My poems, I think, exist in a state of tension between the love of natural beauty and the fear of natural meaninglessness… — Hayden Carruth Copy Share Image
There's a verse in the Bible says, 'In everything give thanks, for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus concerning… — Tammy Faye Bakker Copy Share Image
“Seal the borders of my body to pain, seal my eyes, mouth, belly to any hunger not my own. I rename myself… — Shailja Patel Copy Share Image
“Cuando vayamos al mar yo te diré mi secreto: Me envuelve, pero no es ola... Me amarga..., pero no es sal...” — Dulce Maria Loynaz Copy Share Image
“Moments caught in time. Simple memories spread out before me. Timeless reminders of how life goes on, even when it feels as… — Jay Long Copy Share Image
There speaks the man of truly noble ways, Who will not listen to the words of praise. In modesty averse, and with… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Winter's notion of poetry is tragedy. It knows nothing of comedy. Its laughter was frozen on its lips long ago. — William Alfred Quayle Copy Share Image
I love the kookiness of our speech. Speech is like wonderful magic and poetry in itself. I've always had to crib a… — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
I work to loud music - hard-rock stuff like AC/DC, Guns 'n Roses, and Metallica have always been particular favorites - but… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“Come boy, and pour for me a cup Of old Falernian. Fill it up With wine, strong, sparkling, bright, and clear; Our… — Catullus Copy Share Image
I think that happens for a lot of people, they have this idea that there's only one type of way to write… — Jacqueline Woodson Copy Share Image
“And Ut Pictura Poesis Is Her Name" You can’t say it that way any more. Bothered about beauty you have to Come… — John Ashbery Copy Share Image
What’s that poem again?” Will, who had been twirling his empty teacup around his fingers, stood up straight and declaimed: “Each spake… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
Then my verse I dishonor, my pictures despise, my person degrade and my temper chastise; and the pen is my terror, the… — William Blake Copy Share Image
This day relenting God Hath placed within my hand A wondrous thing; and God Be praised. At His command, Seeking His secret… — Ronald Ross Copy Share Image
I only wish the poets would say this too: love is of the body; not the body, but of the the body.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“In a serener Bright, In a more golden light I see Each little doubt and fear, Each little discord here Removed.” — Emily Dickinson Copy Share Image
“When I am dead, even then, I will still love you, I will wait in these poems, When I am dead, even… — Muriel Rukeyser Copy Share Image
I came from a home full of the sounds of my parents performing poems or playing recordings of Robert Graves, WB Yeats… — Michael Rosen Copy Share Image
“Every day we hear a little melody,reading a beautiful poem, see a fine painting and,If possible, say the words.” — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Copy Share Image
They're very different things, a poem and a song, you wouldn't think they would be, but they are. — John Cooper Clarke Copy Share Image
“Never ask a writer what they are writing while they are writing, unless you’re prepared for sharp teeth, fangs and blood on… — Melody Lee Copy Share Image
Every poem that I write is, in a sense, trying to find adequate words for this unspeakable word, around which my entire… — Kevin Hart Copy Share Image
I always say that I'll have a go and see whether the poem works and if it does, then fine. — Carol Ann Duffy Copy Share Image
I know nothing new except that Herr Gellert, the Leipzig poet, is dead, and has written no more poetry since his death. — Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Copy Share Image
“He gives me that hint of a half smile tempered with those smoky eyes, a look that’s probably stolen virginities, broken hearts,… — Roxanne St. Claire Copy Share Image
That's the way it is with poetry: When it is incomprehensible it seems profound, and when you understand it, it is only… — Galway Kinnell Copy Share Image
Let my name perish, -- the poetry is good poetry and the music is good music, and beauty dieth not, and the… — Sidney Lanier Copy Share Image
Honestly, I can't understand English poetry. Because I am not an English speaker, when I read it I never know how to… — Jenova Chen Copy Share Image
The mind of a poet often performs miracles-a few coarse-grained words, apprehended become bullets and roses. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There is a whole book of poetry written by a woman with sucidial ideation, borderline personality disorder, major depression and who is… — Sue E Cidal Copy Share Image
A poem is a small machine made of words. . .Its movement is intrinsic, undulant, a physical more than a literary character. — William Carlos Williams Copy Share Image
Metaphor impinges on everything, allowing us - poets and non-poets alike - to experience and think about the world in fluid, unusual… — James Geary Copy Share Image
“If war is the test of reality, than all poetry is unreal; but in that case unreality is a virtue.” — Louis MacNeice Copy Share Image
When you reach out and touch other human beings, it doesn't matter whether you call it therapy or teaching or poetry. — Audre Lorde Copy Share Image
“Nothing would be easier without you, because you are everything, all of it- sprinkles, quarks, giant donuts, eggs sunny-side up- you are… — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
“Those letters under the door A new life The war at a distance and my drinking glass that smokes A brightness crowns… — Paul Dermée Copy Share Image
“If you hate me for who I am, then hate, you should; but I hate it when I am being, misunderstood.” — Akash Mandal Copy Share Image
Feel you the barren flattery of a rhyme? Can poets soothe you, when you pine for bread, By winding myrtle round your… — George Crabbe Copy Share Image
There is no comment on pictures but pictures, on music but music, on poems but poetry. If you do, you do. If… — William Carlos Williams Copy Share Image
