Saints and martyrs had never interested Maggie so much as sages and poets. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
The poem is not a thing we see; it is, rather, a light by which we may see. — Robert Penn Warren Copy Share Image
America was based on a poetic vision. What will happen when it loses its poetry? — Azar Nafisi Copy Share Image
One day You will take my heart completely and make it more fiery than a dragon. Your eyelashes will write on my… — Jalal Ad-Din Rumi Copy Share Image
“...Age gave her the peace, at least, to live inside that moment like a poet - to not sacrifice the beauty to… — Shannon Hale Copy Share Image
Speaking of [Philip] Larkin, in his poem about the First World War he wrote something like, "Never such innocence, before or since,… — Quentin S. Crisp Copy Share Image
The difference between poetry and rhetoric is being ready to kill yourself instead of your children. — Audre Lorde Copy Share Image
Now I think poetry will save nothing from oblivion, but I keep writing about the ordinary because for me it's the home… — Philip Levine Copy Share Image
“With heaven in our hearts, life is romancing us with glimpses of the universe dancing.” — Ann Louise Ramsey Copy Share Image
“Poems ought to reflect the work the poet does, and his relationships with other people, and family, and institutions, and organization.” — Wallace Stegner Copy Share Image
The tango is a direct expression of something that poets have often tried to state in words: the belief that a fight… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
“Expressions used almost exclusively in poetry ... tend to be concentrated in the oldest biblical texts. Generally, it may be said that… — Angel Sáenz-Badillos Copy Share Image
It is a function of creative men to perceive the relations between thoughts, or things, or forms of expression that may seem… — William Plomer Copy Share Image
Touch your inner space, which is nothingness, as silent and empty as the sky; it is your inner sky. Once you settle… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
“Four billion people on this earth but my imagination is still the same. It's bad with large numbers. It's still taken by… — Wislawa Szymborska Copy Share Image
“just waiting is the worst. nothing worse than waiting just waiting. always hated to wait. what’s there about waiting that’s so intolerable?… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
One of the appeals of William Carlos Williams to me is that he was many different kinds of poet. He tried out… — W. S. Di Piero Copy Share Image
As I read more and more - and it was not all verse, by any means - my love for the real… — Dylan Thomas Copy Share Image
The art of writing is mysterious; the opinions we hold are ephemeral , and I prefer the Platonic idea of the Muse… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
“Life is but a day; A fragile dew-drop on its perilous way From a tree’s summit.” — John Keats Copy Share Image
Free verse is chained in sentence-to-sentence links and breaks free in line breaks. — Shirley Geok-lin Lim Copy Share Image
“The space was tense. I could feel the air tearing between us... and it hurt.” — Alfa H Copy Share Image
“It’s been hard to believe in love again, but faith is at the center of every request.” — David Campos Copy Share Image
“She's a good poet but a very neurotic woman." "Don't the two go together?” — Michael Nava Copy Share Image
“...for if a woman's body can attract the holy angels, how much more the unholy man.” — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
The reason one writes poems is so that your poem will be remembered. — Peter Davison Copy Share Image
“It was a scary thought. A man could be surrounded by poetry reading and not know it.” — Richard Russo Copy Share Image
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