A poem needs imaginative rhythms as well as imaginative transformation of content. — Helen Vendler Copy Share Image
“One of the ex-sucias publishes a poem about you online. It's called "El Puto” — Junot Díaz Copy Share Image
He did not profess to anybody how to reach others without professing. — Dejan Stojanovic Copy Share Image
A merely great intellect can produce prose, but not poetry, not one line. — Edward Thomas Copy Share Image
No man can be explained by his personal history, least of all a poet. — Katherine Anne Porter Copy Share Image
“There's no money in poetry, but there's no poetry in money, either.” — Robert Graves Copy Share Image
Gotta get a tight grip, don't slip, loose lips, sank ships, it's a trip, I love the way she licks her lips. — Tupac Shakur Copy Share Image
“We are mosaics - pieces of light, love, history, stars -- glued together with magic and music and words.” — Anita Krishan Copy Share Image
Back in those early days when I began my apprenticeship as a poet, I also tried to voice our anger, spirit of… — Linton Kwesi Johnson Copy Share Image
He said, "You have pigs in this poem; pigs are not poetic." I got up and walked out of that class and… — Carolyn Kizer Copy Share Image
Poetry is a whim of Nature in her lighter moods; it requires nothing but its own madness and, lacking that, it becomes… — Pietro Aretino Copy Share Image
To feel keenly the poetry of a morning's roses, one has to have just escaped from the claws of this vulture which… — Henri Frederic Amiel Copy Share Image
I would have any one, who really and truly has leisure and ability, make verses. I think it a more refining and… — Sara Coleridge Copy Share Image
“I don't want to go to university. I don't like unity and I hate verses. I just love the choruses of songs. ” — Emma Forrest Copy Share Image
“He's always had a nameless, unanchored longing; and when, at critical points in his life, a period of intense longing coincided with… — Josephine Humphreys Copy Share Image
“There was a poem, she said, by Beckett that he had written twice, once in French and once in English, as if… — Rachel Cusk Copy Share Image
How would you paint me? If you were a artist how would you paint me? With deep solid strokes or your brush… — Christy Ann Martine Copy Share Image
“Numb to the words you have left heavy on my skin. Dipped with malice and edged with regret, it's within these shadows… — A.Y. Greyson Copy Share Image
The greatest thing a human soul ever does in this world is to see something and tell what it saw in a… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
Every time we equip the church with a verse, chapter or a story from the Bible, we're really placing another weapon in… — Max Lucado Copy Share Image
“The Estate of Solemnity By right, it reigns in its places- in long beards Of spanish moss hanging from a live oak… — Pattiann Rogers Copy Share Image
“[H]e initially conceived of Olivier as a man of the greatest promise destroyed by a fatal flaw, the unreasoning passion for a… — Iain Pears Copy Share Image
“You and I are poets, Mrs. Osgood. Our job is to raise questions, not to answer them.” — Lynn Cullen Copy Share Image
“I was going to write a happy poem, but then I watched a Scottish drama.” — Kelvin Fowler Copy Share Image
Roses are red, that much is true, but violets are purple, not fucking blue. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Our lives may not have fit together, but ohhh did our souls know how to dance...” — K. Towne Jr Copy Share Image
“You brought me your darkness & I loved you with the radiant tears of a thousand suns.” — Curtis Tyrone Jones Copy Share Image
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