I'm not an academic, but I've always loved poetry since I've been small. — Naveen Andrews Copy Share Image
“I am not perfect for you, but I will always imperfectly try to be.” — Atticus Poetry Copy Share Image
Each word bears its weight, so you have to read my poems quite slowly. — Anne Stevenson Copy Share Image
Poetry is written with tears, fiction with blood, and history with invisible ink. — Carlos Ruiz Zafon Copy Share Image
“all they want to do is tie the poem to a chair with rope and torture a confession out of it. They… — Billy Collins Copy Share Image
Poetry affords us a respite in which we may gather renewed strength for the old struggle to adapt ourselves to reality. — Robert Haven Schauffler Copy Share Image
Poetry is not an assertion of truth, but the making of that truth more fully real to us. — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
Time sped. And the poet through sorrow Became like his suffering kind. Again he toiled over his poems To lighten the grief… — Ella Wheeler Wilcox Copy Share Image
I love poetry, be it in music or be it in Andrei Tarkovsky, Francesca Woodman or anyone else, I just love poetry. — Graciela Iturbide Copy Share Image
“When you write about what you dream, you become a writer. When you dream about what you write, you become haunted by… — Amal Saleh Copy Share Image
My ear is not working, my poetry ear. I can't write a line that doesn't sound like pots and pans falling out… — Jane Kenyon Copy Share Image
“A scar on the heart will heal. Let your love remain pure as if it was never cut in the first place.” — Aline Alzime Copy Share Image
BLANK-VERSE, n. Unrhymed iambic pentameters - the most difficult kind of English verse to write acceptably; a kind, therefore, much affected by… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
Poetry began in the matriarchal age, and derives its magic from the moon, not from the sun. No poet can hope to… — Robert Graves Copy Share Image
Homer and Shakespeare and Milton and Marvell and Wordsworth are but the rustling of leaves and crackling of twigs in the forest,… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The epic poet has behind him a tradition of matter and a tradition of style; and that is what every other poet… — Lascelles Abercrombie Copy Share Image
“One of the effects of indoctrination, of passing into the anglo-centrism of British West Indian culture, is that you believe absolutely in… — Michelle Cliff Copy Share Image
“Every pain, addiction, anguish, longing, depression, anger or fear is an orphaned part of us seeking joy, some disowned shadow wanting to… — Jacob Nordby Copy Share Image
“All things exist as they are perceived: at least in relation to the percipient. 'The mind is its own place, and of… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion; it is not the expression of personality but an… — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
