The central fact of my life has been the existence of words and the possibility of weaving those words into poetry. — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
All the best have something in common, a regard for reality, an agreement to its primacy over the imagination. Even the richest,… — Wislawa Szymborska Copy Share Image
My love poem what do you think? How do I start? What do I say? I love you and you take my… — Me Copy Share Image
“A writer is someone who spends years patiently trying to discover the second being inside him, and the world that makes him… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
“I couldn’t figure out which of these ideas, if any, was at the core of the poem. But thinking about the grass… — John Green Copy Share Image
“Don’t pack out! To some people, you make life bright When you decide to dim your light Their lives will be full… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
“... And one day it dawned on me that I had spent entirely too much time waiting on you to grow a… — Alfa H Copy Share Image
And treating poetry as a performing art emphasizes its ephemerality. A printed poem can be endlessly reprinted, photocopied, scanned, uploaded, cut and… — James Arthur Copy Share Image
“But this music. This music has limbs that can hold me into morning.” — Aimee Herman Copy Share Image
“So bashful when I spied her! So pretty ― so ashamed! So hidden in her leaflets Lest anybody find ― So breathless… — Emily Dickinson Copy Share Image
“The poets and artists and philosophers, resistance activists, secret scouts and troublemakers, had become, as they must, soldiers.” — China Miéville Copy Share Image
“He wishes he were a skilled poet, it would fit his chosen image perfectly; the poor, tragic, tortured artiste. But he has… — Curtis Ackie Copy Share Image
Oh! That was poetry!" said Pippin. "Do you really mean to start before the break of day? — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“do you dare to step in- to the vulnerable black, stripped to the soul with human blindness – when the full and… — Beth Morey Copy Share Image
Poets... are literal-minded men who will squeeze a word till it hurts. — Archibald MacLeish Copy Share Image
The good poet welds his theft into a whole of feeling which is unique, utterly different than that from which it is… — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
“That’s the beauty of poetry,” I said. “That language is inadequate to describe life. So poetry just tries to bring up emotions.… — Victor Methos Copy Share Image
“I wanted his hands at my back and his lips speaking poems on mine and our journey to each other to be… — Allie Condie Copy Share Image
“Usually when your imagination is bigger then one's comprehension, this normally means you've out grown the small circle. Get with like-mined people… — Takina Cupp Copy Share Image
I rarely think of poetry as something I make happen; it is more accurate to say that it happens to me. Like… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
