Song of Myself is a new kind of poem , which is shocked, puzzled, amused, amazed all the average readers, but it… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
When I have worries, fears or a love affair, I have the luck of being able to transform it into a poem. — Mario Benedetti Copy Share Image
“They beg you for transparency. Yet when you give them a peek behind the curtain shrouding your hear, they run in sheer… — Alfa H Copy Share Image
“Hope springs eternal in the human breast; Man never Is, but always To be blest. The soul, uneasy, and confin'd from home,… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
“It was time for me to go, to accept the dream was over and the poem exchange meant nothing; that the person… — Julie Gittus Copy Share Image
I read that poem you wrote to be on our first date and I shed tears of happiness, knowing that you meant… — Josephine Copy Share Image
Kevin Smith is so great in 'Kingdom Come,' isn't he? He's kind of this very earthy poet. He just has this immediate… — Daniel Gillies Copy Share Image
“I think poor poetry writing skills are excused when you’re simply trying to flush out emotions.” — Katie Kiesler Copy Share Image
“High Flight Oh! I have slipped the surly bonds of Earth And danced the skies on laughter-silvered wings; Sunward I’ve climbed, and… — John Gillespie MaGee Jr Copy Share Image
Could we say that the short short is to other kinds of fiction somewhat as the lyric is to other kinds of… — Irving Howe Copy Share Image
This Grave contains all that was Mortal of a Young English Poet Who on his Death Bed in the Bitterness of his… — John Keats Copy Share Image
I write poetry because I can’t disobey the impulse; it would be like blocking a spring that surges up in my throat.… — Gabriela Mistral Copy Share Image
“For the grace of the presence, be grateful. Touch the cloth of the robe, but do not pull it toward you, or… — Jalaluddin Rumi Copy Share Image
“It’s easier for me to make sense of it that way than it is for me to face the other way—reality. And… — Tim Cummings Copy Share Image
In mauve sea-orchids as in her striking earlier book Guardians of the Secret, Lila Zemborain brings into relationship the viscera of the… — Forrest Gander Copy Share Image
Memoir is a unique opportunity to revisit yourself. I don't mean by memory. I mean in the revision process. You don't just… — Joshua Mohr Copy Share Image
“Life with all it yields of joy and woe, And hope and fear, Is just our chance o’ the prize of learning… — Robert Browning Copy Share Image
For I dipped into the future, far as human eye could see, Saw the Vision of the world, and all the wonder… — Alfred Lord Tennyson Copy Share Image
“I could've been your everything but you didn't have the courage to love me in the way I needed” — R.H. Sin Copy Share Image
Stylized acting and direction is to realistic acting and direction as poetry is to prose. — Elia Kazan Copy Share Image
You can learn more by going to the opera than you ever can by reading Emerson. Like that there are two sexes. — David Markson Copy Share Image
It is a sad fact about our culture that a poet can earn much more money writing or talking about his art… — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
I have epiphanies all the time, because I'm always thinking. I'm a thinker. I'm always writing poetry, I'm always coming to conclusions. — Chrisette Michele Copy Share Image
A hundred cabinet-makers in London can work a table or a chair equally well; but noone poet can write verses with such… — David Hume Copy Share Image
“My earliest poems appear almost skeletal to me now - it seems I've learned to add meat, muscle and a nice suit… — Wanda Lea Brayton Copy Share Image
“I wanted it to be you. I wanted your eyes to be locked with mine during every fear and tear experienced throughout… — Alfa H Copy Share Image
“Some men are born to be good some born to be bad As for me I only came with just a pen… — Carlos Salinas Copy Share Image
Tonight I can write the saddest lines...Though this be the last pain that she makes me suffer and these the last verses… — Pablo Neruda Copy Share Image
But I can't and don't ever want to write bell-yanking confetti-tossing hat-throwing poems. — Andrew Motion Copy Share Image
“I write love poems when I'm not rapping. It comes naturally." He winked at me. "If you start rapping, I promise you… — Kristen Day Copy Share Image
That which we know is but little; that which we have a presentiment of is immense; it is in this direction that… — Philibert Joseph Roux Copy Share Image
“People, like us we feel... too deeply consumed, in shadow this game of chance. Together, surviving we unending dreamers. People... like us.” — Bev Flynn Copy Share Image
Children when they ask you why your mama so funny say she is a poet she don't have no sense — Lucille Clifton Copy Share Image
“One thing has led to the next in my life, but like lines of a poem. I suppose I've thrown in my… — David Guterson Copy Share Image
“Is it that important? Wouldn’t it be more important to teach the least powerful? To help them make the most of what… — Rainbow Rowell Copy Share Image
I love poetry. I love rhyming. Do you know, there are poets who don't rhyme? Shakespeare did not rhyme most of the… — Chuck Berry Copy Share Image
The ethos and critique are of poetry, which becomes a rich dark with a phosphorescence of lyric as witness. — Mei-mei Berssenbrugge Copy Share Image
Another one of the old poets, whose name has escaped my memory at present, called Truth the daughter of Time. — Aulus Gellius Copy Share Image
“With a beartrap around my ankle I search the pathways of your childhood soul as sunlight sneaks above the barbershop (from the… — Reyes Cardenas Copy Share Image
“My Poem is life, and not finished. It shall never be finished. My Poem is life, and can grow.” — Gwendolyn Brooks Copy Share Image
