If poetry and the arts do anything, they can fortify your inner life, your inwardness. — Seamus Heaney Copy Share Image
“Burning the witch Giordano Bruno is one more wound inflicted on Christ’s body.” — Dejan Stojanovic Copy Share Image
“Beware of the compound adjective, beloved of the tyro and the 'poetess'.” — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
“If you put the words on a page and you believe in them, then it’s a poem.” — Ewuare Osayande Copy Share Image
“In this universe there are no time machines or keys that can turn hearts back around.” — Sarah Tregay Copy Share Image
“Love has turned many into poets; pain has turned many into artists; charity has turned many into pacifists, and anger has turned… — Matshona Dhliwayo Copy Share Image
“I am the dumb, the wild, the things now dead / That men have killed for being mute and strange” — Gertrud Kolmar Copy Share Image
In the very end, civilizations perish because they listen to their politicians and not to their poets. — Jonas Mekas Copy Share Image
“ I know the place I know the place. It is true. Everything we do Corrects the space Between death and me… — Harold Pinter Copy Share Image
Poetry is the break (or rather the meeting at the breaking point) between the visible and the invisible. — Jean Genet Copy Share Image
“Fantasy is nearer to poetry, to mysticism, and to insanity than naturalistic fiction is. It is a real wilderness, and those who… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“Every word, every sentence, every poem and every chapter of a book I have written came from the bottom of my heart,… — Euginia Herlihy Copy Share Image
The only thing we all agree on, virtually every poet in this country, is that this Administration is really frightening, and we… — Sam Hamill Copy Share Image
Poems have always been a place for questions for me. Not answers. And I have a lot of questions these days. One… — Ada Limon Copy Share Image
The fine gifts of temperament and imagination which are essential to the production of true poetry are often accompanied by morbid sensibility.… — Myrtle Reed Copy Share Image
“Thus, since time immemorial, it has been customary to accept the criticism of art from a man who may or may not… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
I spent many years in college studying English literature. I was on the verge of attending grad school to get a Ph.D.… — Caterina Fake Copy Share Image
It was my 16th birthday-my mom and dad gave me my Goya classical guitar that day. I sat down, wrote this song,… — Stevie Nicks Copy Share Image
“Little soul, little perpetually undressed one, do now as I bid you, climb the shelf-like branches of the spruce tree; wait at… — Louise Glück Copy Share Image
Genius is mainly an affair of energy, and poetry is mainly an affair of genius; therefore a nation whose spirit is characterized… — Matthew Arnold Copy Share Image
“Sunflowers, Not Facing the Sun (A Poem) I stand tall As gracious as one could be Blooming to my best As slender… — Annie Ali Copy Share Image
I have a muse who's very powerful, but I'm still a hopeless deadbeat of a poet. — Shirley Geok-lin Lim Copy Share Image
The great poem must have the stamp of greatness as well as its essence. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“A mask you ask? Optional I find! Masks lend appeal of a mysterious kind.” — E.A. Bucchianeri Copy Share Image
“the glory of the protagonist is always paid for by a lot of secondary characters” — Tony Hoagland Copy Share Image
Poetry makes possible the deepest kind of personal possession of the world. — James Dickey Copy Share Image
I was reading the dictionary. I thought it was a poem about everything. — Steven Wright Copy Share Image
We all write poems; it is simply that poets are the ones who write in words. — John Fowles Copy Share Image
The central idea of poetry is the idea of guessing right, like a child. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
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