Every poet hopes that after-times Shall set some value on his votive lay. — Caroline Norton Copy Share Image
“Those who lead us to our sacred selves walk not before us, but beside.” — Heather K. O'Hara Copy Share Image
Happy who in his verse can gently steer From grave to light, from pleasant to severe. — Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux Copy Share Image
“The night has a thousand eyes and I'm a gypsy dancer still hungry for more.” — Bob Miller Copy Share Image
My brain is dull, my sight is foul, I cannot write a verse, or read-- Then, Pallas, take away thine Owl, And… — Thomas Hood Copy Share Image
“yo te amo para comenzar a amarte, para recomenzar el infinito y para no dejar de amarte nunca: por eso no te… — Pablo Neruda Copy Share Image
“It is a novel constructed like a poem, where each character is only exceptional because if the hyperbolic manner in which he… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
I have often argued that a poet more than thirty years old is simply an overgrown child. I begin to suspect that… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
Yet, do thy worst, old Time; despite thy wrong, My love shall in my verse ever live young. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
I don't try to call myself a poet. But I know that my stuff is pretty literal, in that the themes are… — Bo Burnham Copy Share Image
I've been writing since I was five years old. I used to write poetry, and I loved to rhyme. — Gabriella Wilson Copy Share Image
How can I find the words? Poets have taken them all and left me with nothing to say or do" "Except to… — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
“The first inkling of this notion had come to him the Christmas before, at his daughter's place in Vermont. On Christmas Eve,… — John Crowley Copy Share Image
“The day will come When my body no longer exists But in the lines of this poem I will never let you… — Sapardi Djoko Damono Copy Share Image
“They spent a summer talking beneath the redwoods. There was a curiosity to the way they knew. She would take his hips… — Mikl Paul Copy Share Image
“Pariah Luggage by Stewart Stafford I am the last piece of luggage, On the baggage carousel, If there's a suitcase deity, It… — Stewart Stafford Copy Share Image
And once I knew a meditative rose That never raised its head from bowing down, Yet drew its inspiration from the stars.… — Henry Abbey Copy Share Image
“I am a poet. I am very fond of bananas. I am bananas. I am very fond of a poet. I am… — Wendy Cope Copy Share Image
I am blessed again, to hear the rain. Its tin-roof chatter, drums terrain While droplets pepper windowpanes. Between such bouts, life breathes… — Aisha Copy Share Image
The poet will write for his peers alone. He will remember only that he saw truth and beauty from his position, and… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The poet can only write the poems; it takes the reader to complete the meaning. — Nikki Giovanni Copy Share Image
I've read some of your modern free verse and wonder who set it free. — John Barrymore Copy Share Image
“I came to pen another poem for you, but even every unwritten poem is you.” — Kamand Kojouri Copy Share Image
“And the poem, I think, is only your voice speaking. ― Virginia Woolf, The Waves” — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Poetry is a deliberate attempt to make language suggestive and imprecise. — Kenneth Koch Copy Share Image
“English kings married their cousins and so their kids were as sharp as clubs.” — Peter Prasad Copy Share Image
Gil Thorpe is a great diversion and is to book writing as poetry is to prose. — Jerry B. Jenkins Copy Share Image
They think I'm going to be a schoolteacher but I'm going to be a poet. — Janet Frame Copy Share Image
grow old with me. the best is yet to be. the last of life for which the first was made. — Robert Browning Copy Share Image
The one stream of poetry which is continually flowing is slang. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
