Poetry is subconscious conversation, it is as much the work of those who understand it and those who make it. — Sonia Sanchez Copy Share Image
When I was writing pretty poor poetry, this girl with midnight black hair told me to go on. — Carl Sandburg Copy Share Image
My favorite poets may not be your bread and butter. I have more favorite poems than favorite poets. — Rita Dove Copy Share Image
Poetry seems especially like nothing else so much as itself. Poetry is not like, it is the very lining of the inner… — C.D. Wright Copy Share Image
“Did you know that you can be killed by a benign tumor? Imagine that news headline: Native American poet killed by oxymoron.” — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
At the age when Bengali youth almost inevitably writes poetry, I was listening to European classical music. — Satyajit Ray Copy Share Image
...pleasure, of course, is a slippery word… Our pleasures ultimately belong to us, not to the pleasure's so — Billy Collins Copy Share Image
I was at a benefit for some imprisoned students in the '60s at San Francisco State, and there were lots of poets… — Thom Gunn Copy Share Image
In seventh grade I had a magical teacher, her name was Mrs. Fried. She wore only pink, she drove a pink Mustang,… — Darren Aronofsky Copy Share Image
I think it's really hard to move between genres, and I think, especially in Britain, we're very judgmental about it - me… — Andrea Riseborough Copy Share Image
And New York is the most beautiful city in the world? It is not far from it. No urban night is like… — Ezra Pound Copy Share Image
“Someone I loved once told me that there are fragments within us that are the same age as the universe, and because… — nikitta gill Copy Share Image
A song, you know, you've got a tempo. You know,you've got something that is moving swiftly. You can't stop it, you know?… — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
“Then, since all great poets are strange in their speech and actions, he must have achieved great fame, for his actions and… — Robert E. Howard Copy Share Image
... woman is frequently praised as the more "creative" sex. She does not need to make poems, it is argued; she has… — Cynthia Ozick Copy Share Image
She was sitting cross-legged on her bed in her white kimono, writing in a notebook with an ink pen she dipped in… — Janet Fitch Copy Share Image
I think if you put something in a file that says "war poems" or "love poems" that you already restrict the way… — Rita Dove Copy Share Image
I think the culture can absorb so many people writing poetry and trying to earn their living in poetry. — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
There have always been poets who performed. Blake sang his Songs of Innocence and Experience to parties of friends. — Adrian Mitchell Copy Share Image
I have to reach "the poetry condition" to write. Then it is as if the border around me is thinned or blurred… — Kim Hyesoon Copy Share Image
“I keep holding up the mirror of the sun, so you can see the stunning reflections of everything you’re becom- ing.” — Curtis Tyrone Jones Copy Share Image
It's always a combination of physics and poetry that I find inspiring. It's hard to wrap your head around things like the… — Tom Hanks Copy Share Image
When you're writing, you're in a totally different zone... I can start a difficult poem and look up at the clock and… — Felix Dennis Copy Share Image
I envy no man's nightingale or spring; Nor let them punish me with loss of rhyme, Who plainly say, My God, My… — George Herbert Copy Share Image
When you're doing poetry like mine that rhymes, it's very easy to sound like a song that didn't work out! — John Cooper Clarke Copy Share Image
He wanted to be a poet,' someone else put in while Maggie hugged Tim and patted his back. 'Said he'd only lacked… — Nora Roberts Copy Share Image
So much of my poetry begins with something that I can describe in visual terms, so thinking about distance, thinking about how… — Tracy K. Smith Copy Share Image
I don't expect you'll hear me writing any poems to the greater glory of Ronald and Nancy Reagan. — Robert Penn Warren Copy Share Image
“We are all fragments of one another, strewn across… borders. Different lines in the same poem.” — Isabel Quintero Copy Share Image
This be the verse you grave for me: Here he lies where he longed to be; Home is the sailor, home from… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I was actually a poetry major in college before I punted and decided to become a theater major. I wrote the poem… — Denis O'Hare Copy Share Image
My secret dream is to write an epic poem. That's probably the most pretentious thing I've said. — Laurie Anderson Copy Share Image
I'd always loved poetry and I'd always loved writing music and composing music, but I hadn't thought of putting the two together… — Bruce Cockburn Copy Share Image
“Everyday I go to graveyard in search of her. maybe she can come back but in the end all i find is… — seerat Copy Share Image
I took to wearing a black tie known as the Ascot, with long drooping ends. I had seen pictures of painters, sculptors,… — Carl Sandburg Copy Share Image
We Poets in our youth begin in gladness; But thereof come in the end despondency and madness. — William Wordsworth Copy Share Image
“I am poetry, surrounding the dreamer, Ever present, I capture the spirit, enslave the reluctant pen, and become the breath on the… — Pam Muñoz Ryan Copy Share Image
I really miss English. Going into English class and analysing a poem or book, I found that so much fun. — Ruel Copy Share Image
Essentially, mythologies are enormous poems that are renditions of insights, giving some sense of the marvel, the miracle and wonder of life. — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
Roses are red Violets are blue He is for me, Not for you. If by any chance You try to take my… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
