“I’m not a man, I can’t earn a living, buy new things for my family. I have acne and a small peter.… — Harold Norse Copy Share Image
“When the door of Perception is wide opened in a human mind,he sought all the way around Universal Truth,let him understand,'whom to… — Nithin Purple Copy Share Image
Do not Christians and Heathens, Jews and Gentiles, poets and philosophers, unite in allowing the starry influences? — Walter Scott Copy Share Image
“My life is filled with buckets of tears; thousands of people shouting in my ears; the humming and chirping of hundreds of… — Santosh Kalwar Copy Share Image
An experienced reader uses the poem as an agent of inquiry. This makes poetry very exciting, unstable, and interactive. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Poetry, unlike music, is a meta-art, and relies upon non-physical structures for the production of its effects. In its case, the medium… — Don Paterson Copy Share Image
Somebody's sent a funny little valentine to me. It's a bunch of baby-roses in a vase of filigree, And hovering above them… — James Whitcomb Riley Copy Share Image
“He nearly called you again last night. Can you imagine that, after all this time? He can. He imagines calling you or… — elliot perlman Copy Share Image
Iambics march from short to long;-- With a leap and a bound the swift Anapaests throng — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
Better than a thousand hollow words Is one word that brings peace. Better than a thousand hollow verses Is one verse that… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Foggy nights bring some comfort. He can get lost in the mist and there is no one to stare or question.” — Susie Clevenger Copy Share Image
Lucky accidents seldom happen to writers who don't work. You will find that you may rewrite and rewrite a poem and it… — Richard Hugo Copy Share Image
“At the top of the heap is poetry,at least as it used to be written.Nothing else goes far,nothing goes as deep n… — Jeffrey Moore Copy Share Image
“There are three lessons I would write- Three words, as with a burning pen, In tracings of eternal light, Upon the heart… — Friedrich Von Schiller Copy Share Image
Istanbul is inspiring because it has its own code of architecture, literature, poetry, music. — Christian Louboutin Copy Share Image
I do feel that a poem needs not just space, but, ideally, space around that space - space for meditation, reverie, subliminal… — Michael Longley Copy Share Image
Thats the way it is with poetry: When it is incomprehensible it seems profound, and when you understand it, it is only… — Galway Kinnell Copy Share Image
In real life, having your poetry criticized by T.S. Eliot could cause you to doubt your poetic gifts. But imagining it in… — Maria Konnikova Copy Share Image
At first I protested and rebelled against poetry. I was about to deny my poetic worlds. I was doing violence to my… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
My dad is a Jack Nicholson lookalike and a frustrated performer, my mother's into reading and poetry. I suppose the thing I… — Michael Sheen Copy Share Image
I'm perfectly happy when I look out at an audience and it's all women. I always think it's kind of odd, but… — Diane Wakoski Copy Share Image
Verse is not written, it is bled; Out of the poet's abstract head. Words drip the poem on the page; Out of… — Paul Engle Copy Share Image
“Eliot, huh?" she says. The thin fabric of her long T-shirt brushes my arm. "Is everyone in your family named for a… — Brad Barkley Copy Share Image
