I want to understand the piers of language and music and comprehension that can hold up a building even when what the… — Jane Hirshfield Copy Share Image
Poetry is protesting against the nature of suffering and mistreatment. Art is the expression of binding your soul and universe together in… — Jeremy Limn Copy Share Image
Poets lose half the praise they should have got, Could it be known what they discreetly blot. — Edmund Waller Copy Share Image
If you rank me with the lyric poets, my exalted head shall strike the stars. [Lat., Quod si me lyricis vatibus inseris,… — Horace Copy Share Image
“I could not have climbed any mountains while looking from the ground... I would not have flown... or dived... or surfed... or… — Kem Copy Share Image
“Sturdy swimmers afloat on water-couch Beneath the heavy bill their treasured pouch Fishes pray for them to fly far away Inland lakes… — Munia Khan Copy Share Image
“You Don't Know What Love Is But you know how to raise it in me like a dead girl winched up from… — Kim Addonizio Copy Share Image
Most of my poetry lies beyond the SF field, yet here I am corralled into 'SF poetry' as part of this poetry… — Brian Aldiss Copy Share Image
“Those with wild hearts love big love fiercely love with every fiber of their feral being.” — Melody Lee Copy Share Image
Lyrical poetry is not a big part of most people's lives. Twitter now becomes an interesting way of getting cared for language… — Teju Cole Copy Share Image
I was very committed to the process of composing, working at poems, putting things together and taking them apart like some kind… — David Antin Copy Share Image
I take with me Kentucky, embedded in my brain and heart, in my flesh and bone and blood. Since I am Kentucky,… — Jesse Stuart Copy Share Image
I was already writing poetry, so I transitioned from writing poetry a cappella to writing over beats, and it was way more… — Saweetie Copy Share Image
Did the poet use red to symbolize blood? Anger? Lust? Or is the wheelbarrow simply red because red sounded better than black? — Jay Asher Copy Share Image
Poetry is just so emo." he said. "Oh, the pain. The pain. It always rains. In my soul. — John Green Copy Share Image
“A poet in my mind, needs to make a difference or his words don’t mean a damn thing.” — José Gouveia Copy Share Image
Real music will help you move towards meditation, beyond the mind needs, towards spiritual needs. Real poetry will give you a glimpse… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Learning from books is so empowering - whether it be from history, a novel or a poem. When you come away from… — Lisa Lucas Copy Share Image
The medium of poetry is a human body: the column of air inside the chest, shaped into signifying sounds in the larynx… — Robert Pinsky Copy Share Image
I have been writing poetry since 1975. My first poetry book was published in 1986. — Taslima Nasrin Copy Share Image
“If I ever see an alien fishing in Scotland, and witness it catching the Loch Ness Monster, I’d probably assume the world… — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
