when a poem says something that could not have been said in any other way, in music, prose, sculpture, movement or paint,… — Sybil Marshall Copy Share Image
I don't write poems with a purpose in mind, but I'd hope that some readers would find their experiences mirrored or articulated… — Deborah Landau Copy Share Image
“But there is a third mode of trancendence: in it language simply ceases, and the motion of spirit gives no further outward… — George Steiner Copy Share Image
“I loved you unabashedly in the rain, you were real, raw, accustomed to pain. I loved you mostly in the rain, where… — Melody Lee Copy Share Image
“]Sardis often turning her thoughts here ] you like a goddess and in your song most of all she rejoiced. But now… — Sappho Copy Share Image
“Don’t let the bad times get you down, You have some of those moments where life tells you, it’s time to cry.… — Tiffany McDaniel, On the Savage Side Copy Share Image
“the price of creation is never too high. the price of living with other people always is.” — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
“I have put my arm down forever to interrupt the men who want more hair." from the poem "Pasadena" collected in Own… — Clark Coolidge Copy Share Image
Poets and beggars, musicians and prophets, warriors and scoundrels, all creatures of that unbridled reality, we have had to ask but little… — Eduardo Galeano Copy Share Image
“He ate and drank the precious words, His spirit grew robust; He knew no more that he was poor, Nor that his… — Emily Dickinson Copy Share Image
It is funny, and also a bit sad, that poets are so often asked to justify our vocation. There seems to be… — Matthew Zapruder Copy Share Image
“She was a Phantom of delight When first she gleam'd upon my sight; A lovely Apparition, sent To be a moment's ornament:… — William Wordsworth Copy Share Image
“She knew she was really sad when she stopped loving the things she loved.” — Atticus Poetry Copy Share Image
“I - will have poetry in my life. And adventure. And love. Love above all.” — Marc Norman Copy Share Image
“Even up until these final eons of time, we felt we could create anything. We could build ourselves a heaven. But why?… — Mark Z. Danielewski Copy Share Image
“KINGDOM OF THE WOMB From her thighs, she gives you life And how you treat she who gives you life Shows how… — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image
“we discover through relationships that sometimes the person we fall for cannot comprehend the love we provide” — R.H. Sin Copy Share Image
It took me 14 years to write poems about Vietnam. I had never thought about writing about it, and in a way… — Yusef Komunyakaa Copy Share Image
Of all human events, perhaps, the publication of a first volume of verses is the most insignificant; but though a matter of… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
[He] had the soul of a poet, and because of this, he liked very much to consider questions that had no answers. — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
“motives are like little flies flying around in my room. I believe I've killed most of them” — Dmitry Dyatlov Copy Share Image
Wherein lies a poet's claim to originality? That he invents his incidents? No. That he was present when his episodes had their… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
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