“Must be going crazy--- my favorite poet lately has been me!” — Wayne Kaumualii Westlake Copy Share Image
If a poet has a dream, it is not of becoming famous, but of being believed. — Jean Cocteau Copy Share Image
“The ribboned gallons that rule us like beliefs rooted in single experiences.” — Cameron Conaway Copy Share Image
“The was her magic, she could still see the sunset even on those darkest days.” — Atticus Poetry Copy Share Image
“False love, desire, and beauty frail, adieu! Dead is the root whence all these fancies grew.” — Walter Raleigh Copy Share Image
Polyphonic prose is a kind of free verse, except that it is still freer. Polyphonic makes full use of cadence, rime, alliteration,… — Amy Lowell Copy Share Image
“They think the way to be a poet is to wear funny clothes and write sideways on the page.” — Richard Yates Copy Share Image
Every man will be a poet if he can; otherwise a philosopher or man of science. This proves the superiority of the… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“Poetry… it consumed Sappho’s young years, it nourished Goethe’s old age. Drug, the Greeks called it, both poison and medicine.” — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
Poetry operates by hints and dark suggestions. It is full of secrets and hidden formulae, like a witch's brew. — Anthony Hecht Copy Share Image
“A great poet can have the role of spiritual head of a nation.A great ruler is the spiritual head of a nation,… — Anatoli Rybakov Copy Share Image
A prose writer gets tired of writing prose, and wants to be a poet. So he begins every line with a capital… — Samuel McChord Crothers Copy Share Image
By adherence to a special set of rules, the child of the shabby-genteel can sometimes leap across the time which has passed… — Murray Kempton Copy Share Image
“Trying to explain feelings that are foreign to your heart, make communication daunting, even frightful. How does one express sensations that cower… — Alfa H Copy Share Image
“My bones and shadow won't be able to greet each other, because both will rest in undying peace... but my tears and… — Munia Khan Copy Share Image
“Love can be such a mysterious muse and seductress... spinning her magical web of stardust and emotional euphoria. True love sang her… — Jaeda DeWalt Copy Share Image
“The poets made all the words and therefore language is the archives of history, and, if we must say it, a sort… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
If you look at the world with parted lips and a pure heart, and will the good, won't that make a true… — Randall Jarrell Copy Share Image
The first thing that strikes you about Timothy Murphys verse is the palpable texture of his line - that sound of sense… — Michael Donaghy Copy Share Image
“Last Night the Rain Spoke to Me" Last night the rain spoke to me slowly, saying, what joy to come falling out… — Mary Oliver Copy Share Image
Poems give you the lives of others and then circle in on your own inner world. — Frances Mayes Copy Share Image
“On the contrary I am not a poet, I am just a writer who happens to write poetry.” — Kenneth G. Ortiz Copy Share Image
Poetry and language are often at the heartbeat of movements for change. — Amanda Gorman Copy Share Image
“Rare-book people have this in common with poets: they too are born, not made.” — E. Millicent Sowerby Copy Share Image
I'm fighting against the bad poet who is prone to using too many words. — Wislawa Szymborska Copy Share Image
“I don't expect you to fight over me... But I do expect you to fight for me... for us.” — Alfa H Copy Share Image
I have also written some poems which have not been collected in a volume. — Grazia Deledda Copy Share Image
More people are reading poetry now than at any time in the history of the human race. — Andrew Motion Copy Share Image
