Why is it that all men who are outstanding in philosophy, poetry or the arts are melancholic? — Aristotle Copy Share Image
“Oh there once was a woman and she kept a shop selling trinkets to tourists not far from a dock who came… — John Ashbery Copy Share Image
“I do not say there were no hurts. / I say they mattered less than love.” — Jane Merchant Copy Share Image
“Nowhere in Chaucer do we find what can be called a radically allegorical poem.” — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
What we had went so much deeper than a kiss. When we were together, she turned me completely inside out. It didn't… — Kami Garcia Copy Share Image
Polyphonic prose is a kind of free verse, except that it is still freer. Polyphonic makes full use of cadence, rime, alliteration,… — Amy Lowell Copy Share Image
“...but I spoke passionately at the rallies; inspired by phrases I had read in novels and poems, I would weave words together… — Azar Nafisi Copy Share Image
“We met at the blue lagoon on the even of a full moon. Dancing wild like those gypsy girls, with their messy… — Melody Lee Copy Share Image
I try not to observe myself in the process of composing a poem because I don't want to come up with a… — Thom Gunn Copy Share Image
For as fire is kindled by fire, so is a poet's mind kindled by contact with a brother poet. — John Keble Copy Share Image
“Good poetry does not exist merely for the sake of itself, but rather, is a byproduct of yearning and growth; great poetry… — Bryant McGill Copy Share Image
The poets are wrong of course […] But then poets are almost always wrong about facts. That's because they are not really… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
But remember, boy, that a kind act can sometimes be as powerful as a sword. As a mortal, I was never a… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
I admire the poetic relationship to place as enacted in Wallace Stevens' poems; his poetics strikes me as an argument against the… — Cate Marvin Copy Share Image
“A POET IS SOMEONE who is very happy and very sad, who is quick to anger and who loves intensely, who feels… — Sandra Joseph Copy Share Image
“The poet dreams of the mountain Sometimes I grow weary of the days, with all their fits and starts. I want to… — Mary Oliver Copy Share Image
I like poetry, but honestly, I like dramatic literature more. If I had to pick between Rumi and Dostoevsky, I would pick… — Ramin Bahrani Copy Share Image
What you have to realize when you write poetry, or if you love poetry, is that poetry is just naturally the greatest… — James Dickey Copy Share Image
“In other words, after Winthrop has acquired all his butter firkins, food stirrers, and beer along with six dozen candles, twenty thousand… — Sarah Vowell Copy Share Image
The poet speaks to all men of that other life of theirs that they have smothered and forgotten. — Edith Sitwell Copy Share Image
My obsession with time informs my poetry so completely it is hard for me to summarize it. We want time to pass,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Every verse in the scrolls of your days sings to us of hope and wonder.” — Zoe Klein Copy Share Image
“Evere since I was first to read, then started reading to myself, there has never been a line read that I didn't… — Eudora Welty Copy Share Image
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