“She loved to read her old poems. They are like photographs, she thought. There’s so much evidence of me.” — Leopoldine Core Copy Share Image
Chekhov is this poet of melancholy and isolation and of wishing you were somewhere else than where you are. — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
Great wine requires a mad man to grow the vine, a wise man to watch over it, a lucid poet to make… — Salvador Dali Copy Share Image
Poetry is the exquisite expression of exquisite impressions. — Philibert Joseph Roux Copy Share Image
The Soul of a Warrior. Cries out for Battle. The Soul of a Poet, Screams out for Love. I stand between them,… — Eric Nickel Copy Share Image
“If I were a poet, that’s what I’d write about. People who worked in the middle of the night. Men who loaded… — Janet Fitch Copy Share Image
Poet, forger of ideals, dreamer among the possibilities of life, prophet of the millenium, do you get impatient with the prosaic life… — J. G. Holland Copy Share Image
We fall into the old stuff of textuality, and almost everything becomes safe because nobody wants to talk about what is not… — Fady Joudah Copy Share Image
“As Auden is believed to have said, no poem saved a single Jew from the gas chambers. Never mind. Write the poems… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
“Sometimes, the only things in this world that make sense are the moon, my madness and your hands messing up my hair,… — Melody Lee Copy Share Image
I guess it was easier for me to find my voice in poetry than it was in fiction. I'm working on fiction… — Barbara Hamby Copy Share Image
“Love is not complicated. It just 'is'. The complicated part is finding two souls who are feeling it as the same time… — Alfa H Copy Share Image
It's hard to put into words. Gorillas are not complainers. We're dreamers, poets, philosophers, nap takers. — Katherine Applegate Copy Share Image
I sing, I clean house, I write poetry. I cry. And I tell everyone I can, "I Believe in YOU." — Robin Lim Copy Share Image
“I wrote my first poem about a bunny. ‘Bunny, bunny, hop hop hop. White and soft like a little mop.” — Wendy Mass Copy Share Image
I have always believed that poems beg to be read aloud, even if the reader is in a world all her own. — J. Patrick Lewis Copy Share Image
To feel most beautifully alive means to be reading something beautiful, ready always to apprehend in the flow of language the sudden… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Poetry is the opening and closing of a door, leaving those who look through to guess about what is seen during the… — Carl Sandburg Copy Share Image
I have no idea, actually, where I fit in, in terms of poetry camps. At AWP conferences, I have been on panels… — Denise Duhamel Copy Share Image
I think that the moment we're living in offers the best opportunity we've had in a long time in that a lot… — Shane McCrae Copy Share Image
A lot of young poets today, from what I've heard and experienced, can't get their heads past George W. Bush, and I've… — Amber Tamblyn Copy Share Image
“This magnificent poem [Exodus 15:1-21] has been much analyzed, dissected, scanned, and compared with an array of supposed precedent and counterpart works.… — John I. Durham Copy Share Image
