“between the word and the world lie fading eternities of soon” — Laura Riding Jackson Copy Share Image
“You are full of fear—lucky. You have so many opportunities to be brave.” — Vironika Wilde Copy Share Image
Poet and sculptor, do the work, / Nor let the modish painter shirk — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
There's so much rage in the world now and I'm finding poems to be the place where I want to stay. I… — Ada Limon Copy Share Image
“Any poet may find the most profound themes scattered along the path. Observation, if passionate, however, might debauch the deepest of themes.” — Alok Mishra Copy Share Image
“It’s been raining outside and I feel like a sad poet, hating my imagination pissing on the roof.” — Munia Khan Copy Share Image
I'm a poet who practices Zen. And it's not, I'm somebody who practices Zen who writes poetry. There's no separation for me. — Sam Hamill Copy Share Image
Among the American contemporaries I read with most enjoyment are several North Carolinians. I think the best poetry being written these days… — Robert Morgan Copy Share Image
The poet and the politician have this in common: their greatness depends on the courage with which they face the challenges of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Unjustly poets we asperse: Truth shines the brighter clad in verse, And all the fictions they pursue Do but insinuate what is… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
A poem is like a child; at some point we have to let it go and trust that it will make its… — Dorianne Laux Copy Share Image
“I could write about how I feel when I sing, write and create something from heartbreak, sorrow, sadness or just simply nothingness.… — Charlotte Eriksson Copy Share Image
It has been observed before that images, however beautiful, though faithfully copied from nature, and as accurately represented in words, do not… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
“the problem that I’ve found with most poets that I have known is that they’ve never had an 8 hour job and… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
“Mother (fragment) ...You asked me if I would be sad when it happened and I am sad. But the iris I moved… — Ted Kooser Copy Share Image
“Sonnets to Write Before I Sleep (The Sonnet) When I finished my first 1000 sonnets, I felt, now I shall take it… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
I have to make myself write, sometimes. In the space between poems, you somehow forget how to do it, where to begin.… — Simon Armitage Copy Share Image
“Now, again, he paused, and into the breach thus made, leapt Ambition, the harridan, and Poetry, the witch, and Desire of Fame,… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
I do believe that a poet would possess a stronger intuitive sense of phrasing with a rock song. There is a way… — Jim Carroll Copy Share Image
“Bella came into my office. I was working on a poem. The poem was about butts.” — Justin Grimbol Copy Share Image
A film is never really good unless the camera is an eye in the head of a poet. — Orson Welles Copy Share Image
For a poet, making poems is a way of viewing the world, being in the world, breathing. — Robin Morgan Copy Share Image
“If you love peanut butter pie, you are either Dolly Parton or someone who loves her.” — Kate Lebo Copy Share Image
“i am sacrificial but i am also strong i know better than to love you to death” — Nkateko Masinga Copy Share Image
Sculpture and painting are moments of life; poetry is life itself. — Walter Savage Landor Copy Share Image
Poetic knowledge is born in the great silence of scientific knowledge. — Aime Cesaire Copy Share Image
In poetic thought, the role of the subconscious is played by euphony. — Joseph Brodsky Copy Share Image
“My life has been the poem I could have writ But I could not both live and utter it.” — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“Things are more like they are now...than they have EVER been before!” — Uncle Arnie Mamath Copy Share Image
