I want to be a poet, from head to toe, living and dying by poetry. — Federico Garcia Lorca Copy Share Image
I held her close, but she faded in the night like a poem I meant to write. — Simon And Garfunkel Copy Share Image
“She saw poetry where other writers merely saw failure to cope with English.” — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
“too much explanation can take the pleasure out of any poetry. (Preface, vii)” — Harold G. Henderson Copy Share Image
“Poetry is born of a lack of love, born of a crazy and impossible passion...” — Luis Alexandre Ribeiro Branco Copy Share Image
For poets (bear the word) Half-poets even, are still whole democrats. — Elizabeth Barrett Browning Copy Share Image
“To be happy to be sad and sad to be happy is to sing an echo in that beautiful language called Sorrow.” — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
I thought to spend my declining years writing poetry and teaching - but that won't pay the Bergdorf's bill. I think I'll… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
“I wonder how many women are held up in their bed waiting to be sung to, served wine to, read poetry to,… — Brandon Villasenor Copy Share Image
I'm an actress, primarily. I love to write poetry. I've been writing poetry since I was 12 years old. — Masiela Lusha Copy Share Image
In a Transtromer poem, you inhabit space differently; a body becomes a thing, a mind floats, things have lives, and even non-things,… — Teju Cole Copy Share Image
Milton saw not, and Beethoven heard not, but the sense of beauty was upon them, and they fain must speak. — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
“Great poetry, whether written in Greek or in English, needs no other interpreter than a responsive heart.” — Helen Keller Copy Share Image
so much depends upon a red wheel barrow glazed with rain water beside the white chickens. — William Carlos Williams Copy Share Image
There’s only one subject for fiction or poetry or even a joke: how it is. In all the arts, the payoff is… — Robert Stone Copy Share Image
The thing is, the way we write is all jams and bits and pieces that get pieced together and sometimes things are… — Danny Carey Copy Share Image
“What a need we humans have for confession. To a priest, to a friend, to a psychoanalyst, to a relative, to an… — Aidan Chambers Copy Share Image
“Fat Charlie blew his nose. "I never knew I had a brother," he said. "I did," said Spider. "I always meant to… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Ah men, why do you want all this attention? I can write poems for myself, make love to a doorknob if absolutely… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
The most common mistake students of literature make is to go straight for what the poem or novel says, setting aside the… — Terry Eagleton Copy Share Image
“A poem by Margot Bickel A little peace within the last hours of the almost bygone day a little silence between the… — Margot Bickel Copy Share Image
That perhaps is your task--to find the relation between things that seem incompatible yet have a mysterious affinity, to absorb every experience… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Now the ears of my ears are awake and now the eyes of my eyes are opened. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Poetry is when you make new things familiar and familiar things new — Rory Sutherland Copy Share Image
“People are surprisingly poetic. Especially when they’re not trying to be.” — Lewis Morris Copy Share Image
If you can explain a poem, it is not a poem. Poetry has to be inexplicable. — Luis Gonzalez Copy Share Image
Dr Donne's verses are like the peace of God; they pass all understanding. — King James I Copy Share Image
I have read the Aeneid through more often than I have read any long poem. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
