I sit in my tree I sing like the birds My beak is my pen My songs are my poems. — David Almond Copy Share Image
A poet's autobiography is his poetry. Anything else is just a footnote. — Yevgeny Yevtushenko Copy Share Image
“Poetry, playing with your words until you breathe life into them.” — Morgan Dragonwillow Copy Share Image
To be a poet did not occur to me. It was indeed a threshold guarded by demons. — Harold Bloom Copy Share Image
...and then, I have nature and art and poetry, and if that is not enough, what is enough? — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Teasing tongues Twisted Sheets Tangled in love Those are about the only things tidy and proper this morning.” — Melody Lee Copy Share Image
As a kid, I loved Godot because of the poetry and the humor and the strangeness, but then as you get older,… — Nathan Lane Copy Share Image
Learn poetry by heart. If you know a poem by heart, no one can take it away from you, and you can… — Raymond Aubrac Copy Share Image
I'm very proud of the fact that I'm one of Britain's biggest selling poets. That gives me a huge amount of pleasure. — Felix Dennis Copy Share Image
Test of the poet is knowledge of love, For Eros is older than Saturn or Jove; Never was poet, of late or… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
As a poet I would say everything should be able to come into a poem but I can't put toothbrushes in a… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
In terms of smaller changes over time, I think good plays are like poems. Every syllable counts. So I wrestle with word… — Stephen Karam Copy Share Image
It’s never going to be very mainstream. One reason is that poetry requires concentration, both on the part of the writer and… — Simon Armitage Copy Share Image
“Dr. Urbino replied without looking at her: “I did not know that fellow was a poet.” And then he wiped him from… — Gabriel García Márquez Copy Share Image
In England especially, poetry's woven into the background fabric of society. And in Ireland, it's in the foreground. The place of the… — David Whyte Copy Share Image
I'm moving to Rio permanently with my family. It's one of the places left in the world where people still live with… — Vincent Cassel Copy Share Image
The power of a gun can kill and the power of fire can burn. The power of wind can chill and the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
These Germans seem an odd race, a mixture of clay and spirit - what with their beer-drinking and smoking, and their slow,… — Harriet Beecher Stowe Copy Share Image
The experiment of the poem is mostly intuitive. I write the first draft, pulling in the various elements that interest me, in… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Poetry is not Irish or any other nationality; and when writers such as Messrs. Clarke, Farren and the late F. R. Higgins… — Patrick Kavanagh Copy Share Image
I am looking for a poem that says Everything so I don't have to write anymore. — Tukaram Copy Share Image
The poet lights the light and fades away. But the light goes on and on. — Emily Dickinson Copy Share Image
A poet is the translator of the silent language of nature to the world. — Rufus Wilmot Griswold Copy Share Image
“In China we believe "rob the rich to feed the poor." But robbers here have no poetry.” — Xiaolu Guo Copy Share Image
“What would your shoes say about the things you do everyday?” — Sherley Mondesir-Prescott Copy Share Image
My poetry has become the way of my giving out what music is within me. — Countee Cullen Copy Share Image
James McMurtry is a true Americana poet - actually he is a poet regardless of genre — Michael Nesmith Copy Share Image
I don't write poems to melt your heart. I write them, so our hearts can melt together. — Subhan Zein Copy Share Image
My love is a thousand French poets puking black blood on your Cure CD collection. — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
People are born with the knack to write poems and songs. I'm not a poet at all. — Petra Haden Copy Share Image
