“Mockery and nagging have always been at play, But me hurting me is the ultimate Mayday.” — Ritu Negi Copy Share Image
Art is eternally young, but the poet ages. If only he remained as young as art! If only it aged with him! — Franz Grillparzer Copy Share Image
The beginner hugs his infant poem to him and does not want it to grow up. But you may have to break… — May Sarton Copy Share Image
Writers quite often starve. And I'm mainly just writing critical prose and poetry, that's a formula for starvation. — Clive James Copy Share Image
One difference between poetry and lyrics is that lyrics sort of fade into the background. They fade on the page and live… — Stephen Sondheim Copy Share Image
Without poetry, religion becomes obscure, false, and malignant; without philosophy, licentious in all wantonness, and lascivious to the point of self-castration. — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Copy Share Image
In the fall of 1963, in Leningrad, in what was then the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, the young poet Dmitry Bobyshev… — Keith Gessen Copy Share Image
“I am lost in my world, invisible - unknown. Moon please lend me your light that someone will me see me.” — Susie Clevenger Copy Share Image
“In his ordinary voice, so that she scarcely realized he was quoting poetry, he said: "'From far, from eve and morning, And… — E.M. Forster Copy Share Image
There's a lot of rage in my head. I like the friction that means there is nothing relaxing about writing a poem.… — Alice Oswald Copy Share Image
Read poems to yourself in the middle of the night. Turn on a single lamp and read them while you're alone in… — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
If you sit down to write a limerick, you find yourself straddling two histories: the history of the limerick form itself, which… — Michael Rosen Copy Share Image
“From this arid sphere every discourse and every poem sets forth; and every journey through forests, battles, treasures, banquets, bedchambers, brings us… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
“ The Tide Rises, The Tide Falls The tide rises, the tide falls, The twilight darkens, the curlew calls; Along the sea-sands… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
Poetry is interesting because not everyone is going to become a great poet, but anyone can be, and anyone can enjoy poetry,… — Amanda Gorman Copy Share Image
“I always wanted you close. Never more than a heartbeat away. I used to think I wanted you most when I was… — Alfa H Copy Share Image
I think it better that in times like these a poet's mouth be silent, for in truth we have no gift to… — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
“What is poetry? you ask, while fixing your blue pupil on mine. What is poetry! And you are asking me? Poetry...is you.” — Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer Copy Share Image
“I listen to the rainfall, my words wanna flow! Droplets run down the wall, where do they go? Letters in the raw,… — Leslie Austin Copy Share Image
Poetry allows me to write about what I don't know, whereas journalism demands a higher level of certainty to be worthy of… — Eliza Griswold Copy Share Image
The greatest applause a poet can receive is when their work brings tears to the eyes or moisture to the seat. — Yust Lundberg Copy Share Image
When poets go off the boil, they sound like bumble bees; when critics do, they sound like sewing machines. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
“A single wire hanger on a nail by itself Isn't bad though a stack of them on a floor Is too gloomy… — Dara Weir Copy Share Image
“She comes when classes are to start, She gathers up last midnight’s clutter – burnt cigarettes, a rusted pen nib” — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
A hundred cabinet-makers in London can work a table or a chair equally well; but no one poet can write verses with… — David Hume Copy Share Image
“She walks barefoot in the woods. Always returns smelling like a wildflower and howling like a wolf. My Gypsy Jane.” — Melody Lee Copy Share Image
Auden said poetry makes nothing happen. But I wonder if the opposite could be true. It could make something happen. — Carol Ann Duffy Copy Share Image
Jim, as just a spoken poet, was not that good. He needed the music behind him. He felt a security and a… — Ray Manzarek Copy Share Image
“The harpy’s eyes were wide with wonder. “So that’s Adriyel. No wonder it’s famous in poems and shit.” — Thea Harrison Copy Share Image
A really good stand-up comic is a poet; it's about the use of language. It can be really poetic. And I like… — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
“He smelled like a wolf and I knew I should run, instead I opened my heart and invited him in for a… — Melody Lee Copy Share Image
“Whenever you touch a poem that caresses your soul, breathe it gently for it might be the wind that perfects your life's… — A. Saleh Copy Share Image
If a poet is anybody, he is somebody to whom things made matter very little - somebody who is obsessed by Making. — e. e. cummings Copy Share Image
“The Best Thing I love about being a writer and a poet is, I can make up my own words to fit… — Ocean Crisstopher Poet Copy Share Image
“I said I wouldn’t be the kind of boyfriend who reads her poetry, and I’m not, but I guess I am the… — John Green Copy Share Image
Aberjhani is an award-winning poet who is featured in our first DREAM REACHERS book. An awesome talent. — Betty Dravis Copy Share Image
Here's one more from my limited experience with all 3 fields: A writer creates life; a poet creates magic from life; a… — Siddharth Katragadda Copy Share Image
A strong new presence in poetry . . . Kei Miller's is a voice we will hear much more of, for it… — Lorna Goodison Copy Share Image
“Because life is so much more than internet, bank balance, and materialistic possessions. Poets don't dream of becoming millionaires.” — Avijeet Das Copy Share Image
Poetry is a serious business; literature is the apparatus through which the world tries to keep intact its important ideas and feelings. — Mary Oliver Copy Share Image
