I like to write, I like to reflect, and not just poetry, I like to write my thoughts down. I think it's… — J. J. Redick Copy Share Image
“ Invitation to Eternity Say, wilt thou go with me, sweet maid, Say, maiden, wilt thou go with me Through the valley-depths… — John Clare Copy Share Image
I think you can have the greatest lyrics in the world and if it doesn't have the best tune in the world… — Julian Cope Copy Share Image
“The white woman across the aisle from me says 'Look, look at all the history, that house on the hill there is… — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
“I do not sit down at my desk to put into verse something that is already clear in my mind. If it… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
[The publication of his first poem] was wonderful ... but it taught me early on that the only thing that really matters… — Dan Beachy-Quick Copy Share Image
“Love is a fiction, a fable, an ode spun by poets and drunks, a fantastical tale told across one thousand and one… — Lauren Blakely Copy Share Image
Galway Kinnell came out with that wonderful big, breathy, hollow voice of his and read, for the first time in public, "The… — Sam Hamill Copy Share Image
You have made me a better person by loving me for who I am. Happy anniversary, An Anniversary message by poem, Your… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The poet is never inspired, because he is the master of that which appears to others as inspiration. He does not wait… — Raymond Queneau Copy Share Image
“Solitude of this kind makes me unaware. The roots that bind my person, makes me yearn for freedom and more. I wish… — Pooja Subramanian Copy Share Image
With Head Off & Split, Nikky Finney establishes herself as one of the most eloquent, urgent, fearless and necessary poets writing in… — Kwame Dawes Copy Share Image
“Up the still, glistening beaches, Up the creeks we will hie, Over banks of bright seaweed The ebb-tide leaves dry. We will… — Matthew Arnold Copy Share Image
Oh, most magnificent and noble Nature! Have I not worshipped thee with such a love As never mortal man before displayed? Adored… — Humphry Davy Copy Share Image
“Sovegna vos. Here are the years that walk between, bearing Away the fiddles and the flutes, restoring One who moves in the… — T.S. Eliot Copy Share Image
Prose-it might be speculated-is discourse; poetry ellipsis. Prose is spoken aloud; poetry overheard. The one is presumably articulate and social, a shared… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
If the United States haven't grown poets, on any scale of grandeur, it is certain that they import, print, and read more… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
“The vastest things are those we may not learn. We are not taught to die, nor to be born, Nor how to… — Mervyn Peake Copy Share Image
“As another year went by And a new year came to greet us I got up in the morning to take my… — Avijeet Das Copy Share Image
“ The Wedding Ring Although the lamp was out, above its darkness I saw the bright reflection of a flame. My soul… — Zinaida Gippius Copy Share Image
When a poet mentions the spring, we know that the zephyrs are about to whisper, that the groves are to recover their… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“Ars Poetica To gaze at the river made of time and water And recall that time itself is another river, To know… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
“And when I say I love you, I mean that you can show me your darkest fire your soul can produce, and… — Belle Townsend Copy Share Image
Whether they are actual poets or their music exemplifies a poetic sensibility, generally speaking, the Americana artist shuns commercial compromise in favor… — Rodney Crowell Copy Share Image
I think that concrete poetry seems to have, as far as I can see, come to a kind of a dead end.… — James Laughlin Copy Share Image
“He has given Caspar flowers, has given him soft toys (however ridiculous that might be as a gesture.) Has written real actual… — Alex Ankarr Copy Share Image
Just as a new scientific discovery manifests something that was already latent in the order of nature, and at the same time… — Northrop Frye Copy Share Image
“Dr. Urbino replied without looking at her: “I did not know that fellow was a poet.” And then he wiped him from… — Gabriel García Márquez Copy Share Image
It’s never going to be very mainstream. One reason is that poetry requires concentration, both on the part of the writer and… — Simon Armitage Copy Share Image
I'm moving to Rio permanently with my family. It's one of the places left in the world where people still live with… — Vincent Cassel Copy Share Image
In England especially, poetry's woven into the background fabric of society. And in Ireland, it's in the foreground. The place of the… — David Whyte Copy Share Image
These Germans seem an odd race, a mixture of clay and spirit - what with their beer-drinking and smoking, and their slow,… — Harriet Beecher Stowe Copy Share Image
The power of a gun can kill and the power of fire can burn. The power of wind can chill and the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I believe every space and comma is a living part of the poem and has its function, just as every muscle and… — Denise Levertov Copy Share Image
A poet sees a flower and can go on and on about how beautiful the colors are. But what the poet doesn't… — George M. Church Copy Share Image
“The things that tempt us do not come from external persuasions…they originate from our very own hearts. They’re conceived there, entertained by… — Jason Versey Copy Share Image
“There is beauty all around us, and the light finds us when we realize, we are all part of that beauty and… — Tom Althouse Copy Share Image
I fell into writing, I suppose, being one of those awful children who wrote verses. I went to a convent in New… — Dorothy Parker Copy Share Image
“Once on yellow sheet of paper with green lines, he wrote a poem and he called it “Spot” because that was the… — Earl Reum Copy Share Image
“i think any poem worth its salt, if poems can indeed be salty, should allow the reader to think. this poem is… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
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