I think that the job of poetry, its political job, is to refresh the idea of justice, which is going dead in… — Robert Hass Copy Share Image
I was quiet, and I was artistic. I liked writing poetry, and that was very strange, so I was bullied a lot. — Nelsan Ellis Copy Share Image
I began to write poetry when I was about four years old. In other words, I've always been writing poetry. — Ernesto Cardenal Copy Share Image
One could go on revising a prose page forever whereas there is a point in a poem when one knows it is… — May Sarton Copy Share Image
“ Late Fragment And did you get what you wanted from this life, even so? I did. And what did you want?… — Raymond Carver Copy Share Image
Music is more emotional than prose, more revolutionary than poetry. I'm not saying I've got the answers, just a of questions that… — Malcolm Wilson Copy Share Image
American poetry is always about defining oneself individually,claiming one's right to be different and often to break taboos. — Diane Wakoski Copy Share Image
“O love, how did you get here? --from "Nick and the Candlestick", written 29 October 1962” — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
My dream right now is - and I don't know how to do it, and I don't know if it will work… — Eef Barzelay Copy Share Image
“my mouth was shut for so long that my teeth decayed. you complained that my lips were always dry and chapped; you… — Mecca-Amirah Jackson Copy Share Image
I have always thought of poems as stepping stones in one's own sense of oneself. Every now and again, you write a… — Seamus Heaney Copy Share Image
When the sun shouts and people abound One thinks there were the ages of stone and the age of bronze And the… — Robinson Jeffers Copy Share Image
“Diving into new spaces, meeting all sorts of faces. Depths of madness or souls of abounding love. Time isn't irreplaceable, so isn't… — honeste Copy Share Image
“Self-love isn’t always so poetic; sometimes it’s a nice big triple back flip kick in the ass. You’ve got to call yourself… — Steve Maraboli Copy Share Image
The tadpole poet will never grow into anything bigger than a frog; not though in that stage of development he should puff… — Algernon Charles Swinburne Copy Share Image
[My poems] of course, it's symbolic, in the way that things in a poem can be - that is, pointing to something… — Matthew Zapruder Copy Share Image
If we go on as we are, we will destroy in the next century everything that the poets have been singing about… — Fred Bodsworth Copy Share Image
I think that one possible definition of our modern culture is that it is one in which nine- tenths of our intellectuals… — Randall Jarrell Copy Share Image
“The poet advises: 'Read me. Read me again.' He does not always come away unscathed from his page, but like the poor,… — René Char Copy Share Image
I started out wanting to write great poems, then wanting to discover true poems. Now, I want to be the poem. — Mark Nepo Copy Share Image
“Good God, 'the elusive thing'. She had reached a turning point. She no longer believed that a situation could be made better… — David Nicholls Copy Share Image
“Black is not sad. Bright colors are what depresses me. They’re so… empty. Black is poetic. How do you imagine a poet?… — Ann Demeulemeester Copy Share Image
“The first thing fading is your beauty the least trustworthy is your mind down here on this earth nothing's of any worth—in… — Fabian W. Williges Copy Share Image
I have been writing songs and poems since I was a little girl. I started writing short scripts, which evolved into the… — Hilary Duff Copy Share Image
Philosophy is a bad master for poetry; religion worse; and politics self-serving will never serve the Muse. — Shirley Geok-lin Lim Copy Share Image
“I wonder if a fish's One and only wish is That other fish will never say, "This fish is sure delicious!” — Brian Rock Copy Share Image
A suicide is both a rebuke to the living and a puzzle that defies them to solve it. Like a poem, suicide… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
I consider all women as mother. I compose poems for any female considering her as mother. — Ilaiyaraaja Copy Share Image
I dig, you dig, we dig, he dig, she dig, they dig… Its not a beautiful poem, but its very deep :P — Ritu Ghatourey Copy Share Image
“The words of the letter had long since been whisked away by time, but the poems he kept prisoner in his heart.” — Felix Alexander Copy Share Image
What I wanted to do in rock 'n roll was merge poetry with sonic scapes, and the two people who had contributed… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
Every poem can be considered in two ways--as what the poet has to say, and as a thing which he makes. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
The poets did well to conjoin music and medicine, because the office of medicine is but to tune the curious harp of… — Francis Bacon Sr Copy Share Image
“A novel, like poetry, should have for its hero a person superior to the common herd of men.” — Lady Shelley Copy Share Image
“Inspiration without intellect is useless and dangerous; and the poet will be able to perform few wonders, when he is astonished by… — Novalis Copy Share Image
I think that I shall never see A poem lovely as a tree. A tree whose hungry mouth is prest Against the… — Joyce Kilmer Copy Share Image
Read from some humbler poet, Whose songs gushed from his heart, As showers from the clouds of summer, Or tears from the… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
In your light I learn how to love. In your beauty, how to make poems. You dance inside my chest where no-one… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“I look up to the night sky but I see no moon All I see is the sweet face of Kim Jong-un” — Everett Babbitt Copy Share Image
“We were hooked when we woke. We had arms for each other. But I yearned to resume My dreams of another.” — Roman Payne Copy Share Image
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