“The gentle downward slope gets steeper and imperceptibly becomes an abyss.” — Tomas Tranströmer Copy Share Image
“And the stars blinked as they watched her carefully jealous of the way she shone.” — Atticus Poetry Copy Share Image
“Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion; it is not the expression of personality but an… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Whenever I get to a point I'm so tired that I forgot the verse of a song, I know I'm burnt out. — Carlene Carter Copy Share Image
Poetry is a hazardous occupation, very hazardous. There may be bad things in there inside you that maybe you can't handle. — James Dickey Copy Share Image
“My lover sees in shades of green, The good, the bad, the in between. He often speaks with his hands, Holding mine… — Bailey Nadeen Copy Share Image
“Poets dream of being archaeologists, as if their lives were sedimentary, like rocks. Poets don't mind getting down and dirty with the… — Katharine Haake Copy Share Image
Reading a good poem can give me a far bigger kick than a novel. But it's not something I can keep doing.… — Stephen Dobyns Copy Share Image
“Far away soul in a dreamy state Forgotten slumber seemingly late Pure rhythmic love now rising higher Unclad passion our only attire” — Munia Khan Copy Share Image
Part of the glamour of being a poet was always this long reach into the future. You knew you were managing time. — Eileen Myles Copy Share Image
“The best kind of rain, of course, is a cozy rain. This is the kind the anonymous medieval poet makes me remember,… — Susan Allen Toth Copy Share Image
“I can write the saddest poem of all tonight. Write, for instance: "The night is full of stars, and the stars, blue,… — Pablo Neruda Copy Share Image
Read poems to yourself in the middle of the night. Turn on a single lamp and read them while you're alone in… — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
“In his ordinary voice, so that she scarcely realized he was quoting poetry, he said: "'From far, from eve and morning, And… — E.M. Forster Copy Share Image
There's a lot of rage in my head. I like the friction that means there is nothing relaxing about writing a poem.… — Alice Oswald Copy Share Image
“A kite is a victim you are sure of. You love it because it pulls gentle enough to call you master, strong… — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
In literature, questions of fact or truth are subordinated to the primary literary aims of producing a structure of words for its… — Northrop Frye Copy Share Image
“Vergil preferred to give a few touches, and to allow the imagination of his readers to fill out the picture: that is… — Gilbert Highet Copy Share Image
“Our necessity. Our open mouth Where bread Goes in And dreams Come out.” — Roberto Bolaño Copy Share Image
I definitely used to write a lot at school. Comic poetry and drawings about people. — Sally Phillips Copy Share Image
language can't be appropriated by one person, one poet. The words belong to all of us. — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
My style of performance poetry came from the beatniks, Allen Ginsberg. — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
A day which passed without a poem from my pen I considered lost and misused. — Ella Wheeler Wilcox Copy Share Image
“Celebrate one soul, touch one heart, light one lamp; and the whole universe moves.” — Heather K. O'Hara Copy Share Image
