I can't look at things in the simple, large way that great poets do. — Isaac Rosenberg Copy Share Image
“we live so loudly that if our lives / become history it will be written in bold” — Reese Lieberman Copy Share Image
“She knew she was really sad when she stopped loving the things she loved.” — Atticus Poetry Copy Share Image
The poet will maintain serenity in spite of all disappointments. He is expected to preserve an unconcerned and healthy outlook over the… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
In the ancients, one sees the accomplished letter of entire poetry: in the moderns, one has the presentiment of the spirit in… — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Copy Share Image
“For my sustenance at night, the whole that my hands can glean from the gloom of the oak-gloomed oaks-- the herbs and… — Flann O'Brien Copy Share Image
All one's inventions are true, you can be sure of that. Poetry is as exact a science as geometry. — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
Success is counted sweetest by those who ne'er succeed. To comprehend a nectar - Requires sorest need. — Emily Dickinson Copy Share Image
The poet may be used as a barometer, but let us not forget that he is also part of the weather. — Lionel Trilling Copy Share Image
I approach poetry and spirituality like literary nitroglycerin -- a little can do a lot and you better damn well be careful… — Craig Johnson Copy Share Image
Time broadens the scope of verses and I know of some which, like music, are everything for all men. — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
If you're a poet, you do something beautiful. I mean, you're supposed to leave something beautiful after you get off the page… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
What do you do when you realize that all you ever wanted was what you always had? Somehow knowing what Im missing… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A good poem has its own life. It's like bringing a child into the world. You, the poet, birthed the child, but… — David Whyte Copy Share Image
“I love a sunburnt country, A land of sweeping plains, Of ragged mountain ranges, Of droughts and flooding rains. I love her… — Dorothea Mackellar Copy Share Image
I am committed now to one thing: lyric sequences. I want the intensity of lyric, but the scope and arc of narrative.… — Gregory Orr Copy Share Image
“Amor" So many days, oh so many days seeing you so tangible and so close, how do I pay, with what do… — Pablo Neruda Copy Share Image
“There are hundreds of thousands of musicians, artists, painters, poets, writers and bricklayers, and we certainly need walls, music and art, but… — Karl Wiggins Copy Share Image
“Continental Drift you have moved through like an ice flow- steady slow substantial tumble of glacial tongue sweeping through valleys reshaped you… — Nancy Boutilier Copy Share Image
I believe that only poetry counts ... A great novelist is first of all a great poet. — Francois Mauriac Copy Share Image
The poet laureate of England talked about murdering Jews on the West Bank. — Steven T. Katz Copy Share Image
My poem will be always incomplete because it cannot be as beautiful as you are — Nishant Grover Copy Share Image
You have no idea, how much poetry there is in the calculation of a table of logarithms! — Carl Friedrich Gauss Copy Share Image
“Be gentle with yourself while healing. And be prepared for great strength.” — Melody Lee Copy Share Image
The passionate heart of the poet is whirled into folly and vice. — Alfred Lord Tennyson Copy Share Image
Almost any poem has to be read twice, first for strangeness, second for clarity. — Peter J. Daniels Copy Share Image
I love indices! They are poetry in and of themselves, depending on the book. — Wendy C. Ortiz Copy Share Image
