“Sanity is a sonnet with a strict meter and rhyme scheme-and my mind is free verse.” — Holly Schindler Copy Share Image
I didn't want to deal in poetry. I got rid of that after a few months. — Tom Wesselmann Copy Share Image
It's sometimes hard to know who's choosing whom - the poem, the song, or the writer. — Cornelius Eady Copy Share Image
“SAY EXACTLY what you think until you find that no one is listening then say something else” — Chocolate Waters Copy Share Image
I try not to observe myself in the process of composing a poem because I don't want to come up with a… — Thom Gunn Copy Share Image
Laying out grounds may be considered a liberal art, in some sort like poetry and painting. — William Wordsworth Copy Share Image
“I promise permanence. I promise persistence. I promise that falling in love was just the beginning for us.” — Liz Newman Copy Share Image
Poetry's always dead, you know? You don't realize how good poetry is until 15 years later. — Richard Hell Copy Share Image
“We’re only instruments of love, flowing through heaps of pain hoping one day we’d hatch a passion of our own.” — robert m drake Copy Share Image
Poets deal in writing about feelings and trying to find the language and images for intense feelings. — Carol Ann Duffy Copy Share Image
Quality and perfection are achieved with time. You do not create a perfect painting or a perfect poem by hurrying. Time is… — Satish Kumar Copy Share Image
The best verse hasn't been rhymed yet, The best house hasn't been planned, The highest peak hasn't been climbed yet, The mightiest… — Berton Braley Copy Share Image
“Shakespeare acquired more essential history from Plutarch than most men could from the whole British Museum. What is to be insisted upon… — T.S. Eliot Copy Share Image
Even when the poet seems most himself . . . he is never the bundle of accident and incoherence that sits down… — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
“I dreamed that you bewitched me into bed And sung me moon-struck, kissed me quite insane. (I think I made you up… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
I take as metaphysical poetry that in which what is ordinarily apprehensible only by thought is brought within the grasp of feeling,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“If I could sum up my poetry in a few well-chosen words, the result might be a poem. Several years ago, when… — Anthony Thwaite Copy Share Image
“What do they mean when they say: “I do not like your poems; you have no faith whatever. You seem neither to… — William Carlos Williams Copy Share Image
Everybody has ideas. The vital question is, what do you do with them? My rock musician sons shape their ideas into music.… — Avi Copy Share Image
You explain nothing, O poet, but thanks to you all things become explicable. — Paul Claudel Copy Share Image
“Predators prey on the weak; poets prey on brilliant ideas.” — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
Exaggerated history is poetry, and truth referred to a new standard. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
When I first wanted to be a writer, I learned to write prose by reading poetry. — Nicholson Baker Copy Share Image
I never 'plan' a stanza. Words cluster like chromosomes, determining the procedure. — Marianne Moore Copy Share Image
Our actions are like the terminations of verses, which we rhyme as we please. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Spring has returned. The Earth is like a child that knows poems. — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
Poets, the first instructors of mankind, Brought all things to the proper native use. — Horace Copy Share Image
A poet is someone who stands outside in the rain hoping to be struck by lightning. — James Dickey Copy Share Image
