“Until we say the truth, there can be no tenderness. As long as there is desire, we will not be safe” — Tony Hoagland Copy Share Image
I culled poetry from odors, sounds, faces, and ordinary events occurring around me. Breezes bulged me as if I were cloth; sounds… — Jimmy Santiago Baca Copy Share Image
We aren't suggesting that mental instability or unhappiness makes one a better poet, or a poet at all; and contrary to the… — Dorianne Laux Copy Share Image
I was a victim of a stereotype. There were only two of us Negro kids in the whole class, and our English… — Langston Hughes Copy Share Image
“Dante's poem, Langdon was now reminded, was not so much about the misery of hell as it was about the power of… — Dan Brown Copy Share Image
I am a romantic, in a literary way, by which I mean the Romantic poets, who thought just because a sensation is… — Sebastian Faulks Copy Share Image
For me, there is a paradox in poetry, which is like the paradox in tragedy. You have the most terrible subject, but… — Tony Harrison Copy Share Image
“I was writing a poem, and suddenly, I fell asleep on a page. I was dreaming of you. You were talking to… — Amany Al-Hallaq Copy Share Image
“Inscribed on it was a verse from the Quatrains of Omar Khayyam, the eleventh-century Persian mystic. Reading the words aloud I prepared… — Tahir Shah Copy Share Image
We have to raise the consciousness; the only way poets can change the world is to raise the consciousness of the general… — Lawrence Ferlinghetti Copy Share Image
I've had it with these cheap sons of bitches who claim they love poetry but never buy a book. — Kenneth Rexroth Copy Share Image
The poets have familiarized more people with history than have the historians. — Barbara Tuchman Copy Share Image
When I was in college, I used to write little ditties and short stories and poetry for my friends. Writing a book… — Mario Batali Copy Share Image
I wish I could make this better, dry the river of your tears. Take away the pain you're feeling, the memories of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
For me, musicians are poets. Beethoven describes himself as a poet of tones, just like Coltrane's a poet of tempo. — Cornel West Copy Share Image
“ Variation on the Word Sleep I would like to watch you sleeping, which may not happen. I would like to watch… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
I don't write poetry and then strum some chords and then fit the words on top of the chords. — Andrew Bird Copy Share Image
The poem is a little myth of man's capacity of making life meaningful. — Robert Penn Warren Copy Share Image
“She was afraid of heights but she was much more afraid of never flying.” — Atticus Poetry Copy Share Image
This is the nature of love." Vashet said. "To attempt to describe it will drive a woman mad. This is what keeps… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
In the love poetry of every age, the woman longs to be weighed down by the man's body. — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
Rene Char wrote somewhere, apropos poetry, that there are those who create and those who discover; they are too completely different worlds.… — Henri Cartier-Bresson Copy Share Image
