Contemporary poets are skeptical and suspicious even, or perhaps especially, about themselves. They publicly confess to being poets only reluctantly, as if… — Wislawa Szymborska Copy Share Image
There are countless circles of hell; believers never penetrate the ninth circle. — Dejan Stojanovic Copy Share Image
A poem begins with a lump in the throat; a homesickness or a love sickness. It is a reaching-out toward expression; an… — Robert Frost Copy Share Image
I think we've come to a kind of splinter period in poetry. These tiny little bright fragments of observation - and not… — Conrad Aiken Copy Share Image
There's real poetry in the real world. Science is the poetry of reality — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
I tell it stories now and then and feed it images like honey. I will not speculate today with poems that think… — Anne Sexton Copy Share Image
I think what will happen is that fiction will become more like poetry. As in, the only people who read it will… — Gary Shteyngart Copy Share Image
“The wolfish horror of the worst scriptural verses is cloaked under various forms of sheep’s clothing: the words are not meant to… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“A poet writes what they see every day, what they know, what they’ve lived or barely lived through.” — Jason E. Hodges Copy Share Image
The saying, "The Magyar is much too lazy to be bored," is worth thinking about. Only the most subtle and active animals… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Meditation is the most significant because it opens the door for all other significant things: love, prayer, God, light, music, poetry. — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
“like god's stray eyelashes the stars are falling—more light! more! god has no time to make a wish all he can do… — Valzhyna Mort Copy Share Image
I never think of poetry or the poetry scene, only separate poems written by individuals. — Philip Larkin Copy Share Image
Whenever I get lost in a novel I just throw a poem in. What it does is flare up, and it's so… — Kate Braverman Copy Share Image
When everything goes right a mobile is a piece of poetry that dances with the joy of life and surprise! — Alexander Calder Copy Share Image
The composition of a single melody is born out of a bit of text, perhaps the first line, but it can also… — Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau Copy Share Image
“The sun set beyond thesea, so says the poet - and when a poet mentions a sea, we have to accept it;… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Patricia Smith is one of the best poets around and has been for a long time. Her Blood Dazzler is full of… — Terrance Hayes Copy Share Image
A poet is a man who puts up a ladder to a star and climbs it while playing a violin. — Edmond de Goncourt Copy Share Image
