“Writing poetry is like having sex with the universe and the language is just a condom.” — TRIPURARI Copy Share Image
Writing poetry is like always being in love. What masochism! What luxury! — Jennifer Stone Copy Share Image
I am talking about poetry. It's like that line from [John] Yeats: I go back to "where all the ladders start/ In… — Robert Hass Copy Share Image
“. . . poetry, like all imaginative creations, divines the human enterprise. This is poetry's social value.” — Major Jackson Copy Share Image
“Publishing a book of poetry is like dropping a rose petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo.” — Don Marquis Copy Share Image
Poetry is like painting: one piece takes your fancy if you stand close to it, another if you keep at some distance. — Horace Copy Share Image
Poetry is like standing on the edge of a lake on a moonlit night and the light of the moon is always… — Billy Collins Copy Share Image
When you're doing poetry like mine that rhymes, it's very easy to sound like a song that didn't work out! — John Cooper Clarke Copy Share Image
Poetry seems especially like nothing else so much as itself. Poetry is not like, it is the very lining of the inner… — C.D. Wright Copy Share Image
Consider the difference between the first and third person in poetry [...] It's like the difference between looking at a person and… — Diana Abu-Jaber Copy Share Image
To write poetry, like sincere poetry, it is like performing heart surgery on yourself without anesthesia...in public...You are peeling back layers. You… — Amir Sulaiman Copy Share Image
It seems an odd idea to my students that poetry, like all art, leads us away from itself, back to the world… — Helen Bevington Copy Share Image
Not even the great poets can explain in words what poetry is. Do you know why? Because poetry is indeed like love,… — Jean-Paul Malfatti Copy Share Image
“I can't write poetry like you, but I can talk with nature... And when I come back... we put our beds side… — Bettina Brentano Copy Share Image
There is a set of emotions around money and new technology and advertising and that sort of thing, and there is this… — Alissa Quart Copy Share Image
Poetry is like pooping. If there is a poem inside of you, it has to come out. Sometimes it can be really… — Sarah Kay Copy Share Image
I am not sure, once a poet has found out what has been written already, and how it was written - once,… — Philip Larkin Copy Share Image
I think of something quite different from a snapshot. I know of a lot of poems, some very fine ones, that are… — Robert Bringhurst Copy Share Image
“Poetry is like truth: on one level it simply is, and as such it is available to anyone. Anyone, that is, who… — Philip Levine Copy Share Image
“Poetry that tames language into tight structures and yet manages to move us comes off as a feat, paralleling ballet or athletic… — John McWhorter Copy Share Image
“Poetry is like an innocent young maiden who is extremely beautiful, and whom many other maidens, who are the other fields of… — Cervantes Copy Share Image
Poetry is like a portrait of a moment or person, and the poem is almost like looking at a photograph; it slaps… — Warsan Shire Copy Share Image
“If you’re going to love a poet you should know this. Our words are our truths. Our blood hums with verse. We… — Jeanette LeBlanc Copy Share Image
“To me at least, poetry like love- implies a magical approach to life, quite different from the presently accepted rational way of… — Jane Roberts Copy Share Image
When I devoted myself to poetry - and poetry is a very serious medium - I don't think the people that knew… — Ana Castillo Copy Share Image
Poetry is not like reasoning, a power to be exerted according to the determination of the will. A man cannot say, 'I… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
All poetry like every work of art proceeds from a swift vision of things. — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
“A life without books is a thirsty life, and one without poetry is...like a life without pictures.” — Stephen King Copy Share Image
True poetry, like the religious prompting itself, springs from the emotional side of a man's complex nature, and is ever in harmony… — Epes Sargent Copy Share Image
“I don't have poetry like you do. I only know that I love how my sheets smell after you've been in my… — Lauren Dane Copy Share Image
I don't think the nature of my poetry is satirical or even ironic, I think it's essentially lyrical but again I don't… — Kenneth Koch Copy Share Image
“Poetry is like a song without music,” I said loftily. “A song without music is like a body without a soul.” — Patrick Rothfuss- The Name of the Wind Copy Share Image
Poetry is like making a joke. If you get one word wrong at the end of a joke, you've lost the whole… — W. S. Merwin Copy Share Image
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