He who would write heroic poems should make his whole life a heroic poem. — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
I am a greedy poet. I keep munching life all the time. Sweet, sour and bitter moments. — Gulzar Copy Share Image
“I'd gladly trade the world And all of its gold, To see you safe in this fragile life.” — Maddy Kobar Copy Share Image
“Mother of otherness, Eat me. --from "Poem for a Birthday - Who", written 1960” — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
“To storm, a mind, it must be balanced, by what can't be it must be challenged...” — Will Advise Copy Share Image
My poems are almost all written as Diane. I don't have any problems with that, and if other women choose to identify… — Diane Wakoski Copy Share Image
“When she broke your heart did she also crack your spine so you would always fall in her direction?” — Lauren Bullock Copy Share Image
Poems don't have to rhyme... Poems are about beauty and emotion; in other words poems are about feelings. — Nikki Giovanni Copy Share Image
“And as for writing my poetry, he claimed the toil of it was too much strain. Toil? Writing is my life. It… — Nancy Moser Copy Share Image
“You don’t sound like a scientist, you sound like a poet.” Rey smiled, “Can I be both?” But you’d rather be a… — Daniel Alarcon Copy Share Image
When a man and a woman die, as poets sung, His heart's the last part moves, her last, the tongue. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
I would say, from an all-around point of view, Bruce Springsteen is one of the two great poet lords of America, Bob… — Clive Davis Copy Share Image
I've always written poetry and lyrics. My first husband, who was a musician, we wrote a bunch of songs together. — P. J. Soles Copy Share Image
Durable, memorable poetry is usually alert to complexity. A really good poem gives you a reason to read it 20 times, because… — Stephen Burt Copy Share Image
“Where did this come from?” I bristle at the question. “I wrote it right in front of you. I didn’t cheat.” “I’m… — Brigid Kemmerer Copy Share Image
“Pain Fuels My Pen (Sonnet) When I started writing, I had a partner, I had plans to settle in Sofia with her.… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
While poetry was less professionalized than it is now, I still had this urge to win prizes and see my work in… — Denise Duhamel Copy Share Image
“If for a moment you are inclined to regard these taluses as mere draggled, chaotic dumps, climb to the top of one… — John Muir Copy Share Image
Anybody is qualified, according to everybody, for giving opinions upon poetry. It is not so in chemistry and mathematics. Nor is it… — Elizabeth Barrett Browning Copy Share Image
The idea of a poem as a message in a bottle means that it's sent out towards some future reader, and the… — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
“Once, in Thessaly, there was a poet called Simonides. He was commissioned to appear at a banquet, given by a man called… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
“...your memory is a warm stone hidden in my hand I'm always turning over...” — John Geddes Copy Share Image
Poetry is the skin that I have between my body and the world's body. — Lucie Brock-Broido Copy Share Image
“A poet is a pillar of light in the darkness. Sir Kristian Goldmund Aumann” — Sir Kristian Goldmund Aumann Copy Share Image
Light is more important than the lantern, The poem more important than the notebook — Nizar Qabbani Copy Share Image
“There is a war inside you begging for peace. I pray you find your strength.” — N.M.Sanchez Copy Share Image
“Not many get to see this side of him. So, if you do, know that you’re lucky.” — Liz Newman Copy Share Image
“So what if the air in Paris smells of romance? My shirt smells of you.” — Pooja Nansi Copy Share Image
Poetry is a comforting piece of fiction set to more or less lascivious music. — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
