What's the point of a promise, the world is full of lies, and money is never honest, true hearts fighting greed, green… — Cody Joseph Copy Share Image
The poem is the device through which the ordinary world is seen in a new way - engaging, compelling, even beautiful. — Ted Kooser Copy Share Image
To have Run-DMC acknowledge you, something like that, you're like, 'Oh, I'm that dude.' To have Jay-Z do a verse, you that… — Mannie Fresh Copy Share Image
The box was a universe, a poem, frozen on the boundaries of human experience. — William Gibson Copy Share Image
“…The truth: dreaming is lonely the further away the closer to this one time No one has held me for so long… — Angkarn Chanthathip Copy Share Image
We poets would die of loneliness but for women, and we choose our men friends that we may have somebody to talk… — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
“I am vulnerability under scarred skin. Numbness crawling behind wine soaked lips. A cocoon of grief battling a chest full of hushed… — Alfa H Copy Share Image
Poetry is a series of explanations of life, fading off into horizons too swift for explanations. — Carl Sandburg Copy Share Image
“I'm still in love with the parts I believed to be true. All the lies that began and ended with 'I love… — Alfa H Copy Share Image
It has always seemed to me a great honor to be called an Irish poet. I don't think I will ever lose… — Eavan Boland Copy Share Image
“Poetry flows from our hearts. It is like that mass of snow we call a glacier and when it starts its slow… — Balroop Singh Copy Share Image
I don't want to write poems that are just really clear about how I'm aware of all the traps involved in writing… — Ben Lerner Copy Share Image
Never forget that the subject is as important as your feeling; the mud puddle itself is as important as your pleasure in… — Valerie Worth Copy Share Image
The best picture has not yet been painted; the greatest poem is still unsung; the mightiest novel remains to be written; the… — Lincoln Steffens Copy Share Image
“When I stand strong in you I can look beyond the clouds With your words The sun will rise again” — April Nichole Copy Share Image
Some find Lebanese poet Kahlil Gibran’s poetry preachy and moralizing, but I find it plenty enlightening—it’s hard to object to the melodic,… — Khalil Copy Share Image
“We're in the business of melancholia and we are married to our work.” — Casey Renee Kiser Copy Share Image
In my late teenage years, I developed a real passion for it, and wrote a lot of poetry. — Danielle Steel Copy Share Image
His only son, is only 21, And focus as a poet has only just begun. Pappa isn't done, he understands what this… — Asher Roth Copy Share Image
“I am no longer in love with her, that's certain, but maybe I love her. Love is so short, forgetting is so… — Pablo Neruda Copy Share Image
He who would not be frustrate of his hope to write well hereafter in laudable things ought himself to be a true… — John Milton Copy Share Image
“ . . . after twenty centuries of stony sleep, what rough beast, its hour come round at last, slouches toward Bethlehem… — W. B. Yeats Copy Share Image
I don't know if younger poets read a lot of, you know, the poets - the established poets. There was a lot… — Robert Adamson Copy Share Image
