if I had one ambition it was to make my life itself into a poem. — Natalie Clifford Barney Copy Share Image
“I see the life with your sight, O" the love; you're my light.” — Debasish Mridha M.D Copy Share Image
In Northern Ireland, helicopters are not usually used to promote poetry. — Seamus Heaney Copy Share Image
“moonlight the falsest the most languid the most petit-bourgeois strikes me I like it” — Nazim Hikmet Copy Share Image
“There is a reason that the world is not black and white, for chaos demands color.” — Liz Newman Copy Share Image
“You know you possess the soul of an artist when, each time you sit down to create, the whole universe lays itself… — Eric Micha'el Leventhal Copy Share Image
On the other hand, if there's an underlying core of poetry that I go to, I go to the sea. I've lived… — Richard Serra Copy Share Image
“The greatness of poetry comes from its struggle to express the rapture of the soul in the contemplation of beauty.” — Anthony S. Maulucci Copy Share Image
“Yeats was straight, but as Auden wrote in ‘In Memory of WB Yeats’: “You were silly like us.” — Christopher Bram Copy Share Image
Verse is the natural speech of men, as singing is of birds'The Week's Survey, 18 June 1904 — Edward Thomas Copy Share Image
People can't see that if I had not been a poet, I could never have had such success as a traveler. — Bayard Taylor Copy Share Image
I was a pretty happy kid, I had to fake it. I had to get into this miserable character before I wrote… — Billy Collins Copy Share Image
“we are at the crossroads, my little outlaw, and this is the map of my heart, the landscape after cruelty” — Richard Siken Copy Share Image
“They will tell you home is safe zone. No, bitch face is safe zone. Bitch face is home. Bitch face is cutting… — Olivia Gatwood Copy Share Image
And when we are writing the life of a woman, we may, it is agreed, waive our demand for action, and substitute… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
There was a lot of other people that had their own song or their name in a verse in high school. I… — Mohamed Bamba Copy Share Image
“On the opposite page, there was a poem. It described how beauty and truth mattered more than anything else. They were the… — Brenna Yovanoff Copy Share Image
“I am convinced that poets are toddlers in a cathedral, slobbering on wooden blocks and piling them up in the light of… — Andrew Peterson Copy Share Image
“Second Timothy chapter 5, verse 8, stated, “If anyone does not provide for his relatives, and especially for his immediate family, he… — Linda Ford Copy Share Image
The poet makes himself a voyant through a long, immense reasoned deranging of all his senses. All the forms of love, of… — Arthur Rimbaud Copy Share Image
I do like Canadian poetry. Christian Bök, Anne Carson, Carmine Starnino, and Don McKay are a few of the Canadian poets whose… — James Arthur Copy Share Image
“Poetry is a separate language, or more specifically, a language within a language.” — Paul Valéry Copy Share Image
“Every book has to wait for the right time to be read and understood.” — Kamand Kojouri Copy Share Image
Writing poetry helps me to write my fiction; each thing helps the other. — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
“...have I told you? - your eyes are a dark poem of dancing snow at midnight ...” — John Geddes Copy Share Image
“Sewn together patterns, like many clashing moods, She wears what No others dare” — Maddy Kobar Copy Share Image
“...for life's not a paragraph/ and death, i think, is no parenthesis.” — e. e. cummings Copy Share Image
Any healthy man can go without food for two days - but not without poetry. — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
There is room neither for the poet nor for the contemplator in an egalitarian world. — Jacques Maritain Copy Share Image
