“I'd reply, love doesn't tell time. Love is simple there or it isn't. Every day, in every way, it was there.” — Lisa Schroeder Copy Share Image
“It is always difficult for poets to believe that one says their poems are bad not because one is a fiend, but… — Randall Jarell Copy Share Image
One day you will take me completely out of myself, I'll do what the angels cannot do. Your eyelash will write on… — Rumi Copy Share Image
He who writes poetry is not a poet. He whose poetry has become his life, and who has made his life his… — Subramanya Bharathi Copy Share Image
“It's not so much time is circular as time confuses memory with hope and fear which often looks like the future” — Jennifer Nelson Copy Share Image
I didn't feel like I was allowed to be a songwriter. I thought I had to be a really intelligent lyricist, like… — Kate Nash Copy Share Image
A great many people seem to think writing poetry is worthwhile, even though it pays next to nothing and is not as… — Mark Strand Copy Share Image
For me the initial delight is in the surprise of remembering something I didn't know I knew. I have never started a… — Robert Frost Copy Share Image
I guess I wanted to leave America for awhile. It wasn't that I wanted to become an expatriate, or just never come… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
“Some days I wake up and all I feel are the fractures in the flesh that covers the only me I've ever… — Tyler Knott Gregson Copy Share Image
In description we hear and feel the absorption of the author in the material. We sense the presence of the creator of… — Patricia Hampl Copy Share Image
I am madly in love with you, just letting you know because I want you to take my hand, hold me, kiss… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
This is what you should do: love the earth and sun and the animals, despise riches, give alms to everyone that asks,… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
Nature is a vast tablet, inscribed with signs, each of which has its own significancy, and becomes poetry in the mind when… — Hugh Miller Copy Share Image
“This is how the past interrupts our lives, all of it entering the same doorway--like the hole in the trunk of my… — Natasha Trethewey Copy Share Image
Functions of technical information, historic record, analytic argument, which are integral and obvious to Dante's use of verse are now almost completely… — George Steiner Copy Share Image
Poets are all who love, who feel great truths, And tell them; and the truth of truths is love. — Philip James Bailey Copy Share Image
That is the saddest thing about being a writer. We die in ways you cannot fathom just to keep someone alive in… — Needa Muy Copy Share Image
I am not ridiculing verbal mechanisms, dreams, or repressions as origins of poetry; all three of them and more besides may have… — Allen Tate Copy Share Image
Poetry is a vocal art for me - but not necessarily a performative one. It might be reading to oneself or recalling… — Robert Pinsky Copy Share Image
I'm inspired by playwrights, novelists, poets: The value of language has been a lifelong passion of mine. I enjoy it. I'm good… — Mos Def Copy Share Image
Reading poetry and watching cricket were the sum of my world, and the two are not so far apart as many aesthetes… — Donald Bradman Copy Share Image
Poetry, being elegance itself, cannot hope to achieve visibility. It insists on living its own life. — Jean Cocteau Copy Share Image
The long poem cannot be a digressive, expansive, boring exposition. It is really made of very sharp, Imagistic, quintessential poetic elements. — Louis Dudek Copy Share Image
Poetry is enthusiasm with wings of fire; it is the angel of high thoughts, that inspires us with the power of sacrifice. — Giuseppe Mazzini Copy Share Image
Poetry is a sword of lightning, ever unsheathed, which consumes the scabbard that would contain it. — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
“I have put my arm down forever to interrupt the men who want more hair." from the poem "Pasadena" collected in Own… — Clark Coolidge Copy Share Image
One day, I just got up to read a poem and started singing. I looked around - the reaction was great. And… — Jill Scott Copy Share Image
To delight the ear and the eye is a mere sensual indulgence;—true poetry strikes at the soul. — Egerton Brydges Copy Share Image
In every culture, in every language, there is expressive play, expressive word play; there's language use to different purposes that we would… — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
“Cuz even a gangsta rapper can find redemption For the sins committed before revelation.” — Carlos Salinas Copy Share Image
I am happy that I could collaborate with poets like O.N.V. Kurup and Yusufali Kechery in my career; they wrote meaningful lyrics,… — Mohan Sithara Copy Share Image
A documentary film-maker can't help but use poetry to tell the story. I bring truth to my fiction. These things go hand… — Chloe Zhao Copy Share Image
“It's not what you go through that makes you strong: it is how you handle the situation that gives you strength.” — Tanya R. Liverman Copy Share Image
As a child, what captivated me was reading the poems myself and realizing that there was a world without material substance which… — Mary Oliver Copy Share Image
I love to write rhymes that have that perfect jingle. You'll know what I'm saying if it makes your Heart tingle. — Stanley Victor Paskavich Copy Share Image
My first book was poetry, but I didn't write it first. I wrote it third. So my first two books were prose. — Tao Lin Copy Share Image
The philosophers of antiquity taught contempt for work, that degradation of the free man, the poets sang of idleness, that gift from… — Paul Lafargue Copy Share Image
I had grown up as an Irish poet in a country where the distance between vision and imagination was not quite as… — Eavan Boland Copy Share Image
“Unjustified ambition kills value, Kills someone else's desire to fly, Cuts their wings, sucks their air. If there is nothing else, it… — Dejan Stojanovic Copy Share Image
