I'm always good for starting a bit of a tune and the first verse, but after that I just can never go… — Ringo Starr Copy Share Image
Poetry must speak of others, in order to speak for the poet's imagination, in order to speak of itself; it is slowed… — Shirley Geok-lin Lim Copy Share Image
“Leave the comfort of your dark cocoon... Allow your imagination to take flight. Embrace those marvelous magical wings and soar!” — Melody Lee Copy Share Image
No other human being, no woman, no poem or music, book or painting can replace alcohol in its power to give man… — Marguerite Duras Copy Share Image
A poet, to whom no one cruel and imposing listens, / Disdained by senates, whispers to your dust, — Carolyn Kizer Copy Share Image
The way a small child might dream of visiting Disneyland, I dreamed of writing books. Never did I think my poems would… — Rupi Kaur Copy Share Image
Katherine Sedley was the only daughter and heiress to the libertine poet Sir Charles Sedley, and grew into a thoroughly scandalous lady… — Susan Holloway Scott Copy Share Image
Where politics is concerned, I think poets have to be pragmatists, philosophical pragmatists. — Robert Hass Copy Share Image
“I thought to myself, who is this excellent man Van Doren who being employed to teach literature, teaches just that: talks about… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
Though [Abraham Lincoln] never would travel to Europe, he went with Shakespeare's kings to Merry England; he went with Lord Byron poetry… — Doris Kearns Goodwin Copy Share Image
“Few poets better convey the uneasy transition from Victorianism to Modernism than Thomas Hardy. His novels, written between 1870 and 1895, made… — Ronald Carter Copy Share Image
There's not a big range in the political poetry of the last year, or not a political range. On the one hand,… — David Biespiel Copy Share Image
“ All art constantly aspires towards the condition of music. For while in all other kinds of art it is possible to… — Walter Pater Copy Share Image
“You know, all poetry may be a cry of generalised love, for this, or that, or the universe - which must be… — A.S. Byatt Copy Share Image
“The book, and the CDs, are taonga. The result of a mission by poets Jan Kemp and Jack Ross, they reproduce the… — Jack Ross Copy Share Image
“E quíxenvos moi escasamente a todas porque nas regandixas de eu caben ourizos e sofrir é amor e nada para o tempo… — Xosé Luís Méndez Ferrín Copy Share Image
Children seem naturally drawn to poetry - it's some combination of the rhyme, rhythm, and the words themselves. — Jack Prelutsky Copy Share Image
I originally went to school for writing, for non-fiction. I'm specifically a poetry major within literature, but I don't know. — Paloma Elsesser Copy Share Image
It is the role of the poet to look at what is happening in the world and to know that quite other… — V. S. Pritchett Copy Share Image
Poetry is the sister of Sorrow. Every man that suffers and weeps is a poet; every tear is a verse, and every… — Marc-Andre Fleury Copy Share Image
I am not as these are, the poet saithIn youth's pride, and the painter, among menAt bay, where never pencil comes nor… — Dante Gabriel Rossetti Copy Share Image
“I never heard sound and thrill of my painful heart until that very day she touched it.” — Santosh Kalwar Copy Share Image
Andrea Gibson is a truly American poet, or rather, she represents the America I want to live in. Her work lights a… — Cristin O'Keefe Aptowicz Copy Share Image
“I'd rather be not the light in your life The bright day might make me obscure I'd rather be the cold darkness… — Sanhita Baruah Copy Share Image
“I am that rose that grew from concrete, I am the ENTIRE mother to son Langston Hughes poem. And I'm still climbing...” — Jaha Knight Copy Share Image
My life's purpose is to write poetry - but behind the poetry must be the vision of a fresh revelation for men. — William Soutar Copy Share Image
“Someone once told me that explaining is an admission of failure. I'm sure you remember, I was on the phone with you,… — Richard Siken Copy Share Image
The poets whom I knew then were all men and all seemed dauntingly sure of themselves - although I am sure that… — Helen Dunmore Copy Share Image
If you read quickly to get through a poem to what it means, you have missed the body of the poem. — M. H. Abrams Copy Share Image
The poem is the device through which the ordinary world is seen in a new way - engaging, compelling, even beautiful. — Ted Kooser Copy Share Image
I was born not to be a poet myself, but to be the instrument of the very poet that has always been… — Jean-Paul Malfatti Copy Share Image
I love you. I love you, but I’m turning to my verses and my heart is closing like a fist. — Frank O'Hara Copy Share Image
What poetry can, must, and will always do for us: it complicates us, it doesn’t ‘soothe.’ — Jorie Graham Copy Share Image
“You are not who you think. You're not even the thinker. You are the one conscious of the thought.” — Kamand Kojouri Copy Share Image
“You are my drug of choice I know you’re no good for me And though I swear my lips Will never touch… — Justin Wetch Copy Share Image
Music resembles poetry, in each Are nameless graces which no methods teach, And which a master hand alone can reach. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
I want to whisper poetry into your mind and imprint love letters to your soul and dance with you in an empty… — Jeffrey McDaniel Copy Share Image
... what is great poetry, after all, but the continuation of the human voice after death? — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
“Poetry is not the books in the library. Poetry is the encounter of the reader with the book, the discovery of the… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
Hopefully I can inspire lots of people to learn about [Patti Smith], to read poetry or learn about William Blake or Arthur… — Steven Sebring Copy Share Image
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