“They are constantly colonists and emigrants ; they have the name of being at home in every country. But they are in… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“Strategy for a Marathon I will start when the gun goes off. I will run for five miles. Feeling good, I will… — Marnie Mueller Copy Share Image
“I did it the hard way Many of the big dreams I dreamt, I dreamt, when I met a failed attempt. Life… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
I keep feeling that there isn't one poem being written by any one of us - or a book or anything like… — Anne Sexton Copy Share Image
“pissing on photos, we wake parched in parallel realities i still end up drowning in visions he settles for the horror; hostage… — Casey Renee Kiser Copy Share Image
If that voice that you created that is most alive in the poem isn't carried throughout the whole poem, then I destroy… — Philip Levine Copy Share Image
Here the frailest leaves of me and yet my strongest lasting, Here I shade and hide my thoughts, I myself do not… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
“There is no time, only I am. There is no society, only I am. There is no law, only I am. There… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
I've often entertained paranoid suspicions about my fridge and what it's been doing to my poetry when I'm not looking, but I… — George Murray Copy Share Image
For me, the writing life doesn't just happen when I sit at the writing desk. It is a life lived with a… — Julia Alvarez Copy Share Image
“Christopher loved her with the passion of youth, of imagination, of poetry, of all the fresh beginnings of wonder and worship that… — Elizabeth von Arnim Copy Share Image
“...The old bottles lay dreaming of new wine. I picked up my breast, which had gone out. By other lights I go… — W.S. Merwin Copy Share Image
An aphorism is a mental exercise, psychical, logical, linguistic, spiritual, ritual, emotional and rational, it is a major conceptual and literary activity,… — William C. Brown Copy Share Image
“Poetry that tames language into tight structures and yet manages to move us comes off as a feat, paralleling ballet or athletic… — John McWhorter Copy Share Image
“ I am not wrong: Wrong is not my name My name is my own my own my own and I can’t… — June Jordan Copy Share Image
“Were the world a just place and given into Poet Eanrin's hands to dictate, he would have written things as they ought… — Anne Elisabeth Stengl Copy Share Image
How is it that the poets have said so many fine things about our first love, so few about our later love?… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“When I’m depressed, I read Caeiro — he’s my fresh air. I become very calm, content, faithful — yes, I find faith… — Álvaro de Campos Copy Share Image
“And Unto thine eyes my heart Sendeth old dreams of the spring-time, Yea of wood-ways my rime Found thee and flowers in… — Ezra Pound Copy Share Image
I want to create objects that will stimulate the viewer in ways that I am stimulated by these objects. Now that's an… — Michael C. McMillen Copy Share Image
“The Temperature is Rising The heartbeat quickens my breath is controlled,my senses are illuminated like a mother to her young. This feeling… — M.I. Ghostwriter Copy Share Image
Traditionally poetry is written in lines. But the prose poem is the kind of poem that isn't written in lines. It is… — Campbell McGrath Copy Share Image
“I go in and slip a note in Jane's locker, which I've gotten in the habit of doing. It's always just a… — John Green Copy Share Image
“POINT TO PONDER: God smiles when I trust him. VERSE TO REMEMBER: “The Lord is pleased with those who worship him and… — Rick Warren Copy Share Image
“Writers are not called poets just because they make words rhyme. Poets respond to an inner calling that enables them to add… — John Casperson Copy Share Image
Can I find a poetic that can be subversive enough to grab people in some subliminal way, to where they feel that… — Julian Schnabel Copy Share Image
I am convinced that the first lyric poem was written at night, and that the moon was witness to the event and… — Mary Ruefle Copy Share Image
“I hated poetry until someone showed me how to appreciate it. He told me to see poetry as a puzzle. It's up… — Jay Asher Copy Share Image
I am delighted, one more time, by the daring of my species and the audacity of our flying machines. There is poetry… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
For even they who compose treatises of medicine or natural philosophy in verse are denominated Poets: yet Homer and Empedocles have nothing… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
The charming landscape which I saw this morning is indubitably made up of some twenty or thirty farms. Miller owns this field,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“All of these teeth had once been in real, live people. They had talked and smiled and eaten and sang and cursed… — Gabrielle Zevin Copy Share Image
You can judge the moral bearing of a political system, a political institution, a political man by the degree of danger they… — Roque Dalton Copy Share Image
I never send a story off until I have read it aloud to at least two or three people. Because when I… — Harlan Ellison Copy Share Image
“Hence the vanity of translation; it were as wise to cast a violet into a crucible that you might discover the formal… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
I would like to try to write poetry that would do everything I wanted poems to do, but also be readable by… — Matthew Zapruder Copy Share Image
“He loved her, he loved her, and until he'd loved her she had never minded being alone, she'd liked to much to… — Truman Capote Copy Share Image
“Be my lover between two wars waged in the mirror, she said. I don't want to return now to the fortress of… — Mahmoud Darwish Copy Share Image
“Long after midnight the towers and spires of Princeton were visible, with here and there a late-burning light – and suddenly out… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
Once I started writing all the time and interacting with poets, I made a conscious decision to identify myself as a poet.… — Tracy K. Smith Copy Share Image
