In bohemian circles, we were very aware that poetry was missing from popular culture. — Donovan Copy Share Image
Something should always change in a poem. The persona should learn something. — James Tate Copy Share Image
“What is madness but nobility of the soul at odds with circumstance.” — Theodore Roethke Copy Share Image
My life has been the poem I would have writ, But I could not both live and utter it. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“We hold firm our phones, In case we capture that shot, Of a jumbo jet falling, Or that child time forgot.” — P.J. Bayliss Copy Share Image
The poets scrolls will outlive the monuments of stone. Genius survives; all else is claimed by death. — Edmund Spenser Copy Share Image
“Why I love these words They are mine You cannot change that You cannot rearrange that Try as you might You cannot… — Maddy Kobar Copy Share Image
“poetry’s favourite moment is when one loses one’s footing because of a landslide or seismic shaking of thought” — Michel Leiris Copy Share Image
Knowing some Greek helped defuse forbidding words - not that I counted much on using them. You'll find only trace elements of… — James Merrill Copy Share Image
If you read Keats's poems, they're often full of doubts and anxieties. They can be quite tough. — Jane Campion Copy Share Image
If what distinguishes us from other species is speech, then poetry, which is the supreme linguistic operation, is our anthropological - indeed,… — Joseph Brodsky Copy Share Image
Kerouac: You're ruining American poetry, O'Hara. O'Hara: That's more than you ever did for it, Kerouac — Frank O'Hara Copy Share Image
My dad was the baby. When he was born they were already successful. They sent him to business school - he probably… — Bob Balaban Copy Share Image
Therefore we value the poet. All the argument and all the wisdom is not in the encyclopedia, or the treatise on metaphysics,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Anne Pitkin's poems have such lyrical sweep, such a sensitive eye for the natural world as it touches the human, that reading… — Rosellen Brown Copy Share Image
“In two of your poems you called that central Passage of womanhood a wound, Instead of a curtain guarding a silken Trail… — Michele Wolf Copy Share Image
I remember I was very taken with a book called DreamTigers by [Jorge Luis] Borges. He was at the University of Texas,… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
“STONE Let my heart turn to stone. Maybe then I can sleep without nightmares. May be then I can eat without a… — Lisa Schroeder Copy Share Image
When in public poetry should take off its clothes and wave to the nearest person in sight; it should be seen in… — Brian Patten Copy Share Image
When I was nine, the teacher asked us to write a piece about our village fete. He read mine in class. I… — Eugene Ionesco Copy Share Image
I was reading the dictionary. I thought it was a poem about everything. — Steven Wright Copy Share Image
We all write poems; it is simply that poets are the ones who write in words. — John Fowles Copy Share Image
The central idea of poetry is the idea of guessing right, like a child. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“Optimism / stung like grit in my swimsuit all the long ride home . . .” — Lesley Wheeler Copy Share Image
“But this music. This music has limbs that can hold me into morning.” — Aimee Herman Copy Share Image
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