“When someone offers you lines like that, he must be Mephistopheles and you must be Faust. You know you shouldn't succumb to… — William Logan Copy Share Image
“There has never been a poet able to heal with words, nor accurately express with phrases, the pain of missing a lost… — Steve Maraboli Copy Share Image
For every poet it is always morning in the world; history a forgotten, insomniac night. The fate of poetry is to fall… — Derek Walcott Copy Share Image
All babies are incoherent, but they grow up. That is the principle difference between an infant and a poet. — Sharyn McCrumb Copy Share Image
Poverty is very good in poems but very bad in the house; very good in maxims and sermons but very bad in… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
Out of the ruined lodge and forgotten mansion, bowers that are trodden under foot, and pleasure-houses that are dust, the poet calls… — Thomas de Quincey Copy Share Image
Alchemy is the art of far and near, and I think poetry is alchemy in that way. It's delightful to distort size,… — Robert Morgan Copy Share Image
Before you go further, let me tell you what a poem brings, first, you must know the secret, there is no poem… — Juan Felipe Herrera Copy Share Image
When things are going well, you do have the sense that what you’re writing is being fed to you in some way.… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
I do think digital media encourages speed-reading, which can be fine if one is simply seeking information. But a serious novel or… — Michael Dirda Copy Share Image
He was weary of himself, of cold ideas and brain dreams. Life a poem? Not when you went about forever poetizing about… — Jens Peter Jacobsen Copy Share Image
Many poets are not poets for the same reason that many religious men are not saints: they never succeed in being themselves.… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
“Someone asked them a question about their poetry, and whether it was hard having to relive their words each time they performed.… — Colleen Hoover Copy Share Image
When you begin to write poems because you love language, because you love poetry. Something happens that makes you write poems. And… — C. K. Williams Copy Share Image
All I knew about Ethiopia was from a few records that I like, as well as what I read about the famine.… — Flea Copy Share Image
“... the poetic moment is a static one. It's watching through a window while the action happens elsewhere. And then the poet… — Helen Humphreys Copy Share Image
'New Slaves' is too real to me. It's like a freestyle of real talk, with the sickest beat. It's like the beat… — Jme Copy Share Image
“It is true that there is not enough beauty in the world. It is also true that I am not competent to… — Louise Glück Copy Share Image
think what you hope for is that at different times of your life you're able to write the poetry that reflects the… — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
A glass of papaya juice and back to work. My heart isin my pocket, it is Poems by Pierre Reverdy. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“I am lover of words... I am wickedly drunk with the magic of words... the poetic nature whispers through and to my… — Jennifer Hillman Copy Share Image
Is not the beautiful moon, that inspires poets, the same moon which angers the silence of the sea with a terrible roar? — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
“We can no longer allow them to write just stories and poems; we must teach them the forms of nonfiction writing as… — Troy Hicks Copy Share Image
France is not poetic; she even feels, in fact, a congenital horror of poetry. Among the writers who use verse, those whom… — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
“How little the world would look moral without forgetfulness! A poet might say that God made forgetfulness the guard he placed at… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
To be a poet is to place pleasure, beauty and sensual delights front and centre, it means having a predilection for debauchery. — Nicole Brossard Copy Share Image
The business of the poet and the novelist is to show the sorriness underlying the grandest things and the grandeur underlying the… — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
Yes, I do write poetry. It's very therapeutic. I'm influenced by Pablo Neruda and Gulzar Saab. It's all very personal. — Vivek Oberoi Copy Share Image
“If you fail in copying from a master you succeed in birthing an original art. Kushal Poddar, Poet” — Kushal Poddar, Poet Copy Share Image
Poet, patting more nonsense foamed From the sea, conceive for thecourts Of these academies, the diviner health Disclosed in common forms. — Wallace Stevens Copy Share Image
He who studies to imitate the poet Pindar, O Julius, relies on artificial wings fastened on with wax, and is sure to… — Horace Copy Share Image
I didn't write poems for a number of years after graduate school because the criticisms of other students in the workshops wouldn't… — Kevin Keck Copy Share Image
As a poet, there is only one political duty, and that is to defend one's language from corruption. — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
I had written here and there about my mother in my poems. There are poems for her in my first and second… — Tracy K. Smith Copy Share Image
“I have been here before, But when or how I cannot tell: I know the grass beyond the door, The sweet keen… — Dante Gabriel Rossetti Copy Share Image
For Poetry is the wisdom of the blood,That scarlet tree within, which has the powerTo make dull words bud forth and burst… — Osbert Sitwell Copy Share Image
The poet's eye, in a fine frenzy rolling, Doth glance from heaven to earth, From earth to heaven. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
The poetry of a people comes from the deep recesses of the unconscious, the irrational and the collective body of our ancestral… — Margaret Walker Copy Share Image
“The madman bum and angel beat in time with the absolute heart of the poem butchered out of their own bodies good… — Allen Ginsberg Copy Share Image
The mind is the great poem of winter, the man, Who, to find what will suffice, Destroys romantic tenements Of rose and… — Wallace Stevens Copy Share Image
