I have never separated the writing of poetry from prayer. I have grown up believing it is a vocation, a religious vocation. — Derek Walcott Copy Share Image
“Such perfect incompleteness, suggestion and ambiguity are among the most valuable devices of the skilled poet, means by which the poem opens… — John Ciardi Copy Share Image
Someone who's awake in the middle of the night is a soul consciousness when everyone else is asleep, and that creates a… — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
If you deconstruct Greece, you will in the end see an olive tree, a grapevine, and a boat remain. That is, with… — Odysseas Elytis Copy Share Image
“These bones I carry were borrowed from women much stronger than I. Know that when you need them, you can borrow mine.” — Nichole McElhaney Copy Share Image
“one doesn't even think of the liver and if the liver doesn't think of us, that's fine.” — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
“I'm working on a poem about heartbreak that I've been working on forever (give or take). The problem is that I've never… — Nicola Yoon Copy Share Image
Every dad who loves his daughter is not going to want her to go with the penniless slacker loser poet bum, when… — John Leguizamo Copy Share Image
“Whatever inspiration is, it's born from a continuous "I don't know."...That is why I value that little phrase "I don't know" so… — Wisława Szymborska Copy Share Image
“I will take you down my own avenue of remembrance, which winds among the hazards and shadows of my single year as… — Pat Conroy Copy Share Image
“He robbed him of a great deal of his natural force, and so do all those who try to turn books written… — Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra Copy Share Image
Speaking of people I had to exclude: Hank Williams. which is to say, songs are part of lyric poetry in my book,… — Gregory Orr Copy Share Image
“Although it was only six o'clock, the night was already dark. The fog, made thicker by its proximity to the Seine, blurred… — Théophile Gautier Copy Share Image
From reading a previous answer, you know that I consider all those aspects to be part of American cultural myth and thus… — Diane Wakoski Copy Share Image
If what we need to dream, to move our spirits most deeply and directly toward and through promise, is discounted as a… — Audre Lorde Copy Share Image
“Discouragement, fear, and depression— three villains who lurk in the dark. They slip inside souls with a blindfold and goals to shatter… — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
I am pretty interested in hybrid forms. I love graphic novels and I think there should be more graphic poems in the… — Matthea Harvey Copy Share Image
“I must create a system, or be enslaved by another man's. I will not reason and compare: my business is to create.” — William Blake Copy Share Image
“Loneliness is a disease spread by people who try to use other people to cure their loneliness.” — Vironika Wilde Copy Share Image
“Reversed Thunder," as the poet George Herbert put it. "Reversed Thunder" -- the coming of judgement in response to the cry, "How… — Darrell Johnson Copy Share Image
At college, I wanted to be a poet. I liked the extremely concentrated language, the atmosphere of otherworldliness. — Walter Kirn Copy Share Image
Being a poet is like having an invisible partner. It isn't easy. But you can't live without it either. Talent is only… — Selima Hill Copy Share Image
My only verse I remember really working on was 'Mixtape,' and I took 45 minutes on that because I wanted it to… — Lil Yachty Copy Share Image
Poetry was the first step, and from the age of 18, there was nothing else I wanted to do. — Christopher Koch Copy Share Image
“Registration Day' by Gavin Gunhold (1899— ) Toronto Review of Poetry, 1947 On registration day at taxidermy school I distinctly saw the… — Gordon Korman Copy Share Image
Once a year I try writing a poem, usually because I've read some poetry that amazed me and I want to do… — Steve Toltz Copy Share Image
“You can only hurt a woman so many times before her fangs grow sharp, her claws scratch deep, and her eyes become… — Melody Lee Copy Share Image
Painters and poets alike have always had license to dare anything! We know that, and we both claim and allow to others… — Horace Copy Share Image
The scientist and engineers who are building the future need the poets to make sense of it. — Jason Silva Copy Share Image
Master, Master Poet, Master of our silent desires, The heart of the world quivers with the throbbing of your heart, But it… — Khalil Copy Share Image
There's nothing sentimental about a machine, and: A poem is a small (or large) machine made of words. — William Carlos Williams Copy Share Image
No man was ever yet a great poet, without being at the same time a profound philosopher. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
“ Consummation is consumption We cannot consummate our bliss and not consume All joys are cakes and vanish in eating All bliss… — Wilfred Owen Copy Share Image
However, I began to submit poems to British magazines, and some were accepted. It was a great moment to see my first… — Helen Dunmore Copy Share Image
What happened to poetry in the twentieth century was that it began to be written for the page. — James Fenton Copy Share Image
Goethe tells us in his greatest poem that Faust lost the liberty of his soul when he said to the passing moment,… — Robert Kennedy Copy Share Image
Poetry is the special medium of spiritual crazy wisdom, the form of expression that comes closest to creating a bridge between words… — Wes Nisker Copy Share Image
I've had trouble with criticism, I guess. It's hard to know what role criticism plays in either encouraging poets or in getting… — Kenneth Koch Copy Share Image
“It's very difficult to look at the World and into your heart at the same time. In between, a life has passed.” — Jim Harrison Copy Share Image
“[The poet] is no arguer . . . he is judgment. He judges not as the judge judges but as the sun… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
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