When trying to explain anything, I usually find that the Bible, that great collection of magnificent and varied poetry, has said it… — Amy Lowell Copy Share Image
A poet must never make a statement simply because it is sounds poetically exciting; he must also believe it to be true. — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
“I was a happy young woman and I just happened to write poetry. I wasn’t trying to get anywhere, I was where… — Ntozake Shange Copy Share Image
I've been writing verses For 60 years...phew! And d'yer know why I did it? T'was especially for you — John Walter Bratton Copy Share Image
How much I can learn from a tree! The tree is my church, the tree is my temple, the tree is my… — Satish Kumar Copy Share Image
I have an attitude now that is immovable. I shall remain outside of the world, beyond the temporal, beyond all the organizations… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
“With all honesty, somewhere between the hello and the dreams I saw you in I fell in love.” — robert m drake Copy Share Image
I believe in poetic discourse, in the value of speech in a non-naturalistic way; it's speculative. — Howard Barker Copy Share Image
“ Humboldt's glorious descriptions are & will for ever be unparalleled: but even he with his dark blue skies & the rare… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
I'm trying to make the poems as musical as I can - from the inception. So that whether they're read on the… — Amiri Baraka Copy Share Image
“I believe that man will not merely endure: he will prevail. He is immortal, not because he alone among creatures has an… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
Great thoughts in crude, unshapely verse set forth lose half their preciousness, and ever must, unless the diamond with its own rich… — Thomas Bailey Aldrich Copy Share Image
“The first time I saw hundreds of fiddlehead ferns boiling in an enormous pot I realized what an odd person I must… — Maureen Seaton Copy Share Image
Kyria Abrahams, former teen bride of a doomsday cult and seeker of salvation in slam poetry, tells the terribly funny story of… — Janice Erlbaum Copy Share Image
“Old English poetry is characterised by a number of poetic tropes which enable a writer to describe things indirectly and which require… — Ronald Carter Copy Share Image
On a very personal level, I have fond memories of spending a lot of time in the Library of Congress working on… — Natasha Trethewey Copy Share Image
“The pain broke through the skin, dismantled her pores, and ate away at everything that was once strong. She was laid bare… — J. Autherine Copy Share Image
the only truth is face to face, the poem whose words become your mouth and dying in black and white we fight… — Frank O'Hara Copy Share Image
“The sky too is deep, the water immeasurably deep. Of heaven and earth we know nothing [unnamed poet]” — Alan Booth Copy Share Image
The great religions are the ships, Poets the life boats. Every sane person I know has jumped overboard. — Hafez Copy Share Image
I am angry that I starved my brain and that I sat shivering in my bed at night instead of dancing or… — Laurie Halse Anderson Copy Share Image
I once said a poet has the right to sing as loudly and vocally as he wants to. Most poets should face… — Jim Carroll Copy Share Image
These poems are a mental sketch as formed / Passage by passage of light and shade / Maintained and preserved to this… — Kenji Miyazawa Copy Share Image
There's not a good poet I know who has not at the beck and call of his memory a vast quantity of… — Anthony Hecht Copy Share Image
Since the dawn of time, primitive humans thought, loved and had poetry. They also pooped on everything. It was horrible. — Dana Gould Copy Share Image
Poets are always the advance guard of literature; the advance guard of life. It is for this reason that their recognition comes… — Amy Lowell Copy Share Image
“My life is filled with buckets of tears; thousands of people shouting in my ears; the humming and chirping of hundreds of… — Santosh Kalwar Copy Share Image
The best craftsmanship always leaves holes and gaps... so that something that is not in the poem can creep, crawl, flash or… — Dylan Thomas Copy Share Image
I think that it's more likely that in my 60s and 70s I will be writing poetry rather than fiction. — Robert Morgan Copy Share Image
“Tonight Since I'd forgotten for a moment where you are, I search for you with hope in my bones.” — Hester Knibbe Copy Share Image
“My mother despises what can never truly be done so she does not care for cooking or cleaning.” — Faith Shearin Copy Share Image
“I didn't have to say a word. My love for him appeared upon my flesh like virgin tattooed skin.” — Alfa H Copy Share Image
We all know here that the law is the most powerful of schools for the imagination. No poet ever interpreted nature as… — Jean Giraudoux Copy Share Image
The critic ... should be not merely a poet, not merely a philosopher, not merely an observer, but tempered of all three. — Margaret Fuller Copy Share Image
“Poets and writers don't live either for money or for fame. And even without any recognition for their work they keep on… — Avijeet Das Copy Share Image
Rumi is astounding, fertile, abundant, almost more an excitable library of poetry than a person. — Robert Bly Copy Share Image
“Be careful with those promises who whisper while wooing and loving someone. There are those that take them to heart, and some… — Alfa H Copy Share Image
Other people paint beautifully on canvas or write wonderful poetry. I like making deals. Preferably big ones. — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
Publishing a volume of verse is like dropping a rose petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo. — Don Marquis Copy Share Image
“Poetry distracts me from going deeper over…the edge. it is rough and shiny like black diamonds.it dazzles,it enhances,your everything. Each moment,every memory,… — Emily Sturgill Copy Share Image
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