“The streets were all named after poets - Wordsworth Lane, Shelley Close, Keats Rise - no doubt chosen by the building company's… — Gail Honeyman Copy Share Image
Matt Mason must be declared the poet laureate of the Midwest! No other native son celebrates the overlooked America, its unsung citizens… — Rigoberto Gonzalez Copy Share Image
Our poetry now is the realization that we possess nothing. Anything therefore is a delight (since we do not posses it) and… — John Cage Copy Share Image
Most songs have bridges in them, to distract listeners from the main verses of a song so they don't get bored. My… — Bob Dylan Copy Share Image
Best believe that needle hurt you Best to see these true colors Than follow one of your false virtues A little secret… — Eddie Van Halen Copy Share Image
“We are all too fixed on wrecking ourselves rather than bettering ourselves.” — Meggie Royer Copy Share Image
“It was the poem that explained the nature of courage and turned the mystery of death into a heroic couplet. Ultimately, it… — James Lee Burke Copy Share Image
What a contrast between the stern and desolate poetry of Ossian, and that of Chaucer, and even of Shakespeare and Milton, much… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
If you're going to write, write one poem all your life, let nobody read it, and then burn it. This is very… — Jack Nicholson Copy Share Image
“Shakespeare could not have written without Marlowe, or Marlowe without Chaucer, or Chaucer without those forgotten poets who paved the ways and… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
What I discerned in the U.S. was a convergence of poetic voices coming from many different rents in the social fabric, many… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
I just discovered when I was, oh, 12 or 13, that I was very interested in language - and this showed itself… — Edwin Morgan Copy Share Image
Poetry should be great and unobtrusive, a thing which enters into one's soul, and does not startle it or amaze it with… — John Keats Copy Share Image
“Good Morning—Midnight— I'm coming Home— Day—got tired of Me— How could I—of Him? Sunshine was a sweet place— I liked to stay—… — Emily Dickinson Copy Share Image
“With Cosette’s garter, Homer would make the Iliad. He would put into his poem an old babbler like me, and he would… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“How do you know they aren't the one? At the first sight of total disregard for your hurt, your gut will feel… — Alfa H Copy Share Image
But you'd have a job to find many of my poems which would seem to be very influenced by a particular person. — Norman MacCaig Copy Share Image
“By means of poetry all this suffering and effort could be transformed into dream; no matter how much of the ephemeral existed,… — Nikos Kazantzakis Copy Share Image
“This is my gift to you and your reward, Tom Mulligan, maker of ballads and journeyman worker in fine tales. 'Tis more… — Herminie Templeton Kavanagh Copy Share Image
Composers need words, but they do not necessarily need poetry. The Russian composer, Aleksandr Mossolov, who chose texts from newspaper small ads,… — James Fenton Copy Share Image
I thought, 'There are a lot of poets who have the courage to look into the abyss, but there are very few… — Kenneth Koch Copy Share Image
Limericks don't come from Limerick. But it comes from that between the verses when they used to have those competitions that they… — Malachy McCourt Copy Share Image
