“ Advice to Young Poets Never pretend to be a unicorn by sticking a plunger on your head.” — Martin Espada Copy Share Image
“There are good reasons to learn how to read. Poetry isn't one of them... Why can't poets just say what they want… — Gary D. Schmidt Copy Share Image
“we discover through relationships that sometimes the person we fall for cannot comprehend the love we provide” — R.H. Sin Copy Share Image
When I say be creative I don't mean that you should all go and become great painters and great poets. I simply… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Be my love, Be my life Be my happiness, Be my wife Be my sadness, Be my tear Be my sorrow, Be… — John Lee Delan Copy Share Image
Poets are sitting in my kitchen. Why do these poets lie? Why do children get children and Did you hear what it… — Anne Sexton Copy Share Image
“You are my strength when I am weak You are my shield when I am hurting Whatever you say unto me Lord… — April Nichole Copy Share Image
To this congress the poet speaks not of peculiar and personal things, but of what in himself is most common, most anonymous,… — Richard Wilbur Copy Share Image
“He showed, in a few words, that it is not sufficient to throw together a few incidents that are to be met… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Poetry is that magic which consists in awakening sensations with the help of a combination of sounds ... that sorcery by which… — John Banville Copy Share Image
“I was challenged to do a little exercise with these verses (1 Cor 13:4-8), one that was profoundly convicting. Take the phrase… — Francis Chan Copy Share Image
When I came into consciousness as a writer when I was in my early 20s, I just assumed that a writer did… — W. S. Di Piero Copy Share Image
“Shakespeare could not have written without Marlowe, or Marlowe without Chaucer, or Chaucer without those forgotten poets who paved the ways and… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
The observations and encounters of a solitary, taciturn man are vaguer and at the same times more intense than those of a… — Thomas Mann Copy Share Image
In English, we were still on the Introduction to Poetry Unit, and I'm not lying, if I ever meet Percy Bysshe Shelley… — Gary D. Schmidt Copy Share Image
“When people say, 'I've told you fifty times,' They mean to scold, and very often do; When poets say, 'I've… — Lord Byron Copy Share Image
Most people do not believe in anything very much and our greatest poetry is given to us by those who do. — Cyril Connolly Copy Share Image
Do you remember any great poet that ever illustrated the higher fields of humanity that did not dignify the use of wine… — James A. McDougall Copy Share Image
We saw a hole in the Chicago poetry scene that slam couldn't fill. I think a lot more can be done with… — Robbie Q. Telfer Copy Share Image
In the history of old Jewish literature there was never any basic difference between the poet and the prophet. Our ancient poetry… — Isaac Bashevis Singer Copy Share Image
Every now and then I read a poem that does touch something in me, but I never turn to poetry for solace… — J. K. Rowling Copy Share Image
We are rebels for a cause, poets with a dream , and we won't let this world die without a fight. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“A true poet writes from the language and experiences of their own heart, not those of others.” — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image
Poetry is innocent, not wise. It does not learn from experience, because each poetic experience is unique. — Karl Shapiro Copy Share Image
“Sexual intercourse began in nineteen sixty-three (Which was rather late for me) between the end of the Chatterley ban and the Beatles'… — Philip Larkin Copy Share Image
You want to be dressed in poetry But imagery doesnt fit And you want resizing But darling dear, get a grip — Cute Is What We Aim For Copy Share Image
There's a crystallization that goes on in a poem which the young man can bring off, but which the middle-aged man can't. — John Updike Copy Share Image
Most poetry in the modern age has retreated to the private sphere, turning its back on the political realm. — Terry Eagleton Copy Share Image
There is also poetry written to be shouted in a square in front of an enthusiastic crowd. This occurs especially in countries… — Eugenio Montale Copy Share Image
Many of my poems try to use a comic element to reach a place that isn't comic at all. The comic element… — Stephen Dobyns Copy Share Image
“Xifeng tilted her face, a pale moon in the evening of the water. She felt like a goddess in the shimmering light.… — Julie C. Dao Copy Share Image
The poet complains or points out the discontent that lies at the heart of man, the individual man, and how can that… — Derek Walcott Copy Share Image
Each piece of writing I undertake, whether a story, novel, play, or poem, begins with an image. — Norman Lock Copy Share Image
You can tell it's a poem because it's swimming in a little gel pack of white space. That shows it's a poem. — Nicholson Baker Copy Share Image
The Helicon of too many poets is not a hill crowned with sunshine and visited by the Muses and the Graces, but… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
“If you could have walked on the planet before humans lived here, maybe the Ivory Coast would have seemed more beautiful than… — Dejan Stojanovic Copy Share Image
Dark is a way and light is a place, Heaven that never was Nor will be ever is always true "Poem on… — Dylan Thomas Copy Share Image
In song the same rule applies as in dramatic verse: the meaning must yield itself, or yield itself sufficiently to arouse the… — James Fenton Copy Share Image
My method is simple: not to bother about poetry. It must come of its own accord. Merely whispering its name drives it… — Jean Cocteau Copy Share Image
Gradually I became aware that professing English because I loved poems was like practicing vivisection because I loved dogs. — Michael Donaghy Copy Share Image
