“Summer days, and the flat water meadows and the blue hills in the distance, and the willows up the backwater and the… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
I think poetry has started to take on a supplementary role of prayer for some people. The churches, I think, including my… — Kevin Hart Copy Share Image
Art devoid of danger lacks many other things as well: pleasure, beauty, and the ability to save us. Poems that divest the… — James Allen Hall Copy Share Image
“…When a woman loves a man, they have gone to swim naked in the stream on a glorious July day with the… — David Lehman Copy Share Image
The poet's job is to put into words those feelings we all have that are so deep, so important, and yet so… — Jane Kenyon Copy Share Image
Poetry should be vital--either stirring our blood by its divine movements or snatching our breath by its divine perfection. To do both… — Augustine Birrell Copy Share Image
“Poet Wrestling with Words Some are clouds, mist, vapor Some are diaries written with tears Some appear like dew--a Friend in Time… — Theresa Rough PhD Copy Share Image
“Seeing you dumpster diving the other day, I meant To say hello and toss you a quarter, but the Secret Service wouldn't… — Linh Dinh Copy Share Image
“One of my wishes is that those dark trees. So old and firm they scarcely show the breeze. Were not, as 'twere,… — Robert Frost Copy Share Image
“Fair are the flowers and the children, but their subtle suggestion is fairer. Rare is the rose-burst of dawn, but the secret… — G. Campbell Morgan Copy Share Image
Pleasure has ever more been represented by poets and by painters as clothed in perpetual smiles and adorned with the richest jewels;… — John Tyler Copy Share Image
“Read poetry every day of your life. Poetry is good because it flexes muscles you don’t use often enough. Poetry expands the… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“These aren't still shots; the camera is always moving. And the scene is always just slipping out of sight, as if in… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
The masters of information have forgotten about poetry, where words may have a meaning quite different from what the lexicon says, where… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Many people I know - writers, poets - they have all been sentenced not once but sometimes three times after they come… — Ai Weiwei Copy Share Image
Yes, you can feel very alone as a poet and you sometimes think, is it worth it? Is it worth carrying on?… — Roger McGough Copy Share Image
“Is there no context for our lives? No song, no literature, no poem full of vitamins, no history connected to experience that… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
“you said, “your bones belong in museums” i said, “when you kiss me, fireworks electrocute my spine” my mother is dying and… — irynka Copy Share Image
“Let me keep my distance, always, from those who think they have the answers. Let me keep company always with those who… — Mary Oliver Copy Share Image
“Ognuno sta solo sul cuor della terra trafitto da un raggio di sole: ed e subito sera. (Everyone stands along on the… — Salvatore Quasimodo Copy Share Image
It is important that we have the inner richness to be able to look up at the stars or the moon and… — Daisaku Ikeda Copy Share Image
I don't remember the first poem that I wrote because I've been creating poems since I was around 2 or 3. I… — Sarah Kay Copy Share Image
There are certain things in which mediocrity is intolerable: poetry, music, painting, public eloquence. What torture it is to hear a frigid… — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
I usually begin a poem in longhand. I like to sit where I have a nice view, ideally, although I worked on… — Pat Mora Copy Share Image
Even though I always claimed that I didn't want to write about something - once I wasn't writing fiction, anyway; I think… — Vito Acconci Copy Share Image
A good many of my poems over the years have alluded to or taken on the political. Stevens has a line in… — Stephen Dunn Copy Share Image
I have to thank my mother for this. When I was a little boy she used to teach me poems. I would… — Rudy Ray Moore Copy Share Image
“Ah. That is the price of love, I'm afraid—the pain one suffers from its loss. I'm not convinced it's worth it. Perhaps… — Lisa Kleypas Copy Share Image
There are definitely connections between poems, but I wanted each to stand on its own. I guess it goes back to the… — Kevin Powers Copy Share Image
“It is not what they built. It is what they knocked down. It is not the houses. It is the spaces between… — James Fenton Copy Share Image
I'm about fifty years behind as far as my preferences go and I must say that the poets who excite me most… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
“The celebrated opening image of 'The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock' is another case in point: Let us go then, you… — Terry Eagleton Copy Share Image
The waving of a pine tree on the top of a mountain - a magic wand in Nature's hand - every devout… — John Muir Copy Share Image
“In fact he was as lovesick as a high schooler of an especially sensitive sort who wonders if he dare share a… — Jim Harrison Copy Share Image
Like contemporary poetry, philosophy is one of those things, especially at the beginning stages, most people would rather do than study -… — Samuel R. Delany Copy Share Image
Who is that blond child laughing as he runs after his colored marbles? [my marbles] It's me And who is the poet… — Pierre Albert-Birot Copy Share Image
For me music is central, so when one's talking about poetry, for the most part Plato's talking primarily about words, where I… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
“…It is a blank wall, an old wall― a heart burdened by drought and clay: write your name here, but don’t pierce… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“No, life cannot be understood flat on a page. It has to be lived; a person has to get out of his… — Donald Miller Copy Share Image
The heft of a life in the hands grows both lighter and weightier. Over time, my life has become more saturated with… — Jane Hirshfield Copy Share Image
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