“Bliss is the moments you're with me / when you're gone my life hurts like hell / but I'll do anything to… — Andrea Gibson Copy Share Image
In the late 60s and early 70s, I did get interested in voices, and in narration and embodying the voice, making the… — Robert Morgan Copy Share Image
“I WANT TO BE WITH SOMEONE WHO DREAMS OF DOING EVERYTHING IN LIFE AND NOTHING ON RAINY SUNDAY AFTERNOONS.” — Atticus Poetry Copy Share Image
“Poem Words from the heart Breaking, teaching, healing The deepest, purest form of art Feeling” — Esther Spurrill Jones Copy Share Image
“Starlight encased in flesh. Fire burning in so much water. Poetry living in hard spaces. oh, how the body loves” — Lady Grey Copy Share Image
...you disappoint me -I am the worst liar in the world - I can't hide my pain or my need so I… — john geddes Copy Share Image
“The poet is a shaman of words & sounds, praying linguistically over each while blessing the poetic whole.” — the mag man Copy Share Image
“What poet was it who wrote there's no pain worse than the pain of a broken heart? Sentimental shit. He should have… — joe abercrombie Copy Share Image
“I arrived, I saw humans and I saw through their faces. Nothing ever changes but the light in their eyes. For I… — robert m drake Copy Share Image
“A Caution to Everybody consider the Auk. Becoming extinct before because he forgot out to fly and could only walk. Consider Man,… — Ogden Nash Copy Share Image
There was nothing to do but wait. It is always like this for naturalists, and for poets--the long hours of travel and… — Diane Ackerman Copy Share Image
I'm saying that the domain of poetry includes both oral & written forms, that poetry goes back to a pre-literate situation &… — Jerome Rothenberg Copy Share Image
When you're going through something, whether it's a wonderful thing like having a child or a sad thing like losing somebody, you… — Caroline Kennedy Copy Share Image
Ordinary life was laced with miracles, I knew that, had read enough poetry to understand that we are elevated with the knowing,… — Jane Hamilton Copy Share Image
A man of my acquaintance once wrote a poem called "The Road Less Traveled", describing a journey he took through the woods… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“I am a lantern, I glow bright I break for day, and wait for night Without me you’d be blind You take… — Carlos Hutchinson Copy Share Image
“The hardest thing she ever had to do is swallow the hurt, carry the pain tucked up under her ribcage, and wait...… — Alfa H Copy Share Image
“A tough life needs a tough language—and that is what poetry is. That is what literature offers—a language powerful enough to say… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
PRISON, n. A place of punishments and rewards. The poet assures us that - stone walls do not a prison make. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
Cut quarrels out of literature, and you will have very little history or drama or fiction or epic poetry left. — Robert Staughton Lynd Copy Share Image
I rely on poetry or literature to keep me centered before I go onstage because it reminds me to be present. — Carrie Coon Copy Share Image
What is the point of narrating poetry when the listener can't appreciate and enjoy the meaning? — Brahmanandam Copy Share Image
“Poets don’t run out of material the way novelists do because they don’t depend on material in the same way.” — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
Remember the plants, trees, animal life who all have their families, their histories too. Talk to them, listen to them. They are… — Joy Harjo Copy Share Image
“During our first date, I wanted to hold your hand so bad I almost cut mine off and threw it at you… — Colin Gilbert Copy Share Image
Poetry is important. No less than science, it seeks a hold upon reality, and the closeness of its approach is the test… — Babette Deutsch Copy Share Image
Poetry and progress are like two ambitious men who hate one another with an instinctive hatred, and when they meet upon the… — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
All think what other people think; All know the man their neighbor knows. Lord, what would they say Did their Catullus walk… — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
“Read it to me.” “Seriously?” he said quietly. “You want me to read you poetry? Like saving your life ten times wasn’t… — Brynn Kelly Copy Share Image
I don't feel like a celebrity. Poetry justifies celebrity. It's good to have respect for a poet. — Derek Walcott Copy Share Image
I'm not, by nature, a collaborator. My biggest influences were people like painters and poets. These are solitary workers. — Robert Wyatt Copy Share Image
“He sketches you as the antagonist and suddenly his transgressions become deleted scenes. He blames you for his sadness. And this is… — Rudy Francisco Copy Share Image
“Mind's acres are forever green: Oh, I Shall keep perpetual summer here; I shall Refuse to let one startled swallow die, Or,… — Stanley Kunitz Copy Share Image
What's the earth With all its art, verse, music, worth — Compared with love, found, gained, and kept? — Robert Browning Copy Share Image
This the third verse let's get to a conclusion. Image is a smokescreen, rappers are illusions. — Gorilla Zoe Copy Share Image
Milton, Madam, was a genius that could cut a Colossus from a rock; but could not carve heads upon cherry-stones. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“I never liked the term “experimental writing,” but what else is a prose poem? Having written a number of them, I still… — Russell Edson Copy Share Image
“Dreams are chequered commentary made in sleep Along the deeps of our desires, moving like riddles through a magic glade Lightly they… — John Bradburn Copy Share Image
If I knew how to say it directly, I would not need to write poetry. I would just talk to people and… — Selima Hill Copy Share Image
I haven't shifted language. I'm writing in English because I like it. I'm a sucker for the language, but the good old… — Joseph Brodsky Copy Share Image
