“Without the wetness of your love, the fragrance of your water, or the trickling sounds of your voice ― I shall always… — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image
The way a great poet takes an idea, small like the bud of a flower and makes it bloom. And makes you… — Melody Minagar Copy Share Image
“A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with… — Abraham Maslow Copy Share Image
I just discovered when I was, oh, 12 or 13, that I was very interested in language - and this showed itself… — Edwin Morgan Copy Share Image
Cold water eyes, blue as cartoon skies I can't forget. She was everything, part of who I am, my one big regret. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It's the combination of the intimate and the public that I find so exciting about being poet laureate. — Rita Dove Copy Share Image
A great actor is independent of the poet, because the supreme essence of feeling does not reside in prose or in verse,… — Lee Strasberg Copy Share Image
“She wildly burned for the one she loved and he stood there watching, hoping he too would catch a blaze from the… — robert m drake Copy Share Image
nothing which we are to perceive in this world equals the power of your intense fragility:whose texture compels me with the colour… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Pain, too, comes from depths that cannot be revealed. We do not know whether those depths are in ourselves or elsewhere, in… — Tahar Ben Jelloun Copy Share Image
I like Wallace Stevens, Robert Frost, but some of the older ones it's hard for me to sit down with - when… — Samuel Ervin Beam Copy Share Image
I'm a big fan of the poet Mary Jo Salter, and although she doesn't need to be discovered at all - she's… — J. R. Moehringer Copy Share Image
You ever hear guys with small cocks talk about sex? Can't talk about it enough. They even got poems. They'll say, 'It's… — Norm MacDonald Copy Share Image
“I is for immortality, which for some poets is a necessary compensation. Presumably miserable in this life, they will be remembered when… — Mark Strand Copy Share Image
“How sweetly she looks! O, but there's a wrinkle in her brow as deep as philosophy. - Anacreon, drink to my mistress'… — Thomas Middleton Copy Share Image
More often than not in poetry I find difficulty to be gratuitous and show-offy and camouflaging, experimental to a kind of insane… — Billy Collins Copy Share Image
The poem is at last between two persons instead of two pages. In all modesty, I confess that it may be the… — Frank O'Hara Copy Share Image
A studio, like a poem, is an intimacy and a freedom you can look out from, into each part of your life… — Jane Hirshfield Copy Share Image
Writing poetry is such an intense experience that it helps to start the process in a casual or wayward frame of mind. — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
Vowels are the most illuminated letters in the alphabet. Vowels are the colors and souls of poetry and speech. (1976 Penthouse interview) — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
“You'll find magic everywhere, even in dark, dusty corners, if you stop searching with your limited human eyes and instead feel with… — Melody Lee Copy Share Image
Poe gives the sense for the first time in America, that literature is serious, not a matter of courtesy but of truth. — William Carlos Williams Copy Share Image
Coming from a very inarticulate family made me try to speak for those who can't express themselves and created a need for… — Tony Harrison Copy Share Image
If you like the precision and concision of poetry, a page of prose is unsatisfying in a certain way. And poetry is… — Helen Vendler Copy Share Image
According to them, the poet is confined to the provinces with his mouth broken on his own syllabic trapeze. — Salvatore Quasimodo Copy Share Image
An Eastern poet, Ali Ben Abu Taleb, writes with sad truth, He who has a thousand friends has not a friend to… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
We live in such a digital age. Paper is going out of our lives. A poem on paper is tangible. — Peleg Top Copy Share Image
There was no market for poetry about trauma, abuse, loss, love, and healing through the lens of a Punjabi-Sikh immigrant woman. — Rupi Kaur Copy Share Image
“This is poetry. You’re writing about Heaven’s Gate and the Caribou Herd, but what comes across is loneliness, displacement, angst, and a… — Dan Simmons Copy Share Image
“Her eyes were the color of whiskey and grace. Moments with her always felt like getting drunk on Sundays.” — B. Devine Copy Share Image
“How I'm glad to go back home! Once I truly have no more worry. Many of those who are in a hurry… — Ana Claudia Antunes Copy Share Image
I shall state my thesis plain. The first poets were gods. Poetry began with the bicameral mind. — Julian Jaynes Copy Share Image
“...The end is so immense, it is its own poetry. It requires little rhetoric. Just state it plainly.” — Philip Roth Copy Share Image
“He knows he will be hurt. The warnings come to him in bed because repose threatens him” — Louise Glück Copy Share Image
What I try to do is to keep emotion on a tight leash; otherwise, it can never be transubstantiated into poetry. — Kiki Dimoula Copy Share Image
“And I find myself asking again and again… What was it about such a beautiful man, who was able to leave such… — Alfa H Copy Share Image
But poetry is not to be lived, except for the few to whom it is more important than self-preservation. — Rosamond Lehmann Copy Share Image
Fiction, poetry, music...these are the places (for me) where loneliness is countenanced, stared down, transfigured, treated. — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
Ibn Firnas was a polymath: a physician, a rather bad poet, the first to make glass from stones (quartz), a student of… — Lynn Townsend White, Jr Copy Share Image
Each language has its own temperament; some languages make a poem more dramatic or sad, and others make it more playful. — Luljeta Lleshanaku Copy Share Image
