If we are moved by a poem, it has meant something, perhaps something important, to us; if we are not moved, then… — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
The ancient Greeks, poets, authors and philosophers all puzzled over the question but nobody really knows what love is - including me.… — Nicole Kidman Copy Share Image
There is a wonderful Hungarian literature, especially in lyric poetry. — Gyorgy Ligeti Copy Share Image
“I shivered in those solitudes when I heard the voice of the salt in the desert.” — Pablo Neruda Copy Share Image
Fiction writers have their own world, and poets have their own world, and literary criticism has sort of passed over into cultural… — Robert Hass Copy Share Image
Let us face a pluralistic world in which there are no universal churches, no single remedy for all diseases, no one way… — Jacques Barzun Copy Share Image
“I would lie for hours by the window gazing down upon the black lake and up at the mountains silhouetted against the… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“Today I write, riots with insite! Tomorrow I read, take the lead! Sometimes I sleep, health to keep! But for now I… — Leslie Austin Copy Share Image
Martin's Monsanto poem holds devastating power. I heard the first public reading at the Resurgence Festival of well-being in London. It brought… — Tony Juniper Copy Share Image
But in a lot of ways my poems are very conventional, and it's no big deal for me to write a poem… — Andrew Motion Copy Share Image
“I felt the threads of connection between us—fragile filaments, so easily snapped. Like the poem at shift into his side, we were… — Tammara Webber Copy Share Image
I've always tried to be a poet more than anything else. I mean, professional musicians die. — Cecil Taylor Copy Share Image
The truth, it seems, is not just what you find when you open a door: it is itself a door, which the… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
A poem may be worked over once it is in being, but may not be worried into being. — Robert Frost Copy Share Image
A poet must never make a statement simply because it is sounds poetically exciting; he must also believe it to be true. — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
I think it is our job as poets to refuse the terms that society so often sets for usefulness. That, for instance,… — Matthew Zapruder Copy Share Image
The 'idea' for the poem, which may come as an image thrown against memory, as a sound of words that sets off… — Muriel Rukeyser Copy Share Image
I've always felt that poetry is the enemy of silence, but of course, in the right moments, silence can be useful. The… — Cornelius Eady Copy Share Image
Thinking in its lower grades, is comparable to paper money, and in its higher forms it is a kind of poetry. — Havelock Ellis Copy Share Image
You'll accidentally find in barrows of books wrought-iron lines of long-buried poems, handle them with the care that respects ancient but terrible… — Bill Vaughan Copy Share Image
My own, purely personal view is that reading, study, poetry, and scientific experiment might be more rewarding than a job or children,… — Victoria Coren Mitchell Copy Share Image
“...Want to know why my roses grow dead on a living vine? Prayer against civil war. Let us hate with a single… — Robin Schiff Copy Share Image
Good poetry is like effective prayer, it feeds the human spirit, it nourishes, it puts us in touch with forces far greater… — Lorna Goodison Copy Share Image
“...take off your sweater in the darkness and static flares as a tiny lightning storm - I am the same at the… — John Geddes Copy Share Image
“Death was everywhere. Death was everything. Career. Desire. Dream. Poetry. Love. Youth itself. Dying became just another way of living.” — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
I don't think that I ever believed that poetry would be a career. I have always thought of poems as something more… — Dana Goodyear Copy Share Image
The letters of famous people can be placed into two categories: there is the type of letter which becomes itself a valuable… — Muriel Spark Copy Share Image
I used to joke that if acting didn't work out, poetry was my commonsense fallback. — Merritt Wever Copy Share Image
“I believe the poem is a sacramental act, pure devotion to whatever may be revealed only through the music of intuition. The… — Sam Hamill Copy Share Image
“Death is trash. Love is a robust engagement with the trash of another.” — Joshua Bennett Copy Share Image
“Never ask a writer what they are writing while they are writing, unless you’re prepared for sharp teeth, fangs and blood on… — Melody Lee Copy Share Image
But most love poetry is awful; nobody knows how to write good love poetry either. But that's not a reason not to… — W. S. Merwin Copy Share Image
True poetry is similar to certain pictures whose owner is unknown and which only a few initiated people know. — Eugenio Montale Copy Share Image
