Something should always change in a poem. The persona should learn something. — James Tate Copy Share Image
“Ah, the freshness in the face of leaving a task undone! To be remiss is to be positively out in the country!… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
Deals are my art form. Other people paint beautifully on canvas or write wonderful poetry. I like making deals, preferably big deals.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“We must all be allowed our moments of insanity and senselessness. Without them, what sort of dull, lifeless creatures would we be?” — Hannah Linder Copy Share Image
Antagoras the poet was boiling a conger, and Antigonus, coming behind him as he was stirring his skillet, said, "Do you think,… — Plutarch Copy Share Image
“It is a pity that no one in Paris bothered to quote Coleridge, who wrote, long before cubism, that the true poet… — LeRoy C. Breunig Copy Share Image
“I am crazy and bold enough to think that I CAN change the world - one poem, one book, one heart at… — Adiela Akoo Copy Share Image
The words that bore the deathless verse of Homer from bard to a group of fascinated hearers, and with whose fading sounds… — Nicholas Murray Butler Copy Share Image
Linda loves an argument, and I like to engage, too, but she knows that I'm a poet, so I will engage forever.… — Donovan Copy Share Image
When I was younger, I was so crazy about poetry that I didn't notice who was noticing. It seemed to me so… — Robert Hass Copy Share Image
Poets will never be the highest-paid writers in the world. Instead, poetry will go on cutting a hand-made path through the mass-market… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
In the language of poetry, where every word is weighed, nothing is usual or normal. Not a single stone and not a… — Wislawa Szymborska Copy Share Image
“In this world things are beautiful only because they are not quite seen, or not perfectly understood. Poetry is precious chiefly because… — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
“A night of exhilaration, of boredom and terror, in which the merest of sounds took on other forms - grew large in… — richard skelton Copy Share Image
Anticipating that most poetry will be worse than carrying heavy luggage through O'Hare Airport, the public, to its loss, reads very little… — Russell Baker Copy Share Image
She can't help it,' he said. 'She's got the soul of a poet and the emotional makeup of a junkyard dog. — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Most of humanity gets by without reading novels or poetry, and no one would deny the richness of their thoughts. — Ian Mcewan Copy Share Image
Joking is a barrier between man and the world. Joking is the enemy of love and poetry. — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
The poet, as a rule, is a half-man - a sissy, not a real person, and he is in no shape to… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
“ When I Was One-And-Twenty When I was one-and-twenty I heard a wise man say, “Give crowns and pounds and guineas But… — A.E. Housman Copy Share Image
“Life into death— Life’s other shape, No rupture, Only crossing.” — Dejan Stojanovic Copy Share Image
I had grown up as an Irish poet in a country where the distance between vision and imagination was not quite as… — Eavan Boland Copy Share Image
