“Be near me now, My tormenter, my love, be near me— At this hour when night comes down, When, having drunk from… — Faiz Ahmed Faiz Copy Share Image
With this blistering salvo of poetic gutshots Lawson has proven himself Bizarro’s true bard, its mad laureate. Switching from dark whimsy to… — Jeremy Robert Johnson Copy Share Image
“The Bridges of Marin County harbor views back east never so panoramic but here driving the folds of mt tamalpais the whole… — Nancy Boutilier Copy Share Image
“The other thing that’s happened with writing is that I’m not afraid it will go away. Up until a couple of years… — Marsha L. Larsen Copy Share Image
“She is her odd self. The kiln has been fired. She is a person persnickity about keeping her house clean, but not… — Elizabeth Berg Copy Share Image
Avoid, which many grave men have not done, words taken from sacred subjects and from elevated poetry: these we have seen vilely… — Walter Savage Landor Copy Share Image
What we know for sure is that metaphor is the raw uranium of poetry, and that an urge to say that one… — Tony Hoagland Copy Share Image
“Yuletide Unburdening by Stewart Stafford Fading embers of the final Christmas test, No more the frantic angst of dawn, Now it is… — Stewart Stafford Copy Share Image
“If we allow ourselves to be misled by the heresy of paraphrase, we run the risk of doing even more violence to… — Cleanth Brooks Copy Share Image
What the tender and poetic youth dreams to-day, and conjures up with inarticulate speech, is to-morrow the vociferated result of public opinion,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“Remember that good things come in three's. And so do bad things. And always apologize when you've done something wrong. But don't… — Sarah Kay Copy Share Image
“The page of an accounts book is there for your use, like a love poem. It’s not there for you to nod… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
“The Poet Asks His Love to Write" Visceral love, living death, in vain, I wait your written word, and consider, with the… — Federico García Lorca Copy Share Image
“Love can be so hauntingly beautiful, waking up past selves that have been wandering aimlessly through the corridors of our soul, for… — Jaeda DeWalt Copy Share Image
“I was miserable, of course, for I was seventeen, and so I swung into action and wrote a poem, and it was… — William Matthews Copy Share Image
“Now this court will learn that I am the greatest in wit and courage. I am he whose writing the blind see… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“[ The Old Astronomer to His Pupil ] Reach me down my Tycho Brahe , I would know him when we meet,… — Sarah Williams Copy Share Image
“But my life, oh, my life, had been a constant search for an enormous dream in which my fellow creatures and animals,… — Aleksander Wat Copy Share Image
I always liked the magic of poetry but now I'm just starting to see behind the curtain of even the best poets,… — David Knopfler Copy Share Image
“I once tried hawking my own book around the pubs in the hope that, like the Salvation Army, I too could sell… — Peter Finch Copy Share Image
“It was time enough for whole lives to have been led and misled... time enough, as the poet said, to murder and… — Amor Towles Copy Share Image
Gradually I find that my whole soul is merging itself into this business of writing, and especially of writing poetry. I am… — Sidney Lanier Copy Share Image
I did not believe political directives could be successfully applied to creative writing . . . not to poetry or fiction, which… — Langston Hughes Copy Share Image
Patricia Smith is one of the best poets around and has been for a long time. Her Blood Dazzler is full of… — Terrance Hayes Copy Share Image
Winter is on my head, but eternal spring is in my heart. The nearer I approach the end, the plainer I hear… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“According to Padilla, remembered Amalfitano, all literature could be classified as heterosexual, homosexual, or bisexual. Novels, in general, were heterosexual. Poetry, on… — Roberto Bolaño Copy Share Image
There is nothing as dreamy and poetic, nothing as radical, subversive, and psychedelic, as mathematics. It is every bit as mind blowing… — Paul Lockhart Copy Share Image
I don't have a philosophy. If I had a philosophy, it's that I'm kind of literal minded. For example, I would never… — Ann Goldstein Copy Share Image
“Khamoshi se matlab nahi, matlab baato se hain Din toh guzar hi jaaenge, masla raato se hain —Wajid shaikh Literal Translation It's… — Wajid Shaikh Copy Share Image
All poetry and music, and art of every true sort, bears witness to man's continual falling in love with beauty and his… — John Bertram Phillips Copy Share Image
“The skies bend, the time stops, the lanes move and the fires dance, It can mean only one thing that I am… — Faraaz Kazi Copy Share Image
“That we do not know is beautiful; that we want to know is the reason for the journey; that we will know… — Heather K. O'Hara Copy Share Image
I like poems that immediately claim my attention, instead of taking my attention for granted. At first read, I want to feel… — James Arthur Copy Share Image
Those moments before a poem comes, when the heightened awareness comes over you, and you realize a poem is buried there somewhere,… — Anne Sexton Copy Share Image
What's important about poetry in the context of leadership is that most of the time, power has to do with dominance. But… — June Jordan Copy Share Image
Definitely for writing, what inspires me is poetry, which I have next to me all the time because I think they're doing… — Andrew Sean Greer Copy Share Image
There are parts on 'Wind's Poem' that are literal recordings of wind. I had this old sound effects record that I got… — Phil Elverum Copy Share Image
“If thou must love me, let it be for naught Except for love's sake only. Do not say, 'I love her for… — Elizabeth Barrett Browning Copy Share Image
“But anyhow it is true that this, which is our first poem, might very well be our last poem too. It might… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
I fell in love with poetry through storytelling, so my poetry tends to be fairly narrative. I like characters, I like having… — Sarah Kay Copy Share Image
![“I was miserable, of course, for I was seventeen, and so I swung into action and wrote a poem, and it was miserable, for that's how I thought poetry worked: you digested experience and shat literature. [from "Mingus at the Showplace"]” quote by William Matthews](https://sms4smile.com/q/i/f9d/william-matthews-20067_books_i-was-miserable-of-course-for-i-was-seve_1597964.png)
![“[ The Old Astronomer to His Pupil ] Reach me down my Tycho Brahe , I would know him when we meet, When I share my later science, sitting humbly at his feet; He may know the law of all things, yet be ignorant of how We are working to completion, working on from then to now. Pray remember that I…” quote by Sarah Williams](https://sms4smile.com/q/i/0a0/sarah-williams-75927_astronomy_the-old-astronomer-to-his-pupil-reach-me_1586047.jpg)
