“These fragments, these shivers of my heart Are mere lifetimes enclosed in a minute” — Zubair Ahsan Copy Share Image
People used to say poems were different to songs but I don't think they are. — Tinie Tempah Copy Share Image
But are not the dreams of poets and the tales of travellers notoriously false? — H. P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
A poet is not a public figure. A poet should be read and not seen. — Cecil Day-Lewis Copy Share Image
Your eyelashes will write on my heart the poem that could never come from the pen of a poet. — Rumi Copy Share Image
“I'm going to Hell in a basket Weaved in from my sins, Like wicker With little Wiccan ties As if I'm a… — Matthew Little Copy Share Image
“What I want my father's writing to keep teaching us is that at the table of writing, everyone is welcome. No voice… — Kim Stafford Copy Share Image
“Some of the most passionately erotic poets have been the most self-contained in their daily lives.” — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
When I am writing fiction, I believe I am much better organized, more methodical - one has to be when writing a… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
Frost isn't exactly despised but not enough people have worked out what a brilliant poet he was — Paul Muldoon Copy Share Image
“A writer will divine a metaphor from a pattern on a dress, or a gesture, because sunsets have been done before.” — Brandi L. Bates Copy Share Image
I hope I'm not implying role of contemporary poet for myself, although there's a kind of resonant paradigm. It's traditionally a difficult… — Anne Waldman Copy Share Image
We are bored in the city, there is no longer any Temple of the Sun. Between the legs of the women walking… — Ivan Chtcheglov Copy Share Image
“I believe that this example demonstrates how great science and great poetry are both visionary, and may even arrive at the same… — Carlo Rovelli Copy Share Image
I like to write about things that are dark or twisted. Where the poetry seems to be is when you start in… — Joshua Homme Copy Share Image
“Attraction The whites of his eyes pull me like moons. He smiles. I believe his face. Already my body slips down in… — Enid Shomer Copy Share Image
“We say verse is fun in the doing, True, that’s what we’re saying. And if our rhymes now are only limping, why… — Merlie M. Alunan Copy Share Image
“Most events are inexpressible, and take place in a sphere that no word has ever entered. Most inexpressible of all are works… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Along the field as we came by A year ago, my love and I, The aspen over stile and stone Was talking… — A.E. Housman Copy Share Image
“Hungry for beautiful words, the fox comes rooting around in the hedge, almost too close to the fire. He reads my mind… — Jay Woodman Copy Share Image
“And the most beautiful words ever spoken, I have not yet said to you.” — Nazım Hikmet Copy Share Image
“Icarus should have waited for nightfall, the moon would have never let him go.” — Nina Mouawad Copy Share Image
“You can't stop dreaming just because the night never seems to end.” — Curtis Tyrone Jones Copy Share Image
“My world was the size of a crayon box, and it took every colour to draw her” — Sarah Kay Copy Share Image
“It was a lot less pleasant than travel via a discorporated poet.” — Jonathan L. Howard Copy Share Image
Poetry is a dumb Buddha who thinks a donkey is as important as a diamond. — Natalie Goldberg Copy Share Image
“The machines are too dull when we are lion-poems that move & breathe.” — Michael McClure Copy Share Image
“A poet is someone who stands outside in the rain hoping to be struck by lightening.” — James Dickey Copy Share Image
