We speak of the masculine and the feminine, but they are the wrong labels. It is really more a matter of poetry… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
The language of the age is never the language of poetry, except among the French, whose verse, where the thought or image… — Thomas Gray Copy Share Image
“My kind of love is made for the stage, untouchable and unbroken; its fate is to be doomed in repetition, in the… — Laura Chouette Copy Share Image
I do love the prose poem because it's such a perverse and provocative little box - always asking to be questioned, never… — Matthea Harvey Copy Share Image
The poem in which the reader does not feel himself or herself a participant is a lecture, listened to from an uncomfortable… — Mary Oliver Copy Share Image
“I walk through the old yellow sunlight to get to my kitchen table the poem about me lying there with the books… — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
Do poets have any insight into what's the right ratio? I doubt it, but I think that they can be awake to… — Robert Hass Copy Share Image
“Life shines on life. It is a verse versa game. We can not only give, but we should also receive. We should… — Theogene TUYISHIMIRE Copy Share Image
“[ On Love After Love by Derek Walcott ] I read this poem often, once a month at least. In the madness… — Tom Hiddleston Copy Share Image
The capacity for imaginative reflex, for moral risk in any human being is not limitless; on the contrary, it can be rapidly… — George Steiner Copy Share Image
“What do they mean when they say: “I do not like your poems; you have no faith whatever. You seem neither to… — William Carlos Williams Copy Share Image
Everybody has ideas. The vital question is, what do you do with them? My rock musician sons shape their ideas into music.… — Avi Copy Share Image
“Gamache watched the old poet. He knew what was looming behind the Mountain. What crushed all before it. The thing the Hermit… — Louise Penny Copy Share Image
The revelatory or visionary is the province of the 'private' artist, who in order to render his personal world comprehensible or even… — Kenneth Coutts-Smith Copy Share Image
“If I could sum up my poetry in a few well-chosen words, the result might be a poem. Several years ago, when… — Anthony Thwaite Copy Share Image
“I dreamed that you bewitched me into bed And sung me moon-struck, kissed me quite insane. (I think I made you up… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
The experiment of poetry, as far as I am concerned, happens when the poem carries you beyond where you could have reasonably… — Seamus Heaney Copy Share Image
“No sword Of wrath her right arm whirl'd, But one poor poet's scroll, and with his word She shook the world.” — Alfred Tennyson Copy Share Image
“I don’t know how to pray, but I’ve seen them do it on TV; kneeling by a bed in nightgowns, hands woven… — Jessica Bell Copy Share Image
How poetic you are," she said. "I've a notion that poetry is the highest form of self-deception. — Gregory Maguire Copy Share Image
The number of people writing poems is vast, and their reasons for doing so are many, that much can be surmised from… — Mark Strand Copy Share Image
I am losing my Soviet citizenship, I do not cease to be a Russian poet. I believe that I will return. Poets… — Joseph Brodsky Copy Share Image
“We left this love in ruins, wreckage and debris. A ghost of our former glory, artifacts of what used to be.” — Liz Newman Copy Share Image
For children: I'm writing a picture book about the Big Dipper and a novel about a cricket, a firefly and a vole.… — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
It is a fact often observed, that men have written good verses under the inspiration of passion, who cannot write well under… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Poetry is easier to learn than prose. Once you have learned it you can use it as a light and a laser.… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
“I treat positivity like ammunition; I constantly try to kill a bad thought with a good one.” — Bailey Nadeen Copy Share Image
“It's not Adventureland, but you write some poems, the leaves move, and you get laid sometimes." Tom Drury's Pierre Hunter on life.” — Tom Drury Copy Share Image
“One great function of Bible verses: To keep us from drawing false inferences from other Bible verses.” — John Piper Copy Share Image
Your poems are of interest to mankind; your liver isn't. Drink till you write well and feel sick. Bless your poems and… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
“if an arab girl caves into the forest of her body is she the tree or the ax or is she the… — Jess Rizkallah Copy Share Image
My poems often start with an idea, some kind of inspiration. I don't expect anything. Every now and then something like "The… — Philip Schultz Copy Share Image
A good poem is like a bouillon cube. It's concentrated and it nourishes you when you need it. — Rita Dove Copy Share Image
Well: the day is a poem but too much Like one of Jeffers's, crusted with blood and barbaric omens Painful to excess,… — Robinson Jeffers Copy Share Image
Poetry speaks most effectively and inclusively (whether in free or formal verse) when it recognizes its connection - without apology - to… — Dana Gioia Copy Share Image
All the new media are art forms which have the power of imposing, like poetry, their own assumptions. — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
“Kini aku selalu memberi jarak antara kamu dan puisi. Puisi telah menumbuhkan sayapsayap di punggungku untuk lebih dekat padaNya.” — Helvy Tiana Rosa Copy Share Image
Hunter S. Thompson and I are old friends, but what we do is so different. There are surface similarities that really have… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
“Good poetry does not exist merely for the sake of itself, but rather, is a byproduct of yearning and growth; great poetry… — Bryant McGill Copy Share Image
The usual bad poem in somebody's Collected Works is a learned, mannered, valued habit, a habit a little more careful than, and… — Randall Jarrell Copy Share Image
![“[ On Love After Love by Derek Walcott ] I read this poem often, once a month at least. In the madness and mayhem of modern life, where every man seems committed to an endless search for the approval and esteem of his fellows and peers, no matter what the cost, this poem reminds me of a basic…” quote by Tom Hiddleston](https://sms4smile.com/q/i/91f/tom-hiddleston-1633_calm-and-peace_on-love-after-love-by-derek-walcott-i-re_1921633.png)
