“...in my dream the shadings of your soul are the dark tincture of rain...” — John Geddes Copy Share Image
Beauty makes one lose one's head. Poetry is born of this decapitation — Jean Cocteau Copy Share Image
Our Poets make us laugh at Tragœdy, And with their Comoedies they make us cry. — Theresa Villiers Copy Share Image
“Come. For the sun has crept down in its cave; its warm red breath has blown away.” — Gertrud Kolmar Copy Share Image
The poem is important, but not more than the people whose survival it serves. — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
Re-examine all you have been told in school or church or in any book, and dismiss whatever insults your own soul; and… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
“I did not willingly let half of my soul leave my body. It was torn from me. I still hear the ransomed… — Alfa H Copy Share Image
“On the walk home a Jeep roars past; the driver calls you a fucking towelhead. One of the ex-sucias publishes a poem… — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
“In crime and enmity they lie Who sin and tell us love can die, Who say to us in slander's breath That… — John Clare Copy Share Image
I read the other day some verses written by an eminent painter which were original and not conventional. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“& lord knows I have been called by what I look like more than I have been called by what I actually am” — Hanif Abdurraqib Copy Share Image
All is fish that comes to the literary net. Goethe puts his joys and sorrows into poems, I turn my adventures into… — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
“Professor Sung-bae Park taught Buddhism to primarily Judeo-Christian kids who needed one course in a world religion and could fit him in… — John Popielaski Copy Share Image
Mere poets are sottish as mere drunkards are, who live in a continual mist, without seeing or judging anything clearly. A man… — John Dryden Copy Share Image
For me, I used to be shy towards journalism because it wasn't poetry. And then I realized that the events that I… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
“With each kiss that we shared we experienced the meaning of love. With the passing glances of passion we surrendered our hearts… — Anthony F. Rando Copy Share Image
Free verse seemed democratic because it offered freedom of access to writers. And those who disdained free verse would always be open… — James Fenton Copy Share Image
Right now, it is it is almost.. it is almost uhh, IMPOSSIBLE for you not to see how strong rap has gotten… — Tupac Shakur Copy Share Image
There's this pet phrase about writing that is bandied around particularly in workshops about "finding your own voice as a poet", which… — Billy Collins Copy Share Image
Robert Frost says in a piece of homely doggerel that he has hoped wisdom could be not only Attic but Laconic, Boeotian… — Randall Jarrell Copy Share Image
The Girl With Many Eyes One day in the park I had quite a surprise. I met a girl who had many… — Tim Burton Copy Share Image
You will not find poetry anywhere unless you bring some of it with you. — Joseph Joubert Copy Share Image
Dylan Thomas is now as much a case history as a chapter in the history of poetry. — Seamus Heaney Copy Share Image
“Life's like us We find it- and then the death A poem for a goodbye? Why insist?” — Daie-Soko Copy Share Image
Poems like to have a destination for their flight. They are homing pigeons. — May Sarton Copy Share Image
The reason modern poetry is difficult is so that the poet's wife cannot understand it. — Wendy Cope Copy Share Image
Poetry is ... the physical enactment of a process of knowing by means of language. — Mark Doty Copy Share Image
