What I like about prose poems is that they seem to make people uncomfortable - people want to define them, justify them,… — Matthea Harvey Copy Share Image
It's easy to understand why the most beautiful poems about England in the spring were written by poets living in Italy at… — Philip Dunne Copy Share Image
A book can teach you, a conversation can assure you, a poem can seduce you, a genius can inspire you but only… — Anthony Anaxagorou Copy Share Image
The bad poet is usually unconscious where he ought to be conscious, and conscious where he ought to be unconscious. — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
When a great poet has lived, certain things have been done once for all, and cannot be achieved again. — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
I am reading Jonson's verses to the memory of Shakespeare; an insolent, sparing, and invidious panegyric... — John Dryden Copy Share Image
“But I am wise if not yet quite old, wanting the poem more than the lover, wanting words more than the sticky… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
I deliberately wrote a poem in my last book where I was suggesting that there are other passions as great as or… — Thom Gunn Copy Share Image
I am blessed again, to hear the rain. Its tin-roof chatter, drums terrain While droplets pepper windowpanes. Between such bouts, life breathes… — Aisha Copy Share Image
The poet will write for his peers alone. He will remember only that he saw truth and beauty from his position, and… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“Amé, fuí amado, el sol acarició mi faz. ¡Vida, nada me debes! ¡Vida, estamos en paz! I loved, I was loved, the… — Amado Nervo Copy Share Image
“In America the magazines in which one can frequently publish stories or poems about Negroes are very few, and most of these… — Langston Hughes Copy Share Image
“ Sonnet I am no stranger in the house of pain; I am familiar with its every part, From the low stile,… — Robert Nathan Copy Share Image
My heart is in chains,though still beating. My spirit is caged, though still flaming. My mind has been captured, though is still… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
My wife has a beastly habit of comparing poetry -- all literature in fact -- to the droppings of the goats among… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
I think that what I learned then, I didn't know I was learning. I just knew that I was very privileged to… — Bernardo Bertolucci Copy Share Image
The only people who have trouble with poetry are the people who link it with literature. It's much more akin to mountain-walking,… — Theo Dorgan Copy Share Image
A Grecian history, perfectly written should be a complete record of the rise and progress of poetry, philosophy, and the arts. — Thomas B. Macaulay Copy Share Image
War talk by men who have been in a war is always interesting; whereas moon talk by a poet who has not… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
It is difficult to get the news from poetry, yet men die miserably every day for lack of what is found there. — William Carlos Williams Copy Share Image
“In Austin, someone has scrawled on the bathroom wall of a cafe on Congress Street, “I don’t know if you or I… — Linh Dinh Copy Share Image
“the world is better without them. only the plants and the animals are true comrades. I drink to them and with them.” — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
For me, a painting must give off sparks. It must dazzle like the beauty of a woman or a poem. — Joan Miro Copy Share Image
“I will kiss you here. And here. And here. And here. You express me better than I express myself. You shall be… — J.A. Huss Copy Share Image
The poet's expression of joy conceals his despair at not having found the reality of joy. — Max Jacob Copy Share Image
Weaknesses have a certain function in a poem... some strategy in order to pave the reader's way to the impact of this… — Joseph Brodsky Copy Share Image
Women are treated as unjustly in poetry as in life. The feminine ones are not idealistic, and the idealistic not feminine. — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Copy Share Image
I grew up in this town, my poetry was born between the hill and the river, it took its voice from the… — Pablo Neruda Copy Share Image
“The planet you inhabit is a single plane of infinite dimensions, stretched like a guitar string, and standing before you like a… — Thomas Lloyd Qualls Copy Share Image
For her..i'll become a poet, artist and musician, if it means the warmth of her embrace! — AnOnYmOuZ Copy Share Image
I returned to poetry as a more precise way to describe the world, more precise than science. — David Whyte Copy Share Image
“For the first time in my life, I understood the end of that poem. And I never wanted to. You have to… — Stephen Chbosky Copy Share Image
“Poet Mary Oliver wrote, “This is the first, wildest, and wisest thing I know: that the soul exists, and that it is… — Wendy Strgar Copy Share Image
To say a poem is absolute is saying nothing, because an ink blot can be absolute. Yet you put into it what… — Nicholas Mosley Copy Share Image
“They wrote to me and said something about it, and I said that if it doesn't involve any work, I'll do it.… — Robert Bly Copy Share Image
You puff the poets of other days, The living you deplore. Spare me the accolade: your praise Is not worth dying for. — Martial Copy Share Image
“I have more wisdom than any books ever written in history of times, any scripture ever written which you rhyme but this… — Santosh Kalwar Copy Share Image
“Be so filled with inner glorious moonlight to forbid bullshit and drama sneaking in the back door. Keep the poison out, and… — Melody Lee Copy Share Image
And when you are entering into poetry, whatever stage you're at, you are participating in something with a very long and noble… — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
People in power tend to find poetry dangerous to them because it is dislocating, they can't catch it, can't control it. They… — Elia Suleiman Copy Share Image
