“When my life is unraveling, and everything about it is slack, my poems are taut. My poems take the fray and wind… — J.A. Huss Copy Share Image
“I can weave words together and create magic,it's like knitting and crocheting words with pen and paper, some call it Poetry.” — Charmaine J Forde Copy Share Image
Very little of my time is spent thinking about poetry, except the time I spend in class. — Rachel Zucker Copy Share Image
I need to look back on my poetic ventures, make sense of them as a whole, and move forward... and to experiment… — Tony Harrison Copy Share Image
Every English poet should master the rules of grammar before he attempts to bend or break them. — Robert Graves Copy Share Image
“but from here on I want more crazy mourning, more howl, more keening -from "A Woman Dead in Her Forties” — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
“My mistakes burn me up inside. But as one of my favorite poets, Mary Oliver, says, while our mistakes make us want… — Hillary Rodham Clinton Copy Share Image
“The Uses Of Sorrow (In my sleep I dreamed this poem) Someone I loved once gave me a box full of darkness.… — Mary Oliver Copy Share Image
Fax me a fact and I'll telegram a hologram or telephone the son of man and tell him he is done. Leave… — Saul Williams Copy Share Image
R-e-m-o-r-s-e! Those dry Martinis did the work for me; Last night at twelve I felt immense, Today I feel like thirty cents.… — George Ade Copy Share Image
A poet needs to keep his wilderness alive inside him. To remain a poet after forty requires an awareness of your darkest… — Stanley Kunitz Copy Share Image
“The English were fascinated with the Italian people and their amazing Epicurean culture. Italian poetry, painting, pornography, music, drama, fashion, wine, women,… — Mark Lamonica Copy Share Image
Poetry is simply literature reduced to the essence of its active principle. It is purged of idols of every kind, of realistic… — Paul Valery Copy Share Image
“When he asks you why you chose alone all these years. Tell him that it’s because you love with all claws and… — Danabelle Gutierrez Copy Share Image
'Storm Warnings' is a poem about powerlessness - about a force so much greater than our human powers that while it can… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
“Suddenly she wants to fall to her knees and pray for the poets. She imagines them with immaculate ravaged faces, with necklaces… — Kate Braverman Copy Share Image
My opinion is that a poet should express the emotion of all the ages and the thought of his own. — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
“since the hardships of life is what has made me strong, instead of living with regrets--I'm thankful for what went wrong” — Jason Frisby Copy Share Image
Fiction and poetry are my first loves, but the really beautiful lyrical essay can do so much that other forms cannot. — Chris Abani Copy Share Image
I was influenced by surrealist poetry and painting as were thousands of other people, and it seems to me to have become… — Kenneth Koch Copy Share Image
I don't really write music in the traditional sense of chorus, verse. It's more experimental sounding. The process comes from an experimentation… — Bonobo Copy Share Image
The poet is the supreme artist, for he is the master of colour and of form, and the real musician besides, and… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“I kept you so well, buried beneath the darkest shame and stilled with filthy lies. Perhaps I should have dug deeper.” — Nicole Lyons Copy Share Image
“Dark is a way and light is a place, Heaven that never was Nor will be ever is always true —Dylan Thomas,… — Jeannette Walls Copy Share Image
I am suggesting that the radical of poetry lies not in the resolution of doubts but in their proliferation — C.D. Wright Copy Share Image
Poetry should help, not only to refine the language of the time, but to prevent it from changing too rapidly. — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
I write poems, have always written them, to transcend the painfully personal and reach the universal. — May Sarton Copy Share Image
A poem gives me a chance to have an encounter with a feeling, with an experience, with a wish, with an idea. — Tracy K. Smith Copy Share Image
The poet speaks adequately only when he speaks somewhat wildly... not with intellect alone, but with intellect inebriated by nectar. — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
“As for the world, all reality has no other excuse for existence except to offer the poet the chance to play a… — Paul Valéry Copy Share Image
It's hard to put into words. Gorillas are not complainers. We're dreamers, poets, philosophers, nap takers. — Katherine Applegate Copy Share Image
“Perhaps the year and a half spent trying to make sense of all this has finally drained me Maybe, just maybe, I… — Samantha King Copy Share Image
“She sat in her perfect house, with her perfect husband, wishing that her perfect life would end.” — Atticus Poetry Copy Share Image
I'm ashamed to admit that I very seldom read poetry, even though many of my friends are poets. — Celeste Ng Copy Share Image
The basic line in any good verse is cadenced... building it around the natural breath structures of speech. — Kenneth Rexroth Copy Share Image
The dead made this world. We didn't make it. They made the poetry and the songs and the customs. — Robert Bly Copy Share Image
I sing, I clean house, I write poetry. I cry. And I tell everyone I can, "I Believe in YOU." — Robin Lim Copy Share Image
The worst thing that happened to me at a gig was when the microphone wasn't on one time, and for the three… — Skepta Copy Share Image
Demanding historical (or scientific) veracity as a prerequisite for truth is another kind of tunnel vision. To do so is to mistake… — Charles Kimball Copy Share Image
“…the association of two, or more, apparently alien elements on a plane alien to both is the most potent ignition of poetry.” — Comte de Lautréamont Copy Share Image
