I love kids that come to shows, little kids coming up to you with braces; like, some kid came up to me… — Jim Carroll Copy Share Image
“gravity chains us to the asphalt with such grace, we think it is kind.” — Maura O'Connor Copy Share Image
By its very looseness, by its way of evoking rather than defining, suggesting rather than saying, English is a magnificent vehicle for… — Max Beerbohm Copy Share Image
But most men regard their life as a poem that women threaten. They may not have two spondees to rub together but… — Alan Bennett Copy Share Image
Any healthy man can go without food for two days - but not without poetry. — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
If every head of state and every government official spent an hour a day reading poetry we'd live in a much more… — Mark Strand Copy Share Image
Sometimes the heart wants to speak volumes when only a few, well chosen words are really necessary. Love quotes come from the… — Charyll Gatela Copy Share Image
As anyone who has the slightest knowledge of my work knows, I have little in common with Larkin, who was tall, taciturn… — Carol Ann Duffy Copy Share Image
“As artists, we create the beauty We are too afraid to live out And search, but always fall just shy Of finding… — Justin Wetch Copy Share Image
“To know if someone can speak offensively or politely, don’t give him poem to recite; don’t give him a song to sing.… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
A poet should leave traces of his passage, not proofs. Traces alone engender dreams. — Rene Char Copy Share Image
My own journey in becoming a poet began with memory - with the need to record and hold on to what was… — Natasha Trethewey Copy Share Image
It is what man does not know of God Composes the visible poem of the world. — Richard Eberhart Copy Share Image
“What is this life? A frenzy, an illusion, A shadow, a delirium, a fiction. The greatest good's but little, and this life… — Pedro Calderón de la Barca Copy Share Image
“The head's a cloud anchor that the feet must follow. Travel light, he said, or don't travel at all.” — Jim Harrison Copy Share Image
The author's conviction on this day of New Year is that music begins to atrophy when it departs too far from the… — Ezra Pound Copy Share Image
“A poem is not an expression, nor it is an object. Yet it somewhat partakes of both. What a poem is Is… — Hayden Carruth Copy Share Image
“The poetry of the new year is problematically punctual. An impeccable guest who arrives on time when you are running frantically behind… — Pavithra K. Mehta Copy Share Image
The process of preparing programs for a digital computer is especially attractive, not only because it can economically and scientifically rewarding, but… — Donald Knuth Copy Share Image
The record Clef and I did was just sitting there. So I said, Clef, I got a record, hit a verse on… — Pras Michel Copy Share Image
