Poetry is an art, the easiest to dabble in, but the hardest to reach true excellence. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Poetry involves the mysteries of the irrational perceived through rational words. — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
The poets get a quizzical ahem. They reflect time, I am the very ticking. — Roy Fuller Copy Share Image
If I could get that girl [Courtney Love] to publish her poetry, the world would change. — Kurt Cobain Copy Share Image
In Russia all tyrants believe poets to be their worst enemies. — Yevgeny Yevtushenko Copy Share Image
To walk with nature as a poet is the necessary condition of a perfect artist. — Thomas Cole Copy Share Image
The reason we go to poetry is not for wisdom, but for the dismantling of wisdom — Jacques Lacan Copy Share Image
“I could have been 23 next July I gambled on what mattered most, the dice were cast. I lost.” — Hannah Senesh Copy Share Image
“INK Everything we know The things that haunt us in our sleep The scars, The joy, The sweat, The tears Is just… — Trisha North Copy Share Image
The true poet is a friendly man. He takes to his arms even cold and inanimate things, and rejoices in his heart. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
Who says that fictions only and false hair Become a verse? Is there in truth no beauty? Is all good structure in… — George Herbert Copy Share Image
“from the poem: MANNEQUINS THAT SWEAT BLACK INK AND NEVER HAVE ANY FUN If you put a twizzler in your ear it… — Sam Pink Copy Share Image
“It's true that a picture is worth a thousand words, but it's also true that a word is worth a thousand pictures.” — Marty Johncox Copy Share Image
“The essential absurdity of football - that it has become so important - is nine-tenths of the poetry.” — Phil Ball Copy Share Image
“You might say “no, you will never do that, that’s not you, not who I know, not who I thought you were”,… — Charlotte Eriksson Copy Share Image
I was born in the era of the novel. I've written many, as well as collections of poetry, and essays for mouthing… — Julianna Baggott Copy Share Image
“The purpose of poetry is to remind us how difficult it is to remain just one person, for our house is open,… — Czesław Miłosz Copy Share Image
“Five minutes ago escapes him as he chases 1934, unaware of the present beauty out the window, the banks of windswept snow—… — Anthony Walton Copy Share Image
“Under the summer roses When the flagrant crimson Lurks in the dusk Of the wild red leaves, Love, with little hands, Comes… — Carl Sandburg Copy Share Image
It is absurd to think that the only way to tell if a poem is lasting is to wait and see if… — Robert Frost Copy Share Image
(Songwriting) It's a gift. It all comes from somewhere. I started out really young, when I was four, five, six, writing poems,… — Willie Nelson Copy Share Image
“I have a sickness doctors can't cure, Inexorably pulling me to the well of my destruction, Consented to be a sacrifice, killed… — Ibn Hazm Copy Share Image
These days it seems the lyric impulse, so seemingly fragile, comes in for a lot of abuse-or simply a lot of mistrust.… — Patricia Hampl Copy Share Image
“The castironpiles, the castironpiles--to hell with the castironpiles” — Sigbjørn Obstfelder Copy Share Image
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