“I didn't know till then the stars, in flakes of snow come down to fuck the earth, the lake.” — D.M. Thomas Copy Share Image
Lucknow, as far as I have heard, is always known for its culture, literature and poetry. So it has set a cultural… — Zeenat Aman Copy Share Image
“i even tried to bury myself alive but the dirt recoiled you have already rotted it said there is nothing left for… — Rupi Kaur Copy Share Image
A wise man can and should stand above his times, not so the poet, but he should be their apex. — Franz Grillparzer Copy Share Image
“The tags' chain stirs with the wind; and I sleep Paid, dead, and a soldier. Who fights for his own life Loses,… — Randall Jarrell Copy Share Image
“You broke me I’m trying to put all the pieces back together The process is taking longer than expected.” — Melody Lee Copy Share Image
“I love to feel the temperature drop and the wind increase just before a thunderstorm. Then I climb in bed with the… — Amanda Mosher Copy Share Image
The arrogance of poets is only a defense; doubt gnaws the greatest among them; they need our testimony to escape despair. — Francois Mauriac Copy Share Image
“Beautiful words ruin your poetry. A touch of beauty enhances a dish, but you throw a hill of it inton the pot!… — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
[Abdellatif Laâbi] was a poet and worked as a high school teacher; and although he hadn't broken any laws, the Moroccan government… — Andre Naffis-Sahely Copy Share Image
You mean the worl you are my world your evrything I eva needed with yu I'm complete with out yu I'm incomplete,… — ANDY SIXX Copy Share Image
I remember when you were born, it was dawn and the storm settled near my belly. And I rolled in the grass… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
Poetry saves what is human in this world going gaudy & insane. In exploring small truths, something larger might turn up, adding… — Diane Glancy Copy Share Image
“Don't imagine that the art of poetry is any simpler than the art of music, or that you can please the expert… — Ezra Pound Copy Share Image
we are far too used to the assumption that poetry and poets will be there when we want them, no matter how… — Jan Clausen Copy Share Image
“Always too eager for the future, we Pick up bad habits of expectancy. Something is always approaching; every day Till then we… — Philip Larkin Copy Share Image
“Midway between the too soiled ground and the too-sublime vaults, at the level of the air, entering the skin of the role,… — Michel Leiris Copy Share Image
“How can you take such a risk? This could mean anything! It could mean nothing at all! Haven’t you heard of fiction?… — Jason Ellis Copy Share Image
At Delphi I prayed to Apollo that he maintain in me the flame of the poem and I drank of the brackish… — Denise Levertov Copy Share Image
“My dear poetry, There’s a likeness between your eyes and the stars –the same charming brilliance, my eyes have ever laid upon.” — Ymatruz Copy Share Image
“Sometimes, the only things in this world that make sense are the moon, my madness and your hands messing up my hair,… — Melody Lee Copy Share Image
There's a Welsh poet, R.S. Thomas. He was a very crotchety, strange man, but his poems are wonderful. He was nominated for… — Stephen Dobyns Copy Share Image
The adventitious beauty of poetry may be felt in the greater delight with a verse given in a happy quotation than in… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
What we call a poem is mostly what is not there on the page. The strength of any poem is the poems… — Harold Bloom Copy Share Image
I gave up on new poetry myself 30 years ago when most of it began to read like coded messages passing between… — Russell Baker Copy Share Image
For me, drawing is everything, because it informs everything. It even informs my poetry. It's the way I begin everything. — Jim Dine Copy Share Image
To a large extent, the problems of poets are the problems of painters, and poets must often turn to the literature of… — Wallace Stevens Copy Share Image
“We've all led raucous lives, some of them inside, some of them out. But only the poem you leave behind is what's… — Charles Wright Copy Share Image
I've hated poetry ever since I was at school. I include Shakespeare in that. I don't understand the obsession with him! — Eddie the Eagle Copy Share Image
“In your light I learn how to love. In your beauty, how to make poems. You dance inside my chest, where no… — Rumi Copy Share Image
I love Black poets. I love that as a Black girl, I get to participate in that legacy. So that's Yusef Komunyakaa,… — Amanda Gorman Copy Share Image
It's always good when women win things in fiction because it tends to be more male-dominated, unlike poetry, which is more equal — Carol Ann Duffy Copy Share Image
“Here's how I used to think you made a book: a poet comes along, mouth half open, inspired, then suddenly the idiot… — Vladimir Mayakovsky Copy Share Image
I keep all my poems in my journals and lock them away. They are the start of everything. — Stevie Nicks Copy Share Image
Move him into the sun Gently its touch awoke him once, At home, whispering of fields unsown. Always it woke him, even… — Wilfred Owen Copy Share Image
“The best works around us, whether they are poetry, music, or artwork, come from the heart.” — Ashley Wiger Copy Share Image
Boston: Their hotels are bad. Their pumpkin pies are delicious. Their poetry is not so good. — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
“The Windowsill Over the Sink [...] begins to crowd around you with its clutter showing you that you can keep everything but promises.” — Vern Rutsala Copy Share Image
'The Wizard of Poetry' - I had that title since I did 'The Pretty Toney' album. That's when the name first came… — Ghostface Killah Copy Share Image
Certainly the modern poets I cherish most are disturbing spirits; they do not come to coo. — Stanley Kunitz Copy Share Image
![“[Abdellatif Laâbi] was a poet and worked as a high school teacher; and although he hadn't broken any laws, the Moroccan government was determined to "gag" him - I use the term specifically since one of my favorite sequences of his is entitled "The Poem Beneath The Gag."” quote by Andre Naffis-Sahely](https://sms4smile.com/q/i/83d/andre-naffis-sahely-20813_broken_abdellatif-la-bi-was-a-poet-and-worked-a_1533931.jpg)
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