“All girls should have a poem written for them even if we have to turn this God-damn world upside down to do… — Richard Brautigan Copy Share Image
“In a world of digital copies, remaining a hand-written note, a poetry lulled in an orchard of His Grace.” — Debatrayee Banerjee Copy Share Image
“Over a hundred books, thousands of sonnets, half a thousand limericks, half a thousand free verse poems, yet I still say, I'm… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
The poet is like the prince of clouds Who haunts the tempest and laughs at the archer; Exiled on the ground in… — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
“It must be frustrating being a poet-or any sort of artist-and not being able to offend anyone any more.” — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image
“power of his poetry to minister deeply to the likes of an opium addict such as Samuel Coleridge.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“I felt miserable. When Keats felt miserable he always put on a clean shirt. But he was a poet.” — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
It took me awhile to not be ashamed to be a poet in the business environment, and to be a business person… — Victoria Chang Copy Share Image
“ The Arden Shakespeare is intended both as a student text and as a revision of traditional scholarship. If it is to… — Peter Porter Copy Share Image
It's ironic that while I was a worker in Detroit, which I left when I was twenty six, my sense was that… — Philip Levine Copy Share Image
I wrote a lot of poetry in the last two years of high school, all about the same girl I was in… — Hari Kondabolu Copy Share Image
“Once, in Thessaly, there was a poet called Simonides. He was commissioned to appear at a banquet, given by a man called… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
“If for a moment you are inclined to regard these taluses as mere draggled, chaotic dumps, climb to the top of one… — John Muir Copy Share Image
While poetry was less professionalized than it is now, I still had this urge to win prizes and see my work in… — Denise Duhamel Copy Share Image
The idea of a poem as a message in a bottle means that it's sent out towards some future reader, and the… — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
Anybody is qualified, according to everybody, for giving opinions upon poetry. It is not so in chemistry and mathematics. Nor is it… — Elizabeth Barrett Browning Copy Share Image
The poet's function is to make his imagination . . . become the light in the mind of others. His role, in… — Wallace Stevens Copy Share Image
“.. "All religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination, and poetry." -Edgar Allan Poe” — Nykki Mills Copy Share Image
“...and so many colors I will have seen... the menacing greys and pine greens the soft pink and purples of spring and… — Sanober Khan Copy Share Image
“Beware, the moon is ablaze tonight. no telling what kind of insanity she’ll ignite. Listen to the wolves howl. Oh my, her… — Melody Lee Copy Share Image
My father loved poetry and music. But deep in himself he thought teaching the finest thing a person could do. — George Steiner Copy Share Image
All bad poetry springs from genuine feeling. To be natural is to be obvious, and to be obvious is to be inartistic. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
I always thought millennials are going westward, and they probably won't understand vernacular poetry. — Ayushmann Khurrana Copy Share Image
“All from the shines of yours The starlight of genuinity Being there at all times --Masterpiece In Your Heart. a series of… — S.Sulianah Copy Share Image
“you are a lover of the words a soul mate to the story everything becomes a part of you from my fingertips… — Amanda Linsmeier Copy Share Image
I grew up in a place in which, if you learned poetry, you shouted it out. Boys would scream it out and… — Derek Walcott Copy Share Image
Far off in the red mangroves an alligator has heaved himself onto a hummock of grass and lies there, studying his poems. — Mary Oliver Copy Share Image
“And medecine, law, business, engineering, these are noble pursuits and necessary to sustain life. But poetry, beauty, romance, love: these are what… — N.H. Kleinbaum Copy Share Image
“The voice I heard on the edge of death is the same which inspired my ancestors to write their verse: a further… — Tobias Wade Copy Share Image
My poetry is the most disappointing thing for me that I've ever written. When I say I can write everything, I don't… — Jess Walter Copy Share Image
“His tales took on the form of an epic poem, and I felt I was hearing some Canadian Homer reciting his Iliad… — Jules Verne Copy Share Image
“The dark silhouette of a forgotten rose in a forbidden garden of love; what kind of delicate fragrance of forgiveness it seems… — Laura Chouette Copy Share Image
I may say that I think greed about poetry is the only permissible greed - it is, indeed, unavoidable. — Edith Sitwell Copy Share Image
“I found poetry to be an outlet for everything I was dealing with. It quickly became not only my voice, but my… — Natalie Perry Copy Share Image
A poem is a construction of inner space. Language is to inner space as light is to material space. — Sven Birkerts Copy Share Image
“Poets always hate those in power. To them perfection is always just behind the last corner, or beyond the next. They escape… — Robert E. Howard Copy Share Image
I see the progress typical in some of my poems as starting with something simple and moving into something more demanding. This… — Billy Collins Copy Share Image
A translation is no translation, he said, unless it will give you the music of a poem along with the words of… — John Millington Synge Copy Share Image
And me I'm in my bedroom drawing in my notebook Because my hand thinks I'm an artist But my heart knows I'm… — Conor Oberst Copy Share Image
For purposes of marketing, writers are designated as poets, novelists, or something else. But writing is about matchmaking, an attempt to marry… — Teju Cole Copy Share Image
