“there is a difference between someone telling you they love you and them actually loving you” — Rupi Kaur Copy Share Image
The category "Women Poets" is bizarre and irrelevant. It's a subcategory of Poets, but there is not a "Men Poets" category. — Vanna Bonta Copy Share Image
“[Poetry] was a form of incantation, a means of welding the world inside his head to the one that surrounded him, words… — Elizabeth Hand Copy Share Image
I have decided to be a poet. My father said there isn't a suitable career structure for poets and no pensions and… — Sue Townsend Copy Share Image
I never deny poems when they come; whatever I am doing, whatever I am writing, I lay it aside and attend to… — Amy Lowell Copy Share Image
“Empecé a escribir poemas cuando descubrí que se podía querer a una persona que no era de tu familia, menuda sorpresa me… — Gloria Fuertes Copy Share Image
A rapper is not known by his face.its his lyrical ability,how he throws words on beat and his poetry which makes him… — SARkARR Copy Share Image
Horace's best ode would not please a young woman as much as the mediocre verses of the young man she is in… — Michael Moore Copy Share Image
You could play the blues like it was a lonesome thing - it was a feeling. The blues is nothing but a… — David Edwards Copy Share Image
“Fly (poem from the book Blue Bridge) Delicate, / butterfly winged, / we vainly push against the sky, / each trying to… — Jay Woodman Copy Share Image
“But the sky! The sky is blue. Its limpidness is not marred by a single cloud. (How primitive was the taste of… — Yevgeny Zamyatin Copy Share Image
“It's a poem about moths. But it's also a poem about psychopaths. I get it copied. And stick it in a frame.… — Kevin Dutton Copy Share Image
I regard a love for poetry as one of the most needful and helpful elements in the life-outfit of a human being.… — Lucy Larcom Copy Share Image
[Kenneth Koch] taught children in public schools in New York City to write poems and told them down worry about rhyming, don't… — Jim Jarmusch Copy Share Image
How often might a man, after he had jumbled a set of letters in a bag, fling them out upon the ground… — John Tillotson Copy Share Image
There is so much poetry, and yet nothing is more rare than a poetic work. This is what the masses make out… — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Copy Share Image
Even if a poet writes about sitting in a glass house drinking tea, it reflects politics. — Yehuda Amichai Copy Share Image
Who all in raptures their own works rehearse, And drawl out measur'd prose, which they call verse. — Charles Churchill Copy Share Image
When I wrote 'Mushaboom', I was living in the second verse, but I suddenly found myself in the first. — Feist Copy Share Image
“Time goes by at the speed of life Slower than a slow dance on a hot summer night Faster than the skin… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Poets have to keep pushing, pushing, against the darkness, and write their way out of it as well. — Anne Waldman Copy Share Image
The fact that Saigyo composed a poem that begins, "I shall be unhappy without loneliness," shows that he made loneliness his master. — Matsuo Basho Copy Share Image
“And here face down beneath the sun And here upon earth's noonward height To feel the always coming on The always rising… — Archibald MacLeish Copy Share Image
“...these vignettes I sketch for you - what are they? watercolors ..yes and dreams blurred with tears ...” — John Geddes Copy Share Image
We especially need imagination in science. It is not all mathematics, nor all logic, but it is somewhat beauty and poetry. — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
“A book, a poem, a play — they start as fantasms but they end up as things, like a box of crackers… — Arthur Miller Copy Share Image
MINSTREL, adj. Formerly a poet, singer or musician; now a nigger with a color less than skin deep and a humor more… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
Poetry is a dissociating and anarchic force which through analogy, associations and imagery, thrives on the destruction of known relationships. — Antonin Artaud Copy Share Image
I didnt write anything at all except book reports until I was in seventh grade, and then I wrote mostly poetry for… — Cynthia Voigt Copy Share Image
“O stand, stand at the window As the tears scald and start; You shall love your crooked neighbour With your crooked heart.… — Elizabeth Lesser Copy Share Image
The experience of each new age requires a new confession, and the world seems always waiting for its poet — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
A good sentence in prose should be like a good line in poetry, unchangeable, as rhythmic, as sonorous. — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
“for the path of comets/ is the path of poets: they burn without warming,/ pick without cultivating. They are: an explosion, a… — Marina Tsvetaeva Copy Share Image
Poetry has always been made to seem kind of cultish. But the truth is, everybody really loves it! It's much more mainstream… — Maria Shriver Copy Share Image
Poetry lies at the centre of the literary experience because it is the form that most clearly asserts the specificity of literature. — Jonathan Culler Copy Share Image
“I wanted this complex language, this surge of intellect, to be processed into love. Isn’t how they used to do it a… — Gary Shteyngart Copy Share Image
“Another Christmas Poem Blood Christmas, here again. Let us raise a loving cup: Peace on earth, goodwill to men, And make them… — Wendy Cope Copy Share Image
For whatever reason, people, including very well-educated people or people otherwise interested in reading, do not read poetry — Paul Muldoon Copy Share Image
The poet cannot invent new words every time, of course. He uses the words of the tribe. But the handling of the… — Eugene Ionesco Copy Share Image
I don't like poetry that doesn't give me a sense of ritual, but I don't like poetry that doesn't sound like people… — Miller Williams Copy Share Image
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