“These ears aren't to be trusted. The keening in the night, didn't you hear? Once I believed all the stories didn’t have… — Jeannine Hall Gailey Copy Share Image
When American poet Alice Notley was very young, she used to sit in front of the radio and just listen. When she… — Elizabeth Flock Copy Share Image
Although teachers do care and do work very, very hard, the institution is psychopathic-it has no conscience. It rings a bell and… — John Taylor Gatto Copy Share Image
The great pleasure that comes from reading poets such as Mark Doty and Marianne Moore is the realisation that the essential virtues… — John Burnside Copy Share Image
San Francisco itself is art, above all literary art. Every block is a short story, every hill a novel. Every home a… — William Saroyan Copy Share Image
I write a lot of children's verse and I think it delights in the language. It pleases people. It's very musical. It's… — Mary Ann Hoberman Copy Share Image
“I have heard ballads of great battles, and poems about the beauty of a charge and the grace of a leader. But… — Philippa Gregory Copy Share Image
“If I could find one word that would shudder the air like that frightened sob, that wordless prayer of my newly-born, who… — Kenneth L. Patton Copy Share Image
“ To His Coy Mistress Had we but world enough and time, This coyness, lady, were no crime. We would sit down,… — Andrew Marvell Copy Share Image
The reason I often say, for me, photography is analogous to poetry, for my kind of work more so than journalism, is… — Alec Soth Copy Share Image
I wanted to pack a lot into the lyric, but not go beyond its bounds. Some have written that I wanted to… — Jorie Graham Copy Share Image
“…Beloved, Today I have sought you throughout my city and your strange city, where the buildings do not rejoice to the sun,… — Eunice Odio Copy Share Image
“As for us, we behave like a herd of deer. When they flee from the huntsman's feathers in affright, which way do… — Epictetus Copy Share Image
“If it's that ails you, I tell you there's little hurt getting old, though young girls and poets do be storming at… — J.M. Synge Copy Share Image
“Ah, Lalage! while life is ours, Hoard not thy beauty rose and white, But pluck the pretty fleeing flowers That deck our… — Ernest Dowson Copy Share Image
If I knew what I was doing, I'd be doing it right now. I would be the best damn poet, silver words… — Keith Urban Copy Share Image
Palestinian society is filled with poetry, but not experimental poetry. The Palestinian poetry that people know is not the modernist experimentations, it's… — Elliott Colla Copy Share Image
“I bleed on paper, they think it's poetry. I cry for tolerance, they call it philosophy. I reject prejudice, they call it… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
The secret of understanding poetry is to hear poetry's words as what they are: the full self's most intimate speech, half waking,… — Jane Hirshfield Copy Share Image
Janice Gould is one of our best poets. The music of her poetry will delight you, and her gentle courageous accounts of… — Leslie Marmon Silko Copy Share Image
“A non-programmer friend once remarked that code looks like poetry. I get that feeling from really good code, that everything in the… — Kevlin Henney Copy Share Image
“For though my rhyme be ragged, Tattered and jagged, Rudely rain-beaten, Rusty and moth-eaten, If ye take well therewith, It hath in… — John Skelton Copy Share Image
“In 2013 there were 7,427 poetry readings in April, many on a Thursday. For anyone born in 1928 who pays attention to… — Donald Hall Copy Share Image
Great is the art, Great be the manners, of the bard. He shall not his brain encumber With the coil of rhythm… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The being who, for most men, is the source of the most lively, and even, be it said, to the shame of… — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
“ Nihil humanum a me alienum puto, said the Roman poet Terence: 'Nothing human is alien to me.' The slogan of the… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
You can recollect the sayings of great men, you treasure up verse of renowned poets; ought you not be equally profound in… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
Everybody that read one of my poems went off and wrote poetry. They said that about the Velvets, didn't they? They didn't… — John Cooper Clarke Copy Share Image
In every one of these haunting and hungry poems, Howell draws a map for how to enter the heat and dew of… — Nikky Finney Copy Share Image
“The round silence of night, one note on the stave of the infinite. Ripe with lost poems, I step naked into the… — Federico García Lorca Copy Share Image
Since a true knowledge of nature gives us pleasure, a lively imitation of it, either in poetry or painting, must produce a… — John Dryden Copy Share Image
“A poet makes himself a visionary through a long, boundless, and systematized disorganization of all the senses. All forms of love, of… — Arthur Rimbaud Copy Share Image
The first time I ever performed spoken word poetry in front of a big crowd, it totally failed. It ended, people barely… — Phil Kay Copy Share Image
As a direct line to human feeling, empathic experience, genuine language and detail, poetry is everything that headline news is not. It… — Naomi Shihab Nye Copy Share Image
“You are my brother and I love you. I love you worshipping in your church, kneeling in your temple, and praying in… — Kahlil Gibran Copy Share Image
“...after I published a paper showing that suicidal poets used pronouns differently from non-suicidal poets, a slightly inebriated poet threatened me with… — James W. Pennebaker Copy Share Image
By the age of nine I had a thorough knowledge of contemporary Polish literature as well as of foreign literature in Polish… — Wladyslaw Stanislaw Reymont Copy Share Image
“Last Night the Rain Spoke to Me" Last night the rain spoke to me slowly, saying, what joy to come falling out… — Mary Oliver Copy Share Image
The first thing that strikes you about Timothy Murphys verse is the palpable texture of his line - that sound of sense… — Michael Donaghy Copy Share Image
“The poets made all the words and therefore language is the archives of history, and, if we must say it, a sort… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
