A novel is what you call something that won't sell if you call it poems or short stories. — Walker Percy Copy Share Image
To me, a poem is almost like someone whispering to another person, or you hear the whispering in your head. I hope… — Rita Dove Copy Share Image
“The voice you hear when you read to yourself is the clearest voice: you speak it speaking to you.” — Thomas Lux Copy Share Image
“Lurking behind this connecting silence is a brooding suspicion over the extent to which the perceptual user-preferences of the human animal limit… — Don Paterson Copy Share Image
“71. Rare Things -- A son-in-law who's praised by his wife's father. Likewise, a wife who's loved by her mother-in-law. A pair… — Sei Shōnagon Copy Share Image
“One could say that Hopkins practiced transubstantiation in every poem. By mysterious talent, he changed plain element into reality sublime. He encountered… — Margaret R. Ellsberg Copy Share Image
“Poetry, philosophy, and physics all teach us that we don’t experience time in equal increments.” — Sheryl Sandberg Copy Share Image
“In that house I built a bonfire that illuminated the fecund earth around it. And in that split-level my friend Tommy, only… — B.J. Ward Copy Share Image
Some of us – poets are not exactly poets. We live sometimes – beyond the word. — Wole Soyinka Copy Share Image
Poetry itself hasn't been well served by poets who fled to the margins. — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
“I believe that poems die the moment they are outwardly expressed.” — Maurice Maeterlinck Copy Share Image
“the activity of modern poets stands under the decree of necessity, as though they were building a pyramid, the monstruos residence of… — Hugo von Hofmannsthal Copy Share Image
“i deem her insecurities insufferable turn-offs as if the male standard for sexiness is a gospel that demands she stop starving herself… — Britt Greifeld Copy Share Image
Poetry is a mirror which makes beautiful that which is distorted. — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
“Look upward to him Look to him for everything Look to him for help Look to him for comfort” — April Nichole Copy Share Image
“Your house has two colors," she said, while looking up at a corner of my ceiling and walls. "Yes," I replied. "Why… — Jeffrey A. White Copy Share Image
I know that in some ways I operate from a kind of antiquated interest in imagery, while many contemporary poets are not… — Martha Ronk Copy Share Image
I actually can't listen to music and write poetry at the same time, but I do kind of think about the music… — Shane McCrae Copy Share Image
Both poet and painter want to reach the silence behind the language, the silence within the language. Both painter and poet want… — Howard Nemerov Copy Share Image
Modesty, tis a virtue not often found among poets, for almost every one of them thinks himself the greatest in the world. — Miguel de Cervantes Copy Share Image
Mandelstam is the sort of poet who comes along very, very rarely. Even the two Russian poets whose work is often linked… — Christian Wiman Copy Share Image
“When you write about what you dream, you become a writer. When you dream about what you write, you become haunted by… — Amal Saleh Copy Share Image
...the prominent Egyptian government minister, university professor, and writer Taha Hussein...devoted himself to the study of pre-Islamic Arabian poetry and ended up… — Toby Lester Copy Share Image
Before people complain of the obscurity of modern poetry, they should first examine their consciences and ask themselves with how many people… — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
“One-and-twenty sorts of birds,” said Ser Kyle. “One-and-twenty sorts of bird droppings,” said Ser Maynard. “You have no poetry in your heart,… — George R.R. Martin Copy Share Image
“what is poetry, how can I even think of meter, metaphor, as you lie dying, swollen & agonized in your pretty gown” — Sandra M. Gilbert Copy Share Image
“At the end of the day I went to this place where your memories left footsteps on my skin and the breath… — robert m drake Copy Share Image
“I have no heart? Perhaps I have not; / But then you're mad to take offense / That I don't give you… — Christina Rossetti Copy Share Image
“A fortress built long ago, Walls made timeless by historic glory. The small girl in the boat slows, To listen to its… — Rachel Lewis Copy Share Image
“I am glad it cannot happen twice, the fever of first love. For it is a fever, and a burden, too, whatever… — Daphne du Maurier Copy Share Image
I used to think all poets were Byronic Mad, bad and dangerous to know. And then I met a few. See Lamb 486:25. — Wendy Cope Copy Share Image
I am looking for a poem that says Everything so I don't have to write anymore. — Tukaram Copy Share Image
“When I was hungry I fed almost daily on the words of her songs.” — Jaroslav Seifert Copy Share Image
“If I could write words Like leaves on an autumn forest floor, What a bonfire my letters would make. If I could… — Spike Milligan Copy Share Image
“She was a beautiful dreamer. The kind of girl, who kept her head in the clouds, loved above the stars and left… — robert m drake Copy Share Image
It is never the thing but the version of the thing: The fragrance of the woman not her self, Her self in… — Wallace Stevens Copy Share Image
“ENDURANCE I don't know you, But I love you, Just as God loves me and you. The sun and the moon Are… — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image
“The Correspondence-School Instructor Says Goodbye to His Poetry Students Goodbye, lady in Bangor, who sent me snapshots of yourself, after definitely hinting… — Galway Kinnell Copy Share Image
“How could I live above the water or breathe under it. How could I swim in darkness consumed in an ocean of… — robert m drake Copy Share Image
