My verses stand gawping a bit. I never get used to this. They've lived here long enough. — Hugo Claus Copy Share Image
“These hands will never go away they will scoop you up at anytime anytime that you want to be loved” — April Nichole Copy Share Image
We're trying to make something that lasts in language and there's no question that many fiction writers began as poets and it's… — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
In poetry you can express almost inexpressible feelings. You can express the pain of loss, you can express love. People always turn… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
Literary poetry in a painter is something special, and is neither illustration nor the translation of writing by form. — Paul Gauguin Copy Share Image
“doves exist, dreamers, and dolls; killers exist, and doves, and doves; haze, dioxin, and days; days exist, days and death; and poems… — Inger Christensen Copy Share Image
“When I get kind of low, I’d think about a verse I learned at one time, when everybody was fighting me. It… — Studs Terkel Copy Share Image
Besides the Autumn poets sing, A few prosaic days, A little this side of the snow, And that side of the Haze...,… — Emily Dickinson Copy Share Image
the only truth is face to face, the poem whose words become your mouth and dying in black and white we fight… — Frank O'Hara Copy Share Image
The unconscious wants truth, as the body does. The complexity and fecundity of dreams come from the complexity and fecundity of the… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
“i believe that everyone in the world. has one poem. that is their soulmate.” — Nayyirah Waheed Copy Share Image
I admire Ginsberg as a poet, despite the fact that he seems not to know when he is being good and when… — Leslie Fiedler Copy Share Image
For Liberal Democrats, the political choice between the hard Brexit menus offered by Boris Johnson and Jeremy Hunt might seem about as… — Ed Davey Copy Share Image
We have the ability to be the Athens of modern times as opposed to the militaristic Sparta. I remind you that the… — Rita Mae Brown Copy Share Image
“Greenery Juniper, Oracle Oak and Hop Tree, California Buckeye, and Elderberry. Pacific Dogwood and the pale green Eucalyptus, Quaking Aspen and Flannelbush.… — Nancy Boutilier Copy Share Image
“my happy is a high fever that will break, my happy is as hollow as a pin-pricked egg” — Sabrina Benaim Copy Share Image
“The Fever Bird The fever bird sand out last night. I could not sleep, try as I might. My brain was split,… — Vikram Seth Copy Share Image
“...the imagination works not so much through inspiration as through perseverance. One must slog through the false starts, spot the wrong words… — Kathleen Norris Copy Share Image
I write... sonnets... and writing sonnets is boring. You have to find rhymes; you have to write hendecasyllables; so after a while,… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
“I is for immortality, which for some poets is a necessary compensation. Presumably miserable in this life, they will be remembered when… — Mark Strand Copy Share Image
“An artist must be passionately in love with her art. Obsessed or possessed ― go mad for what you believe in.” — Charlotte Eriksson Copy Share Image
Oft morning dreams presage approaching fate, For morning dreams, as poets tell, are true. — Michael Bruce Copy Share Image
“Live in the shadow of the moon until you're bright enough to give birth to your own suns.” — Curtis Tyrone Jones Copy Share Image
