My business is words. Words are like labels, or coins, or better, like swarming bees. — Anne Sexton Copy Share Image
“A versifier arranges sounds; a poet arranges meaning in the sounds.” — Dejan Stojanovic Copy Share Image
I am the scroll of the poet behind which samurai swords are being sharpened. — Lester Cole Copy Share Image
The reason a poet is a poet is to write poems, not to advertise himself as a poet. — Yehuda Amichai Copy Share Image
Writing poems is my way of celebrating with the world that I have not committed suicide the evening before. — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
“(Wallace) Stevens turns to the idea of the weather precisely as the religious idea turns to the idea of God.” — Harold Bloom Copy Share Image
“line came into my mind, something that Hannah Arendt had once said about the poet Auden: that life had manifested the heart’s… — John Boyne Copy Share Image
“Foggy nights bring some comfort. He can get lost in the mist and there is no one to stare or question.” — Susie Clevenger Copy Share Image
“Eros, again now, the loosener of limbs troubles me, Bittersweet, sly, uncontrollable creature….” — Sappho Copy Share Image
Poetry, I feel, is a tyrannical discipline. You've got to go so far so fast in such a small space; you've got… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
Poetry is one of the destinies of speech... One would say that the poetic image, in its newness, opens a future to… — Gaston Bachelard Copy Share Image
Radio is such a perfect medium for the transmission of poetry, primarily because there just is the voice, there's no visual distraction. — Billy Collins Copy Share Image
“Lines Written In Early Spring I heard a thousand blended notes, While in a grove I sate reclined, In that sweet mood… — William Wordsworth Copy Share Image
“Round these men stories tended to group themselves, sometimes deserting more ancient heroes for the purpose. Round poets have they gathered especially,… — W.B. Yeats Copy Share Image
“Sing these songs, and they will renew you from head to toe, from heart to mind. Pray these poems, and they will… — N.T. Wright Copy Share Image
“The . . . the one about Colin Eversea! I learned a new verse from a young lady at school. It’s very… — Julie Anne Long Copy Share Image
“Mute in that golden silence hung with green, Come down from heaven and bring me in your eyes Remembrance of all beauty… — Siegfried Sassoon Copy Share Image
There is still a popular fantasy, long since disproved by both psychoanalysis and science, and never believed by any poet or mystic,… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
“Don't tell a girl with fire in her veins and hurricane bones what she should and shouldn't do. In the blink of… — Melody Lee Copy Share Image
“Poetry, music, forests, oceans, solitude—they were what developed enormous spiritual strength. I came to realize that spirit, as much or more than… — Christopher McDougall Copy Share Image
