Feeling like Rap God when you sing a fast verse from a song successfully. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Our poets are men of talents who sing, and not the children of music. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“She was the reason I started to write but her beauty is kept me writing.” — Brandon Villasenor Copy Share Image
Poetry is an art spoken, as if sung, in relation to other human beings. — David Biespiel Copy Share Image
“She had the power to change the world but she couldn't save the one she loved.” — robert m drake Copy Share Image
A story of particular facts is a mirror which obscures and distorts that which should be beautiful; poetry is a mirror which… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
I was completely devoted to reading and books from the age of seven. It took until I was 18 to have the… — Christopher Koch Copy Share Image
Leaving college early to play pro football was the best thing that happened to me. I got to drop the most boring… — John Layfield Copy Share Image
“Poetry had always seemed something I could turn to in need - an emergency exit, a lifebuoy, as well as a justification.” — John Fowles Copy Share Image
CEMETERY, n. An isolated suburban spot where mourners match lies, poets write at a target and stone-cutters spell for a wager. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
“...I'm innocent still -inside me are stained glass windows that have never been broken- and when I see your light it stains… — John Geddes Copy Share Image
“I have said before that the music is the words and the words are the music It is all there for you… — Sun Ra Copy Share Image
Song, like a wing, tears through my breast, my side, And madness chooses out my voice again, Again. — Louise Bogan Copy Share Image
“special thanks to Martha Sharpe and everyone at Anansi; to Mandy Barber, for the use of her stunning visual art; to Karen… — Darren Wershler-Henry Copy Share Image
“A man walks into a bar and says: Take my wife–please. So you do. You take her out into the rain and… — Richard Siken Copy Share Image
“Raise from your bed of languor Raise from your bed of dismay Your friends will not come tomorrow As they did not… — Stevie Smith Copy Share Image
“Cairn Stone This is the rock he lifted to lay upon a cairn in a high place. This rock, warmed by the… — Claudia Putnam Copy Share Image
The ideal audience the poet imagines consists of the beautiful who go to bed with him, the powerful who invite him to… — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
Homosexuals are delicate and bad poetry is delicate and [Allen] Ginsberg turned the tables by making homosexual poetry strong poetry, almost manly… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
“I’ve come down from the sky like some damned ghost, delayed too long…To the abandoned fields the trees returned and grew. They… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
“If I ever see an alien fishing in Scotland, and witness it catching the Loch Ness Monster, I’d probably assume the world… — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
“How can poetry be something we study, but also something that makes us cry?” — Rhian Williams Copy Share Image
Nobody has ever measured, not even poets, how much a heart can hold. — Zelda Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
There are so many things that poetry is about, one of which is memory. — Peter Davison Copy Share Image
It is better to live in a world of poetic meaning rather than hardcore reality. — Mark Gonzales Copy Share Image
In a machine, every part has a function. In a poem, every word needs to be there. — Elaine Equi Copy Share Image
“Poetry is composing, you are writing words to move the world like music.” — Atticus Copy Share Image
A poem is something sacred. Let no one Take it for anything except itself. — Jose Marti Copy Share Image
“Love is a shadow. How you lie and cry after it --from "Elm", written 19 April 1962” — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
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