“To-day my skies are bare and ashen, And bend on me without a beam. Since love is held the master-passion, Its loss… — Paul Laurence Dunbar Copy Share Image
Quart of whiskey a day for months working hard on a long poem. Wife hiding bottles, myself hiding bottles. Murderous and suicidal.… — James Taylor Copy Share Image
Poetry is a plan for a slit in the face of a bronze fountain goat and the path of fresh drinking water. — Carl Sandburg Copy Share Image
“We returned to our palaces, these Kingdoms, but no longer at ease here in the old dispensation, with an alien people clutching… — T.S. Eliot Copy Share Image
I've got to have something. I want to stop it all, the whole monumental grotesque joke, before it's too late. But writing… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
Genius in general is poetic. Where genius has been active it has been poetically active. The truly moral person is a poet. — Novalis Copy Share Image
“Forget the ones who tell you you are not enough and wait for the ones who tell you you are everything.” — N.R.Hart Copy Share Image
“A poet is someone who can pour light into a cup, then raise it to nourish your beautiful parched, holy mouth.” — Hafiz Copy Share Image
In the arts, in places where you're not going to save lives or save species, I think there's no reason to play… — Stephen Burt Copy Share Image
“When Hitler marched across the Rhine To take the land of France, La dame de fer decided, ‘Let’s make the tyrant dance.’… — E.A. Bucchianeri Copy Share Image
“Her head fell back as she cried out. She reached for him, drawing him down to her, loving the weight of him,… — Josie Litton Copy Share Image
“When thinking is overrated And friends are easy to make, Check if it's too complicated Knowing yourself somehow... Inner peace's not hard… — Ana Claudia Antunes Copy Share Image
“Sebastian's eyes were the color of smoke and silver. His pale skin, raven hair, and naturally dark red lips, paired with a… — Kelly Keaton Copy Share Image
“Poetry is a way of coming to know the realness of things; fiction is a way of coming to know the world… — Kelly Cherry Copy Share Image
“We may feel bitterly how little our poems can do in the face of seemingly out of control technological power and seemingly… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
Wonder is very important, because if we never wondered, we would never get to the point of asking questions. Yet wonder may… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
No poetry that I'm aware of, however bad or glorious, has ever left somebody a worse person than they were before they… — Felix Dennis Copy Share Image
You will enjoy the TV and radio forecast much more if you stop taking it as advice and simply treat it as… — Victoria Coren Mitchell Copy Share Image
God may reduce you on Judgment Day to tears of shame, reciting by heart the poems you would have written, had your… — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
It is fatal to decide, intellectually, what good poetry is because you are then in honour bound to try to write it,… — Philip Larkin Copy Share Image
The poems are all wrong. It's a bang, a really big bang. Not a whimper. And sometimes gold can stay. — Kami Garcia Copy Share Image
We aren't trying to make poetry or anything beautiful. It's just a rock show. We just want to enjoy playing loud. That's… — David Pajo Copy Share Image
He passes from lyric to epic poetry in order to speak about the world and the torment in the world through man,… — Salvatore Quasimodo Copy Share Image
Indeed, as any one who has ever worked among the poor knows only too well, the brotherhood of man is no mere… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
The purpose of the poetry is not to dazzle us with an astonishing thought, but to make one moment of existence unforgettable… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
Poetry asks people to have values, form opinions, care about some other part of experience besides making money and being successful on… — Toi Derricotte Copy Share Image
It seems to me that readers sometimes make the genesis of a poem more mysterious than it is (by that I perhaps… — James Schuyler Copy Share Image
A poem is a verbal artifact which must be as skillfully and solidly constructed as a table or a motorcycle. — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
Poetry is the universal language which the heart holds with nature and itself. He who has a contempt for poetry, cannot have… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
I became a very passionate Christian when I was 17. I started writing and performing poetry at different venues across the U.K.… — Michaela Coel Copy Share Image
In addition to writing in received forms, I have also had fun making up forms - Möbius strips and visual poems, particularly. — Denise Duhamel Copy Share Image
“We can burst the bonds which chain us, Which cold human hands have wrought, And where none shall dare restrain us We… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
The point of an experiment is not to arrive at a predetermined end point, to prove or disprove anything, but to deliver… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Constantly risking absurdity and death whenever he performs above the heads of his audience, the poet, like an acrobat, climbs on rhyme… — Lawrence Ferlinghetti Copy Share Image
I've written poems about gifts. Life is inspirational; sometimes it comes from the most unlikely places. — Ama Ata Aidoo Copy Share Image
And here in my isolation I can grow stronger. Poetry seems to come of itself, without effort, and I need only let… — Paul Gauguin Copy Share Image
Versification is, indeed, indispensable for music, but rhyme, solely for rhyming's sake, most pernicious. — Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Copy Share Image
“If you aren’t aware, there is a lioness living inside you. Maybe it’s time you get acquainted.” — Melody Lee Copy Share Image
Like my old mentor would always say, Fool me once, shame on you, fool me twice and I'll be dead.'' Okay, she… — John Zakour Copy Share Image
“Wasn't sunrise meant to be the hour of hope? 'The season of creation' some poet or other had once called it. Fucking… — Uzma Aslam Khan Copy Share Image
