I've had the good fortune to read a lot of great American writers in translation, and my absolute beloved, for me one… — Wislawa Szymborska Copy Share Image
“He never described himself as a poet or his work as poetry. The fact that the lines do not come to the… — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
“In most poetic expressions of patriotism, it is impossible to distinguish what is one of the greatest human virtues from the worst… — W.H. Auden Copy Share Image
“The Uses Of Sorrow (In my sleep I dreamed this poem) Someone I loved once gave me a box full of darkness.… — Mary Oliver Copy Share Image
“△ Remembrance of the Whole A Poem by Alexander Martini To remember is not to retrieve facts. It is to reawaken the… — Alexander Martini Copy Share Image
“Always learn poems by heart. They have to become the marrow in your bones. Like Fluoride in the water, they'll make your… — Janet Finch Copy Share Image
In poetic thought, the role of the subconscious is played by euphony. — Joseph Brodsky Copy Share Image
On a very personal level, I have fond memories of spending a lot of time in the Library of Congress working on… — Natasha Trethewey Copy Share Image
I had originally planned to do musical theatre and be on Broadway, but then my love for poetry also set in. Once… — Khalid Copy Share Image
“Writing poetry is a passion, ignited by thoughts, fueled by ink. A way to travel through another mind, where souvenirs of tears… — Renee Dixon Copy Share Image
Increasingly, those who used to teach and write critical or theoretical texts are writing fiction, poetry and so on; and kinds of… — Nicholas Royle Copy Share Image
“LADY LAZARUS I have done it again. One year in every ten I manage it-- A sort of walking miracle, my skin… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
It is not just shameful for a contemporary American poet to use rhymes, it is unthinkable. It seems banal to him; he… — Joseph Brodsky Copy Share Image
I don't see that a single line can constitute a stanza, although it can constitute a whole poem. — James Fenton Copy Share Image
“But usually not. Usually she thinks of the path to his house, whether deer had eaten the tops of the fiddleheads, why… — Robert Hass Copy Share Image
“The imperfect is our paradise. —WALLACE STEVENS, “The Poems of Our Climate,” 1938.” — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
Poetry on TV doesn't have to be like a newscast with someone staring blankly at the camera, pretending they're not reading from… — Michael Rosen Copy Share Image
I love teaching poetry writing. Students come into the class thinking poetry has to be one way, then leave having created pieces… — Cate Marvin Copy Share Image
A poem with grandly conceived and executed stanzas, such as one of Keats's odes, should be like an enfilade of rooms in… — James Fenton Copy Share Image
Sometimes I'll sing the same verse through the entire song, because the other verses aren't clicking. And when they do come to… — Tom Araya Copy Share Image
See it was like this when we waltz into this place. A couple of papish cats is doing an Aztec two-step And… — Lawrence Ferlinghetti Copy Share Image
For my part, if I consider poetry as an object, I maintain that it is born of the necessity of adding a… — Eugenio Montale Copy Share Image
"Poetry" refers to the quite challenging and quite resistant sets of words put together to be admired and interpreted by people who… — Stephen Burt Copy Share Image
People get anxious about dividing sorts of poetry, say Confessionalism from political poetry. But Confessionalism is very much an expression of racial… — Shane McCrae Copy Share Image
The terrible poetry of human nudity, I understand it at last, I who tremble for the first time in trying to read… — Rachilde Copy Share Image
“We have not all had the good fortune to be ladies. We have not all been generals, or poets, or statesmen; but… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
You may ... make a little recreation of poetry, in the midst of your painful studies. Nevertheless, I cannot but advise you.… — Cotton Mather Copy Share Image
My verse your virtues rare shall eternize, And in the heavens write yourglorious name. Where, whenas death shall allthe world subdue, Our… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Learn to use your third eye and you’ll be able to see beyond the sky. There is no limit, except that which… — Melody Lee Copy Share Image
“Little Cinder Girl, they can't understand you. You rise from the as-heap in a blaze and only then do they recognize you… — Jeannine Hall Gailey Copy Share Image
“the worst thing that ever happened to the world was the white man coming across gun powder. –– the end of the… — Nayyirah Waheed Copy Share Image
I'm not against ambition and reach, but if you can say it in four lines, why waste your time saying it in… — Michael Longley Copy Share Image
It is surprising to see what superficial, inconsequential reasonings satisfy the most part of mankind. A piece of wit, a jest, a… — John Arbuthnot Copy Share Image
