What inspired me as a child is the same thing that inspires me now: being nice. I always try to one up… — Joell Ortiz Copy Share Image
This life is a war we are not yet winning for our daughters' children. Don't do your enemies' work for them. Finish… — Marge Piercy Copy Share Image
The world is a great poem, and the world's The words it is writ in, and we souls the thoughts. — Philip James Bailey Copy Share Image
“Our fictions move us to do great things, things worth doing for no better reason than there's poetry in us. We dream… — Bill Willingham Copy Share Image
Some of the greatest poetry is revealing to the reader the beauty in something that was so simple you had taken it… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
“Having to explain to someone how they hurt you, always feels like an ass kicking... again.” — Alfa H Copy Share Image
If you've never been rocked back by the presence of purpose this poem is too soon for you. Return to your mediocrity,… — Buddy Wakefield Copy Share Image
“[Marianne Moore's definition of genuine poetry] -- Imaginary gardens with real toads in them.” — Marianne Moore Copy Share Image
“The first inkling of this notion had come to him the Christmas before, at his daughter's place in Vermont. On Christmas Eve,… — John Crowley Copy Share Image
“I’ve come down from the sky like some damned ghost, delayed too long…To the abandoned fields the trees returned and grew. They… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
“If I ever see an alien fishing in Scotland, and witness it catching the Loch Ness Monster, I’d probably assume the world… — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
Even when the poet seems most himself . . . he is never the bundle of accident and incoherence that sits down… — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
The best verse hasn't been rhymed yet, The best house hasn't been planned, The highest peak hasn't been climbed yet, The mightiest… — Berton Braley Copy Share Image
“Shakespeare acquired more essential history from Plutarch than most men could from the whole British Museum. What is to be insisted upon… — T.S. Eliot Copy Share Image
“I could not have climbed any mountains while looking from the ground... I would not have flown... or dived... or surfed... or… — Kem Copy Share Image
“Robert Frost liked to distinguish between grievances (complaints) and griefs (sorrows). He even suggested that grievances, which are propagandistic, should be restricted… — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
I like to think that the best poetry is or involves a contest between ordinary conversation and ritual. — Miller Williams Copy Share Image
The thing about the poetry is that, because of the way it started, it was always something on the side. There's nobody… — Tim Key Copy Share Image
“A man of few words, I just sit still on this hill, I know death will persist, I write when my mind… — P.J. Bayliss Copy Share Image
“It is not your job to understand. Sick people do sick things. You do not understand the mind of an abuser, because… — Hannah V. Sawyerr Copy Share Image
It is always better to write for the whole of society than for the poetry-reading public. — Tony Harrison Copy Share Image
I realized poetry's the thing that I can do 'cause I can stick at it and work with tremendous intensity. — Philip Levine Copy Share Image
My best days do seem like a distillation of all that was best about school. Write a story! Paint a picture! Write… — Mark Haddon Copy Share Image
My verse has brought me no roubles to spare: no craftsmen have made mahogany chairs for my house. — Vladimir Mayakovsky Copy Share Image
If a chap can't compose an epic poem while he's weaving tapestry, he had better shut up, he'll never do any good… — William Morris Copy Share Image
“Some stories can only be appreciated by the storyteller Some adventures can only be preserved in the heart of the adventurer.” — Liz Newman Copy Share Image
Mercy without boasting, Gifts without terms, Goodness without anger, Forgive without reason, Any given time, I do my best to strive, In… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Confessional poetry is, to my mind, more slippery than poems that are sloppily autobiographical; I find the confessional mode much more akin… — Cate Marvin Copy Share Image
What a poor appearance the tales of poets make when stripped of the colours which music puts upon them, and recited in… — Plato Copy Share Image
“Be with someone who willingly runs in the storm with you, not someone who cowers away because of turbulent winds.” — Melody Lee Copy Share Image
If your vision of the world is of a certain kind you will put poetry in everything, necessarily. — Georges Simenon Copy Share Image
“Songs given at night will bury themselves (as seeds do) in the dark in you, to shoot a shoot up come morning.… — Allison Boyd Justus Copy Share Image
What the poet says has never been said before, but, once he has said it, his readers recognize its validity for themselves. — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
Hip-hop started with street poets with great lyrical skills, and that's what hip-hop has always been about for me. — Gza Copy Share Image
He invades authors like a monarch; and what would be theft in other poets is only victory in him. — John Dryden Copy Share Image
Poets and painters are outside the class system, or rather they constitute a special class of their own, like the circus people… — Gerald Brenan Copy Share Image
I have never considered myself a poet. Therefore, I am not a rival of anyone, and I do not consider anybody my… — Muhammad Iqbal Copy Share Image
The line is a way of framing poetry. All verse is measured by lines. The poetic line immediately announces its difference from… — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
“On such a night,’ I thought, ‘were ill and good, Bright and unlovely; precious, tawdry, All mingled into one And pressed against… — Irene Hunt Copy Share Image
Poetry is a religion without hope, but its martyrs guarantee the eternal truth of its dogma. — Jean Cocteau Copy Share Image
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