I'm fighting against the bad poet who is prone to using too many words. — Wislawa Szymborska Copy Share Image
“I don't expect you to fight over me... But I do expect you to fight for me... for us.” — Alfa H Copy Share Image
Almost any poem has to be read twice, first for strangeness, second for clarity. — Peter J. Daniels Copy Share Image
I love indices! They are poetry in and of themselves, depending on the book. — Wendy C. Ortiz Copy Share Image
Goodbye, you who are, for me, the postmarks again of shattered towns--Xenia, Burnt Cabins, Hornell-- their loneliness given away in poems, only… — Galway Kinnell Copy Share Image
“Some girls are full of heartache and poetry and those are the kind of girls who try to save wolves instead of… — Nikita Gill Copy Share Image
Poetry for me has been a long pilgrimage, a journey and a growing relationship with the unknown. — David Whyte Copy Share Image
Poetry is not the opinion stated. It is a song that appears instead of a bloody wound or a smiling mouth. — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
When a poet digs himself into a hole, he doesn't climb out. He digs deeper, enjoys the scenery, and comes out the… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
“I Like The Way That when you Tilt Poems On their side They Look like Miniature Cities From A long way Away.… — Matt Haig Copy Share Image
There's not too much difference between writing a picture book and writing a collection of a hundred poems or so, except that… — Jack Prelutsky Copy Share Image
How do you define a poet? It's very simple. Anyone declaring that he is a poet, is a poet. — Billy Cannon Copy Share Image
When doubts haunt me, when disappointments stare me in the face, and I see not one ray of hope on the horizon,… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
The peril of every fine faculty is the delight of playing with it for pride. Talent is commonly developed at the expense… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The first time I ever felt the necessity or inevitableness of verse, was in the desire to reproduce the peculiar quality of… — T. E. Hulme Copy Share Image
You see, the patience of an audience is very short, particularly with a non-entity. You're an intruder, and you must make them… — Nipsey Russell Copy Share Image
“I don't know if you're alive or dead. Can you on earth be sought, or only when the sunsets fade be mourned… — Anna Akhmatova Copy Share Image
We know the surrealist solution: concrete irrationality, objective risk. Poetry is the conquest, the only possible conquest, of the 'supreme position', 'a… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“And God said: Let there be light, and there was light." Lena opened her eyes, feeling as if someone had been reading… — Gala.J Copy Share Image
In poetry you can express almost inexpressible feelings. You can express the pain of loss, you can express love. People always turn… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
If poetry and the arts do anything, they can fortify your inner life, your inwardness. — Seamus Heaney Copy Share Image
“Burning the witch Giordano Bruno is one more wound inflicted on Christ’s body.” — Dejan Stojanovic Copy Share Image
“Beware of the compound adjective, beloved of the tyro and the 'poetess'.” — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
“If you put the words on a page and you believe in them, then it’s a poem.” — Ewuare Osayande Copy Share Image
The great poem must have the stamp of greatness as well as its essence. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“In this universe there are no time machines or keys that can turn hearts back around.” — Sarah Tregay Copy Share Image
I have a muse who's very powerful, but I'm still a hopeless deadbeat of a poet. — Shirley Geok-lin Lim Copy Share Image
“A mask you ask? Optional I find! Masks lend appeal of a mysterious kind.” — E.A. Bucchianeri Copy Share Image
“the glory of the protagonist is always paid for by a lot of secondary characters” — Tony Hoagland Copy Share Image
Poetry makes possible the deepest kind of personal possession of the world. — James Dickey Copy Share Image
