Well, if this is poetry, I'm certainly never going to write any myself. — James Schuyler Copy Share Image
There are two versions to every poem – the crying version and the straight version — Galway Kinnell Copy Share Image
We go to poetry, we go to literature in general, to be forwarded within ourselves. — Seamus Heaney Copy Share Image
Poetry is a phantom script telling how rainbows are made and why they go away. — Carl Sandburg Copy Share Image
“We poets have no need for drugs to attain the borderline between life and death.” — Louis Malle Copy Share Image
“The dark silhouette of a forgotten rose in a forbidden garden of love; what kind of delicate fragrance of forgiveness it seems… — Laura Chouette Copy Share Image
“His tales took on the form of an epic poem, and I felt I was hearing some Canadian Homer reciting his Iliad… — Jules Verne Copy Share Image
Poetry reproduces an indefinable mood that is more amorous than love itself. Venus is not so beautiful all naked, alive, and panting,… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
On that other novels followed: but I still wrote fairy tales and dreamy poems of another world. — Laurence Housman Copy Share Image
“Words fail to describe what i feel anymore. Let me be numb for a while, let me be sore.” — Anjum Choudhary Copy Share Image
My first book was an adult novel, 'Down Among the Gods,' published by Virago, and I've written poems as well, a slim… — Kate Thompson Copy Share Image
Roses are red violets are blue...Stars are beautiful to look at and shine just like you do. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There is something about poetry beyond prose logic, there is mystery in it, not to be explained but admired. — Edward Young Copy Share Image
The musician - if he be a good one - finds his own perception prompted by the poet's perception, and he translates… — John Drinkwater Copy Share Image
“Paralytic It happens. Will it go on? ---- My mind a rock, No fingers to grip, no tongue, My god the iron… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
“Loneliness of heart In the still of the night my heart doth cry out, who can hear it for time is far… — M.I. Ghostwriter Copy Share Image
As long as science fails to discover the sources of life, as long as, on sea or in the sky, there is… — Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer Copy Share Image
“I breathe in... The sights and smells Of this city I’ve come to know... So well I gaze... Across the turquoise ocean… — Sanober Khan Copy Share Image
I work very hard on all my poems, but most of the work consists of trying not to sound as if I… — Anne Stevenson Copy Share Image
“Poetry rhymes, a song our souls need to nourish upon. Poetry is a drum, a sound our bodies wish to have. Poetry… — Gloria D. Gonsalves Copy Share Image
“Nagarjuna's verse 46]-is extensively taught. [Madhyamaka or emptiness] means being without characteristics that define true reality. It [means] to be unarisen, since… — Karl Brunnholzl Copy Share Image
Poetry's unnat'ral; no man ever talked poetry 'cept a beadle on boxin' day. — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“Truths are written, never said... Lines are drawn, but then they fade.” — Colleen Hoover Copy Share Image
I love that people want to know about poetry. It's one of the ways of keeping alive. — Joan Larkin Copy Share Image
“Suffering is permanent, obscure and dark, And has the nature of infinity.” — William Wordsworth Copy Share Image
Poetry is an orphan of silence. The words never quite equal the experience behind them. — Charles Simic Copy Share Image