It is easier to write an indifferent poem than to understand a good one. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
I'm a poet, and I like my lies the way my mother used to make them. — Aleister Crowley Copy Share Image
“The sun never has an inferiority complex. It shines the same whether above or below.” — Curtis Tyrone Jones Copy Share Image
Peace goes into the making of a poem as flour goes into the making of bread. — Pablo Neruda Copy Share Image
“A poem does not radiate from the name, but the name emanates from the poem.” — Dejan Stojanovic Copy Share Image
“There are people who barely feel poetry, and they are generally dedicated to teaching it.” — BORGES JORGE LUIS Copy Share Image
I pulled a book by Robinson Jeffers off the shelf one day. It was powerfully moving. Tears ran down my face. That's… — William Everson Copy Share Image
I hope I can write toward my interests. But poets should be afraid of too fluidly responding to what they're interested in. — Shane McCrae Copy Share Image
“An artist is a performer on the canvas. A dancer with a paintbrush. A musician with the paint. A poet in each… — Melissa Regas Copy Share Image
“Keen winter stabs the breasts of May Whose crimson roses burst his frost, Ships tempest-tossed Will find a harbour in some bay,… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“Auden? Does he rhyme? I only like poetry that rhymes. All the best poets write in rhyme." "Really?" "Dr. Seuss and Shakespeare.… — Shiela Jane Copy Share Image
IT'S A POETRY WHICH DESCRIBES THE FEELINGS OF MOTHER MARY ON JESUS CRUCIFICTION,SHE CRIES,FELT PAIN,SORROWFUL, AND HELPLESS,CAN' T SAFE JESUS. — SUNITA FLORANCE JOHN Copy Share Image
The emperor would prefer the poet to keep away from politics, the emperor's domain, so that he can manage things the way… — Chinua Achebe Copy Share Image
“The Book of Enoch is an ancient Jewish text, which indeed elaborates on the cryptic verse from Genesis 6:4: “The Nephilim were… — Joseph Finley Copy Share Image
I love this quote uttered by the character Widget in The Night Circus. He credits it to Herr Thiessen but knows it… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
That's what I want, that kind of recklessness where the poem is even ahead of you. It's like riding a horse that's… — Li-Young Lee Copy Share Image
“L'union libre [Freedom of Love]" My wife with the hair of a wood fire With the thoughts of heat lightning With the… — Andre Breton Copy Share Image
I am not a writer, But I have written Our love story. I am not a poet, But I wrote for you… — Ritu Ghatourey Copy Share Image
I wish I could tell you how much I care but all I can do is sit and stare I don't know… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Like a good song, life has verses, the goliards had taught me. Each verse has to be sung. It takes all of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I write because to write a new sentence, let alone a new poem, is to cross the threshold into both a larger… — Jane Hirshfield Copy Share Image