Memory has always been fundamental for me. In fact, remembering what I had forgotten is the way most of the poems get… — Seamus Heaney Copy Share Image
“Listen, for poets are feigned to lie, and I For you a liar am a thousand times . . . .” — John Berryman Copy Share Image
“My sincere thanks to friends and family, especially my mother, father, brother, and Mandy, who continue to love and support me despite… — Jonathan Ball Copy Share Image
I never try to force poems into a collection simply because they were written/published within a certain period of time. They will… — Rigoberto Gonzalez Copy Share Image
“Sure, we thought the acres That we tilled were sacred, But how could we have known That wheat can haunt like ghosts” — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
That impulse I think is a form of love. Poetry is something that comes to you, rather than your having to work… — Judith Wright Copy Share Image
“And life is as short as a shot in the dark And as sweet as a knife in the back. (Prof. J.… — Steven William Lawrie Copy Share Image
“Sadness- just a mere disease, which keeps your soul, placed in your own haven, until you're in pieces! Verses from her poem… — Supriya Kaur Dhaliwal Copy Share Image
“This fifth and final sun will die, Like every sun before— But for a moment we laughed in its light, Like wind-blown… — David Bowles Copy Share Image
Verse is a mechanism by which we can create interpretative illusions suggesting profoundities of response and understanding which far exceed the engagement… — John Constable Copy Share Image
“You wrote in a poem, “I love your body,” as if love was for you embodied in the senses, and yet more… — David Plante Copy Share Image
Poetry relishes ripe fruit - but ripe is one thing and overripe quite another. That's something poetry doesn't like, so it couldn't… — Kiki Dimoula Copy Share Image
Poem (Lana Turner has collapsed!) Lana Turner has collapsed! I was trotting along and suddenly it started raining and snowing and you… — Frank O'Hara Copy Share Image
I always loved singing and writing poetry. I always loved music, and I've loved writing my whole life. When I put them… — Lisa Marie Presley Copy Share Image
“The best kind of rain, of course, is a cozy rain. This is the kind the anonymous medieval poet makes me remember,… — Susan Allen Toth Copy Share Image
Go back to The October Palace, which came out in 1994, and there are poems with windows, doors, the rooms of the… — Jane Hirshfield Copy Share Image
You may translate books of science exactly. ... The beauties of poetry cannot be preserved in any language except that in which… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
People wish to be poets more than they wish to write poetry, and that's a mistake. One should wish to celebrate more… — Lucille Clifton Copy Share Image
I got out of Iowa all set to be a poet and a novelist, but you know what? It's really tough to… — Peter Heller Copy Share Image
For though, in nature, depth and height Are equally held infinite: In poetry, the height we know; 'Tis only infinite below. — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
Galatians Chapter 5 Verse 22 But faithfulness fruit goodness is joy kindness love of patience peace Spirit the — Bless Highlyfavor Copy Share Image
Verse, Fame and Beauty are intense indeed, But Death intenser - Death is Life's high meed. — John Keats Copy Share Image
“I am no longer a writer. Just an emotion. An emotion that is unable to stay within its own body, and is… — Zaeema J. Hussain Copy Share Image
“I have seen your darkest nights and brightest days and I want you to know that I will be here forever loving… — Atticus Poetry Copy Share Image
“Do not judge, and you will not be judged. Do not condemn, and you will not be condemned. Forgive, and you will… — Timothy L. O'Brien Copy Share Image
“We must, therefore, never underestimate our power to be wrong when talking about God, when thinking about God, when imagining God—whether in… — Brian D. McLaren Copy Share Image
There are a couple of poems I've written with masculine muses, very often the muse to me is a female. — Shirley Geok-lin Lim Copy Share Image
“I'm fond of Derek Walcott too. I could eat his poem "Love After Love." Just peel the words off the page and… — Cath Crowley Copy Share Image
The age-old faith of lovers and poets in the power of love, stronger than death, that Finis vitae sed non amoris, is… — Stanislaw Lem Copy Share Image
Roses are red, violets are blue, you thought I would cry over you. I told you I loved you, and you thought… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Poetry, plays, novels, music, they are the cry of the human spirit trying to understand itself and make sense of our world. — Laura Elliott Copy Share Image
Well, yes: people write poems when they are in love, but a wise man will not print them. — Hans Christian Andersen Copy Share Image
Poetry fettered, fetters the human race. Nations are destroyed or flourish in proportion as their poetry, painting, and music are destroyed or… — William Blake Copy Share Image
There's nothing wrong with delighting in what you do. In fact, most of the fun you'll have as a poet will come… — Ted Kooser Copy Share Image
“I used to think that in the end, we would laugh at the world together. I guess now, the world is laughing… — Athena Violante Copy Share Image
Though my verse but roam the air And murmur in the trees, You may discern a purpose there, As in music of… — Alfred Austin Copy Share Image
When a poem doesn't work, the first question to ask yourself is, 'Am I telling the truth?' — Wendy Cope Copy Share Image
Not only every great poet, but every genuine, but lesser poet, fulfils once for all some possibility of language, and so leaves… — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
“Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror. But you are eternity and you are the mirror.” — Kahlil Gibran Copy Share Image
I still write poetry from time to time, but my whole life is so music-oriented at this point that it's hard for… — Jack Tatum Copy Share Image
