Poetry is a search for syllables to shoot at the barriers of the unknown and the unknowable. — Carl Sandburg Copy Share Image
“Very possibly this was the night my white-knight complex, as Solange put it, would get me killed. Someone had better write a… — Alyxandra Harvey Copy Share Image
A versifier with neither heart nor soul is, rather than a poet, a dull and lifeless thinking pen or keyboard. — Jean-Paul Malfatti Copy Share Image
I write quite a lot of sonnets, and I think of them almost as prayers: short and memorable, something you can recite. — Carol Ann Duffy Copy Share Image
“I bade good morrow, And thought to leave her far away behind; But cheerly, cheerly, She loves me dearly; She is so… — John Keats Copy Share Image
Next to theology I give to music the highest place and honor. And we see how David and all the saints have… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
Poetry wants to make things mean more than they mean, says someone, as if we knew how much things meant, and in… — Rae Armantrout Copy Share Image
If you show a poetry professor your shiny new multiple choice teaching technology, he will invite you to exit his office. — Andrew Ng Copy Share Image
Homosexuals are delicate and bad poetry is delicate and [Allen] Ginsberg turned the tables by making homosexual poetry strong poetry, almost manly… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
“A man walks into a bar and says: Take my wife–please. So you do. You take her out into the rain and… — Richard Siken Copy Share Image
“Raise from your bed of languor Raise from your bed of dismay Your friends will not come tomorrow As they did not… — Stevie Smith Copy Share Image
“Cairn Stone This is the rock he lifted to lay upon a cairn in a high place. This rock, warmed by the… — Claudia Putnam Copy Share Image
The ideal audience the poet imagines consists of the beautiful who go to bed with him, the powerful who invite him to… — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
“Pariah Luggage by Stewart Stafford I am the last piece of luggage, On the baggage carousel, If there's a suitcase deity, It… — Stewart Stafford Copy Share Image
“The day will come When my body no longer exists But in the lines of this poem I will never let you… — Sapardi Djoko Damono Copy Share Image
“They spent a summer talking beneath the redwoods. There was a curiosity to the way they knew. She would take his hips… — Mikl Paul Copy Share Image
The ancient Greek oral poets all had this anxiety about the deficiencies of their memories and always began poems by praying to… — David Antin Copy Share Image
“A life without books is a thirsty life, and one without poetry is...like a life without pictures.” — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“Now picture a volume of human / Reduced to planes and fluttering / Under my thumb like a flipbook / Showing the disease in action” — Amit Majmudar Copy Share Image
“She wants you to see things she's never shown you. She wants you to hear things she's never said. She wants you… — Alfa H Copy Share Image
“I'm not a poet and I'm not a nature lover and I'm not an Anarchist. I am, thank God, absolutely nothing.” — Nescio Copy Share Image
While I've had a great distaste for what's usually called song in modern poetry or for what's usually called music, I really… — David Antin Copy Share Image
“Poet' had always sounded like a profession to me, or a talent. But the dead American [Muriel Rukeyser, The Life of Poetry]… — Ariel Gore Copy Share Image
Around 10 years old I started being into church and being around the church. I started doing poetry - I was doing… — Cupcakke Copy Share Image
It was an epiphany when I realized you don't have to call yourself a linguist, a translator, a poet. You can call… — Jan Peacock Copy Share Image
“it is the function of a poet to relate not things that have happened, but things that may happen,” — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Virgil, above all poets, had a stock which I may call almost inexhaustible, of figurative, elegant, and sounding words. — John Dryden Copy Share Image
True poetry is a function of awakening. It awakens us, but it must retain the memory of previous dreams. — Gaston Bachelard Copy Share Image
After one has abandoned a belief in God, poetry is that essence which takes its place as life's redemption. — Wallace Stevens Copy Share Image
In a way you can feel that the poet actually is looking over your shoulder, and you say to yourself, now, how… — Robert Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“Tho' you're tired and weary, still journey on, Till you come to your happy abode, Where all the love you've been dreaming… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“How was I supposed to know that slamming doors was saying goodbye you did it all the time and he still let… — Alisha Christensen Copy Share Image
“I cast my eyes out to the sea and gaze at all eternity until forever turns to night. My eyes then lift… — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
There is a line of poetry, a sentence in a fable, a word in an essay, by which my existence is justified;… — Alberto Manguel Copy Share Image
“Her wings have been clipped for centuries, yet she still takes flight at night when the moon is full and bright.” — Melody Lee Copy Share Image
I realised I'd spent a lot of time in my poetry trying to find a way of talking about that whereof we… — John Burnside Copy Share Image
“There’s too much risk in loving,’ the young boy said, ‘no,’ said the old man, ‘there’s too much risk in not.” — Atticus Poetry Copy Share Image
It is well sometimes to half understand a poem in the same manner that we half understand the world. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I sometimes photograph my poems and get obsessive about this and spend a lot of time squatting over them but it's a… — Tim Key Copy Share Image
In order to master the unruly torrent of life the learned man meditates, the poet quivers, and the political hero erects the… — Jose Ortega y Gasset Copy Share Image
![“Homosexuals are delicate and bad poetry is delicate and [Allen] Ginsberg turned the tables by making homosexual poetry strong poetry, almost manly poetry; but in the long run, the homo will remain the homo and not the poet.” quote by Charles Bukowski](https://sms4smile.com/q/i/0f1/charles-bukowski-73_delicate_homosexuals-are-delicate-and-bad-poetry_2952094.jpg)
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