A poem is a verbal artifact which must be as skillfully and solidly constructed as a table or a motorcycle. — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
Poetry is the universal language which the heart holds with nature and itself. He who has a contempt for poetry, cannot have… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
In addition to writing in received forms, I have also had fun making up forms - Möbius strips and visual poems, particularly. — Denise Duhamel Copy Share Image
“We can burst the bonds which chain us, Which cold human hands have wrought, And where none shall dare restrain us We… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
I became a very passionate Christian when I was 17. I started writing and performing poetry at different venues across the U.K.… — Michaela Coel Copy Share Image
You will enjoy the TV and radio forecast much more if you stop taking it as advice and simply treat it as… — Victoria Coren Mitchell Copy Share Image
God may reduce you on Judgment Day to tears of shame, reciting by heart the poems you would have written, had your… — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
It is fatal to decide, intellectually, what good poetry is because you are then in honour bound to try to write it,… — Philip Larkin Copy Share Image
Sometimes the only way I know how to work through something is by writing a poem. And sometimes I get to the… — Sarah Kay Copy Share Image
The poetry of history lies in the quasi-miraculous fact that once, on this earth, once, on this familiar spot of ground, walked… — G. M. Trevelyan Copy Share Image
“Once again, Whittemore escapes what might be a fatal mistake in another author. Far from the funhouse hall of mirrors one might… — Edward Whittemore Copy Share Image
Even the people who have had success and made money writing these books of fiction seem to feel the need to pretend… — George Murray Copy Share Image
“Not every day is awful. Not every day is good. Despite the way the hours pass, I’m living like I should. Not… — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
“We made love outdoors Without a roof, I like most, Without stove, to make love, assuming the weather be fair and balmy,… — Roman Payne Copy Share Image
“He may allow his people to be tried for a period, and to be tossed to and fro by storms of trouble;… — David Limbaugh Copy Share Image
“Imaginatively she is of the highest importance; practically she is completely insignificant. She pervades poetry from cover to cover; she is all… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
The poems are all wrong. It's a bang, a really big bang. Not a whimper. And sometimes gold can stay. — Kami Garcia Copy Share Image
“Forget the ones who tell you you are not enough and wait for the ones who tell you you are everything.” — N.R.Hart Copy Share Image
Genius in general is poetic. Where genius has been active it has been poetically active. The truly moral person is a poet. — Novalis Copy Share Image
“A poet is someone who can pour light into a cup, then raise it to nourish your beautiful parched, holy mouth.” — Hafiz Copy Share Image
No poetry that I'm aware of, however bad or glorious, has ever left somebody a worse person than they were before they… — Felix Dennis Copy Share Image
The fact that something is in a rhymed form or in blank verse will not make it good poetry. — Robert Morgan Copy Share Image
Lastly, this threefold poetry flows from three great sources - The Bible, Homer, Shakespeare… The Bible before the Iliad, the Iliad before… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Is the biographer an artist who can and should exist on equal terms with the dramatist, fiction writer and poet? The short… — Tom Paulin Copy Share Image
There is such a thing as literary fashion, and prose and verse have been regulated by the same caprice that cuts our… — Isaac D'Israeli Copy Share Image
Poets are the only people to whom love is not only a crucial, but an indispensable experience, which entitles them to mistake… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
I just can't sit down and write three verses and a chorus and a bridge anymore. It just don't find it inspiring. — Sturgill Simpson Copy Share Image
I would give anything to sing like Beyonce or Adele. I've said many times to my friends that if I could sing… — Rupi Kaur Copy Share Image
She entered a state where prayer and poetry became one and the everyday world seemed full of holiness and significance. — Lian Hearn Copy Share Image
“Tide with invisible strings, I'm an embroidery in fate, A mess and misunderstood, A masterpiece worth the wait.” — Ritu Negi Copy Share Image
It's a little mad, but I believe I am many people. When I am writing a poem, I feel I am the… — Anne Sexton Copy Share Image
You can't make poetry out of thought; poetry is passion. Linear thought must be seduced by wild mind, by the fires of… — Jennifer Stone Copy Share Image
A mind that is lively and inquiring, compassionate, curious, angry, full of music, full of feeling, is a mind full of possible… — Mary Oliver Copy Share Image
“Some wrong eternity that wouldn’t budge, like trying to move a wardrobe or a safe, only to feel how light I was.” — Deborah Digges Copy Share Image
Modern poets talk against business, poor things, but all of us write for money. Beginners are subjected to trial by market. — Robert Frost Copy Share Image
“Stars open among the lilies. Are you not blinded by such expressionless sirens? This is the silence of astounded souls. --from "Crossing… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
A man--poet, prophet, or whatever be may be--readily persuades himself of his right to all the worship that is voluntarily tendered. — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
It is in books, poems, paintings which often give us the confidence to take seriously feelings in ourselves that we might otherwise… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
“In the writings of other poets a character is too often an individual; in those of Shakespeare it is commonly a species.” — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
I want to branch out. I want to write. I write poetry. I want to see my children grow up well. — Annie Lennox Copy Share Image
