For me, a poem is an opportunity to kind of interrogate myself a little bit. — Tracy K. Smith Copy Share Image
“I like poems where you don't really know whether to laugh or cry when you read them.” — X.J. Kennedy Copy Share Image
The child and the poet know that Reality is what does not need to be realistic. — Vicki Lewis Thompson Copy Share Image
I do not give the honorific name of 'poetry' to the primitive and the unaccomplished. — Helen Vendler Copy Share Image
“I write small poems— the kind that fit on a postcard… and still can break your heart” — john j geddes Copy Share Image
The true poet is a friendly man. He takes to his arms even cold and inanimate things, and rejoices in his heart. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
“INK Everything we know The things that haunt us in our sleep The scars, The joy, The sweat, The tears Is just… — Trisha North Copy Share Image
“It's true that a picture is worth a thousand words, but it's also true that a word is worth a thousand pictures.” — Marty Johncox Copy Share Image
“from the poem: MANNEQUINS THAT SWEAT BLACK INK AND NEVER HAVE ANY FUN If you put a twizzler in your ear it… — Sam Pink Copy Share Image
Who says that fictions only and false hair Become a verse? Is there in truth no beauty? Is all good structure in… — George Herbert Copy Share Image
“We read poems from the Oxford Book of Twentieth Century Verse. Neil insisted on spilling wine over my carpet.” — Michael Palin Copy Share Image
“Those things that take my breath away become the ocean-complex and deep-and I'm prone to drowning in beautiful things. Like you.” — Melody Lee Copy Share Image
In high school I was drawn to the study of literature, poetry Shakespeare, contemporary fiction, drama, you name it - I read… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
I hope any poem I've ever written could stand on its own and not need to be a part of biography, critical… — Albert Goldbarth Copy Share Image
Do not worry about the incarnation of ideas. If you are a poet, your works will contain them without your knowledge -… — Vissarion Belinsky Copy Share Image
“Poetry can unleash a terrible fear. I suppose it is the fear of possibilities, too many possibilities, each with its own endless… — Jim Carroll Copy Share Image
In Eden I "saw" that Adam or Eve probably spoke each word FOR THE FIRST TIME and that seemed wild and seemed… — Gregory Orr Copy Share Image
“Storm Ending Thunder blossoms gorgeously above our heads, Great, hollow, bell-like flowers, Rumbling in the wind, Stretching clappers to strike our ears… — Jean Toomer Copy Share Image
“The wind smelled of humus, lichen, the musky odor of pecan husks broken under the shoe, a sunshower on the fields across… — James Lee Burke Copy Share Image
I tried to explain to her the significance of the great poet, but without much success, The Waste Land not figuring very… — Alan Bennett Copy Share Image
There are so many tender and holy emotions, flying about in out inward world, which, like angels, can never assume the body… — Jean Paul Richter Copy Share Image
“Your poem was in praise of Jesus, not in blame of Him--as you meant it to be.” — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
I was a boy when I first realized that the fullest life liveable was a Poet's — Wilfred Owen Copy Share Image
“it's a myth, you know; he doesn't have to draw blood for him to leave a scar.” — Angeli Cabal Copy Share Image
“Unasked, Unsought, Love gives itself but is not bought” — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
Humor is essential to survival. Funny poems are vastly underrated. Very underwritten. — Rachel Zucker Copy Share Image
“… the fisherman’s daughter grinding serenity in her coffee grinder.” — Yannis Ritsos Copy Share Image
“Never mock a sin of mine until you have walked a mile in my moccasins” — Neil Gevisser Copy Share Image
When Satan makes impure verses, Allah sends a divine tune to cleanse them. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
I get a huge energy transfusion from listening to poets read their works. — Grace Cavalieri Copy Share Image
