Poetry, when it takes sides, when it proposes solutions, isn't any smarter than anybody else. — Robert Hass Copy Share Image
“Comme certaines musiques Le poème fait chanter le silence, Amène jusqu’à toucher Un autre silence, Encore plus silence. As certain music The… — Eugène Guillevic Copy Share Image
If you're feeling pain, express that to the Lord. If you're feeling worried, express those worries. One passage that gives me comfort… — Max Lucado Copy Share Image
“I've been very influenced by folklore, fairy tales, and folk ballads, so I love all the classic works based on these things… — Terri Windling Copy Share Image
“I will not make a sonnet from Each little private martyrdom; Nor out of love left dead with time Construe a stanza… — Joseph Auslander Copy Share Image
“I have stitched life into me like a rare organ --from "Three Women: A Poem for Three Voices", written 1962” — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
A moment for the poet's play. Until there's nothing left to say. I wish for this night-time... — Nightwish Copy Share Image
If Galileo had said in verse that the world moved, the inquisition might have let him alone. — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
The success of Heine -- to become a world-famous 'unknown poet.' — Stanislaw Jerzy Lec Copy Share Image
“Then there are the other days, when nothing is enough. The poem grins. It grins because it knows it is a terrible… — Lynn Coady Copy Share Image
Precise, graceful, and generous, the poems in SuperLoop, seem to be born out of a deep, careful attention and a profound compassion.… — Ada Limon Copy Share Image
“...My voice is stained with bloody light, and I see irises dry up at its touch; in my song I wear the… — Federico García Lorca Copy Share Image
“The nature of the epistolary genre was revealed to me: a form of writing devoted to another person. Novels, poems, and so… — Amélie Nothomb Copy Share Image
“I thought you might supply some tenderness I lacked But out of all the things I offered you took my breath away… — Carrie Fisher Copy Share Image
“Yet deep inside I know that I'm truly blessed that I was loved by someone like you. I'll always love you my… — Chimnese Davids Copy Share Image
“The promising young poets, the hopefuls? I'd name Richard Wilbur, Peter Viereck, Karl Shapiro, Elizabeth Bishop, Robert Lowell, John Ciardi...Leonard Bacon...but it… — Robert Frost Copy Share Image
If creating life is art, then living and dying must be poetry. — Bethany Jane Andrews Hoey Copy Share Image
I am no poet. I do not love words for the sake of words. I love words for what they can accomplish.… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
Poetry is one of the original arts, and it began, as did all the fine arts, within the original wilderness of the… — Mary Oliver Copy Share Image
For some odd reason, the expression 'death of a poet' always sounds somewhat more concrete than 'life of a poet.' — Joseph Brodsky Copy Share Image
Some people pretend they never were in love and never wrote poetry; two weaknesses which they dare not own -- one of… — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
I've always written poetry but I didn't realise it was a therapy for me until I was maybe 15. That's when my… — Amy Winehouse Copy Share Image
I didn't know how to weigh ideas about poetry. Nothing in the life I lived as a student - and later as… — Eavan Boland Copy Share Image
