More people are reading poetry now than at any time in the history of the human race. — Andrew Motion Copy Share Image
If language had been the creation not of poetry but of logic, we should only have one. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Although I am losing my Soviet citizenship, I do not cease to be a Russian poet. — Joseph Brodsky Copy Share Image
Poetry is not a silent art. The poem must perform, unaided, in its reader’s head. — Christopher Logue Copy Share Image
“trying to translate into a language that's known a poem writ in the language of stone” — Kenneth White Copy Share Image
How fortunate we are to exist in the moneyless economy of poetry! When you take money out of the equation, anything goes… — Kenneth Goldsmith Copy Share Image
“Drinking the energy of the universe Breathing along with the Cosmos With each breath I am reborn Into a brand new existence.” — Ilchi Lee Copy Share Image
“The center of a poem must be a nucleus its words orbit around following the poet's laws of writing.” — the mag man Copy Share Image
Death! It is rest to the aged, it is oblivion to the atheist, it is immortality to the poet! — Ouida Copy Share Image
New friends may be poems but old friends are alphabets. Don't forget the alphabets because you will need them to read the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Kretanje je duša svega što drhti. Započinje tako da se prvo dogodi trenutak onima koji žive trenutak, a onda se, onima koji… — Kemal Mujičić Artnam Copy Share Image
PHOSPHORESCENCE. Now there's a word to lift your hat to... to find that phosphorescence, that light within, that's the genius behind poetry. — Emily Dickinson Copy Share Image
“Then, after picking up his papers, Pierre began: “A beautiful woman can be the downfall of a gentleman . . . but… — Ted Anthony Roberts Copy Share Image
So how does one go about proving something like this? It's not like being a lawyer, where the goal is to persuade… — Paul Lockhart Copy Share Image
Poems On Time The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough. Time is a wealth of change, but the… — Rabindranath Tagore Copy Share Image
In a way, that's also a recognition that Dante needs Virgil and that the Inferno needs the Aeneid and that the epic… — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
Wish I was there, to kiss you Goodnight. I wish I was there, to hold you so tight. I wish I was… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The songs we sing invite the participation of the listener, who is central to finding a way of creating the life of… — Peter Yarrow Copy Share Image
So though love grows, one shall grow with it So though love speaks, One shall listen to it So though love dies,… — Nathan Schwake Copy Share Image
I think my prose - mine and that of others - sometimes slips into a cadence or rhythm that can replicate or… — Pattiann Rogers Copy Share Image
“As Shelley says in his famous poem, 'To a Skylark': 'We look before and after and pine for what is not Our… — Fr. John Ferreira Copy Share Image
“She appears quiet and subdued. The paradox: Raging storms twirl inside her.” — Melody Lee Copy Share Image
I still believe in the need for guitars and drums and desperate poetry. — Frank Turner Copy Share Image
Poems give you the lives of others and then circle in on your own inner world. — Frances Mayes Copy Share Image
“On the contrary I am not a poet, I am just a writer who happens to write poetry.” — Kenneth G. Ortiz Copy Share Image
Poetry and language are often at the heartbeat of movements for change. — Amanda Gorman Copy Share Image
“Rare-book people have this in common with poets: they too are born, not made.” — E. Millicent Sowerby Copy Share Image
