I use poetry to help me work through what I don’t understand, but I show up to each new poem with a… — Sarah Kay Copy Share Image
“They had to call and call And pick the worms off me like sticky pearls. --From the poem "Lady Lazarus", written 23-29… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
Hebrew as a contemporary language, especially for poetry, is no longer the language of the Bible; but neither is it not the… — Cynthia Ozick Copy Share Image
Poets are simply those who have made a profession and a lifestyle of being in touch with their bliss. — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
“...before the dawn I leave the night behind me and before my heart I let you leave me behind. - from the… — Munia Khan Copy Share Image
“I sleep with thee, and wake with thee, And yet thou are not there; I fill my arms with thoughts of thee,… — John Clare Copy Share Image
I wanted to become a writer and felt that poetry was perfected language, so having it in my subconscious mind would make… — Caterina Fake Copy Share Image
The only refuge left to us was the poet's ivory tower, which we climbed, ever higher, to isolate ourselves from the mob. — Gerard De Nerval Copy Share Image
It is funny, and also a bit sad, that poets are so often asked to justify our vocation. There seems to be… — Matthew Zapruder Copy Share Image
“This is the nature of love,” Vashet said. “To attempt to describe it will drive a woman mad. That is what keeps… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
“The danger of restorative nostalgia lies in its belief that the mutilated 'wholeness' of the body politic can be repaired. But the… — Simon Reynolds Copy Share Image
I like to know that when I'm 90 years old, I'm going to be able to look at a song or poem… — Camila Cabello Copy Share Image
“But while we are confined to books, though the most select and classic, and read only particular written languages, which are themselves… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Also, and again I intend no offense, the most meaningful and often harrowing adventures which I and many like me have experienced… — Kurt Vonnegut Jr Copy Share Image
“One probably hears about it. One, wire, recognizes. One holds her bones up next to each other. One insists, grinding the clutch.… — Jennifer Clarvoe Copy Share Image
“Empty-page staring again tonight. It's maddening. I suppose people who don't write (like the Connollies) imagine anything that can be though can… — Philip Larkin Copy Share Image
“Every word, every sentence, every poem and every chapter of a book I have written came from the bottom of my heart,… — Euginia Herlihy Copy Share Image
The only thing we all agree on, virtually every poet in this country, is that this Administration is really frightening, and we… — Sam Hamill Copy Share Image
“Fantasy is nearer to poetry, to mysticism, and to insanity than naturalistic fiction is. It is a real wilderness, and those who… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
Poetry is the break (or rather the meeting at the breaking point) between the visible and the invisible. — Jean Genet Copy Share Image
“I am the dumb, the wild, the things now dead / That men have killed for being mute and strange” — Gertrud Kolmar Copy Share Image
In the very end, civilizations perish because they listen to their politicians and not to their poets. — Jonas Mekas Copy Share Image
“ I know the place I know the place. It is true. Everything we do Corrects the space Between death and me… — Harold Pinter Copy Share Image
If I correctly understand the sense of this succinct observation, our poet suggests here that human life is but a series of… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
“I need you because I know I deserve you but let me fall in love with you one last time before I… — robert m drake Copy Share Image
My dad is a Jack Nicholson lookalike and a frustrated performer, my mother's into reading and poetry. I suppose the thing I… — Michael Sheen Copy Share Image
How do you explain what it feels like to get on the stage and make poetry that you know sinks into the… — Nina Simone Copy Share Image
“That’s why Lizard cooked. And why her poems never got written down. Food disappeared—and then there was nothing around to remind her… — Debora Geary Copy Share Image
“...those others - they're looking for trends - subjects to catch a spark - but I have you - a coal from… — John Geddes Copy Share Image
It is the first experience you ever had of reading a decent poem: 'Oh, somebody else is lonely, too! — Mary Ruefle Copy Share Image
There is something about a poet which leads us to believe that he died, in many cases, as long as 20 years… — James Thurber Copy Share Image
“I like art, and by art I mean music, poetry, sex, paintings, the human body, literature… All of this is art to… — Hunter Reveur Copy Share Image
“I have a book of poetry I believe many should read but in each verse you'll discover it wasn't written for greed.” — Stanley Victor Paskavich Copy Share Image
If the poet can no longer speak for society, but only for himself, then we are at the last ditch. — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
“One may never get to know how fast the time travels till the one gets in that position to race against the… — Neel Preet Copy Share Image
Verse is the natural speech of men, as singing is of birds'The Week's Survey, 18 June 1904 — Edward Thomas Copy Share Image
“Yeats was straight, but as Auden wrote in ‘In Memory of WB Yeats’: “You were silly like us.” — Christopher Bram Copy Share Image
“The greatness of poetry comes from its struggle to express the rapture of the soul in the contemplation of beauty.” — Anthony S. Maulucci Copy Share Image
In the ancients, one sees the accomplished letter of entire poetry: in the moderns, one has the presentiment of the spirit in… — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Copy Share Image
“For my sustenance at night, the whole that my hands can glean from the gloom of the oak-gloomed oaks-- the herbs and… — Flann O'Brien Copy Share Image
