“Our lives may not have fit together, but ohhh did our souls know how to dance...” — K. Towne Jr Copy Share Image
Roses are red, that much is true, but violets are purple, not fucking blue. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“One of the ex-sucias publishes a poem about you online. It's called "El Puto” — Junot Díaz Copy Share Image
A poem needs imaginative rhythms as well as imaginative transformation of content. — Helen Vendler Copy Share Image
“moonlight disappears down the hills mountains vanish into fog and i vanish into poetry.” — Sanober Khan Copy Share Image
His only son, is only 21, And focus as a poet has only just begun. Pappa isn't done, he understands what this… — Asher Roth Copy Share Image
Italian is the language of song. German is good for philosophy and English for poetry. French is best at precision; it has… — Maurice Druon Copy Share Image
“The judge sentenced us to life— real, awake life out of the jails we had been roaming in— life in prism— then… — BJ Ward Copy Share Image
I really like accompanying. I like working with vocalists, I've worked with a lot of poets. — Z'EV Copy Share Image
“It creates anew the universe after it has been annihilated in our minds by the recurrence of impressions blunted by reiteration.” — Percy Shelley Copy Share Image
The music of language became extremely important to me, and obvious to me. By the time I was seven I was writing… — June Jordan Copy Share Image
Poetry is the renewal of words, setting them free, and that's what a poet is doing: loosening the words. — Robert Frost Copy Share Image
I think there was a revolution in poetry, associated chiefly with Eliot and Pound; but maybe it is of the nature of… — Howard Nemerov Copy Share Image
“There was a distinct class of these gentlemen tramps, young men no longer young, who wouldn't settle down, who disliked polite society… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
“The English were fascinated with the Italian people and their amazing Epicurean culture. Italian poetry, painting, pornography, music, drama, fashion, wine, women,… — Mark Lamonica Copy Share Image
Poetry is simply literature reduced to the essence of its active principle. It is purged of idols of every kind, of realistic… — Paul Valery Copy Share Image
A poet needs to keep his wilderness alive inside him. To remain a poet after forty requires an awareness of your darkest… — Stanley Kunitz Copy Share Image
“When he asks you why you chose alone all these years. Tell him that it’s because you love with all claws and… — Danabelle Gutierrez Copy Share Image
“THE SILENT PEOPLE Some people are so rude, Living their lives with no concern for others, Or possibly just intent on pissing… — Giorge Leedy Copy Share Image
“Tomorrow I shall write something beautiful, something so serene that storms will rise suddenly and protest with ferocious screams. I shall write… — Tonny K. Brown Copy Share Image
No man can be explained by his personal history, least of all a poet. — Katherine Anne Porter Copy Share Image
A merely great intellect can produce prose, but not poetry, not one line. — Edward Thomas Copy Share Image
He did not profess to anybody how to reach others without professing. — Dejan Stojanovic Copy Share Image
“The distinction between poets and prose writers is a vulgar error.” — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
After Homer and Dante, is a whole century of creating worth one Shakespeare? — Dejan Stojanovic Copy Share Image
“A slap in the face or a box on the ear helps to educate not only children but poets.” — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“I think people should know that moving on doesn't always mean letting go.” — Bailey Nadeen Copy Share Image
Every phrase and every sentence is an end and a beginning, every poem an epitaph. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
