As I am a poet I express what I believe, and I fight against whatever I oppose, in poetry. — June Jordan Copy Share Image
The poet is in command of his fantasy, while it is exactly the mark of the neurotic that he is possessed by… — Lionel Trilling Copy Share Image
“And if you were such a good clairvoyant, why didn't you just write things straight out? What's with all the stupid rhyming… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
See I'm a poet to some, a regular modern day Shakespeare. Jesus Christ the King of these Latter Day Saints here — Eminem Copy Share Image
These poems, with all their crudities, doubts, and confusions, are written for the love of Man and in praise of God, and… — Dylan Thomas Copy Share Image
“Our real poems are already in us / and all we can do is dig. / We can work for years and… — Jonathan Galassi Copy Share Image
“If you aren’t aware, there is a lioness living inside you. Maybe it’s time you get acquainted.” — Melody Lee Copy Share Image
Versification is, indeed, indispensable for music, but rhyme, solely for rhyming's sake, most pernicious. — Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Copy Share Image
I try to, at least once or twice a week, have someone over and model, usually a dancer friend or a poet… — Eric Drooker Copy Share Image
Though we do not have many poets, we certainly have more than we deserve, for we deserve none at all. It is… — Elizabeth Janeway Copy Share Image
Like speaks to like only; labor to labor, philosophy to philosophy, criticism to criticism, poetry to poetry. Literature speaks how much still… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The epic poet collaborates with the spirit of his time in the composition of his work. That is, if he is successful;… — Lascelles Abercrombie Copy Share Image
“It seems important to me that beginning writers ponder this—that since 1964, I have never had a book, story or poem rejected… — Joseph Hansen Copy Share Image
The first two books that I did by myself were long stories in verse. I knew I could do that because I'd… — Natalie Babbitt Copy Share Image
Ted Hughes is dead. That's a fact, OK. Then there's something called the poetry of Ted Hughes. The poetry of Ted Hughes… — Derek Walcott Copy Share Image
We used to play the underground clubs like the UFO, and Middle Earth, and they were great because they would have on… — Alvin Lee Copy Share Image
Like my old mentor would always say, Fool me once, shame on you, fool me twice and I'll be dead.'' Okay, she… — John Zakour Copy Share Image
“Wasn't sunrise meant to be the hour of hope? 'The season of creation' some poet or other had once called it. Fucking… — Uzma Aslam Khan Copy Share Image
“Crossing the limit is not my style My footsteps meander less than a mile I travel the world perhaps in a minute… — Munia Khan Copy Share Image
As I ponder pass I tend to itch my noggin often rockin to a beat to crop my verse until my urn… — C-DASH Copy Share Image
“ A Word is Dead A word is dead When it is said, Some say. I say it just Begins to live… — Emily Dickinson Copy Share Image
If God made poets for anything, it was to keep alive the traditions of the pure, the holy, and the beautiful. — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
Love is Special, Love is Rare. Love is made 4 two 2 Share. Love is Gentle, Love is Blind, Love begins when 2 Hearts combine! — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The easier a thing is to write then the more the writer gets paid for writing it. (And vice versa: ask the… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
That's what interests me in poetry. That withholding, that white space, the pressure, and my long-term faith in violent concision, is still… — Lucie Brock-Broido Copy Share Image
“inspiration. five minutes in the back of a greyhound bus; the world passing by. a gateway to freedom. the american dream. from… — K.R. Albers Copy Share Image
Poetry, which is written while no one is looking, is meant to be looked at for all time. — Kenneth Koch Copy Share Image
“In love it does not matter what you say, but what you feel. In poetry it does not matter what you feel,… — Luis de Góngora Copy Share Image
“she was too much of a warrior to be considered a princess she never cared for the crown she preferred a sword” — R.H. Sin Copy Share Image
Reading poetry gives me a sense of calm, well-being, and love for humanity - the same stuff more flexible women get from… — J. Courtney Sullivan Copy Share Image
“Some people spend their whole lives seeking heaven, when all they needed to do was look about them, and embrace that which… — Tom Althouse Copy Share Image
When it comes to writers and poets, for me it's Vinicius de Moraes. He's one of the greatest lyricists ever. — Ben Harper Copy Share Image
Poetic success is when you write a poem that makes you excited and bewildered and aglow. — Matthea Harvey Copy Share Image
The gross heathenism of civilization has generally destroyed nature, and poetry, and all that is spiritual. — John Muir Copy Share Image
“Publishing a book of poetry is like dropping a rose petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo.” — Don Marquis Copy Share Image
If you want to penetrate into the heart of physics, then let yourself be initiated into the mysteries of poetry. — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Copy Share Image
“She needed the chaos within her in order to discover the extraordinary no man could ever reach.” — robert m drake Copy Share Image
“Oh phosphorescence. Now there’s a word to lift your hat to... To find that phosphorescence, that light within — is the genius… — William Luce Copy Share Image
Nonfiction ties your hands a bit, and just like writing poetry in rhyme, it can force you to make more brutal decisions… — Emily Susan Rapp Copy Share Image
He has turned defensive boxing into a poetic art. Trouble is, nobody ever knocked anybody out with a poem. — Eddie Shaw Copy Share Image
