“Thou shalt believe in Milton, Dryden, Pope; Thou shalt not set up Wordsworth, Coleridge, Southey; Because the first is crazed beyond all… — George Gordon Byron Copy Share Image
“How should all the apparatus of heaven and earth make poetry for a mind that had no movements of awe and tenderness,… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
I can't understand Urdu, Bahasa or Russian, but when the Pakistani Faiz, the Indonesian Rendra and the Russian Rosdentvensky declaim, I can… — F. Sionil Jose Copy Share Image
My advice to all young people who wish to become poets is: do something easy, like learning how to blow up the… — e. e. cummings Copy Share Image
“ Maya Angelou entered our lives at Virago in 1984, when we first published I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings .… — Lennie Goodings Copy Share Image
These are the stories of travelers on a spiritual quest between worlds. Part mythmaker, part poet, Omar Castaeda is an original, and… — Toi Derricotte Copy Share Image
“By the craggy hill-side, Through the mosses bare, They have planted thorn-trees For pleasure here and there. If any man so daring… — William Allingham Copy Share Image
“I don’t understand how everything moves so quickly. They say time flies when you’re having fun, but I wasn’t always having fun.… — Amanda Leigh Copy Share Image
Like all twenty-one-year-old poets, I thought I would be dead by thirty, and Sylvia Plath had not set a helpful example. For… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“In the same way now, since this reasoning seems generally too bitter for those men who have not tried it and the… — Titus Lucretius Carus Copy Share Image
The summer lasted a long long time, like verse after verse of a ballad, but when it ended, it ended like a… — Ardyth Kennelly Copy Share Image
“A Rough Guide Be polite at the reception desk. Not all the knives are in the museum. The waitresses know that a… — Mark Haddon Copy Share Image
“Failing and Flying" Everyone forgets that Icarus also flew. It's the same when love comes to an end, or the marriage fails… — Jack Gilbert Copy Share Image
Spring has again returned. The Earth is like a child that knows many poems. Many, O so many. For the hardship of… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
“The image of a wood has appeared often enough in English verse. It has indeed appeared so often that it has gathered… — Charles Williams Copy Share Image
“Of all I have ever seen or learned, that book seems to me the noblest, the wisest, and the most powerful expression… — Thomas Wolfe Copy Share Image
More significant than the fact that poets write abstrusely, painters paint abstractly, and composers compose unintelligible music is that people should admire… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
Writing is like this-you dredge for the poem's meaning the way police dredge for a body. They think it is down there… — Paul Engle Copy Share Image
“Cage It's a tear i want to shed, For the weathered roses that once was red, Today it's a decision want to… — Ratish Edwards Copy Share Image
“There is the staircase, there is the sun. There is the kitchen, the plate with toast and strawberry jam, your subterfuge, your… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“I forced myself out of a love that I knew would only end fatally. I forced myself into the dark, until I… — JL Copy Share Image
If the motive of writing is for some people a kind of exercise in dirty laundry, that's one thing. I've always thought… — Stephen Dunn Copy Share Image
Horace, when he wrote the Ars Poetica, recommended that poets keep their poems home for ten years; don't let them go, don't… — Donald Hall Copy Share Image
“Postscript And some time make the time to drive out west Into County Clare, along the Flaggy Shore, In September or October,… — Seamus Heaney Copy Share Image
“What about your beloved Epictetus? Or your beloved Emily Dickinson? You want your Emily, every time she has an urge to write… — J.D. Salinger Copy Share Image
I can hear the library humming in the night, a choir of authors murmuring inside their books along the unlit, alphabetical shelves,… — Billy Collins Copy Share Image
“For centuries poets, some poets, have tried to give a voice to the animals, and readers, some readers, have felt empathy and… — Joy Williams Copy Share Image
Imagining is in itself the very height and life of poetry, which, by a kind of enthusiasm or extraordinary emotion of the… — John Dryden Copy Share Image
Poetry, at least the kind I write, is written out of immediate need; it is written out of pain, joy, and experience… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
“A true Lutheran pulpit cannot be a sensational pulpit, for discoursing wordly wisdom, philosophy, poetry, or politics. It must expound the Word,… — G.H. Gerberding Copy Share Image
Why do comparisons of words and tone poems (poetry and music) never take into consideration that the word is a mere signifier,… — Franz Grillparzer Copy Share Image
“I denied it, this new land. But love, I’ll concede this: whatever state you are, I’ll be that state’s bird, the loud,… — Ada Limon Copy Share Image
“He will forget me. He will leave my letters lying about among guns and dogs unanswered. I shall send him poems and… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
How fast we learn in the day of sorrow! Scripture shines out in a new effulgence; every verse seems to contain a… — Horatius Bonar Copy Share Image
“ He is a type of our best — our rarest. Electrical, I was going to say, beyond anyone, perhaps, ever was:… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
“Death has a body like a model, the clothes of a poet and the smile of your best friend. She wears a… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
When I was a kid I would write songs, little plays, and poetry in school. If you're an adult and you're a… — Mike Birbiglia Copy Share Image
Those who say we should dismantle the role of Poet Laureate altogether, the trick they miss is that being called this thing,… — Andrew Motion Copy Share Image
“Then, as a single snowflake flares and flickers upon voicing its final breath, so two eyes make silent conversation with mine. A… — Craig Froman Copy Share Image
“We could not swim, but now we are swimming— We have to swim. It is not fair. It is never fair. We… — Alberto Ríos Copy Share Image
