“If anything can be said in prose, then poetry should be saved for saying nothing.” — Pierre Albert-Birot Copy Share Image
In the sea there are countless treasures, But if you desire safety, it is on the shore. — Saadi Copy Share Image
“Take me to that special place where you kiss me and the world forgets to exist.” — Melody Lee Copy Share Image
Until people see poetry as springing from all of life, they will isolate it in a creativity corner and treat it like… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Athena's jealousy made a monster of fair Medusa. I often wonder what beauty my own demons have destroyed.” — Nichole McElhaney Copy Share Image
It was actually a women's writing group I belonged to in graduate school that gave me the courage to move from poetry… — Mary Gordon Copy Share Image
I feel my poetry has contributed through all these languages that I needed to learn leading up to English. — Masiela Lusha Copy Share Image
Poets don't draw. They unravel their handwriting andthen tie it up again, but differently. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Where the mountain crosses. On top of the mountain, I do not myself know where. I wandered where my mind and my… — Jane Bierhorst Copy Share Image
The award of a pure gold medal for poetry would flatter the recipient unduly: no poem ever attains such carat purity. — Robert Graves Copy Share Image
“I took her to bed with silk and song 'Lay still, my love, I won’t be long, I must prepare my body… — Roman Payne Copy Share Image
Rap isn't poetry, not least because it involves music and often other elements that aren't words. But the way poets in English… — Andrew Hoberek Copy Share Image
Doubt not, O poet, but persist. Say 'It is in me, and shall out.' Stand there, balked and dumb, stuttering and stammering,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“How pleasant a world would be in which no man was allowed to operate on the Stock Exchange unless he could pass… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“In time, we found a common interest in poetry. He reads nothing else. Day in, day out. Never happier he is than… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“The slow maturation of genuine creativity looks like laziness to a committee. Wallace Stevens was forty-three when his first book appeared. Robert… — Dana Gioia Copy Share Image
Writing and reading are the only ways to find your voice. It won't magically burst forth in your poems the next time… — Dorianne Laux Copy Share Image
Great lecturers seldom hesitate to use dramatic tricks to enshrine their precepts in the minds of their audiences, and at Yale perhaps… — Louis Auchincloss Copy Share Image
“It was interesting, not stupid or silly or sappy or overly intellectual—not any of those things that I thought poetry was. Some… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“In practicing the art of confusion, there is no better weapon than poetry.” — Susan Hubbard Copy Share Image
“I - will have poetry in my life. And adventure. And love. Love above all.” — Marc Norman Copy Share Image
“Well that's too bad. Because it's too late. She's gone. She slipped away.” — Amanda Leigh Copy Share Image
Only those ignorant of what poetry means will ask the question: what is it good for? — Orson F. Whitney Copy Share Image
The best prose is written by authors who see their universe with a poet’s eyes. — Vera Brittain Copy Share Image
The scholars and poets of an earlier time can be read only with a dictionary to help. — Carl Sandburg Copy Share Image
Poetry is the only hopeEven if you do not believe it, you have to do it. — Andrei Voznesensky Copy Share Image
Poetry is on earth to make you serene, not corrupt your mind, thoughts,or emotions — Lisa See Copy Share Image
