I write, but I don't write poetry. I don't rhyme or anything like that. — Channing Tatum Copy Share Image
“Each person you meet is an aspect of yourself, clamoring for love.” — Eric Micha'el Leventhal Copy Share Image
“Poetry is nobody’s business except the poet’s, and everybody else can fuck off.” — Philip Larkin Copy Share Image
In order to write poetry, you must first invent a poet who will write it. — Antonio Machado Copy Share Image
“Maybe poetry took the life out of both of them, Idea and friendship.” — Kenneth Koch Copy Share Image
“The fun part is finding which thoughts, in that crazy beehive of emotion, are the ones that mass produce the honey.” — Curtis Tyrone Jones Copy Share Image
As hurried as this poem is rest assured that our loves not. To be with you, again, forever I cant wait until… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“O how we call each other names You call me schizophrenic I call you God But we do agree on one Deluded… — Sunil Vidyarthi Copy Share Image
A good poem looks life straight in the face, unflinching, sincere, equal to revelation through loss or gain. — David Whyte Copy Share Image
“There are days I am whole Some days I feel bruised A silhouette of verse emerges To mirror my mood And with… — Collette O'Mahony Copy Share Image
“…Lady of silences Calm and distressed Torn and most whole Rose of memory Rose of forgetfulness Exhausted and life-giving Worried reposeful The… — T.S. Eliot Copy Share Image
In jazz, as in poetry, there is always that play between what’s regular and what’s wild. That has always appealed to me. — Robert Pinsky Copy Share Image
I'm not literary, and I'm not academic, and I don't think like a poet, so my stuff will never be like that. — Tanya Saracho Copy Share Image
Verses are not, as people think, feelings (those one has early enough) -- they are experiences. For the sake of a verse… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“A Kite is a Victim A kite is a victim you are sure of. You love it because it pulls gentle enough… — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
“The nature of poems Is a matter of words and deeds An intimate encounter of voice In the ache of the heart… — Kendall Dana Lockerman Copy Share Image
“Sometimes the thought of his mother working so hard while he did nothing would come suddenly upon his and he would rush… — E. Nesbitt Copy Share Image
There are some good things and some fantastic ones in Auden's early attitude; if the reader calls it a muddle I shall… — Randall Jarrell Copy Share Image
“Pearl introduces an original story, in a form which was to become one of the most frequent in mediaeval literature, the dream-vision.… — Ronald Carter Copy Share Image
That's how it is with relationships, it's a part of life, and all the great love songs and poems and films have… — Jane Green Copy Share Image
“She would make me tell her, too, all about the poems that I meant to compose. And these dreams reminded me that,… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
I’ve written this poem before but always through a window, never through an open door. — Andrea Gibson Copy Share Image
Poetry is eternal graffiti written in the heart of everyone. — Lawrence Ferlinghetti Copy Share Image
Women do not have as great a need for poetry because their own essence is poetry. — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Copy Share Image
“The miscellaneous poetry of this age is nothing like the last; it is very poor.” — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
“seeing a woman cough today made me sense a vague fear of death” — Brandon Scott Gorrell Copy Share Image
Let all Black Poets die as trumpets, And be buried in the dust of marching feet. — Etheridge Knight Copy Share Image
“Does the poem reside in experience or in self-consciousness about experience?” — Mark Doty Copy Share Image
Poetry is the music of the soul, and, above all, of great and feeling souls. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Poets are shameless with their experiences: they exploit them. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“You don’t have to glow to be seen. You don’t have to be whole to be worthy.” — Rita Kay Copy Share Image
Yet do I marvel at this curious thing:/ To make a poet black, and bid him sing! — Countee Cullen Copy Share Image
“I'll tattoo your heart with words from my soul, and ink from my pen.” — Renee Dixon Copy Share Image
I believe the poet shouldn't be in the poem at all except as a lens or as ears. — Alice Oswald Copy Share Image
