“Poetry is a finikin thing of air That lives uncertainly and not for long Yet radiantly beyond much lustier blurs.” — Wallace Stevens Copy Share Image
“Predators prey on the weak; poets prey on brilliant ideas.” — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
The fact is that poetry is not the books in the library . . . Poetry is the encounter of the reader… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The language you use for your poems should be the language you use with your friends. — Robert Bly Copy Share Image
In Phebus realm, in knowledge as in verse,All things are clear, the sun of Phoebus clear,Clear was his crystal, the Kastalian.What you… — Esaias Tegner Copy Share Image
Poetry is a kind of distilled insinuation. It's a way of expanding and talking around an idea or a question. Sometimes, more… — Yusef Komunyakaa Copy Share Image
“I have neither the ability of a poet or the flourish of a dramatist. But I must admit I was floored” — Tushar Raheja Copy Share Image
While also, importantly, not wanting to dumb it down or pretend the days of 'difficult' poetry are over, because we live in… — Andrew Motion Copy Share Image
“Float beyond the world of trees. Out into the whispering breeze, past the rushes, past the weeds, past the marsh's waving reeds.” — J.R.R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
When a poet mentions the spring, we know that the zephyrs are about to whisper, that the groves are to recover their… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Of course it's possible for political essays to be artful. I just want to call into question the dominance of content over… — John D'Agata Copy Share Image
“The sonnet, a lyrical poem, the beauty and magic... convey with our hearts the truth of the universe in a single moment… — R.M. Engelhardt Copy Share Image
Nothing more makes me cry more than knowing all I did was try. But all you said was goodbye and then left… — Andrew Duran Copy Share Image
“I should have moved on, but I loved it here. I felt like a Romantic poet or Thoreau by his pond. I… — Alli Dyer Copy Share Image
“The poet believed that 'Beauty' first entered the world not at its creation, nor with the first garden, the first sunrise, the… — Roman Payne Copy Share Image
Acts of creation are ordinarily reserved for gods and poets, but humbler folk may circumvent this restriction if they know how. To… — Aldo Leopold Copy Share Image
A poem I just came up with titled:{IF I COULD RE-WRITE MY OWN LIFE}~~~>If I could re-write my own life,Mann....if I could… — Malcolm Cleveland Copy Share Image
Lily Brown writes with and against things in poems that are coiled up tight as springs (or snakes). A believer in the… — Rae Armantrout Copy Share Image
“Examine this statement: ‘A woman cannot be a poet.’ Dr Samuel Johnson (Englishman 1709-84 Occupation: Language Fixer and Big Mouth.) What then… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
“He wondered if he would live to see the blossom on his apple trees and felt an answering pop inside himself. Ah,… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
Even the greatest poets, I think, cannot quite get to the places that music can get to in the human - I… — Hugh Laurie Copy Share Image
Plato said that poets should be excluded from the ideal republic because they are such liars. I am a poet, and I… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
