My teaching was animated by what I was reading and being excited by as a poet. — Seamus Heaney Copy Share Image
“why be bothered with other people's set-ups? it only leads to torture.” — Bob Dylan Copy Share Image
For awhile after you quit Keats all other poetry seems to be only whistling or humming. — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
Fiction and poetry are the only way one can stop time and give an account of an experience and nail it down… — Rebecca West Copy Share Image
I am charmed by concrete poetry (but it's very hard to do well, I think) and in general by the idea of… — Matthea Harvey Copy Share Image
If artists and poets are unhappy, it is after all because happiness does not interest them. — George Santayana Copy Share Image
If certain critics and poetasters had their way, 'Ordinary Piety' and its child, Dullness, would be the masters of poetry. — Edith Sitwell Copy Share Image
“It’s a beautiful way to put it: Leave the poetry in what you make. When something becomes too polished, it loses its… — Jason Fried Copy Share Image
Superstition is the poesy of practical life; hence, a poet is none the worse for being superstitious. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
A perfect poem is impossible. Once it had been written, the world would end. Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal. — Robert Graves Copy Share Image
Poetry can be the bridge, the crossover point in the mind between the physical and the spiritual. A place where the two… — Don Pendleton Copy Share Image
“this is not a Quote it's a poem. "A Thousand Kisses Deep" The ponies run, the girls are young, The odds are… — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
Poetry is not a silent art. The poem must perform, unaided, in its reader's head. Educated readers give themselves a good performance.… — Christopher Logue Copy Share Image
“I'm sorry,' I said. 'I'm sorry for everything. For the past and the future.' An apology, said while in dull pain, made… — Matt Haig Copy Share Image
Children should Transcribe favourite Passages. A certain sense of possession and delight may be added to this exercise if children are allowed… — Charlotte Mason Copy Share Image
A glance at the history of European poetry is enough to inform us that rhyme itself is not indispensable. Latin poetry in… — James Fenton Copy Share Image
“But what distressed him greatly was not having another hermit there to confess him and to receive consolation from; and so he… — Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra Copy Share Image
“To what temptations, to what extremities does lucidity lead! Shall we desert it now to take refuge in unconsciousness? Anyone can escape… — Emil Cioran Copy Share Image
“Greedy lovely beast who consumed my heart, devoured my soul, and left me with a madness; a wicked devil’s tongue. Now I… — Melody Lee Copy Share Image
“Have you ever loved your murderer As you were coming back from the dead?” — Jenim Dibie Copy Share Image
“T. S. Eliot writes in his poem “East Coker”: “Old men ought to be explorers.” — Guideposts Copy Share Image
I hate being called poet/dramatist/translator/director. 'Poet' covers it all for me. — Tony Harrison Copy Share Image
There's real poetry in the real world. Science is the poetry of reality — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“It is spring again. The earth is like a child that knows poems by heart.” — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
The finest poems of the world have been expedients to get bread. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I look for poetry in English because it's the only language I read. — Jack Prelutsky Copy Share Image
A translation in verse . . . seems to me something absurd, impossible. — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
When I first started to write poetry, I used to feel as if my tongue would go numb. — Kim Hyesoon Copy Share Image
