The category "Women Poets" is bizarre and irrelevant. It's a subcategory of Poets, but there is not a "Men Poets" category. — Vanna Bonta Copy Share Image
“[Poetry] was a form of incantation, a means of welding the world inside his head to the one that surrounded him, words… — Elizabeth Hand Copy Share Image
Once your poems are completed, you send them into the world. You don't write for a coterie of other writers - you… — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
For every half, there is a whole. For every hand, there's one to hold. For every poem, there is a meaning. And… — Murali Iyengar Copy Share Image
“Her skin smelled like the twilight moon and her eyes looked primal, like a hungry animal. She was darkness – dangerous, beautiful darkness.” — Melody Lee Copy Share Image
Compose aloud: poetry is a sound. Never explain- your reader is as smart as you. Your reader is not just any reader,… — Basil Bunting Copy Share Image
Poetry at its best is the language your soul would speak if you could teach your soul to speak. — Jim Harrison Copy Share Image
The poet cannot invent new words every time, of course. He uses the words of the tribe. But the handling of the… — Eugene Ionesco Copy Share Image
Poetry is a rich, full-bodied whistle, cracked ice crunching in pails, the night that numbs the leaf, the duel of two nightingales,… — Boris Pasternak Copy Share Image
Metaphorical tone deafness is when people are unable to discern what is of value in something. I think I'm tone deaf to… — Julian Baggini Copy Share Image
Poems reach up like spindrift and the edge of driftwood along the beach, wanting! They derive from a slow and powerful root… — Rumi Copy Share Image
“Why shall I speak of the damage of love? When it rejuvenates me just as much In love, people happen to say… — Zubair Ahsan Copy Share Image
“He was conscious—and the thought brought a gleam of pleasure into his brown agate eyes—that it was through certain words of his,… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Poetry does so many different things, it's difficult to say anything definitive about its role, which of course varies from culture to… — Stephen Dunn Copy Share Image
The lamp you lighted in the olden time Will show you my heart's-blood beating through the rhyme: A poet's journal, writ in… — Bayard Taylor Copy Share Image
“I am a master wordsmith. I have the ability to bend words at will and invoke feelings with the stroke of my… — J.A. ANUM Copy Share Image
“The poem was called “Goblin Market,” and the book whose proof pages were on the desk was titled Goblin Market and Other… — Tim Powers Copy Share Image
I don't like poetry that doesn't give me a sense of ritual, but I don't like poetry that doesn't sound like people… — Miller Williams Copy Share Image
Poetry is the arithmetic of the easiest way and the primrose path, matched up with foam-flanked horses, bloody knuckles, and bones, on… — Carl Sandburg Copy Share Image
“That kiss, I cannot describe. It was like a poem, a prayer, a homecoming unlooked-for. It was like dungeon walls crumbling to… — Jacqueline Carey Copy Share Image
The way I process things, they way I express myself, is in comics, just as poets process things that they are trying… — Ellen Forney Copy Share Image
“These are the woes of Slaves; They glare from the abyss; They cry, from unknown graves, "We are the Witnesses!” — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
“You will be my thunder. I'll be your lightning. Even the heavens will rage with jealousy.” — Melody Lee Copy Share Image
“And when next I feel the dawn’s light, I open my hand and set the butterfly free, Knowing she does not appear… — Natalie Miller Copy Share Image
Poetry has always been made to seem kind of cultish. But the truth is, everybody really loves it! It's much more mainstream… — Maria Shriver Copy Share Image
“Another Christmas Poem Blood Christmas, here again. Let us raise a loving cup: Peace on earth, goodwill to men, And make them… — Wendy Cope Copy Share Image
Poetry lies at the centre of the literary experience because it is the form that most clearly asserts the specificity of literature. — Jonathan Culler Copy Share Image
“I wanted this complex language, this surge of intellect, to be processed into love. Isn’t how they used to do it a… — Gary Shteyngart Copy Share Image
For whatever reason, people, including very well-educated people or people otherwise interested in reading, do not read poetry — Paul Muldoon Copy Share Image
Poetry is a dissociating and anarchic force which through analogy, associations and imagery, thrives on the destruction of known relationships. — Antonin Artaud Copy Share Image
“O stand, stand at the window As the tears scald and start; You shall love your crooked neighbour With your crooked heart.… — Elizabeth Lesser Copy Share Image
I didnt write anything at all except book reports until I was in seventh grade, and then I wrote mostly poetry for… — Cynthia Voigt Copy Share Image
“for the path of comets/ is the path of poets: they burn without warming,/ pick without cultivating. They are: an explosion, a… — Marina Tsvetaeva Copy Share Image
The experience of each new age requires a new confession, and the world seems always waiting for its poet — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
A good sentence in prose should be like a good line in poetry, unchangeable, as rhythmic, as sonorous. — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
I never meant to be a full-time poet: I started out as a gardener, an ideal job for a poet because your… — Alice Oswald Copy Share Image
When you finish a poem, it clicks shut like the top of a jewel box, but prose is endless. I haven't experienced… — Kenneth Koch Copy Share Image
It ["The Ancient Mariner"] is marvellous in its mastery over that delightfully fortuitous inconsequence that is the adamantine logic of dreamland. — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
“Watch carefully the magic that occurs when you give a person enough comfort to just be themselves.” — Atticus Poetry Copy Share Image
“He needed some sort of membrane between himself and experience, which, for him, became language.(Jeanette Winterson on T.S.Eliot)” — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
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