Poets are simply those who have made a profession ans a lifestyle of being in touch with their bliss. — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
I'm working on a poetry collection for Papaveria Press . It fills me with trepidation - poetry is something I'm much more… — Theodora Goss Copy Share Image
“Seated at table - no need for the fracture of the room's silence; noiselessly they conversed.” — R.S. Thomas Copy Share Image
“In The Land of Poetry and Fighting, Efficiency rules the throne. I try to live here, so I shave my head because… — Cameron Conaway Copy Share Image
“Professor Sung-bae Park taught Buddhism to primarily Judeo-Christian kids who needed one course in a world religion and could fit him in… — John Popielaski Copy Share Image
It took some time to gather the research and develop it into the storyline, and to finally finish an origin myth poem… — Jean M. Auel Copy Share Image
“Poetry comes to me like breathing. I inhale and breathe in the fragrances, flavors, emotions, sentiments, and feelings of people and places… — Avijeet Das Copy Share Image
All is fish that comes to the literary net. Goethe puts his joys and sorrows into poems, I turn my adventures into… — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
There [DreamTigers by Jorge Luis Borges] were these little fablesque things, you know, dream tigers, beautiful, beautiful pieces that when you read… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
Poetry gave me the life I live: many of the people I love, the places I've traveled, the things I've learned about… — James Allen Hall Copy Share Image
The impact of the Yemeni manuscripts is still to be felt. Their variant readings and verse orders are all very significant. Everybody… — Andrew Rippin Copy Share Image
“I would rather go mad, gone down the dark road to Mexico, heroin dripping in my veins, eyes and ears full of… — Allen Ginsberg Copy Share Image
I was taught that poems don't end, they just kind of stop. There's never an ending to a poem; it's a continuation… — Goldlink Copy Share Image
“Shift #5 for Seamus Heaney a box of coconut water two cans of coconut milk so many looking for help some people… — Ali Liebegott Copy Share Image
“Without sound, There would be no music. And without music, There would be no life. And without a life force, There would… — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image
“All things uncomely and broken, all things worn out and old, The cry of a child by the roadway, the creak of… — W. B. Yeats Copy Share Image
I read the other day some verses written by an eminent painter which were original and not conventional. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“& lord knows I have been called by what I look like more than I have been called by what I actually am” — Hanif Abdurraqib Copy Share Image
“In crime and enmity they lie Who sin and tell us love can die, Who say to us in slander's breath That… — John Clare Copy Share Image
“What! have you no poems by heart, no great songs, no verses from the Bible, no speeches from Shakespeare? Then you have… — John Macy Copy Share Image
“I grew into my hips when I was seventeen years old I learned from my mother She used hers like a boat… — Hannah V. Sawyerr Copy Share Image
Re-examine all you have been told in school or church or in any book, and dismiss whatever insults your own soul; and… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
“I did not willingly let half of my soul leave my body. It was torn from me. I still hear the ransomed… — Alfa H Copy Share Image
“On the walk home a Jeep roars past; the driver calls you a fucking towelhead. One of the ex-sucias publishes a poem… — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
You say to yourself, Well, this poem isn't going to be any good, but I'll write it anyway. — Robert Bly Copy Share Image
A poet who is a bad man is a degraded being, baser and more culpable than a bad man who is not… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
It's easier to teach a poet how to read a balance sheet than it is to teach an accountant how to write. — Henry R. Luce Copy Share Image
Gather ye rose-buds while ye may, Old Time is still a flying: And this same flower that smiles to day, Tomorrow will… — Robert Herrick Copy Share Image
All men owe honor to the poets - honor and awe; for they are dearest to the Muse who puts upon their… — Homer Copy Share Image
“we were born for sorrow we were born for pain we were born for loss but we were also born to love… — K.R. Albers Copy Share Image
I think that poetry is perfect for women raising children, with just bits of time and such need to connect to other… — Francesca Lia Block Copy Share Image
Writing or making anything-a poem, a bird feeder, a chocolate cake-has self-respect in it. You're working. You're trying. You're not lying down… — Sharon Olds Copy Share Image
“there are only so many things that you can fix with your hands. ...What they don't realize is I am not a… — Danabelle Gutierrez Copy Share Image
The music is notated first, the text follows. I might have to wait until the right kind of text or form arises.… — Anne Waldman Copy Share Image
chromosomal dance oh, heavenly happenstance rare creation, you -Marcus (Poetry Spam #22) — Megan McCafferty Copy Share Image
The dignity of man is vindicated as much by the thinker and poet as by the statesman and soldier. — James Bryant Conant Copy Share Image
That's one of the great things about poetry; one realises that one does one's little turn - that you're just part of… — Paul Muldoon Copy Share Image
The tango is a direct expression of something that poets have often tried to state in words: the belief that a fight… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
“I made her go because I knew she could do better and now I wonder if I should have just been better.” — Atticus Poetry Copy Share Image
Now I think poetry will save nothing from oblivion, but I keep writing about the ordinary because for me it's the home… — Philip Levine Copy Share Image
![“There [DreamTigers by Jorge Luis Borges] were these little fablesque things, you know, dream tigers, beautiful, beautiful pieces that when you read them had the power of a long piece, but they were prose, and they had the power of poetry, in that the last line wasn't the end, it was a…” quote by Sandra Cisneros](https://sms4smile.com/q/i/873/sandra-cisneros-862_beautiful_there-dreamtigers-by-jorge-luis-borges-w_1879835.png)
