“There is some awe mixed with the joy of our surprise, when this poet, who lived in some past world, two or… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“In Ms Yuka's class he once wrote a poem about it called: 'Listen' The last lines were - I know you know… — Steven Wright Copy Share Image
I like when a poem ends on its "receipts," meaning it gives me something tactile or tangible to dwell on as I… — Allison Joseph Copy Share Image
Follow, poet, follow right To the bottom of the night, With your unconstraining voice Still persuade us to rejoice; With the farming… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“You'll always be curious yet deliriously sinking into whatever your nightmare is until you let your wings know you're serious by leaping… — Curtis Tyrone Jones Copy Share Image
A French poet famously referred to the aroma of certain cheeses as the ‘pieds de Dieu’—the feet of god. Just to be… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
“You will not mock me—and you will let me finish. I have owned and lost a kingdom, and I have battled death.… — Nenia Campbell Copy Share Image
If I begin a poem, "I am a donkey," reason kicks in and says, "She is taking on the persona of a… — Matthea Harvey Copy Share Image
I don't know if younger poets read a lot of, you know, the poets - the established poets. There was a lot… — Robert Adamson Copy Share Image
“Let me encourage you to start saying positive things about yourself. Maybe you don’t think you’re the most beautiful person on earth,… — Sadie Robertson Copy Share Image
In dreams we are true poets; we create the persons of the drama; we give them appropriate figures faces, costumes; they are… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“Maria, lonely prostitute on a street of pain, You, at least, hail me and speak to me While a thousand others ignore… — James Kavanaugh Copy Share Image
“And sometimes if I want To imagine I’m a lamb (Or a whole flock Spreading out all over the hillside So I… — Alberto Caeiro Copy Share Image
You cannot call a poem female just because it is written by a woman. Nevertheless, I think attempts to find femininity in… — Kim Hyesoon Copy Share Image
If you are a person this world will seem full of persons. When you are the being you will not feel bound.… — Mooji Copy Share Image
“All literature is an attempt to make life real. As all of us know, even when we don’t act on what we… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
You know, in my music career there was a moment where the irony was just so heavy. There were people in my… — Fred Durst Copy Share Image
The murmurs of many a famous river on the other side of the globe reach even to us here, as to more… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“He lives forever in his words, in his poems, and in his stories. An inspiration to many writers and poets all around… — Avijeet Das Copy Share Image
“No one could say the stories were useless for as the tongue clacked five or forty fingers stitched corn was grated from… — Liz Lochhead Copy Share Image
“The Story Is Always There Sometimes you don't need to speak to someone to know how they are feeling. You don't need… — Delma Pryce Copy Share Image
By clarity I don't mean that we're always in kind of a simple area where everything is clear and comforting and understood.… — Billy Collins Copy Share Image
“You angel, you have written. [...] Please, in all this muddle of life, continue to be a bright and constant star. Just… — Vita Sackville-West Copy Share Image
“Then one evening he reached the last chapter, and then the last page, the last verse. And there it was! That unforgivable… — Jonas Jonasson Copy Share Image
“To know if someone can speak offensively or politely, don’t give him poem to recite; don’t give him a song to sing.… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
“Moon, that against the lintel of the west Your forehead lean until the gate be swung, Longing to leave the world and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Thank God for the battle verses in the Bible. We go into the unknown every day of our lives, and especially every… — Amy Carmichael Copy Share Image
“The fact that a good poem will never wholly submit to explanation is not its deficiency but its very life. One lives… — John Ciardi Copy Share Image
“The thirteenth-century Sufi poet Rumi is said to have written, “Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek… — Robert Wright Copy Share Image
Let's say intelligence is your ability to compose poetry, symphonies, do art, math and science. Chimps can't do any of that, yet… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
“oxygen Everything needs it: bone, muscles, and even, while it calls the earth its home, the soul. So the merciful, noisy machine… — Mary Oliver Copy Share Image
“No poet, no artist of any art, has his complete meaning alone. His significance, his appreciation is the appreciation of his relation… — T.S. Eliot Copy Share Image
You know, bad poetry I wrote in high school can still be found on the Internet, and, you know, there's a Web… — Lena Dunham Copy Share Image
The aim of poetry, it appears, is to fill the mind with lofty thoughts--not to give it joy, but to give it… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
“I am moved by fancies that are curled Around these images, and cling: The notion of some infinitely gentle Infinitely suffering thing.… — T.S. Eliot Copy Share Image
“What needs my Shakespeare for his honoured bones, The labor of an age in pilèd stones, Or that his hallowed relics should… — John Milton Copy Share Image
“We pull our boots on with both hands but we can't punch ourselves awake and all I can do is stand on… — Richard Siken Copy Share Image
I'm working on poems about work, I guess. Or related to work. Which sounds dull as drywall but I'm having great fun… — Randall Mann Copy Share Image
I am not concerned with Poetry. My subject is War, and the pity of War. The Poetry is in the pity. Yet… — Wilfred Owen Copy Share Image
“Hometown Human Sonnet Everybody loves Rumi, I learnt his tongue, So I could pick up where he left off. Better than basking… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image