“~A Comparison of Seasons~ Snow's unforgiving power causes some men to wish for spring's flower. Some might hate snow's bitter chill, but… — Seth D Copy Share Image
“Terror is an artery. Running unfailing channels of bloodied thoroughfares by dint of the wilds beyond our knowing. Fluctuations and murmurs are… — J.C. Whitfield Copy Share Image
“but take away his poems and what does he have left? He wants to write more poems, enough to fill half the… — Nachoem M Wijnberg Copy Share Image
What I do say is that I can write verse, and that the writing of verse in strict form is the best… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
“Poets and philosophers are the unacknowledged legislators of the world.” — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
A poem is a frozen moment melted by each reader for themselves to flow into the here and now. — Hilde Domin Copy Share Image
“In times of old when I was new And Hogwarts barely started The founders of our noble school Thought never to be… — J.K. Rowling Copy Share Image
For the last 15 years that I have been performing, all I ever wanted to do was transcend poetry to the world.… — Lemon Andersen Copy Share Image
I've always just liked writing poetry, but it's much later that I've discovered that there's this whole poetry world out there, that… — Victoria Chang Copy Share Image
It is not the poet's business to save man's soul but to make it worth saving . . . However, few poets… — James Elroy Flecker Copy Share Image
“Robert Frost didn’t like to explain his poems—and for good reason: to explain a poem is to suck the air from its… — Tony Leuzzi Copy Share Image
“The English departments were clogged with worthy but outworn and backwardlooking scholars whose tastes in the moderns were most often superficial, random,… — Robert Lowell Copy Share Image
“A Spanish poet, Antonio Machado, once said: ‘Dijiste media verdad. Dirán que mientes dos veces si dices la otra mitad.’” “Translated means…”… — Olga Núñez Miret Copy Share Image
“Why, man, he doth bestride the narrow world Like a Colossus; and we petty men Walk under his huge legs, and peep… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
“It may have been just another night to all the people I saw rushing past my left and my right... but my… — Alfa H Copy Share Image
Perhaps no poet is a conscious plagiarist, but there seems to be warrant for suspecting that there is no poet who is… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
A Poem from Edna St. Vincent Millay: Grown-up Was it for this I uttered prayers, And sobbed and cursed and kicked the… — Edna St. Vincent Millay Copy Share Image
Elements burst, gave birth the the verse, get the pen from the nurse, but hook the mic up first. — Rakim Copy Share Image
When the poet's sentiments are overly visible, the audience may become uncomfortable. Japanese ritual is the opposite. By writing simply and only… — Naoto Fukasawa Copy Share Image
Solitude produces originality, bold and astonishing beauty, poetry. But solitude also produces perverseness, the disproportianate, the absurd and the forbidden. — Thomas Mann Copy Share Image
“I'm really very sorry, but it is not my fault. People are so annoying. All my pianists look exactly like poets, and… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Among all the valuable things of this world, the word is the most precious. For in the word one can find a… — Hazrat Inayat Khan Copy Share Image
“It was the answer to the wrong mystery--the mystery I didn't ever want to solve. And so we sat there in the… — Robyn Schneider Copy Share Image
