It frustrates and fascinates me that we'll never know for sure, that despite the best efforts of historians and scientists and poets,… — Isaac Marion Copy Share Image
“There was a little sketch pad with a pink paper cover, a packet of handwritten notes in what looked like my grandmother's… — Mary Simses Copy Share Image
Poetry is not an end in itself but in the service of life; of what use are poems, or any other works… — Kathleen Raine Copy Share Image
To many writers and thinkers, though not to all, another text is, or can be, the most naked and charged of life-forces… — George Steiner Copy Share Image
A lot of young poets today, from what I've heard and experienced, can't get their heads past George W. Bush, and I've… — Amber Tamblyn Copy Share Image
You pass a poem to the audience through the words as embodied literally by the rest of your human form. And the… — Michael Rosen Copy Share Image
“All ten years of my trepidations, Each and every sleepless night, I placed them all in a quiet word And I voiced… — Anna Akhmatova Copy Share Image
“ My Name Once when the lawn was a golden green and the marbled moonlit trees rose like fresh memorials in the… — Mark Strand Copy Share Image
Wheresoe'er I turn my view, All is strange, yet nothing new: Endless labor all along, Endless labor to be wrong: Phrase that… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“...I see fetal sciences in you, mummified poems, and bones of my romantic secrets and old innocence. Shall I hang you on… — Federico García Lorca Copy Share Image
“Memory cannot produce a picture that Imagination has not retouched; and her pictures, even the ones least touched by Imagination, are no… — Henry de Vere Stacpoole Copy Share Image
One of my earliest memories... I knew three full verses of the Star Spangled Banner when I was seven or eight years… — Dave Van Ronk Copy Share Image
In American tradition a certain kind of, I would say, desperate American friendliness in which the poet tries to reach out through… — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
“We lay our words like tenuous plats, build a bridge over its unsinkable depth: Not a sea of longing, but the brack… — Cate Marvin Copy Share Image
“Energy was the ruling theme of Victorian science, as machines increasingly harnessed the forces of nature to do man's work. The concept… — Jeremy Campbell Copy Share Image
“Venus Transiens" Tell me, Was Venus more beautiful Than you are, When she topped The crinkled waves, Drifting shoreward On her plaited… — Amy Lowell Copy Share Image
“My prime of youth is but a frost of cares, My feast of joy is but a dish of pain, My crop… — Chidiock Tichborne Copy Share Image
Some of Mr. Gregory's poems have merely appeared in The New Yorker ; others are New Yorker poems: the inclusive topicality, the… — Randall Jarrell Copy Share Image
Blood Dazzler is Patricia Smith's impassioned lyric chronicle of a beloved city in peril, a city whose people were left to die… — Carolyn Forche Copy Share Image
“I finally understood that I didn’t lack pen and paper but my own memorizing mind. It had been given away with a… — Grace Paley Copy Share Image
“I don’t call it hate . . . I call it an awakening . . . you were the girl I chose, pure, loyal, untainted, an exemplary wife,… — Edna O'Brien Copy Share Image
“It seemed to me that I had already seen everything pure and good in the world, and I was beginning to suspect… — John Green Copy Share Image
Like Pinter and Orton, the writer, Clive Exton, catches the poetry of modern everyday speech, which, whether we like it or not,… — Sheila Hancock Copy Share Image
“Because of his unusual way of handling language, Cummings had to travel a long road from the time his early books were… — E.E. Cummings Copy Share Image
Critics? How do they happen? I know how it happened to me. I would send a poem or story to a magazine… — Leslie Fiedler Copy Share Image
The Bible should be taught, but emphatically not as reality. It is fiction, myth, poetry, anything but reality. As such it needs… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
I believe that from the earth emerges a musical poetry that is by the nature of its sources tonal. I believe that… — Leonard Bernstein Copy Share Image
There is all the poetry in the world in a name. It is a poem which the mass of men hear and… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“Tell me about the hands that broke you like tree branches. Tell me about the heart that made you a home, the… — Bianca Sparacino Copy Share Image
Poetry died as a commercial form and then it died as a serious art form. No one serious touches it. It used… — William Monahan Copy Share Image
It has always seemed to me a great honor to be called an Irish poet. I don't think I will ever lose… — Eavan Boland Copy Share Image
The Greek tragic mask is one of my main metaphors for the role of the poet. The eyes of the tragic mask… — Tony Harrison Copy Share Image
“No hay posibilidad de verse a si mismo en un espejo, sin conocerse ya, pues sino no es verse, sino ver sólo… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Did you know Grandfather would give the poems to me?” I ask. “We thought he might,” my mother says. “Why didn’t you… — Ally Condie Copy Share Image
“Poets to come! orators, singers, musicians to come! Not to-day is to justify me and answer what I am for, But you,… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
“What if we spoke every word as if it was our last? Would we hurry to impress the masses with our wisdom?… — Elizabeth Novak Copy Share Image
nature has not changed. The night is still unsullied, the stars still twinkle, and the wild thyme smells as sweetly now as… — George Sand Copy Share Image
“A slave was cheaper than a mule. Slavery, despicable topic, rarely appeared in poetry or onstage or in the paintings that decorated… — Eduardo Galeano Copy Share Image
The poetic function is the set towards the message itself, focus on the message for its own sake which by promoting the… — Roman Jakobson Copy Share Image
“Why do philosophers in the South so often end as newspapermen, poets as doctors? Maybe they crave what's found in pain and… — Josephine Humphreys Copy Share Image
