“In the end, everyone is aware of this: nobody keeps any of what he has, and life is only a borrowing of… — Pablo Neruda Copy Share Image
“A month alone behind closed doors forgotten books, remembered, clear again. Poems come, like water to the pool Welling, up and out,… — Yuan Mei Copy Share Image
It is a commonplace that Racine is untranslatable. This is not because his verse is difficult, but because it is not. — Kenneth Rexroth Copy Share Image
I read a lot. I liked a tremendous number of poets and writers. The person whose work I liked the most was… — Grace Paley Copy Share Image
I was nervous, so I read the New Testament. I read the verse about have no fear, and I felt relaxed. Then… — Religion Copy Share Image
Poetry is any page from a sketchbook of outlines of a doorknob with thumb-prints of dust, blood, dreams. — Carl Sandburg Copy Share Image
A poet is a nightingale, who sits in darkness and sings to cheer its own solitude with sweet sounds. — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
“We must lice with our hearts in our hands - like Mary. We must hold the blood- red heart and no be… — Kelli Russell Agodon Copy Share Image
When I start writing a poem, I can usually know quite early on whether it's a lineated or prose poem, but I… — Matthea Harvey Copy Share Image
I'm drawn to this range, that's for sure, but I suppose the thing that most appeals to me about Mandelstam is the… — Christian Wiman Copy Share Image
“Sent to the Monk" Night falls and the empty intimacy of the whole world fills my heart to frothing. The past has… — Mary Ruefle Copy Share Image
“The Price of a Muse I write for resurrection to see bodies reassemble and rise I've tried to write my dog off… — Nancy Boutilier Copy Share Image
Poetry is, above all, an approach to the truth of feeling . . .. A fine poem will seize your imagination intellectually-that… — Muriel Rukeyser Copy Share Image
“Poetry has a long, long memory. After our love is long gone, we will still be reading your poems. You will not… — Jeanette LeBlanc Copy Share Image
I'm not against sentimentality. I think you need it. I mean, I don't think you get a true picture of people without… — Nelson Algren Copy Share Image
What I try to do is to go into a poem - and one writes them, of course, poem by poem -… — Paul Muldoon Copy Share Image
The art of poetry is to touch the passions, and its duty to lead them on the side of virtue. — William Cowper Copy Share Image
I don't want my poems to be sentimental, though I do acknowledge that sentiment is probably rather under-reported in a lot of… — Andrew Motion Copy Share Image
Imagination in poetry, as distinguished from mere fancy is the transfiguring of the real or actual to the ideal. — Alfred Austin Copy Share Image
You must have a certain amount of maturity to be a poet. Seldom do sixteen-year-olds know themselves well enough. — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
“There are many unspeakable words, forgotten, or forbidden. Great thanks to the poets who make them all become reachable.” — Toba Beta Copy Share Image
God prefers bad verses recited with a pure heart to the finest verses chanted by the wicked. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
There are only three things in the world, one is to read poetry, another is to write poetry, and the best of… — Rupert Brooke Copy Share Image
I was 12 or 13 years old. So I started to write poetry and fiction, even though I was really into biology… — Darren Aronofsky Copy Share Image
Poetic success is when you write a poem that makes you excited and bewildered and aglow. — Matthea Harvey Copy Share Image
The gross heathenism of civilization has generally destroyed nature, and poetry, and all that is spiritual. — John Muir Copy Share Image
“Publishing a book of poetry is like dropping a rose petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo.” — Don Marquis Copy Share Image
“Oh phosphorescence. Now there’s a word to lift your hat to... To find that phosphorescence, that light within — is the genius… — William Luce Copy Share Image
If you want to penetrate into the heart of physics, then let yourself be initiated into the mysteries of poetry. — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Copy Share Image
“She needed the chaos within her in order to discover the extraordinary no man could ever reach.” — robert m drake Copy Share Image
“inspiration. five minutes in the back of a greyhound bus; the world passing by. a gateway to freedom. the american dream. from… — K.R. Albers Copy Share Image
That's what interests me in poetry. That withholding, that white space, the pressure, and my long-term faith in violent concision, is still… — Lucie Brock-Broido Copy Share Image
“In love it does not matter what you say, but what you feel. In poetry it does not matter what you feel,… — Luis de Góngora Copy Share Image
Poetry, which is written while no one is looking, is meant to be looked at for all time. — Kenneth Koch Copy Share Image
“she was too much of a warrior to be considered a princess she never cared for the crown she preferred a sword” — R.H. Sin Copy Share Image
“Some people spend their whole lives seeking heaven, when all they needed to do was look about them, and embrace that which… — Tom Althouse Copy Share Image
When it comes to writers and poets, for me it's Vinicius de Moraes. He's one of the greatest lyricists ever. — Ben Harper Copy Share Image
Reading poetry gives me a sense of calm, well-being, and love for humanity - the same stuff more flexible women get from… — J. Courtney Sullivan Copy Share Image
“The easier a thing is to write then the more the writer gets paid for writing it. (And vice versa: ask the… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
As I ponder pass I tend to itch my noggin often rockin to a beat to crop my verse until my urn… — C-DASH Copy Share Image
