I started writing poetry when I was in the fifth grade, just rhyming in class. — Jay Rock Copy Share Image
Now, the process of writing poetry is very messy. Not systematic, never quite the same — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
Looking for something in them that ive only found in you. Its true, its always been you — Meesha B Copy Share Image
“I am so coarse, the things the poets see Are obstinately invisible to me” — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Language, thought, analysis, art, dance, poetry, mythmaking: these are the things that point the way toward the realm of the eschaton. — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
Still looking for that blue jean, baby queen, prettiest girl that I ever seen. See her shake on the movie screen, Jimmy… — David Essex Copy Share Image
“I spent all night weaving a poem for you to wear. You look so beautiful when you wear my light.” — Kamand Kojouri Copy Share Image
There's one of my new poems actually - is a good example of where my poetry has ended up. My earlier river… — Robert Adamson Copy Share Image
That is what poetry can do. It speaks to us of what does not exist, which is not only better than what… — Ivan Turgenev Copy Share Image
“Her heart was wild, but I didn’t want to catch it, I wanted to run with it, to set me free.” — Atticus Poetry Copy Share Image
The job of the poet is to render the world-to see it and report it without loss, without perversion. No poet ever… — Mark Van Doren Copy Share Image
“You too?" She asked Ruth. "How do your poems start out?" "They start as a lump in the throat," she said.” — Louise Penny Copy Share Image
Verse is a mechanism by which we can create interpretative illusions suggesting profoundities of response and understanding which far exceed the engagement… — John Constable Copy Share Image
“Gargoyles sat on the battlements- lean they were and the same hideous damp grey as the stone. They looked at her with… — Meredith Ann Pierce Copy Share Image
“This fifth and final sun will die, Like every sun before— But for a moment we laughed in its light, Like wind-blown… — David Bowles Copy Share Image
“Well it’s good to have a car like that, once in a while somebody’ll say, ‘why don’t you come over for dinner?’… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
The capacity for imaginative reflex, for moral risk in any human being is not limitless; on the contrary, it can be rapidly… — George Steiner Copy Share Image
“[ On Love After Love by Derek Walcott ] I read this poem often, once a month at least. In the madness… — Tom Hiddleston Copy Share Image
“Robert Frost liked to distinguish between grievances (complaints) and griefs (sorrows). He even suggested that grievances, which are propagandistic, should be restricted… — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
“I could not have climbed any mountains while looking from the ground... I would not have flown... or dived... or surfed... or… — Kem Copy Share Image
...the poet, while creating anew, is likely to be in a sense restoring something old. — Owen Barfield Copy Share Image
“Sufilere sohbet gerek Ahilere ahret gerek Mecnunlara Leyla gerek Bana seni gerek seni” — Yunus Emre Copy Share Image
Reading a poem in translation is like kissing a woman through a veil. — Anne Michaels Copy Share Image
“Bomb the world with music, pizza and poetry you idiots, not Semtex, C4 and RDX.” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
I think poets are much more dramatic, more theatrical than fiction writers. — Francine Prose Copy Share Image
It's bad poetry executed by people that can't sing. That's my definition of Rap. — Peter Steele Copy Share Image
However, if a poem can be reduced to a prose sentence, there can't be much to it. — James Schuyler Copy Share Image
“One eats in holiness and the table becomes an altar. Martin Buber” — Sylvia Shaw Judson Copy Share Image
“I knew I loved you when 'home' went from being a place to being a person.” — Eric Micha'el Leventhal Copy Share Image
![“[ On Love After Love by Derek Walcott ] I read this poem often, once a month at least. In the madness and mayhem of modern life, where every man seems committed to an endless search for the approval and esteem of his fellows and peers, no matter what the cost, this poem reminds me of a basic…” quote by Tom Hiddleston](https://sms4smile.com/q/i/91f/tom-hiddleston-1633_calm-and-peace_on-love-after-love-by-derek-walcott-i-re_1921633.png)
