It's interesting how young poets think of death while old fogies think of girls. — Bohumil Hrabal Copy Share Image
Lovers needn't always agree, anymore than poetry need always rhyme. — Robert Breault Copy Share Image
The poet gives us his essence, but prose takes the mold of the body and mind. — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
The eye of the poet is that of a bird and bug, heart of leaves, or roads. — Mariana Fulger Copy Share Image
“Colored by a pure love, stay the night, and next day wake me with delight.” — Kipyang Copy Share Image
A poem can provide testimony. A poem can provide solace. It can provide a connection. — Kevin Young Copy Share Image
The people need poetry that will be their own secret To keep them awake forever, And bathe them in the bright-haired wave… — Osip Mandelstam Copy Share Image
He will wipe the tears from all faces.' It takes nothing from the loveliness of the verse to say that is exactly… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
Over many years so many poets have touched my imagination and opened paths for me - it hardly makes sense to list… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
“That is what all poets do: they talk to themselves out loud; and the world overhears them” — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
“Every attempt to fix eternity is an escape from reality. I will be plaguing my days with moments and minutes. For ever… — Rossana Condoleo Copy Share Image
I tend to like poems that are short as well as funny. I love Joe Brainard and Aram Saroyan. And I think… — Elaine Equi Copy Share Image
The poet, the artist, the sleuth, whoever sharpens our perception tends to antisocial; rarely 'well adjusted,' he cannot go along with currents… — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
As a poet and as a mathematician, he would reason well; as a mere mathematician, he could not have reasoned at all. — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
“Wondered to see, these luscious Flowers'' ''Blossoming everywhere, like drops of Shower'' ''WISH! My ecstasy would has that Power'' ''Days come true!… — Samar Sudha Copy Share Image
“Love is the seeking of a way of life. A way that cannot be sought alone. Poetry is the residence of all… — Mekael Shane Copy Share Image
For fools admire and love those things they see hidden in verses turned all upside down, and take for truth what sweetly… — Lucretius Copy Share Image
“At some point you have to set aside snobbery and what you think is culture and recognize that any random episode of… — Nicholson Baker Copy Share Image
“If one were to list all the cruelties and maltreatments, both physical and emotional, that parents and adults inflict on children under… — Magda Gerber Copy Share Image
“Why is it, he asked, that wherever a Chilean goes in the world, Neruda and his fucking seashells has already been there… — Nicole Krauss Copy Share Image
“Why should it be any surprise that people find solace in the most intimate literary genre? Poetry slows us down, cherishes small… — Naomi Shihab Nye Copy Share Image
“For the Wife Beater's Wife With blue irises her face is blossomed. Blue Circling to yellow, circling to brown on her cheeks.… — Bruce Weigl Copy Share Image
“To wander solitary there: Two paradises ‘twere in one To live in paradise alone.” — Andrew Marvell Copy Share Image
“the worst thing," he told me, "is bitterness, people end up so bitter.” — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
“poetry melts my bones. enters my blood. and changes its composition.” — Sanober Khan Copy Share Image
“There is no hope for the hopeless but there is always some love for the loveless.” — Santosh Kalwar Copy Share Image
“Prose: words in their best order; poetry: the best words in the best order.” — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
Nature poets can't walk across the backyard without tripping over an epiphany. — Christian Wiman Copy Share Image
“Letting go I can have a firm foundation To honor you And hold you in my heart” — April Nichole Copy Share Image
One can't write for all readers. A poet cannot write for people who don't like poetry. — Nathalie Sarraute Copy Share Image
He who knows no foreign languages knows nothing of his own. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
