“... and all the hurts and scars / Of everyday were healed, and I would sleep / Safe with the good-night memory of stars.” — Jane Merchant Copy Share Image
“It was the period in Germany of Goethe’s highest fame. Notwithstanding his rather condescending attitude towards patriotism he had been adopted as… — William Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
I don’t write poetry when I wish, I write when I can’t, when my larynx is flooded and my throat is shut. — Anna Kamienska Copy Share Image
Written in support of abolishing the Corn Laws, it became Elliott's most famous poem. The Peoples Anthem When wilt thou save the… — Ebenezer Elliott Copy Share Image
“Girls are cruelest to themselves,” observes Anne Carson in “The Glass Essay,” her brilliant long poem about the ravages of female anger,… — Maggie Nelson Copy Share Image
One of my greatest joys is poetry. I read it almost every day, and I've even taken a stab at writing some… — Maria Shriver Copy Share Image
I have spent a good many years since―too many, I think―being ashamed about what I write. I think I was forty before… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
A cool & diversified version of a mix tape. The BreakBeat Poets is a thorough and complete summation of Golden Era writers… — Chance the Rapper Copy Share Image
“To be a poet, I realized, a true poet, was to become the Avatar of humanity incarnate; to accept the mantle of… — Dan Simmons Copy Share Image
“If I had known his favorite game was mental twister, I would have suggested a movie over game night.” — Alfa H Copy Share Image
“I listen to the rainfall, my words wanna flow! Droplets run down the wall, where do they go? Letters in the raw,… — Leslie Austin Copy Share Image
Not all tears tell sad stories. Not all laughter tells the truth. So, what my eyes are saying, is I can't imagine… — Yust Lundberg Copy Share Image
Some certified nut Will try to tell you it's poetry, (It's extraordinary, it makes a great deal of sense) But watch out… — John Ashbery Copy Share Image
Multitude, solitude: equal and interchangeable terms for the active and prolific poet. — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
I always say that a poet loves the world, and the prose writer needs to create an alternative world. — Mary Karr Copy Share Image
I don't think that you can say by any stretch of the imagination that all Wisconsin or Brooklyn-based poets write in a… — Matthea Harvey Copy Share Image
“O wayfarer! Yearn finds quench, not in meadows, seashores or altitude of mountain peaks; but when being and dance are one.” — Shah Asad Rizvi Copy Share Image
I am interested in the confines of the page and busting through/off the page as well. A writer must let go of… — Denise Duhamel Copy Share Image
“Quiet Prayer: As long as the sun shall rise goes the old lovers vow. But we are children of a scientific age… — Brian Andreas Copy Share Image
“If movements were a spark every dancer would desire to light up in flames.” — Shah Asad Rizvi Copy Share Image
“And for you, I think, a religious life,' she said, a calm certainty all over her crisscrossed face. She didn't even bother… — Patricia Lockwood Copy Share Image
If you want to write poetry, you must have poems that deeply move you. Poems you can't live without. I think of… — Ralph Fletcher Copy Share Image
