A verse may find him whom a sermon flies, And turn delight into a sacrifice... — George Herbert Copy Share Image
“But poetry, romance, love, beauty? These are what we stay alive for!” — N.H. Kleinbaum Copy Share Image
You don't really gotta rap no more; you can just say the verse with a swag now. — Fetty Wap Copy Share Image
A poet is seldom hard up for advice. The worst part of it all is that sometimes the advice is coming from… — Richard Hugo Copy Share Image
A poem might be defined as thinking about feelings - about human feelings and frailties. — Anne Stevenson Copy Share Image
Poetry is a fresh morning spider-web telling a story of moonlit hours of weaving and waiting during a night. — Carl Sandburg Copy Share Image
Poetry is a projection across silence of cadences arranged to break that silence with definite intentions of echoes, syllables, wave lengths. — Carl Sandburg Copy Share Image
Probably all the attention to poetry results in some value, though the attention is more often directed to lesser than to greater… — A. R. Ammons Copy Share Image
Don’t you think every face tells its own story? Like a book? More like a poem. If you study it long enough,… — Gail Tsukiyama Copy Share Image
“Was this the bright vastness the poet Bashō saw when he wrote of the Milky Way arched over a stormy sea?” — Yasunari Kawabata Copy Share Image
“You always drop by, to en- lighten my mind, when my wings are feeling heavy & i've forgotten how to fly.” — Curtis Tyrone Jones Copy Share Image
“They say don’t fall in love with writers because their poems are messy and their letters are empty words dressed up to… — Courtney Peppernell Copy Share Image
“The reason his father has no time for poetry is that he is afraid of the messiness of life. Poetry feeds on… — Elliot Perlman Copy Share Image
“I dragged myself to my feet, and with my hellhound in tow started off once more through the fastness of the wood,… — Daphne du Maurier Copy Share Image
“She taught me everything I knew about crawfish and kissing and pink wine and poetry. She made me different. I lit a… — John Green Copy Share Image
“Yet in opinions look not always back,-- Your wake is nothing, mind the coming track; Leave what you've done for what you… — Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr Copy Share Image
Poetry at least in my own life, is really about your own mortality. Everything in poetry makes me think of my mortality.… — Keith Carter Copy Share Image
“And I am weary of the anguish Increasing winters bear; Weary to watch the spirit languish Through years of dead despair. So,… — Emily Brontë Copy Share Image
It was the misfortune of poetry to be seldom safely enjoyed by those who enjoyed it completely; and that the strong feelings… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“Memories of past. Heartaches of old. Courage of brass. Lessons of gold.” — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
“Shakespeare, the greatest of poets, was the greatest reader of Nature and life.” — Kaiten Nukariya Copy Share Image
Poets, in their way, are practical men; they are interested in results. — Allen Tate Copy Share Image
I love to read poetry but I haven't written anything that I'm willing to show anybody. — Abraham Verghese Copy Share Image
Poetry is only born after painful journeys into the vast regions of thought. — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
No man ever raised a monument to a cynic or wrote a poem about a man without faith. — Louis L'Amour Copy Share Image
“I did not foresee my words becoming such a reverie of mimic and refrain.” — Joshua Kryah Copy Share Image
“With dark raven paper and twinkling white ink, I wrote my heart in the night’s sky.” — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
Fact is not truth, but a poet who wilfully defies fact cannot achieve truth. — Robert Graves Copy Share Image
Poetry is always slightly mysterious, and you wonder what is your relationship to it. — Seamus Heaney Copy Share Image
