“My poetic aspiration Is to become, A Jack of all styles And a master of pun.” — Clive Blake Copy Share Image
I'd rather be hissed at for a good verse, than applauded for a bad one. — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
I tend to like poems that engage me - that is to say, which do not bore me. — Mark Strand Copy Share Image
My intention is to write poems. That's what I've been doing most of my life. — Joseph Brodsky Copy Share Image
“In the end, everyone is aware of this: nobody keeps any of what he has, and life is only a borrowing of… — Pablo Neruda Copy Share Image
“Once in a golden hour I cast to earth a seed. Up there came a flower, The people said, a weed.” — Alfred Lord Tennyson Copy Share Image
“Oh, precious losing streak, you're too cute for your own good. I try to laugh about it but my face is made… — Casey Renee Kiser Copy Share Image
Poetry is engendered in solitude, so what better meter for it than the clip of a buckskin horse? — Edward Hoagland Copy Share Image
Poetry is any page from a sketchbook of outlines of a doorknob with thumb-prints of dust, blood, dreams. — Carl Sandburg Copy Share Image
A poet is a nightingale, who sits in darkness and sings to cheer its own solitude with sweet sounds. — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
I was nervous, so I read the New Testament. I read the verse about have no fear, and I felt relaxed. Then… — Religion Copy Share Image
You must have a certain amount of maturity to be a poet. Seldom do sixteen-year-olds know themselves well enough. — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
I think of it this way: When you hear that people have downloaded your comic, appreciate that thousands are eager to hear… — Mark Waid Copy Share Image
Women are very different to men, and that hasn't been respected. So when people say there's never been a good woman painter… — Joanna Lumley Copy Share Image
“He is the Way. Follow Him through the Land of Unlikeness; You will see rare beasts, and have unique adventures. He is… — W.H. Auden Copy Share Image
The field is a halfway house, halfway between the detail of those intimately known places and the ignorance of a landscape view… — Adam Nicolson Copy Share Image
Some of the finest Shakespeare has been done recently by college theater programs. I'll tell you what these young kids have: They… — Roger Rees Copy Share Image
I think that there are fiction writers for whom that works well. I could never do it. I feel as if, by… — Sharon Olds Copy Share Image
I worked privately, and sometimes I feel that might be better for poets than the kind of social workshop gathering. My school… — Mary Oliver Copy Share Image
“But my research had taught me that the tissue of contradictions that was my personality was itself, at best, a poem, where… — Ben Lerner Copy Share Image
