A lot of people, when you ask if they want to read your epic poem, start bolting for the door. — Toby Barlow Copy Share Image
Poets are simply those who have made a profession ans a lifestyle of being in touch with their bliss. — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
My life has been the poem I would have writ, But I could not both live and utter it. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I wrote poems and an essay about that weird language. We still remember it to a certain extent, and it still comes… — Paul Beatty Copy Share Image
“Death stoops over me. I'm a problem in chess. He has the solution.” — Tomas Tranströmer Copy Share Image
People were usually much better in their letters than in reality. They were much like poets in this way. — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
“Love is prayerfulness groping toward godliness. Love is poetry born out of the sheer joy of being. Love is song, dance, celebration:… — Osho Copy Share Image
“ The Lake In spring of youth it was my lot To haunt of the wide world a spot The which I… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
A poet might die at twenty-one, a revolutionary or a rock star at twenty four. But after that you assume everything’s going… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Percy wakes me (fourteen) Percy wakes me and I am not ready. He has slept all night under the covers. Now he’s… — Mary Oliver Copy Share Image
There's not a good poet I know who has not at the beck and call of his memory a vast quantity of… — Anthony Hecht Copy Share Image
“A rose lay open in full bloom and, looking from my garden room, I watched the sun-baked flower fill with rain. It… — Julie Andrews Copy Share Image
I love communicating with people, and sometimes language is not enough. I think that's what poetry is, where you can mess with… — Justin Adams Copy Share Image
“Poem for My Father You closed the door. I was on the other side, screaming. It was black in your mind. Blacker… — Toi Derricotte Copy Share Image
I am a relatively rational being and I like to create order in poems. I like meter, I like rhyme, but ultimately… — Mary Jo Salter Copy Share Image
“...yes, I am your priest, your magician, your lover - I make charms to incant your presence...” — John Geddes Copy Share Image
“In numele si sub teroarea ei (plictiselii, n.m.) parasesc oamenii caminul si moartea agreabila legata de el si se avanta in lume,… — Emil Cioran Copy Share Image
When we did Cubist paintings, our intention was not to produce Cubist paintings but to express what was within us. No one… — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
Logic , like lyrical poetry , is no employment for the middle-aged — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image
The only real evidence that any critic may bring before his gaze is the finished poem. — Allen Tate Copy Share Image
“Somewhere along the way we all go a bit mad. So burn, let go and dive into the horror, because maybe it’s… — robert m drake Copy Share Image
“He is my thunderstorm, the lighting coursing through my veins. I am his hurricane, his colorful bow of rain.” — Melody Lee Copy Share Image
