“Poetry will exist as long as there is a problem of life and death. The gift of art is a superior gift… — Ruben Copy Share Image
Poetry is statement of a series of equations, with numbers and symbols changing like the changes of mirrors, pools, skies, the only… — Carl Sandburg Copy Share Image
I think I had gotten messages really young that poetry wasn't for me, that it was for, basically, some dead white men.… — Jacqueline Woodson Copy Share Image
I know as well as thee that I am no poet born It is a trade, I never learnt nor indeed could… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
“And life is as short as a shot in the dark And as sweet as a knife in the back. (Prof. J.… — Steven William Lawrie Copy Share Image
A banal poem is never more than a banal poem. A banal or trite lyric, however, can be - with the right… — Jonathan Miles Copy Share Image
“In his comfortable coffin, face veiled in dark silk, eyes open or closed, Pan Loudermilk lies waiting, a player from a tribe… — Kathe Koja Copy Share Image
I understand the phrase "Honor the Women" all too well: the poet has probably a wife of his own, but he prefers… — Franz Grillparzer Copy Share Image
Do-gooders are easily overlooked. We're supposed to be soft, touchy-feely types, who wear Birkenstocks, compost everything, and write poetry by candlelight. — Nancy Lublin Copy Share Image
“It creates anew the universe after it has been annihilated in our minds by the recurrence of impressions blunted by reiteration.” — Percy Shelley Copy Share Image
I have always thought of poems as stepping stones in one's own sense of oneself. Every now and again, you write a… — Seamus Heaney Copy Share Image
We'd like to just write nothing but lyric poetry. The trouble is, the individual is going along intent on his own personal… — Lawrence Ferlinghetti Copy Share Image
Some of the old folk singers used to phrase things in an interesting way, and then, I got my style from seeing… — Bob Dylan Copy Share Image
“As a poet I hold the most archaic values on earth. They go back to the Neolithic: the fertility of the soil,… — Gary Snyder Copy Share Image
CEMETERY, n. An isolated suburban spot where mourners match lies, poets write at a target and stone-cutters spell for a wager. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
I link what I do more to poetry usually because it sounds less lofty than a lot of other things. — Rick Owens Copy Share Image
“Only when a system behaves in a sufficiently random way may the difference between past and future, and therefore irreversibility, enter into… — Ilya Prigogine Copy Share Image
“The best way to understand the soul of America is read Walt Whitman's poetry” — Dermot McCabe Copy Share Image
The laureateship [of U.S. Children's Poet] has brought me a couple of appealing contracts, including my first anthology, the 200-poem The National… — J. Patrick Lewis Copy Share Image
I read as much poetry as time allows and circumstance dictates: No heartache can pass without a little Dorothy Parker, no thunderstorm… — J. Courtney Sullivan Copy Share Image
What is poetry? Do not enquire. The secret dies by prying. How does the heart beat? I fainted when I saw it… — Elizabeth Smart Copy Share Image
I say, doctors are the profiteers of death and unclaimed cadavers that were once inhabited by homeless and wondering poets! — Rawi Hage Copy Share Image
Shakespeare has been praised in English more than anything mortal except poetry itself. Fame exhausts thought in his eulogy. — George Edward Woodberry Copy Share Image
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