Poems have their own fates, like children. You have only to give birth to them. — Andrei Voznesensky Copy Share Image
“Let me remember you, soon will the winter be on us, Snow-hushed and heartless.” — Sara Teasdale Copy Share Image
“... nothing is a blow to the sanity like truly execrable verse.” — Douglas Anthony Cooper Copy Share Image
Poetry remembers that it was an oral art before it was a written art. — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
There is no competition of sounds between a nightingale and a violin. — Dejan Stojanovic Copy Share Image
A poem is really a kind of machine for producing the poetic state by means of words. — Paul Verlaine Copy Share Image
The poet speaks to all men of that other life of theirs that they have smothered and forgotten. — Edith Sitwell Copy Share Image
Bleak House is just the most astounding piece of work. There's huge, visionary poetry in it. — Simon Callow Copy Share Image
“[L]ibrarians, like ministers of religion, and poets, and people with mental health disorders, can make people nervous.” — Ian Sansom Copy Share Image
Love is that which is unlimited. There is no beginning and no end to it. No before and no after. Love always… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
But metre itself implies a passion , i.e. a state of excitement, both in the Poet's mind, & is expected in that… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
What you have to realize when you write poetry, or if you love poetry, is that poetry is just naturally the greatest… — James Dickey Copy Share Image
The young people have MTV and rock and roll. Why would they go to read poetry? Poetry belongs to the Stone Age.… — Robert Morgan Copy Share Image
I would like my books to stand as a tool to unbind children from expectations of poetry because it should free the… — Masiela Lusha Copy Share Image
“I’m here for the show” the man said looking under Frank’s shirt for the door “I’m no theater” Frank said a line… — CAConrad Copy Share Image
I have always thought of poems as stepping stones in one's own sense of oneself. Every now and again, you write a… — Seamus Heaney Copy Share Image
“my mouth was shut for so long that my teeth decayed. you complained that my lips were always dry and chapped; you… — Mecca-Amirah Jackson Copy Share Image
“Good artists exist simply in what they make, and consequently are perfectly uninteresting in what they are. A great poet, a really… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“For if it is rash to walk into a lion's den unarmed, rash to navigate the Atlantic in a rowing boat, rash… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
What did you expect? That he'd send you flowers and write you bad poetry? That dead Nemean prowler is pretty much as… — Jennifer Estep Copy Share Image
“...often referred to herself as a bitch. It was a way of insulting herself and asserting herself simultaneously. She acted like a… — Ruth Harris Copy Share Image
“They say: I love you. But in poetry, I say: In your soul, I see a moonrise in the dark nights of… — Jayita Bhattacharjee Copy Share Image
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