Let me read you some of my poetry. My poetry just takes me to another level. — Rick Fox Copy Share Image
Light is more important than the lantern, The poem more important than the notebook — Nizar Qabbani Copy Share Image
“A poet is a pillar of light in the darkness. Sir Kristian Goldmund Aumann” — Sir Kristian Goldmund Aumann Copy Share Image
Poetry is the skin that I have between my body and the world's body. — Lucie Brock-Broido Copy Share Image
“...your memory is a warm stone hidden in my hand I'm always turning over...” — John Geddes Copy Share Image
“Mother of otherness, Eat me. --from "Poem for a Birthday - Who", written 1960” — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
“I recall that now and I recall everything for what do we have but the past to parent us?” — Kathleen Driskell Copy Share Image
The first poem I ever wrote, about loss, when I was 5 years old, expressed the themes of everything I would ever write. — Marguerite Young Copy Share Image
From what the moderns want, we must learn what poetry should become; from what the ancients did, what poetry must be. — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Copy Share Image
“Like a snake, my heart has shed its skin. I hold it there in my hand, full of honey and wounds. The… — Federico García Lorca Copy Share Image
The birds, the poets of the animal creation - what though they never get beyond the lyrical! - awoke to utter their… — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
“I can already feel some things slipping through my fingers like sand and water, like artifacts and poems, like everything you want… — Ally Condie Copy Share Image
“Go for it because for all those moments that you would make up your mind the other might have already rushed for… — Neel Preet Copy Share Image
“A poet, you see, is a light thing, and winged and holy, and cannot compose before he gets inspiration and loses control… — Plato Copy Share Image
In real life, having your poetry criticized by T.S. Eliot could cause you to doubt your poetic gifts. But imagining it in… — Maria Konnikova Copy Share Image
I wrote the poems in Charms Against Lightning one by one, over almost a decade, and I did not write them toward… — James Arthur Copy Share Image
“Don't say it doesn't make sense then tell me you feel your spine curve and chill humps rise all over your skin.… — Melody Lee Copy Share Image
You have to be always drunk. That's all there is to it-it's the only way. So as not to feel the horrible… — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
“George Washington was in love with one girl after another during his youth, but for some reason he was unsuccessful in all… — Sterling North Copy Share Image
“The rhythm," said Goethe, "is an unconscious result of the poetic mood. If one should stop to consider it mechanically, when about… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Some people can't go into church any longer to feel this longing, but they still have the longing, so what do they… — Robert Bly Copy Share Image
I was twenty when I discovered war and photography. I can't say that I wanted to bear witness and change the world.… — Luc Delahaye Copy Share Image
“To storm, a mind, it must be balanced, by what can't be it must be challenged...” — Will Advise Copy Share Image
“I'd gladly trade the world And all of its gold, To see you safe in this fragile life.” — Maddy Kobar Copy Share Image
“So what if the air in Paris smells of romance? My shirt smells of you.” — Pooja Nansi Copy Share Image
“Not many get to see this side of him. So, if you do, know that you’re lucky.” — Liz Newman Copy Share Image
“There is a war inside you begging for peace. I pray you find your strength.” — N.M.Sanchez Copy Share Image
Sweet are the pleasures that to verse belong, And doubly sweet a brotherhood in song. — John Keats Copy Share Image
Poetry is just so emo." he said. "Oh, the pain. The pain. It always rains. In my soul. — John Green Copy Share Image
