I think poetry's always a kind of faith. It is the kind that I have. — Natasha Trethewey Copy Share Image
Poets like Shakespeare know more about poetry than any $25 an hour man. — Robert Frost Copy Share Image
The poet who does not revere his art, and believe in its sovereignty, is not born to wear the purple. — Edmund Clarence Stedman Copy Share Image
I would say my life experiences are my poetry, whether I'm writing about those actual, factual experiences or not. — Dorianne Laux Copy Share Image
We shall not cease from exploration, and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know… — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
“I cannot tell you now; When the wind's drive and whirl Blow me along no longer, And the wind's a whisper at… — Carl Sandburg Copy Share Image
Great poetry must be admired, because it is great and because it is poetry, and so we admire it. — Witold Gombrowicz Copy Share Image
He was then in his fifty-fourth year, when even in the case of poets reason and passion begin to discuss a peace… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
“In poetry a certain faith in the impossible,…as in religion a like faith in the inscrutable, must have a place[;]” — Robert Von Hallberg Copy Share Image
The world goes to sleep when it's a cold winter. All except those writers in which it naturally rains inside of them… — Needa Muy Copy Share Image
“She was sunshine on a rainy day, a rainbow against gray clouds, hope in a Catholic school uniform. She was why poetry… — S.L. Scott Copy Share Image
If a thing can be said in ten words, I may be relied upon to take a hundred to say it. I… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
Poetry is probably the last gift economy. Part of the negotiation is to understand that you're going to do something you really… — Claudia Rankine Copy Share Image
Some of what we read in classical literature is not relative to our condition, but then many women novelists and poets have… — Margaret Drabble Copy Share Image
The viewer who sees only a study in the picture of the glass jug illuminated from behind fails to appreciate the masterly… — Alexander Rodchenko Copy Share Image
“My anthology continues to sell & the critics get more & more angry. When I excluded Wilfred Owen, whom I consider unworthy… — W.B. Yeats Copy Share Image
“ Magic Words " " Silly words cause trills because they're ludicrous and funny. Happy words paint endless smiles and swallow troubles… — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
A poet is a painter in his way, he draws to the life, but in another kind; we draw the nobler part,… — Aphra Behn Copy Share Image
“Poet has no power over the muse, it's the muse who powers the poet.” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
I was a boy when I first realized that the fullest life liveable was a Poet's — Wilfred Owen Copy Share Image
“Your poem was in praise of Jesus, not in blame of Him--as you meant it to be.” — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“I write small poems— the kind that fit on a postcard… and still can break your heart” — john j geddes Copy Share Image
The child and the poet know that Reality is what does not need to be realistic. — Vicki Lewis Thompson Copy Share Image
I do not give the honorific name of 'poetry' to the primitive and the unaccomplished. — Helen Vendler Copy Share Image
“I like poems where you don't really know whether to laugh or cry when you read them.” — X.J. Kennedy Copy Share Image
For me, a poem is an opportunity to kind of interrogate myself a little bit. — Tracy K. Smith Copy Share Image
“I think people should know that moving on doesn't always mean letting go.” — Bailey Nadeen Copy Share Image
“A slap in the face or a box on the ear helps to educate not only children but poets.” — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
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