I don't have an inflated opinion of how much artistic merit the poems I do have. — Tim Key Copy Share Image
“She doesn't trust easily, but when she does it's always with the devil himself.” — Melody Lee Copy Share Image
A so-called happy marriage corresponds to love as a correct poem to an improvised song. — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Copy Share Image
“hear not what I say like the howl, words fade away only fear remains” — Kurt Brindley Copy Share Image
“And stay, my dear stay... forever, as my quiet song, in my lilac dawn.” — Sanober Khan Copy Share Image
“I look at you and you look at me and deep in our hearts babe we know it, that you weren't much… — Nick Cave Copy Share Image
I see no reason to spend your life writing poems unless your goal is to write great poems. — Donald Hall Copy Share Image
“Thoughts are apples on the tree, Not meant for anyone in particular, But they end up belonging To the one who takes… — Hugo von Hoffmannstahl Copy Share Image
“...before you, life was desolate - the past hardly worth remembering - and now, each moment a keepsake I can't throw away ...” — John Geddes Copy Share Image
I do not see how a man can work on the frontiers of physics and write poetry at the same time. They… — Paul Dirac Copy Share Image
Perhaps no poet is a conscious plagiarist, but there seems to be warrant for suspecting that there is no poet who is… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
My poems please the brave: My poems, short and sincere, Have the force of steel Which forges swords. — Jose Marti Copy Share Image
This verse made me realize that I've divorced an entire aspect of my life from God: eating — Matt Cohen Copy Share Image
“Though the ancient poet in Plutarch tells us we must not trouble the gods with our affairs because they take no heed… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Why shouldn't we, so generally addicted to the gigantic, at last have some small works of art, some short poems, short pieces… — Elizabeth Bishop Copy Share Image
A good athlete can enter a state of body-awareness in which the right stroke or the right movement happens by itself, effortlessly,… — Laozi Copy Share Image
“The job of the poet—which is somewhat quixotic or Sisyphean—is to express things that one may have sensed or felt but never… — Paul S. Atkins Copy Share Image
“Every poem, for me, begins with a question I don’t have the answer to, and here, in ‘Hypothesis,’ the question is whether… — Paul Tran Copy Share Image
“I came up with a new reason To write your name today I plagiarized each letter From a love note you wrote… — Justin Wetch Copy Share Image
“I think I was about twenty-five when I first said - more or less to myself - that I was quite a… — John Pudney Copy Share Image
It's not that he lacked poetry. But his poetry was of the body, not the mind. He spoke it in the way… — Meg Rosoff Copy Share Image
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