I was too slow a mover to be a boxer. It was much easier to be a poet. — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
“Sometimes I think, I need a spare heart to feel all the things I feel.” — Sanober Khan Copy Share Image
Oh to be my verse an answering gleam from higher radiance caught — Frances Ridley Havergal Copy Share Image
I am addicted to poetry, but the truth is I cannot pass up a good hard-boiled mystery. — Luis Alberto Urrea Copy Share Image
I never abandoned either forms or freedom. I imagine that most of what could be called free verse is in my first… — Howard Nemerov Copy Share Image
I used to do poetry and write stories and stuff - I never really had anybody standing over my shoulder, like, "What… — Dreezy Copy Share Image
“I could have been 23 next July I gambled on what mattered most, the dice were cast. I lost.” — Hannah Senesh Copy Share Image
Most poetry is very formal, but when a modern poet is formal he gets more attention for it than old poets did. — Robert Lowell Copy Share Image
“The great sexual energy that one has on abstinence can be transformed into art, poetry, dance, and inventions.” — Girdhar Joshi Copy Share Image
“Poets write magistic and compelling words on paper. But authors, they write magistic and compelling words on souls.” — Kayla.M.f Copy Share Image
I've loved poetry since a very young age and my parents, especially my dad, he really introduced us to art when we… — Dominique Crenn Copy Share Image
“I fell in love with his effort. The way he never stopped trying to make this love the best it could be.” — Liz Newman Copy Share Image
“Gamache watched the old poet. He knew what was looming behind the Mountain. What crushed all before it. The thing the Hermit… — Louise Penny Copy Share Image
The revelatory or visionary is the province of the 'private' artist, who in order to render his personal world comprehensible or even… — Kenneth Coutts-Smith Copy Share Image
I think it's often assumed that the role of poetry is to comfort, but for me, poetry is the great unsettler. It… — Alice Oswald Copy Share Image
“PLEASE TELL ME YOU KNOW OF SYLVIA PLATH Conventions bleed my soul squeeze me old wear me grey like a headstone in… — Chila Woychik Copy Share Image
“Suddenly she wants to fall to her knees and pray for the poets. She imagines them with immaculate ravaged faces, with necklaces… — Kate Braverman Copy Share Image
'Storm Warnings' is a poem about powerlessness - about a force so much greater than our human powers that while it can… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
One can say that the disaffection is still a lingering naiveté about, not the place of poetry in the world, but -… — Fady Joudah Copy Share Image
“Borderline means you’re one of those girls… …who walk around wearing long sleeves in the summer because you’ve carved up your forearms… — Stacy Pershall Copy Share Image
“What is this slow blue dream of living, and this fevered death by dreaming?” — Aberjhani Copy Share Image
“I am too pure for you or anyone. From the poem "Fever 103°", 20 October 1962” — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
“I was going to write a happy poem, but then I watched a Scottish drama.” — Kelvin Fowler Copy Share Image
“You and I are poets, Mrs. Osgood. Our job is to raise questions, not to answer them.” — Lynn Cullen Copy Share Image
“There's no money in poetry, but there's no poetry in money, either.” — Robert Graves Copy Share Image
“You brought me your darkness & I loved you with the radiant tears of a thousand suns.” — Curtis Tyrone Jones Copy Share Image
