mountain poet I like most is the early Creeley. Those early poems seem very lyrical and very traditional, with a… — Robert Morgan Copy Share Image
“ To Those Without Pity Cruel of heart, lay down my song. Your reading eyes have done me wrong. Not for you… — Edna St. Vincent Millay Copy Share Image
“She's brim full of poetry - actualized poetry, if I may use the expression. She lives what paper-poets only write...” — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
I dabbled in writing, wrote really bad poetry in high school. I also took a few writing classes when I was an… — Jesmyn Ward Copy Share Image
I think there is a poem out there for everyone, to be an entrance into the poetry and a relationship with it. — Natasha Trethewey Copy Share Image
If a faultless poem could be produced, I am satisfied it would tire the critics themselves; and annoy the whole reading world… — Walter Scott Copy Share Image
Happiness. It comes on unexpectedly. And goes beyond, really, any early morning talk about it. — Raymond Carver Copy Share Image
“Character is just an invention, but it's an invention that serves as both reason and justification for our behaviour. - Broken Verses” — Kamila Shamsie Copy Share Image
“As a consequence of Wittgenstein’s philosophy, the questions once asked by philosophy have now passed into the realms of poetry. The way… — Paul Strathern Copy Share Image
The writing of an assay-type poem or a poem investigating perspective isn't an exercise of rational or strategic mind. Poems for me… — Jane Hirshfield Copy Share Image
All myth is an enriched pattern, a two-faced proposition, allowing its operator to say one thing and mean another, to lead a… — Anne Carson Copy Share Image
“It was about that time [415 BCE] that the poet Diagoras of Melos was proscribed for atheism, he having declared that the… — J. M. Robertson Copy Share Image
The claims I'm making for art are simply the claims that we naturally make around music or around poetry. We're much more… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
I think that my early poems were probably more concerned with time passing because of unfulfilled desires or yearnings. Now, I feel… — Jonathan W. Galassi Copy Share Image
Poetry is always in transformation. There are certain aspects of contemporary Italian poetry that are very preoccupied with politics and deconstruction and… — Jonathan W. Galassi Copy Share Image
Why I love the ancients so much? Aside from everything else, when I read them, the entire past between them and me… — Franz Grillparzer Copy Share Image
“If we were to understand how important it is to say something and say it well, maybe we wouldn’t write a single… — Dejan Stojanovic Copy Share Image
“For me,” she wrote, “poetry is an evasion from the real job of writing prose.” Throughout” — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
“Citing Poe’s celebrity—everybody was “raven-mad about his last poem”—Briggs took him on as junior partner.” — Mike Wallace Copy Share Image
Shakespeare's fault is not the greatest into which a poet may fall. It merely indicates a deficiency of taste. — Denis Diderot Copy Share Image
The white light of truth, in traversing the many sided transparent soul of the poet, is refracted into iris-hued poetry. — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
The ecstatic beauty and soulful grace of Rumi's poetry inspires human hearts to believe in possibilities beyond the predictably fatal. — Aberjhani Copy Share Image
It is strange how a scrap of poetry works in the mind and makes the legs move in time to it along… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
The phenomenon of Instagram poets - who are also, to be fair, Tumblr poets and Pinterest poets - has been one of… — Michelle Dean Copy Share Image
I've always been a poet. My dad went to Lincoln University with Gil-Scott Heron, so I came out of the womb listening… — Malcolm-Jamal Warner Copy Share Image
Besides the Autumn poets sing, A few prosaic days, A little this side of the snow, And that side of the Haze...,… — Emily Dickinson Copy Share Image
I thought of rhyme alone, For rhyme can beat a measure out of trouble And make the daylight sweet once more. — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
“The past above, the future below and the present pouring down: the roar, the roar of the present, a speech-- is, of… — William Carlos Williams Copy Share Image
The hand above turns those leaves of loves, all in all a timeless view. Each dream of life flung from paradise everlasting,… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
I love the autumn for its sense of melancholy seems to strike my need for sadness. There is poetry in the dying… — Kyffin Williams Copy Share Image
“I don't love her anymore So Why should I walk Nights By the tavern Where I drank Every night Thinking of her?” — Orhan Veli Kanık Copy Share Image
I shall try to write a poem that is about the moment but doesn't betray things that are true to me as… — Andrew Motion Copy Share Image
“Aboard a boat of leaves I float, allowing new stories to unfold. Of cresting and falling winds, streaking words across the sky.… — Susan L. Marshall Copy Share Image
Oh, happy triumph of the poet! - to hear his verses wedded to sweet sounds, and warbled by the woman he loves! — Samuel Lover Copy Share Image
The rationalist mind has always had its doubts about Venice. The watery city receives a dry inspection, as though it were a… — Mary McCarthy Copy Share Image
“But it turns out Joy is a house built from the same bricks as Sorrow. Pleasure is a poem, and it uses… — Julio-Alexi Genao Copy Share Image
Its so funny the way I get poetic when I am single but when I am in a relationship I suck at… — Chris Copy Share Image
“Poets and poetry help us express our emotions and experiences, making us feel less alone in our struggles.” — Wajid Shaikh Copy Share Image
“The Life is Poem, we write when we are Young, sing along all through Life, and we reap the truth when we… — Dr.T.V.Rao MD Copy Share Image
Poetry is the elder sister of history, the mother of language, the ancestress of civilization. — Orson F. Whitney Copy Share Image
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