Of all the poetry written in our generation, Frost's is most likely to stand the test of time — Anonymous Copy Share Image
For the rhapsode ought to interpret the mind of the poet to his hearers, but how can he interpret him well unless… — Plato Copy Share Image
“the production of spectacular effects depends more on the art of the stage machinist than on that of the poet.” — Aristotle Copy Share Image
There can be no society without poetry, but society can never be realized as poetry, it is never poetic. Sometimes the two… — Octavio Paz Copy Share Image
“Last night your thin walls invited me to the party next door / reminded me I am a quiet person in a… — Drew Myron Copy Share Image
“Your love was a vine - enchanting and beautiful, crawling around my heart and up my throat; then it strangled me. Your… — Melody Lee Copy Share Image
“I love your uneven soul, you bloom uniquely in my gardens giving me the most extraordinary view and upon tasting the edges… — Evelyn Leilou Colon Copy Share Image
I do believe in poetry. I believe that there are creatures endowed with the power to put things together and bring them… — Helene Cixous Copy Share Image
“Tomorrow I shall write something beautiful, something so serene that storms will rise suddenly and protest with ferocious screams. I shall write… — Tonny K. Brown Copy Share Image
“THE SILENT PEOPLE Some people are so rude, Living their lives with no concern for others, Or possibly just intent on pissing… — Giorge Leedy Copy Share Image
“It may be that those who care for poetry lost little by his death. Fluent in prose, he never wrote verse for… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
I stay up on current events. I read 'The New Yorker' and 'The Economist.' I go to community meetings to see what… — Caterina Fake Copy Share Image
Contemporary poets are skeptical and suspicious even, or perhaps especially, about themselves. They publicly confess to being poets only reluctantly, as if… — Wislawa Szymborska Copy Share Image
“must be wrestled: this is no account of inspiration; it figures instead strenuous poetic labor.66 Proteus sponsors a sense of poetic form… — Robert Von Hallberg Copy Share Image
The modern sensibility attempts to drain the contents of experience; these Greek poets strive to state the fact so poignantly that it… — Kenneth Rexroth Copy Share Image
“I like the lady horses best, how they make it all look easy, like running 40 miles per hour is as fun… — Ada Limon Copy Share Image
There is little premium in poetry in a world that thinks of Pound and Whitman as a weight and a sampler, not… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
We don’t read and write poetry because it’s cute. We read and write poetry because we are members of the human race. — Robin Williams Copy Share Image
“How do you know you're a girl? I'm wearing a frock. And if you take it off? I get cold, so I… — Ivor Cutler Copy Share Image
No art form points like poetry to this originality of language as to its essential and abiding concern. — Thomas Harrison Copy Share Image
Some poems are like the Centaurs--a mingling of man and beast, and begotten of Ixion on a cloud. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
“He thought she was like all the rest... that she'd be swayed by his attention and charm. But she got tired of… — Alfa H Copy Share Image
Some poems are written great, some poems are written swell. But then there are poems that could win a prize in Hell. — Stanley Victor Paskavich Copy Share Image
I want people to bow as they see me and say he is gifted with poetry, he has seen the presence of… — Allen Ginsberg Copy Share Image
“I know you and I are not about poems or other sentimental bullshit but I have to tell you even the way… — Clementine von Radics Copy Share Image
“And, in the end what we will remember most is a beautiful heart and how it made us feel.” — N.R.Hart Copy Share Image
In the bleak midwinter Frosty wind made moan, Earth stood hard as iron, Water like a stone; Snow had fallen, Snow on… — Christina Rossetti Copy Share Image
The plot! The plot! What kind of plot could a poet possibly provide that is not surpassed by the thinking, feeling reader?… — Franz Grillparzer Copy Share Image
I think one ages and one dates. I tend to have a good deal of difficulty in liking some of the new… — James Laughlin Copy Share Image
[My poetry is] a way of coming to grips with reality . . . a way of discovery and definition. It is… — Robert Hayden Copy Share Image
Perfect love has a breath of poetry which can exalt the relations of the least-instructed human beings. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Who you are contributes to your poetry in a number of important ways, but you shouldn't identify with your poems so closely… — Dorianne Laux Copy Share Image
I like to mix it up, because the kind of comments you can get from a fiction writer about your poetry are… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
Fairy tales are experienced by their hearers and readers, not as realistic, but as symbolic poetry. — Max Luthi Copy Share Image
Some of my favorite poets had a tremendous sense of whimsy, so it's a writing style I guess I admire. — Jewel Copy Share Image
Written poetry is worth reading once, and then should be destroyed. Let the dead poets make way for others. — Antonin Artaud Copy Share Image
It helped my lyric writing so much studying poetry. I thought I knew what poetry was before I immersed myself in it.… — Amanda Shires Copy Share Image
“Don't confuse me for that other girl, She's a fraud and a fool. Don't confuse me with anyone else, I am not… — Maddy Kobar Copy Share Image
Poetry is what we turn to in the most emotional moments of our life - when a beloved friend dies, when a… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
Poetry is that art which selects and arranges the symbols of thought in such a manner as to excite the imagination the… — William C. Bryant Copy Share Image
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