“The sun surrendered its splendor—why, it was like poetry; he was a poet; Norman smiled. He was many things. If they only… — Robert Bloch Copy Share Image
In the sense that I also try to reflect the fullness of the black experience, I’m very much a jazz poet. — Jayne Cortez Copy Share Image
With poets, the choice of words is invariably more telling than the story line; that's why the best of them dread the… — Joseph Brodsky Copy Share Image
A Chinese poet many centuries ago noticed that to re-create something in words is like being alive twice. — Frances Mayes Copy Share Image
“Trying not to let your lack of depth bring out the irritable in me-- there is only so much shallow an ocean… — Melody Lee Copy Share Image
As we all know, poets are born brain-wired a certain way and every poet I know wrote as a child. I'm no… — Grace Cavalieri Copy Share Image
“Solitude creeps into my bones like winter. Slowly Steadily Suddenly Like the cold and the dark. I am alone, but I am… — Melody Lee Copy Share Image
What is more beautiful than a sea of water with a number of white-winged boats skirting its surface? Poetry and beauty contesting… — George Matthew Adams Copy Share Image
“I’m not a poet. But my wife is. She taught me to look for the extraordinary in the simplicity. She taught me… — Jennifer Probst Copy Share Image
“Between the Pedestals of Night and Morning Between red death and radiant desire With not one sound of triumph or of warning… — James Elroy Flecker Copy Share Image
“This Jesus of Nazereth without money and arms, conquered more millions than Alexander, Caeser, Muhammad and Napoleon; without science and learning, He… — John Schaff Copy Share Image
“We made love outdoors—without a roof, I like most, without stove, my favorite place, assuming the weather be fair and balmy, and… — Roman Payne Copy Share Image
When you look at classical structures, they're often linked to literature, music, or a poem. They were constructed by master builders, which… — Ma Yansong Copy Share Image
“Finally, Gunner spoke, his voice so fluid and moving, it could have come from the river itself. "I once hear a poem… — Clare Vanderpool Copy Share Image
“Why incentivize laziness? High-school students shouldn't be discouraged from grappling, sometimes unsuccessfully, with challenging books, pictures, and songs. A really, really good… — Jeff Sypeck Copy Share Image
When I stand in a library where is all the recorded wit of the world, but none of the recording, a mere… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
My verses, I cannot say poems. . . . I was following in the exquisite footsteps of Miss Millay, unhappily in my own horrible sneakers. — Dorothy Parker Copy Share Image
Poems . . . are perfume bottles momentarily unstopped—what they release is volatile and will vanish, and yet it can be released again, — Jane Hirshfield Copy Share Image
I try to avoid calling myself a poet because I think that's something someone else has to call you. It's like bragging. — Dorianne Laux Copy Share Image
“I forgot what we were celebrating. Because we were always celebrating something, a new job, a new poem, a new love, a… — Audre Lorde Copy Share Image
Poetry is unfallen speech. Paradise knew no other, for no other would suffice to answer the need of those ecstatic days of… — Abraham Coles Copy Share Image
Poetry, even when apparently most fantastic, is always a revolt against artifice, a revolt, in a sense, against actuality. — James Joyce Copy Share Image
A poem is energy transferred from where the poet got it (he will have some several causations), by way of the poem… — Charles Olson Copy Share Image
“A man's most vivid emotional and sensuous experience is inevitably bound up with the language that he actually speaks. (New Bearings in… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
To me, poetry is about survival first of all. Survival of the individual self, survival of the emotional life. — Gregory Orr Copy Share Image
“sometimes all we need to be able to continue alone are the dead rattling the walls that close us in.” — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
“Life unfolded in such a way, that it left nothing to do or say, but to let the tides take their time,… — Iva Hotko Copy Share Image
If a poem is not memorable, there's probably something wrong. One of the problems of free verse is that much of the… — Robert Morgan Copy Share Image
“You must seduce poetry with the heart of your words before she'll sprinkle you with the magic of hers.” — Curtis Tyrone Jones Copy Share Image
Most of the more celebrated names among African-American authors, poets, and artists are known to the world because of their association with… — Aberjhani Copy Share Image
Novelists have to love humanity to write anything worthwhile. Poets have to love themselves. — Marita Golden Copy Share Image
She could become a spinster, like Emily Dickinson, writing poems full of dashes and brilliance, and never gaining weight. — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
“My tongue remembers your wounded flavor. The vein in my neck adores you. A sword stands up between my hips, my hidden… — Li-Young Lee Copy Share Image
“I am the poet with scaring words and blurred letters. I do not know if my poetry is a blessing or a… — Luis Alexandre Ribeiro Branco Copy Share Image
“Aimlessly It pounds the shore. White and aimless signals. No One listens to poetry. — from "Thing Language” — Jack Spicer Copy Share Image
The challenge is to keep up with all the new poets at the same time I love the old ones. — Mary Oliver Copy Share Image
“The act of love and the act of poetry Are not compatible With the reading aloud of a newspaper” — André Breton Copy Share Image
SOME YEARS, like some poets,and politicians and some lovely women, are singled out for fame far beyond the common lot, and 1929… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
Modern poets are bells of lead. They should tinkle melodiously but usually they just klunk. — Lord Dunsany Copy Share Image
I had never heard of Rumi until Robert Bly handed me this book and he said, ah, “These poems need to be… — Coleman Barks Copy Share Image
