Every other species of talent carries with it its eternity; we enjoy the work of the poet, the painter, the sculptor, only… — Letitia Elizabeth Landon Copy Share Image
Give me a flagon of red wine, a book of verses, a loaf of bread, and a little idleness. If with such… — Omar Khayyam Copy Share Image
I dropped my hoe and ran into the house and started to write this poem, 'End of Summer.’ It began as a… — Stanley Kunitz Copy Share Image
Really, he thought, if you couldn't trust a poet to offer sensible advice, who could you trust? — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
I think it comes from really liking literary forms. Poetry is very beautiful, but the space on the page can be as… — Jim Jarmusch Copy Share Image
I don't think I've ever quite grown out of it, actually. There was a point where I could recite some of those… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
The dust comes secretly day after day, Lies on my ledge and dulls my shining things. But O this dust I shall… — Viola Meynell Copy Share Image
“I knew he was the one when he mended my wings and looked forward to where they would take me. Embrace those… — Melody Lee Copy Share Image
“The season was waning fast Our nights were growing cold at last I took her to bed with silk and song, 'Lay… — Roman Payne Copy Share Image
The function of poetry is religious invocation of the muse; its use is the experience of mixed exaltation and horror that her… — Robert Graves Copy Share Image
One day you will take me completely out of myself, I'll do what the angels cannot do. Your eyelash will write on… — Rumi Copy Share Image
“The story of that first ascent to Leh from Manali is in this verse that I wrote after that terrible drive. To… — Rishad Saam Mehta Copy Share Image
Happy who in his verse can gently steer From grave to light, from pleasant to severe. — Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux Copy Share Image
I was living in Britain and then America, but it wasn't until I returned to live in Ireland in the late '70s… — Ian McElhinney Copy Share Image
“Creed by Abigail Carroll, p.196-197 I believe in the life of the word, the diplomacy of food. I believe in salt-thick ancient… — Sarah Arthur Copy Share Image
“Songs of longing! And they will resound in my letters, just as they always have, sometimes loudly and sometimes secretly so that… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
I also became a poet, and for one year lived in a Paradise of my own creation; I imagined that I also… — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley Copy Share Image
“Poetry is a separate language, or more specifically, a language within a language.” — Paul Valéry Copy Share Image
Fact is not truth, but a poet who willfully defies fact cannot achieve truth. — Robert Graves Copy Share Image
When we want culture more than potatoes, and illumination more than sugar-plums, then the great resources of a world are taxed anddrawn… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
A so-called happy marriage corresponds to love as a correct poem to an improvised song. — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Copy Share Image
I've done a number of readings at poetry lounges in Vancouver and Los Angeles. I've compiled a book of poetry that's completed,… — Corin Nemec Copy Share Image
I am not at all clear what free verse is anymore. That's one of the things you learn not to know. — Howard Nemerov Copy Share Image
“Colored by a pure love, stay the night, and next day wake me with delight. (Kipyang: `Hued`)” — Kathleen Jane Borja Copy Share Image
