Since the age of 11, I have loved writing poems and fragments from my life. — Niki de St. Phalle Copy Share Image
“Forcing the muse to let thoughts flow; equals to pushing a child, into labor.” — Aniruddha Sastikar Copy Share Image
I used to joke that if acting didn't work out, poetry was my commonsense fallback. — Merritt Wever Copy Share Image
“Hay menos tiempo que lugar, no obstante, hay lugares que duran un minuto y para cierto tiempo no ha lugar. ” — Mario Benedetti Copy Share Image
I loved all music as a listener, but I didn't think I could sing, but there was something about rhythmic rapping and… — Jelly Roll Copy Share Image
“"It almost felt like the dolphin of my heart’s desire playing in the ocean of my life." - on writing” — Mariam Kobras Copy Share Image
Poetry confronts in the most clear-eyed way just those emotions which consciousness wishes to slide by. — C. K. Williams Copy Share Image
“I'll stop loving you the day my shadow stops following me around. Because on that day, nothing will make sense.” — J.A. ANUM Copy Share Image
Wit, like poetry, is insusceptible of being constructed upon rules founded merely in reason. Like faith, it exists independent of reason, and… — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image
“I am a seed incapable of growth I can’t write you any poetry I can’t apologise eloquently, I can’t show you your… — Abeer Abdullah Copy Share Image
I eat language, it's like pumpkin soup for me. Even my tongue concludes I'm obsessed. Words are sex to me, I get… — Jeremy Limn Copy Share Image
“Why did you come? Oh, I know what you are going to say. You felt that, cost what it might, you had… — Wodehouse Copy Share Image
I was interested in all kinds of things, whether it be Avatar, Mad Men, Troy, 300, Battlestar Gallactica, or the poems of… — Daniel Mendelsohn Copy Share Image
In my opinion, the trombone is the true head of the family of wind instruments, which I have named the 'epic' one.… — Hector Berlioz Copy Share Image
My wife has a beastly habit of comparing poetry -- all literature in fact -- to the droppings of the goats among… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
My heart is in chains,though still beating. My spirit is caged, though still flaming. My mind has been captured, though is still… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I think that what I learned then, I didn't know I was learning. I just knew that I was very privileged to… — Bernardo Bertolucci Copy Share Image
“ Sonnet I am no stranger in the house of pain; I am familiar with its every part, From the low stile,… — Robert Nathan Copy Share Image
“In America the magazines in which one can frequently publish stories or poems about Negroes are very few, and most of these… — Langston Hughes Copy Share Image
“maybe this organ will be my country & everyone i love is safe here.” — Jess Rizkallah Copy Share Image
Every time I read Erin Belieu work I'm pierced in that wonderful way poetry can. — Cheryl Strayed Copy Share Image
Writing poetry is like always being in love. What masochism! What luxury! — Jennifer Stone Copy Share Image
All this time I drank you like the cure, when maybe you were the poison. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“insomnia has this romantic way of making the moon feel like perfect company.” — Sabrina Benaim Copy Share Image
Don't you just love poetry that gives you a crinkly feeling up and down your back? — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Poetry was the maiden I loved, but politics was the harridan I married. — Joseph Howe Copy Share Image
The first task of the poet is to create the person who will write the poems. — Stanley Kunitz Copy Share Image
