Poetry takes place in time. It is a durational. Things take place in sequence. — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
“If poetry is an escape into the woods, then music is the journey back home.” — Akash Mandal Copy Share Image
The poets who do this are uniquely conscious of this silence, this stillness. — Russell Simmons Copy Share Image
A true account of the actual is the rarest poetry, for common sense always takes a hasty and superficial view. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“Memory, when it juts, retreats, recovers, shows us how to hold the darkness, how to breathe.” — Drew Myron Copy Share Image
“Those with wild hearts love big love fiercely love with every fiber of their feral being.” — Melody Lee Copy Share Image
The spoken word community was significant in making me want to write accessible and urgent poems. Bob Holman, in particular, was an… — Denise Duhamel Copy Share Image
He was a great poet" They lamented. No, he was not a great poet," said Theo, "He was a good poet, he… — Lloyd Alexander Copy Share Image
The best public poems aren't necessarily those that go at the subject like a bull at a gate. — Andrew Motion Copy Share Image
The 'open text' often emphasizes or foregrounds process, either the process of the original composition or of subsequent compositions by readers. — Lyn Hejinian Copy Share Image
Some people have the time but they don't have time while others have time but do not have the time. — Jacques Prevert Copy Share Image
“We hurtled through the sky like things that hurtle through the sky. The wind whipped my face. The snow blinded me. The… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
I hardly know what I'm going to write - an article, a story, a poem in free verse - or in some… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
I'm old enough, by a long shot, to remember going to the library and spending days researching. If I was looking for… — Charlie Kaufman Copy Share Image
I was always worried about the dishonesty and meretriciousness that often accompanies ego. So I tried to make the memoir as factual… — Dan Burt Copy Share Image
“The mother of the heating contractor does not Have the same problem as the mother of the poet. When the mother of… — Matt Cook Copy Share Image
“Gen 22:11–16a The story of the near-sacrifice of Isaac is traced to E. It refers to the deity as Elohim in vv.… — Richard Elliott Friedman Copy Share Image
Wildness we might consider as the root of the authentic spontaneities of any being. It is that wellspring of creativity whence comes… — Thomas Berry Copy Share Image
I have no connections here; only gusty collisions, rootless seedlings forced into bloom, that collapse. ... I am the Visiting Poet: a… — Marge Piercy Copy Share Image
“Roses are red, violets are blue, I’m no poet, I just wanna kiss you! love u zakiya” — Zakiya and Majid Copy Share Image
“Scatter as a prayer escaping my lips... as orchids blooming in clouds.” — Sanober Khan Copy Share Image
Latino poets, are really having a significant impact on American poetics today. — Kwame Dawes Copy Share Image
If epic poetry is a definite species, the sagas do not fall within it. — Lascelles Abercrombie Copy Share Image
“It is your final gift to me: this room where I shall bleed and knit, as spinsters do.” — Jill Alexander Essbaum Copy Share Image
“I loved him... much more than I liked him. And therein was the beginning of the end.” — Alfa H Copy Share Image
Prose, narratives, etcetera, can carry healing. Poetry does it more intensely. — Ted Hughes Copy Share Image
The poems are part of my attempt to understand being in the world in an honest way. — Dan Beachy-Quick Copy Share Image
