“She’s far from ordinary; she’s a rare breed, a black rose, a deep soul, a gypsy heart, a bright star. Or you… — Melody Lee Copy Share Image
Poets, for example, are generally considered starry-eyed and sensitive, but only by those who have never encountered one. — Craig Brown Copy Share Image
“Gather ye rose-buds while ye may, Old Time is still a-flying; And this same flower that smiles today, Tomorrow will be dying.” — Robert Herrick Copy Share Image
“You say you like to be by yourself, I am like that too. Although I don't think company would be so bad,… — Bailey Nadeen Copy Share Image
It's always good to show that poetry isn't the little depressed lyric people believe it to be, that it's something bigger. — John Fuller Copy Share Image
“Poetry is about finding the best way to plagiarize the reader’s ideas, thoughts, emotions, feelings and memories, their past present or future… — Cody Edward Lee Miller Copy Share Image
“Justice is in the hands of the gods, an old poet wrote, mortal hands hold only mercy and the sword.” — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
Let first the onion flourish there, Rose among roots, the maiden-fair, Wine-scented and poetic soul Of the capacious salad bowl. — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
“Often one spends weeks trying to write a poem out of the conscious mind that never comes to anything - these are… — Philip Larkin Copy Share Image
“The grand scheme of a life, maybe (just maybe), is not about knowing or not knowing, choosing or not choosing. Perhaps what… — Debbie Millman Copy Share Image
Why do people want to know exactly who I am? Am I a poet? Am I this or that? I've always made… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
“2:36 am 2 am is for the poets who can’t sleep because their minds are alive with words for someone who’s not… — L.S Copy Share Image
But poets were not considered dangerous and they were advised to exercise self-censorship. At most, poets were requested not to write at… — Eugenio Montale Copy Share Image
“My heart is a fevered, pulsing pendulum; it aches and beats back and forth, between the silver shadow of the moon and… — Melody Lee Copy Share Image
She's always looking for poetry and passion and sensitivity, the whole Romantic kitchen. I live on a rather simpler diet.' 'Prose and… — John Fowles Copy Share Image
There are few greater treasures to be acquired in youth than great poetry-and prose-stored in the memory. At the time one may… — Richard Livingstone Copy Share Image
“But the reason we fly from the city is not in reality that it is not poetical; it is that its poetry… — G. K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Why don't we all take the time and do what this class in the poem have done. Think about what our actions… — Nikki Marie Copy Share Image
Poetry reminds us of the truths about life and human nature that we knew all along, but forgot somehow because they weren't… — Diane Ackerman Copy Share Image
Young poets are advised by their elders to avoid the practice of journalism as they would wet socks and gin before breakfast. — Archibald MacLeish Copy Share Image
The poetry you read has been written for you, each of you - black, white, Hispanic, man, woman, gay, straight. — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
There are two men inside the artist, the poet and the craftsman. One is born a poet. One becomes a craftsman. — Emile Zola Copy Share Image
Dreamlands Nightmare Hate is not the opposite of love, so the poet hates, the male-chauvinistic, womanizer thats narcissistic, the boss! Poets love,… — Javaz Copy Share Image
Underneath the forms of fiction and poetry, you can bet your ass the ground comes from someone's actual life experience. — Lidia Yuknavitch Copy Share Image
“When it comes to matters of the heart and soul, I'm not a falling kind of girl. I'm more of a slamming,… — Melody Lee Copy Share Image
“Emily Dickinson , in my opinion, is the perfect (although admittedly slightly cliche) poet for lonely fat girls.” — Suzanne Supplee Copy Share Image
The poem in the head is always perfect. Resistance begins when you try to convert it into language. — Stanley Kunitz Copy Share Image
I've been writing since I was a kid. Short stories, poetry, and all of that, and acting is just an extension of… — Omar Epps Copy Share Image
“It's just me throwing myself at you, romance as usual, us times us, not lust but moxibustion, a substance burning close to… — Alice Fulton Copy Share Image
To find beauty in the sad, hope in the midst of loss, and dignity in failure is great poetic art. — David Mamet Copy Share Image
Mirror, mirror on the wall, I am my mother after all, and though she isn't here with me, There's no one else… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Imagine a twelve-year-old-girl. Imagine her being attacked, raped and murdered. Take your time. Then imagine God. M. Barin, poet” — Håkan Nesser Copy Share Image
“If poets have to be in some way criminals, she thinks, nowadays criminals could try being poets.” — Joseph McElroy Copy Share Image
The flower bloomed and faded. The sun rose and sank. The lover loved and went. And what the poets said in rhyme,… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Every poem is an infant labored into birth and I am drenched with sweating effort, tired from the pain and hurt of… — Jimmy Santiago Baca Copy Share Image
“There’s a great line from the poet Anaïs Nin that reads: “And the day came when the risk to remain tight in… — Jen Sincero Copy Share Image
“¿Acaso no oyes al viento cuando pasa silbando mensajes? Tu alma existe, pero no gravita.” — Livia Alves Copy Share Image
“George Abbershaw's prosaic mind quivered on the verge of poetry when he looked at her.” — Margery Allingham Copy Share Image
“there's a freedom to simplicity; a love that only grow in small spaces killing yourself ever so slowly to put a smile… — K.R. Albers Copy Share Image
When I write poetry, I write in torrents. I have no interest in quality or finesse, only in quantity and waste. Scribble… — Tim Key Copy Share Image
