To this generation I would say: Memorize some bit of verse of truth or beauty. — Edgar Lee Masters Copy Share Image
A poet may be a good companion, but, so far as I know, he is ever the worst of fathers. — Irving Bacheller Copy Share Image
“The seed of our love will always cube within the wonder of infinite.” — robert m drake Copy Share Image
“Describe plum-blossoms? Better than my verses...white Wordless Butterflies” — Reikan Copy Share Image
I was surprised recently to find a book called "Poetry in Persons" that's coming out about visit to poets to a class… — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
I cannot speak for more than an hour exclusively about poetry. At that point, life itself takes over again. — Wislawa Szymborska Copy Share Image
Conversation may be compared to a lyre with seven chords-philosophy, art, poetry, love, scandal, and the weather. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The poet does not fear death, not because he believes in the fantasy of heroes, but because death constantly visits his thoughts… — Salvatore Quasimodo Copy Share Image
Though my soul may set in darkness, it will rise in perfect light. I have loved the stars too fondly to be… — Sarah Williams Copy Share Image
“Winter is already a lost shape, forgotten in the ground. Instead, here is Spring with all the grace of a woman smoothing… — Cecilia Llompart Copy Share Image
“There is a deep truth in being at home enough with someone to kiss them while your lips are dry. And happiness… — Mikl Paul Copy Share Image
I always say that photography's closest cousin is poetry because of the way it sparks your imagination and leaves gaps for the… — Alec Soth Copy Share Image
Even if I die my love for you will never say goodbye it might hurt the pain you feel the broken bones… — Jeremy Mark Limn Copy Share Image
“Consequently, to form the experience, the length of the line for a haiku thought must have the same length as the duration… — Kenneth Yasuda Copy Share Image
She was sitting cross-legged on her bed in her white kimono, writing in a notebook with an ink pen she dipped in… — Janet Fitch Copy Share Image
... woman is frequently praised as the more "creative" sex. She does not need to make poems, it is argued; she has… — Cynthia Ozick Copy Share Image
The Romantic poets were the prototype ramblers, and I've often found myself following in their footsteps - although perhaps not all of… — Arthur Smith Copy Share Image
So much of our lives depends on accidents of birth, time, and geography. This haunts me. In some lives, few "or"s are… — Jane Hirshfield Copy Share Image
Words are what sticks to the real. We use them to push the real, to drag the real into the poem. They… — Jack Spicer Copy Share Image
The tadpole poet will never grow into anything bigger than a frog; not though in that stage of development he should puff… — Algernon Charles Swinburne Copy Share Image
