“What is it about growing older That bites venomously Into the neck of hope?” — Justin Wetch Copy Share Image
“Science ask facts and religion ask faith, humans are confused between life and death.” — Santosh Kalwar Copy Share Image
“All the poems of the poet who has entered into his poethood are poems of homecoming.” — Martin Heidegger Copy Share Image
I really just love reading. It's my favorite thing, performing my poems live. — Eileen Myles Copy Share Image
You might as well ask an artist to explain his art, or ask a poet to explain his poem. It defeats the… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
“There is nothing more difficult to master than repetition. If you do it badly, it's clumsy, stupid. When it's well done, it's… — Laurence Cossé Copy Share Image
“I would rather dance alone under the stars than spend a lifetime hiding behind the moon.” — Melody Lee Copy Share Image
Let the poets cry themselves to sleep, and all their tearful words will turn back into steam. — Conor Oberst Copy Share Image
Why should the composer be more guilty than the poet who warms to fantasy by a strange flame, making an idea that… — Franz Schubert Copy Share Image
“Sweet delusion wrapped as an illusion, dripping from verses crafted in pain. Nothing cuts deeper, makes the biggest of ripples, than loneliness,… — Iva Hotko Copy Share Image
You can't just be reactive to the things going on in your life. You have to imagine, and you have to plunder… — David Gray Copy Share Image
“She may seem closed off, guard up, Wall of China around her, but really she wants you to liberate the guard, shatter… — Melody Lee Copy Share Image
“... I don't know what I feel anymore, or maybe it's that I don't know HOW to feel anymore. I question every… — Alfa H Copy Share Image
“He wondered again at the easy, graceful manner in which the Roman lyricists accepted the fact of death, as if the nothingness… — John Williams Copy Share Image
To name oneself is the first act of both the poet and the revolutionary. When we take away the right to an… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
“Final Disposition Others divided closets full of mother's things. From the earth, I took her poppies. I wanted those fandango folds of… — Jane Glazer Copy Share Image
Ambiguity around ambiguity is forgivable in an unpublished poet and expected of an arts student on the pull: for a professional comedian… — Robert Webb Copy Share Image
If you're angry, you don't have to write a poem dealing with the cause of your anger. But it needs to be… — Jay Asher Copy Share Image
If I can quote myself, I explained whatever it is I'm doing once for No Tell Motel, and I still think it's… — Shane McCrae Copy Share Image
All poets adore explosions, thunderstorms, tornadoes, conflagrations, ruins, scenes of spectacular carnage. The poetic imagination is not at all a desirable quality… — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
Drunken with what? With wine, with poetry, or with virtue, as you will. But be drunken. — Eugene O'Neill Copy Share Image
Bad poetry is caused by people who sit down and think, Now I am going to write a Poem. — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
“Winter only hangs on long enough for us to forget the winters that came before.” — Justin Bond Copy Share Image
In order for poetry to exist there has to be not-poetry to contrast it with. — Elaine Equi Copy Share Image
“If you can't focus then how do you expect to make your dreams come true?” — The Prolific Penman Copy Share Image
“Life is a poem just waiting to be written, lift your pen and speak.” — Susie Clevenger Copy Share Image
“I do not say there were no hurts. / I say they mattered less than love.” — Jane Merchant Copy Share Image
“My heart has been wanting to make that phone call for a long time. Maybe next year...” — Alfa H Copy Share Image
