Meet some people who care about poetry the way you do. You'll have that readership. Keep going until you know you're doing… — Philip Levine Copy Share Image
“God can take the ordinary and create the extraordinary. Our incredible God has the power to transform your simple life and give… — Amaka Imani Nkosazana Copy Share Image
The aesthetic event is something as evident, as immediate, as indefinable as love, the taste of fruit, of water. We feel poetry… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
It is quite true, as some poets said, that the God who created man must have had a sinister sense of humor,… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
“Chimerical words, the words were written, Some are wasted; some are still on the page, Tattered words, the words were written, Some… — Nishikant Copy Share Image
“Summer in the trees! “It is time to strangle several bad poets.” / The yellow hobbyhorse rocks to and fro, and from… — Kenneth Koch Copy Share Image
“The time of minor poets is coming. Good-by Whitman, Dickinson, Frost. Welcome you whose fame will never reach beyond your closest family,… — Charles Simic Copy Share Image
( Hey guys heres one of my poems I wrote hope you like it comment so I can see :) ) ask… — Natalya Johnson Copy Share Image
My sense of a poem - my notion of how you revise - is: you get yourself into a state where what… — Philip Levine Copy Share Image
“I have always associated [Al Que Quiere!] with a figure on a soccer field: to him who wants the ball to be… — William Carlos Williams Copy Share Image
“Exactly. And what about you, Calliope...is everyone in your family named after a...what is it? A keyboard? An organ?" It's a steam-powered… — Heather Hepler Copy Share Image
Songs start with my bringing in the basic riffs for what you might call a verse and a chorus, an A and… — David First Copy Share Image
“And after his death - or even before it, perhaps - he lived on in camp legend as a demented old man… — Nadezhda Mandelstam Copy Share Image
“He said he ate his food out of our big refrigerators, drove our eight-cylinder American cars, un-hesitatingly used our medicines when he… — J.D. Salinger Copy Share Image
“ Ithaka As you set out for Ithaka hope the voyage is a long one, full of adventure, full of discovery. Laistrygonians… — C.P. Cavafy Copy Share Image
“A loner by nature and an introvert... i am a twinkling star, burning bright amidst a cloudless night. As such, i tend… — Jaeda DeWalt Copy Share Image
“ My True Love Hath My Heart and I Have His None ever was in love with me but grief. She wooed… — Mary Elizabeth Coleridge Copy Share Image
“As hard as the diamonds in your smile, the wind carries its hammers with no hands and sustains a moan with no… — BJ Ward Copy Share Image
Refined and delicate natures understand the cat. Women, poets, and artists hold it in great esteem, for they recognize the exquisite delicacy… — Champfleury Copy Share Image
“Jenny Chen Is An Ordinary Girl. Or Else That’s What Everyone Thinks. Yes, Jenny Is A Drug Dealer And Slave Trader. She… — E.G. Taylor Copy Share Image
The science of Humboldt is one thing, poetry is another thing. The poet to-day, notwithstanding all the discoveries of science, and the… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“The appropriation of the creativity-procreativity metaphor by women is a conscious challenge to traditional poetics and beyond that to traditional metaphysics, for… — Alicia Ostriker Copy Share Image
Love is the soul of the world, though its body bleeds, and we must learn to bleed with it. Love is also… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“If you only write when you’re inspired you may be a fairly decent poet, but you’ll never be a novelist because you’re… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“Break out to go out: The birds dare to break the egg shell It does so in order to get out of… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
I think that poetry is an act of celebration, that anytime you're writing a poem, it means that you're celebrating something, even… — Sarah Kay Copy Share Image
“You were saved because you were the first. You were saved because you were the last. Alone. With others. On the right.… — Wislawa Szymborska Copy Share Image
Idiom is larger than geography it is the hot breath of a people singing, slashing, explorative. Imagery becomes the magic denominator, the… — Mari Evans Copy Share Image
“He was also a poet, but of less merit than pretensions. His Chrysopeia, in which he pretended to teach the art of… — Charles Mackay Copy Share Image
“The poet had wasted his night while others had spent it enjoying themselves and now he realised that it was lost forever.… — Mikhail Bulgakov Copy Share Image
“In the end, without skill or talent, I've given myself over entirely to poetry. Po Chu-i labored at it until he nearly… — Matsuo Bashô Copy Share Image
This is going to sound nuts but it took me forever to figure out why I'd stopped writing poetry - I mean,… — Achy Obejas Copy Share Image
I believe that Jesus was both priest and poet. Imagine those powerful parables! My experience as a priest tells me it's not… — Uwem Akpan Copy Share Image
Ooh, it's too embarrassing to share my innermost romantic secrets - although I have written Danielle the odd poem. If anything they… — Gary Lineker Copy Share Image
“The poet dreams of the mountain Sometimes I grow weary of the days, with all their fits and starts. I want to… — Mary Oliver Copy Share Image
For poetry is, I believe, always an act of the spirit. The poem teaches us something while we make it. The poem… — May Sarton Copy Share Image
“The poet Yeats felt we were living in the last of a great Christian cycle. His poem “The Second Coming” says, “Turning… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
“Just because she doesn't talk about it, doesn't mean she isn't feeling it. She hurts, but she won't wear it on her… — Alfa H Copy Share Image
What does it mean when a man falls in love with a radiant face across the room? It may mean that he… — Robert Bly Copy Share Image
“I am—yet what I am none cares or knows; My friends forsake me like a memory lost: I am the self-consumer of… — John Clare Copy Share Image
![“I have always associated [Al Que Quiere!] with a figure on a soccer field: to him who wants the ball to be passed to him. [...] I was convinced nobody in the world of poetry wanted me but I was there willing to pass the ball if anyone did want it.” quote by William Carlos Williams](https://sms4smile.com/q/i/269/william-carlos-williams-1841_poetry_i-have-always-associated-al-que-quiere-w_1677867.jpg)
