In all the poems I've written I've not really engaged in politics, and when I've found myself moving in that direction I've… — Simon Armitage Copy Share Image
A painter can turn pennies into gold, for all subjects are capable of being transformed into poems. — Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres Copy Share Image
“This is my life and lovestory listen losely and hold on tight this a roller coaster hell of a ride” — Patrick Cruz Copy Share Image
“I worry there is something broken in our generation, there are too many sad eyes on happy faces.” — Atticus Poetry Copy Share Image
“Severed and gone, so many years! And art thou still so dear to me, That throbbing heart and burning tears Can witness… — Anne Brontë Copy Share Image
The progress of our soul is like a perfect poem. It has an infinite idea which, once realised, makes all movements full… — Rabindranath Tagore Copy Share Image
Why do you always write poetry? Why do you not write prose? Prose is so much more difficult. — Walter Pater Copy Share Image
If there is poetry in my book about the sea, it is not because I deliberately put it there, but because no… — Rachel Carson Copy Share Image
“The Poet" The riches of the poet are equal to his poetry His power is his left hand It is idle weak… — Delmore Schwartz Copy Share Image
I was born in New Orleans, but I grew up in Hawaii. That was a paradise. That's a paradise I keep inside… — Barbara Hamby Copy Share Image
“STAY AN ORIGINAL WORK OF ART In this short lifetime, Why not be -- True to your own voice, Your own story,… — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image
“…The truth: dreaming is lonely the further away the closer to this one time No one has held me for so long… — Angkarn Chanthathip Copy Share Image
“There is this pain of love. You experience it some moments. It begins like a strange gnawing in your heart. It then… — Avijeet Das Copy Share Image
The Pronce loved The Lady, The Lady loved The Pronce. They were together forever, life and death, reality or fantasy. They stomped… — Jasmine Laura Copy Share Image
Pure mathematics is, in its way, the poetry of logical ideas. ... [By seeking] logical beauty spiritual formulas are discovered necessary for… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
I think poetry workshops get a bad rap. I'm sure some aren't good, but in general, I like the format. I try… — Elaine Equi Copy Share Image
Being Poet Laureate made me realize I was capable of a larger voice. There is a more public utterance I can make… — Rita Dove Copy Share Image
If sexual intercourse, as the poets tell us, began in 1963, it was another decade and a half before the American political… — Michael Kinsley Copy Share Image
“Welcome to His poem. His play. His novel. Skip the bowls of fruit and statues. Let the page flick your thumbs. This… — N.D. Wilson Copy Share Image
I switch between fixed forms and free verse often, and enjoy being a poet who can "swing both ways," so to speak. — Allison Joseph Copy Share Image
“One day The Universe Will be pleased by The fruit of man's works Excerpt from: 'Jacob's Ascent, New Collected poems by Mekael'… — Mekael Shane Copy Share Image
Learning to program has no more to do with designing interactive software than learning to touch type has to do with writing… — Ted Nelson Copy Share Image
“The writing of the poetry is natural. It's the feeling of being connected to someone which moves the pen...” — Jr. Lily Copy Share Image
My poems tend to be more celebratory and lyrical, and the novels so far pretty dark. Poetry doesn't seem to me to… — John Burnside Copy Share Image
“...we went to watch the waves that bitter day and the wind took your red cap and mittens - blew them into… — John Geddes Copy Share Image
“Crying 'bout getting old—Patricia, you need to get up off what God gave you. Say a prayer and start slinging. Cue hips.” — Patricia Smith Copy Share Image
All poetry is an ordered voice, one which tries to tell you about a vision in the un-visionary language of farm, city,… — Paul Engle Copy Share Image
“If I wrote the word flower, would it still grow like a flower? If I wrote a poem concerning a river, would… — Zakariya Amataya Copy Share Image
“Here with a Loaf of Bread beneath the Bough, A Flask of Wine, a Book of Verse - and Thou Beside me… — Omar Khayyám Copy Share Image
“There are few things in this life more bamboo-under-fingernails than good poetry read aloud badly-unless it is bad poetry read aloud badly.” — Josh Lanyon Copy Share Image
“You smile and draw me near and whisper, "Do as dreamers do." I lean to you and whisper in your ear, "I… — Shaun Hick Copy Share Image
If poetry alters the way in which the reader views the world, then it has had its desired effect. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
La poe sie veutquelque chose d'e norme, debarbare et de sauvage. Poetry needs something on the scale of the grand, the barbarous,… — Denis Diderot Copy Share Image
“I am committed by trade to urging people to attend carefully to the verbal surfaces of what they read. Much of the… — Stephen Greenblatt Copy Share Image
Sometimes you finish the poem, and that last piece clicks in place. Sometimes the poem is finished with you. — Frederick Seidel Copy Share Image
I have kind of an almost religious feeling about poets. I usually refuse to meet them because I admire them so much.… — Tony Kushner Copy Share Image
Poets are seen as the caretakers of language, so working with words no matter what the form is what we do. — Yusef Komunyakaa Copy Share Image
“Just enough angry, just enough indignant, just enough the-world-will-never-know-how-ridiculously-awesome-I-am. Just enough poet.” — Rainbow Rowell Copy Share Image
“Suddenly I remembered a line in a poem by Vaughan: 'There is in God (some say) a deep but dazzling darkness' – and… — Dodie Smith Copy Share Image
“What is this life if, full of care, We have no time to stand and stare. No time to stand beneath the… — W.H. Davies Copy Share Image
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