“Folly, error, sin, avarice Occupy our minds and labor our bodies, And we feed our pleasant remorse As beggars nourish their vermin.” — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
I like the dance between sustained focus and digression that the long poem invites. A controlling metaphor helps to sustain the long… — Alison Hawthorne Deming Copy Share Image
“It takes an aeon to shift position, get comfortable, let alone create a wave in this fishbowl full of glue. - from… — Toby Fitch Copy Share Image
“but take away his poems and what does he have left? He wants to write more poems, enough to fill half the… — Nachoem M Wijnberg Copy Share Image
“Some who grow dull religious straight commence And gain in morals what they lose in sense.” — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
High and low culture come together in all Post Modern art, and American poetry is not excluded from this. — Diane Wakoski Copy Share Image
Anyone who regards poetry as an entertainment, as a 'read,' commits an anthropological crime, in the first place against himself. — Joseph Brodsky Copy Share Image
“I write poems to save myself, to preserve in ink memories of me long after my soul has dissolved and my bones… — Ayokunle Falomo Copy Share Image
“We arrived and the miracle happened. It was the sea and the wind in the bells. We came from far, from years… — José Manuel Cardona Copy Share Image
“Human beings are members of a whole, In creation of one essence and soul. If one member is afflicted with pain, Other… — Muslih Al-Din Mushrif Ibn Abd Allah Al Saadi 1184 1283 Copy Share Image
The rhyme always knows better than you, and leads you to places where you wouldn't otherwise have gotten to and that is… — Nicole Krauss Copy Share Image
What you want is practice, practice, practice. It doesn’t matter what we write (at least this is my view) at our age,… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Here's what I want from a book, what I demand, what I pray for when I take up a novel and begin… — Pat Conroy Copy Share Image
“The books downstairs were reciting their poetry to each other, rubbing together, whispering through the leathery covers. Wine was flowing through the… — Francesca Lia Block Copy Share Image
The ability to name poetry's gestures and rhetorics isn't required to write or read them, any more than a painter needs to… — Jane Hirshfield Copy Share Image
“The Letters to a young poet illustrate perfectly the kindliness, the complexity, and at the same time the impersonality and remoteness of… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
If what has happened in the one person were communicated directly to the other, all art would collapse, all the effects of… — Paul Valery Copy Share Image
My father's favorite poem was probably 'Love is patient, love is kind.' It's simply stated but pretty profound. That's how my dad… — John Carter Cash Copy Share Image
“If an artist only as good as there art and a poet only as good as there poetry if I am neither… — Nathella Copy Share Image
Do not Christians and Heathens, and Jews and Gentiles, and poets and philosophers, unite in allowing the starry influences? — Walter Scott Copy Share Image
It is quite cruel that a poet cannot wander through his regions of enchantment without having a critic, forever, like the old… — Marianne Moore Copy Share Image
“The danger in trying to hide who you are is that you'll succeed, and you'll start to see a stranger in the… — Jarod K. Anderson Copy Share Image
For the first rate poet, nothing short of a Queen or a Chimera is adequate for the powers of his praise. — Wyndham Lewis Copy Share Image
“We hear the saints saying: Our brother the world. We hear the revolutionaries: Dare we win?” — Muriel Rukeyser Copy Share Image
Of course poets have morals and manners of their own, and custom is no argument with them. — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
The poetic act consists of suddenly seeing that an idea splits up into a number of equal motifs and of grouping them;… — Stephane Mallarme Copy Share Image
Mathematics is an activity governed by the same rules imposed upon the symphonies of Beethoven, the paintings of DaVinci, and the poetry… — Edward Kasner Copy Share Image
You can say a lot more with a poem than you can with a song, but with a song you can really… — Serj Tankian Copy Share Image
It's easy to convince men to love you, Puck. All you have to do is be a mountain they have to climb… — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
“I don't always understand poetry!' 'You don't always understand it? Timms, I never understand it. But learn it now, know it now… — Alan Bennett Copy Share Image
“It was a page he had Found in the handbook Of heartbreak. Wallace Stevens, “Madame la Fleurie,” Collected Poems I” — Cornelia Funke Copy Share Image
“Give me the rights, and I’ll edit and rewrite. Polish you to perfection. But you won’t make best sellers, for you’ll never… — S. Anne Cole Copy Share Image
When she in the front I make her put in reverse...and if the pussy good then I put it in a verse — Drake Copy Share Image
We have a lot of long narrative poems written in the 20th century, but they're not very well known, and they're not… — Robert Morgan Copy Share Image
The more rhymethere isin poetry the more dangerof its tricking the writer into something other than the urge in the beginning. — Carl Sandburg Copy Share Image
“don't start talkin about books or quotin poems at them. these is good folks but they ain't real crazy about readin books.… — William Gay Copy Share Image
It is the black poet who bridges the gap in tradition, who modifies tradition when experience demands it, who translates experience into… — Henry Louis Gates Copy Share Image
“Behold yon rough and flinty road Where youth, now youth no more, Gropes whining, seeking crumbs of loaves He cast away of… — Emma Ghent Curtis Copy Share Image
Poetry, when it takes sides, when it proposes solutions, isn't any smarter than anybody else. — Robert Hass Copy Share Image
“...fine love poetry tends to be written when the object of one's affection is at a safe distance; also, it often reflects… — Kate Fox Copy Share Image
