Our poems will have failed if our readers are not brought by them beyond the poems. — Muriel Rukeyser Copy Share Image
This dwarf still observes the world from his own self-imposed height. — Dejan Stojanovic Copy Share Image
“I sleep with thee, and wake with thee, And yet thou are not there; I fill my arms with thoughts of thee,… — John Clare Copy Share Image
“...before the dawn I leave the night behind me and before my heart I let you leave me behind. - from the… — Munia Khan Copy Share Image
Poets are simply those who have made a profession and a lifestyle of being in touch with their bliss. — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
Hebrew as a contemporary language, especially for poetry, is no longer the language of the Bible; but neither is it not the… — Cynthia Ozick Copy Share Image
“They had to call and call And pick the worms off me like sticky pearls. --From the poem "Lady Lazarus", written 23-29… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
I use poetry to help me work through what I don’t understand, but I show up to each new poem with a… — Sarah Kay Copy Share Image
“Don't ask her to be a rock for you to lean upon instead, build her wings and point her to the sky… — Atticus Poetry Copy Share Image
Of all mankind the great poet is the equable man. Not in him but off from him things are grotesque or eccentric… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
I saw the Village as a place you could escape to, to express yourself. When I first went there, I wrote and… — Richie Havens Copy Share Image
Although I was calm as a child, I had this restlessness about me–this need and hunger to create my own world. Poetry… — Masiela Lusha Copy Share Image
“The physical impact of taiko music, along with the sheer visual poetry of a choreographed ensemble presenting its music in perfect synchrony,… — Gil Asakawa Copy Share Image
In the 1970s, for example, I found myself learning to relish the poetry of Andrew Marvell and Sir Thomas Wyatt, and getting… — Adam Kirsch Copy Share Image
“Beauty is a hard thing. Beauty is a mean story. Beauty is slender girls who die young, fine-featured delicate creatures about whom… — Dorothy Allison Copy Share Image
“Since the age of fifteen poetry has been my ruling passion and I have never intentionally undertaken any task or performed any… — Robert Graves Copy Share Image
I always hesitate to call myself a children's poet, and I always hesitate to call what I write for children poetry. Though… — Mary Ann Hoberman Copy Share Image
“We maintain, therefore, that the first essential, the life and soul, so to speak, of Tragedy is the Plot; and that the… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
“To be human is to be broken and broken is its own kind of beautiful.” — robert m drake Copy Share Image
Never durst poet touch a pen to write Until his ink were temper'd with Love's sighs; — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
“A language so beautiful and lethal My mouth bleeds when I speak it.—” — Gwendolyn MacEwen Copy Share Image
“Death is trash. Love is a robust engagement with the trash of another.” — Joshua Bennett Copy Share Image
“I don't make much of a living, but I do live much of a making.” — Laurence Overmire Copy Share Image
In search of Truth the hopeful zealot goes,But all the sadder tums, the more he knows! — Anonymous Copy Share Image
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