“I don't know about angels, but humans need unanswered questions so that they have a reason to look.” — Jackie Viramontez Copy Share Image
“willow trees, willow trees they remind me of Desdemona I'm so damned literary and at the same time the waters rushing past… — Frank O'Hara Copy Share Image
Subtract from many modern poets all that may be found in Shakespeare, and trash will remain. — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
And what is the very essence of poetry if it is not this 'metaphorical language'-this marking of the before unapprehended relations of… — Owen Barfield Copy Share Image
I thought I was going to be a poet when I was in college, but then I found out I was poor… — Josh Lieb Copy Share Image
“In the shadow of skyscrapers, half-nude men in dugouts cast nets into the lagoon. The work of arms and shoulders. I think… — Teju Cole Copy Share Image
I think of my peace paintings as one long poem, with each painting being a single stanza. — Robert Indiana Copy Share Image
I think we got much better poetry when it was all regarded as sinful or subversive, and you had to hide it… — Philip Larkin Copy Share Image
McGough: I'm sorry. I'm afraid I've caught poetry. Mr Bones: Oh really? Well, don't worry, sir - I used to suffer from… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The great error consists in supposing that poetry is an unnatural form of language. We should all like to speak poetry at… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“ Miss MacIntosh, My Darling stands out in my mind as the most significant innovative novel since Ulysses and The Waves .… — Nona Balakian Copy Share Image
“He is smitten on the brain, -he reads and writes verses! I caught him in the act! Fools might say he was… — Edward John Trelawny Copy Share Image
I prefer poems that occupy an imaginative sphere. When I lived in Cincinnati, I was occasionally referred to as an "Ohio Poet;"… — Cate Marvin Copy Share Image
Flamboyance and fortitude, femme and butch-not poses, not stereotypes, but a dance between two different kinds of women, one beckoning the other… — Joan Nestle Copy Share Image
“What I have lately said of painting is equally true with respect to poetry. It is only necessary for us to know… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
I stop writing the poem to fold the clothes. No matter who lives or who dies, I'm still a woman. I'll always… — Tess Gallagher Copy Share Image
Regarding R. H. Blyth: Blyth is sometimes perilous, naturally, since he's a high-handed old poem himself, but he's also sublime - and… — Reginald Horace Blyth Copy Share Image
Nostalgia is a sweet place for a poet and writer to be in. But it's an indulgence; a distraction. You can't live… — Gulzar Copy Share Image
I love you. I love you, but I’m turning to my verses and my heart is closing like a fist. — Frank O'Hara Copy Share Image
I was born not to be a poet myself, but to be the instrument of the very poet that has always been… — Jean-Paul Malfatti Copy Share Image
The poem is the device through which the ordinary world is seen in a new way - engaging, compelling, even beautiful. — Ted Kooser Copy Share Image
If you read quickly to get through a poem to what it means, you have missed the body of the poem. — M. H. Abrams Copy Share Image
What poetry can, must, and will always do for us: it complicates us, it doesn’t ‘soothe.’ — Jorie Graham Copy Share Image
“You are not who you think. You're not even the thinker. You are the one conscious of the thought.” — Kamand Kojouri Copy Share Image
I want to whisper poetry into your mind and imprint love letters to your soul and dance with you in an empty… — Jeffrey McDaniel Copy Share Image
Music resembles poetry, in each Are nameless graces which no methods teach, And which a master hand alone can reach. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
“You are my drug of choice I know you’re no good for me And though I swear my lips Will never touch… — Justin Wetch Copy Share Image
My life's purpose is to write poetry - but behind the poetry must be the vision of a fresh revelation for men. — William Soutar Copy Share Image
“I'd rather be not the light in your life The bright day might make me obscure I'd rather be the cold darkness… — Sanhita Baruah Copy Share Image
“I am that rose that grew from concrete, I am the ENTIRE mother to son Langston Hughes poem. And I'm still climbing...” — Jaha Knight Copy Share Image
“I never heard sound and thrill of my painful heart until that very day she touched it.” — Santosh Kalwar Copy Share Image
Andrea Gibson is a truly American poet, or rather, she represents the America I want to live in. Her work lights a… — Cristin O'Keefe Aptowicz Copy Share Image
“Someone once told me that explaining is an admission of failure. I'm sure you remember, I was on the phone with you,… — Richard Siken Copy Share Image
The poets whom I knew then were all men and all seemed dauntingly sure of themselves - although I am sure that… — Helen Dunmore Copy Share Image
Where politics is concerned, I think poets have to be pragmatists, philosophical pragmatists. — Robert Hass Copy Share Image
I originally went to school for writing, for non-fiction. I'm specifically a poetry major within literature, but I don't know. — Paloma Elsesser Copy Share Image
Children seem naturally drawn to poetry - it's some combination of the rhyme, rhythm, and the words themselves. — Jack Prelutsky Copy Share Image
It is the role of the poet to look at what is happening in the world and to know that quite other… — V. S. Pritchett Copy Share Image
Poetry is the sister of Sorrow. Every man that suffers and weeps is a poet; every tear is a verse, and every… — Marc-Andre Fleury Copy Share Image
I am not as these are, the poet saithIn youth's pride, and the painter, among menAt bay, where never pencil comes nor… — Dante Gabriel Rossetti Copy Share Image
