A certain kind of poetry looks back at experience from an older perspective. — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
But now, you are twain, you are cloven apart Flesh of his flesh, but heart of my heart. — Algernon Charles Swinburne Copy Share Image
Writing was a political act and poetry was a cultural weapon. — Linton Kwesi Johnson Copy Share Image
Perhaps poetry will be the canary in the mine-shaft warning us of what's to come. — Galway Kinnell Copy Share Image
“A few drinks and the world was hers— she wore her whiskey like a loaded gun.” — Atticus Poetry Copy Share Image
“It was not the Jew, of course, who invented the love poem, but the other way around.” — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
When you read and understand a poem, comprehending its rich and formal meanings, then you master chaos a little. — Stephen Spender Copy Share Image
I think poetry can help children deal with the other subjects on the curriculum by enabling them to see a subject in… — Carol Ann Duffy Copy Share Image
“Don't want a complicated love. Just want you to grab my demons, kiss my madness and run away with me.” — Melody Lee Copy Share Image
Piece by piece I sent my first book of poems to American Poetry Review and was rejected one by one. — David Berman Copy Share Image
Words make love on the page like flies in the summer heat and the poet is only the bemused spectator. — Charles Simic Copy Share Image
Writing poetry is a process of discovery...you can smell the poem before you see it…Like some animal. — Denise Levertov Copy Share Image
My earliest poems sing of the absolute necessity of allowing love to invade and pervade one's life. That can make the miracle… — James Broughton Copy Share Image
“They say she is too much to handle, but when the moon pulls the tide and the wolves howl her name, blessed… — Nicole Lyons Copy Share Image
“When shall I get to kiss thee?’ I asked. ‘By all means you can forever ask,’ she answered. ‘Your lips ask a… — Hafiz Shirazi Copy Share Image
My best times are midnight to six actually. I'll leaf through my notebooks and if something catches my eye and I feel… — Rita Dove Copy Share Image
Haiku is a particularly Zen form of poetry; for Zen detests egoism in the form of calculated effects or self-glorification of any… — Anne Bancroft Copy Share Image
“Please welcome Professor Varen Nethers, famous depressed dead poets historian and author of the bestselling books Unlocking your Poe-tential: A Writer's Guide… — Kelly Creagh Copy Share Image
“It is not certain whether the effects of totalitarianism upon verse need be so deadly as its effects on prose. There is… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“I’m feeling a low regarding writing. I sometimes think I should finish working on my book of stripper poetry that I started,… — Sheila Hageman Copy Share Image
“What I'm saying is: go barefoot. Or walk out with a handstand. Live in possibility and in constant proximity to desire. Don't… — Brad Cran Copy Share Image
“I breathe in... the fragrance of love, and moist sand the one his roses left on both my hands I just keep… — Sanober Khan Copy Share Image
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