“I seek to be moved, my imagination reborn. Let me feast on poems that feed my hunger.” — Susie Clevenger Copy Share Image
With lyrics, being a poet gave me a different approach than other people. — Jamila Woods Copy Share Image
“You are that one breath. that puts all the remaining breaths. back into my body.” — Sanober Khan Copy Share Image
Literature is a state of culture, poetry is a state of grace, before and after culture. — Juan Ramon Jimenez Copy Share Image
Art is a luxury. It's not necessary for you to - you can work your job and you can make some money… — Wynton Marsalis Copy Share Image
I have a little journal that I always keep with me, and when I need to, I'll write poems and things. It… — Haley Pullos Copy Share Image
“They come here wanting to be loved, and the boys on the stage receive them" from the poem - STAY in the… — Jay Woodman Copy Share Image
I think poets should work in the non-literary, non-academic world, get to know more than a workshop or a university. — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
I was surprised and laugh when I found my childhood written poems, one line was I like saving cash coins or money,… — Mhaj Porras Copy Share Image
“Well, they certainly didn’t teach you any manners. (Lorelei) I’m a pirate. What, would you have me spout poetry? (Jack)” — Kinley MacGregor Copy Share Image
Ban poetry. And make sure that anyone caught reading it is expelled from school. Then it will acquire the glamour. — Clive James Copy Share Image
Then I explain verses, that remain on the surface. At times it get deep, but I never defeat the purpose. — Rakim Copy Share Image
If you want to be considered a poet, you will have to show mastery of the petrarchan sonnet form or the sestina.… — Anthony Burgess Copy Share Image
It's your worst sin saving your f***ing life; It's the devil's knife carving holes into your soul so angels have a way… — Andrea Gibson Copy Share Image
There is a wonderful place where flowers grow in colors beyond the words of poets... trees sing with the songs of butterflies.… — Laurel Burch Copy Share Image
“Why covet a knowledge of new facts? Day and night, house and garden, a few books, a few actions, serve us as… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Every work of art reaches man in his inner powers. It reaches him more profoundly and insidiously than any rational proposition, either… — Jacques Maritain Copy Share Image
“The amateur has not mastered the technique of his art. Nor does he expose himself to judgment in the real world. If… — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
I think what gets a poem going is an initiating line. Sometimes a first line will occur, and it goes nowhere; but… — Billy Collins Copy Share Image
“Destarte! How musical! What does it mean?” “You can’t say it except in Mescalero. It means Morning, but that isn’t what it… — Louis L'Amour Copy Share Image
Poetry in motion walking by my side, her lovely locomotion keeps my eyes open wide. — Johnny Tillotson Copy Share Image
“Poetry is a separate language, or more specifically, a language within a language.” — Paul Valéry Copy Share Image
“moonlight the falsest the most languid the most petit-bourgeois strikes me I like it” — Nazim Hikmet Copy Share Image
“There is a reason that the world is not black and white, for chaos demands color.” — Liz Newman Copy Share Image
“Every book has to wait for the right time to be read and understood.” — Kamand Kojouri Copy Share Image
Writing poetry helps me to write my fiction; each thing helps the other. — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
“...have I told you? - your eyes are a dark poem of dancing snow at midnight ...” — John Geddes Copy Share Image
“Sewn together patterns, like many clashing moods, She wears what No others dare” — Maddy Kobar Copy Share Image
