I have read the Aeneid through more often than I have read any long poem. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“Put a girl in moonlight and tell only truths and every man becomes a poet.” — Atticus Poetry Copy Share Image
Poetry is a fossil rock-print of a fin and a wing, with an illegible oath between. — Carl Sandburg Copy Share Image
“Poetry is a tool for writers to create literature in different forms of expression and messages. ” — Vanessa M. Chattman Copy Share Image
I don't like the stigma that comes with being called a poet . . . So I call what I'm doing an… — Tom Waits Copy Share Image
I acknowledge immense debt to the griots [tribal poets] of Africa - where today it is rightly said that when a griot… — Alex Haley Copy Share Image
As far as I'm concerned, the voices of Washington, black Washington, it's poetry, man. There's beauty in it. — George Pelecanos Copy Share Image
“The shawl's bottom edge the clearest blue, as if it has been dipped in the sea. The blue of a glance.” — Anne Michaels Copy Share Image
“...It's not that the worm forgives the plough; it gives it no mind. (Pain occurs, in passing.) (lines 37-39 in the poem… — Philip Gross Copy Share Image
the attempt to control poetry, to subordinate it to extra-poetic ends, constitutes misuse. — Jan Clausen Copy Share Image
“I only say that at certain strange epochs it is necessary to have another kind of priests, called poets, actually to remind… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
I should attempt to write a love song, I have written lots of poetry about love so I could turn those into… — Drew Barrymore Copy Share Image
“ My Creed To live as gently as I can; To be, no matter where, a man; To take what comes of… — Edgar Albert Guest Copy Share Image
“You know, all poetry may be a cry of generalised love, for this, or that, or the universe - which must be… — A.S. Byatt Copy Share Image
“The book, and the CDs, are taonga. The result of a mission by poets Jan Kemp and Jack Ross, they reproduce the… — Jack Ross Copy Share Image
“E quíxenvos moi escasamente a todas porque nas regandixas de eu caben ourizos e sofrir é amor e nada para o tempo… — Xosé Luís Méndez Ferrín Copy Share Image
“I thought to myself, who is this excellent man Van Doren who being employed to teach literature, teaches just that: talks about… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
“ All art constantly aspires towards the condition of music. For while in all other kinds of art it is possible to… — Walter Pater Copy Share Image
“Few poets better convey the uneasy transition from Victorianism to Modernism than Thomas Hardy. His novels, written between 1870 and 1895, made… — Ronald Carter Copy Share Image
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