Shakespeare is dangerous to young poets; they cannot but reproduce him, while they fancy that they produce themselves. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
I think that when a poem can move readers across generations and across its specific class or race then it becomes truly… — Rita Dove Copy Share Image
“you want to be angry but you can’t stop looking and when you look you love and when you love the entire… — Sina Queyras Copy Share Image
Myth and poetry represent a reservoir of vertical thinking, which we could also call longing and gratitude to ancestors. We need that… — Robert Bly Copy Share Image
Poetry is a theorem of a yellow-silk handkerchief knotted with riddles, sealed in a balloon tied to the tail of a kite… — Carl Sandburg Copy Share Image
Poetry can be the bridge, the crossover point in the mind between the physical and the spiritual. A place where the two… — Don Pendleton Copy Share Image
“It’s a beautiful way to put it: Leave the poetry in what you make. When something becomes too polished, it loses its… — Jason Fried Copy Share Image
Superstition is the poesy of practical life; hence, a poet is none the worse for being superstitious. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Amor, ch'al cor gentile ratto s'apprende prese costui de la bella persona che mi fu tolta; e 'l modo ancor m'offende. Amor,… — Dante Alighieri Copy Share Image
“This obsessing heart which does not correspond To my language, nor to my customs, And on which encroach, like a clinging-root, Borrowed… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
I was twenty-nine years old and I wasn't a very good poet and I wasn't a very good novelist, [so] I thought… — Edward Albee Copy Share Image
“As an unperfect actor on the stage, Who with his fear is put besides his part, Or some fierce thing replete with… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
“A Poem By Maximum Ride How does one describe freedom, How can one call themselves free, How does one sleep at night… — James Patterson Copy Share Image
“Higgledy piggledy, my black hen, She lays eggs for gentlemen. Gentlemen come every day To count what my black hen doth lay.… — Ogden Nash Copy Share Image
I want to just go to places where writers don't usually go, where people like me don't usually show up, and say,… — Tracy K. Smith Copy Share Image
As I get older, I recognize that my thinking about poetry may or may not have anything actively to do with my… — Robert Creeley Copy Share Image
A perfect poem is impossible. Once it had been written, the world would end. Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal. — Robert Graves Copy Share Image
If artists and poets are unhappy, it is after all because happiness does not interest them. — George Santayana Copy Share Image
If certain critics and poetasters had their way, 'Ordinary Piety' and its child, Dullness, would be the masters of poetry. — Edith Sitwell Copy Share Image
I am charmed by concrete poetry (but it's very hard to do well, I think) and in general by the idea of… — Matthea Harvey Copy Share Image
Fiction and poetry are the only way one can stop time and give an account of an experience and nail it down… — Rebecca West Copy Share Image
The difference between poetry and rhetoric is being ready to kill yourself instead of your children. — Audre Lorde Copy Share Image
Speaking of [Philip] Larkin, in his poem about the First World War he wrote something like, "Never such innocence, before or since,… — Quentin S. Crisp Copy Share Image
“...Age gave her the peace, at least, to live inside that moment like a poet - to not sacrifice the beauty to… — Shannon Hale Copy Share Image
One day You will take my heart completely and make it more fiery than a dragon. Your eyelashes will write on my… — Jalal Ad-Din Rumi Copy Share Image
The dignity of man is vindicated as much by the thinker and poet as by the statesman and soldier. — James Bryant Conant Copy Share Image
That's one of the great things about poetry; one realises that one does one's little turn - that you're just part of… — Paul Muldoon Copy Share Image
The tango is a direct expression of something that poets have often tried to state in words: the belief that a fight… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
“I made her go because I knew she could do better and now I wonder if I should have just been better.” — Atticus Poetry Copy Share Image
“Poems ought to reflect the work the poet does, and his relationships with other people, and family, and institutions, and organization.” — Wallace Stegner Copy Share Image
Now I think poetry will save nothing from oblivion, but I keep writing about the ordinary because for me it's the home… — Philip Levine Copy Share Image
“With heaven in our hearts, life is romancing us with glimpses of the universe dancing.” — Ann Louise Ramsey Copy Share Image
I think that poetry is perfect for women raising children, with just bits of time and such need to connect to other… — Francesca Lia Block Copy Share Image
Writing or making anything-a poem, a bird feeder, a chocolate cake-has self-respect in it. You're working. You're trying. You're not lying down… — Sharon Olds Copy Share Image
All men owe honor to the poets - honor and awe; for they are dearest to the Muse who puts upon their… — Homer Copy Share Image
“we were born for sorrow we were born for pain we were born for loss but we were also born to love… — K.R. Albers Copy Share Image
“there are only so many things that you can fix with your hands. ...What they don't realize is I am not a… — Danabelle Gutierrez Copy Share Image
chromosomal dance oh, heavenly happenstance rare creation, you -Marcus (Poetry Spam #22) — Megan McCafferty Copy Share Image
The music is notated first, the text follows. I might have to wait until the right kind of text or form arises.… — Anne Waldman Copy Share Image
“To-day my skies are bare and ashen, And bend on me without a beam. Since love is held the master-passion, Its loss… — Paul Laurence Dunbar Copy Share Image
![“I was twenty-nine years old and I wasn't a very good poet and I wasn't a very good novelist, [so] I thought I would try writing a play, which seems to have worked out a little better.” quote by Edward Albee](https://sms4smile.com/q/i/01d/edward-albee-1684_littles_i-was-twenty-nine-years-old-and-i-wasn-t_1642881.png)
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