“A fallen blossom returning to the bough, I thought -- But no, a butterfly.” — Arakida Moritake Copy Share Image
Writing a poem is unwriting a knot, like untying a shoelace that is clubbing your foot. — Shirley Geok-lin Lim Copy Share Image
Poetry [is] more necessary than ever as a fire to light our tongues. — Naomi Shihab Nye Copy Share Image
Tis a question whether adversity or prosperity makes the most poets. — George Farquhar Copy Share Image
In the past, poetry came in the form of spells and chants used to effect change. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“I'm made of poetry and other things that people don't really care about at all.” — Karishma Magavani Copy Share Image
There's no money in poetry, but then there's no poetry in money, either. — Robert Graves Copy Share Image
“This is partly because few teenagers are instinctively good poets. It’s about as common as cats being instinctively friendly.” — Kevin DeYoung Copy Share Image
“Exhaust the little moment. Soon it dies. And be it gash or gold it will not come Again in this identical disguise.” — Gwendolyn Brooks Copy Share Image
Reading poetry and reading the great works of the canon that we were reading in the '60s and the '70s and '80s… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
For if anything is capable of making a poet of a literary man, it is my hometown love of the human, the… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
“Your job is to abide in my pasture Eating sweet grass and drinking pure water, And sharing both with others— That is… — Jessica Coupe Copy Share Image
Alex loved books. He was the one who first introduced me to poetry. That's another reason I can't read anymore. — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
“I want to read every book that’s written hear every song that was sung I want to gaze at every cloud and… — Sanober Khan Copy Share Image
Sir, I admit your general rule, That every poet is a fool, But you yourself may serve to show it, That every… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
“Passing that fiery tree-if only she could; Be making love, Be making poetry, Be exploding, be speeding through the universe; Like a… — Alicia Ostriker Copy Share Image
In recent poems, I have abandoned the theme of not being able to write for an even more obsessive subject, the nature… — Shirley Geok-lin Lim Copy Share Image
Your lover is like a favourite song,he makes you come alive,his words are soothing and his reasoning to you is poetry,his moves… — Ganda Wickliffe Copy Share Image
My poems and prose are not often in direct conversation with each other, but there's so much crossover - everything that comes… — Alex Lemon Copy Share Image
Every writer must reconcile, as best he may, the conflicting claims of consistency and variety, of rigour in detail and elegance in… — Julian Coolidge Copy Share Image
American poetry has been part of a culture in conflict…We are a people tending toward democracy at the level of hope; at… — Muriel Rukeyser Copy Share Image
“ Two Kinds of People There are two kinds of people on earth today, Two kinds of people no more I say.… — Ella Wheeler Wilcox Copy Share Image
I liked Yeats! That wild Irishman. I really loved his love of language, his flow. His chaotic ideas seemed to me just… — Chinua Achebe Copy Share Image
“Society will always be too fragile to accept us for all that makes us beautiful.” — robert m drake Copy Share Image
A poet is not an apostle; he drives out devils only by the power of the devil. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Love does not claim materialistic possession of any kind, it yields complete freedom.” — Santosh Kalwar Copy Share Image
“There's a book of poetry in the lines of my hands that no one wants to read” — Holly Schindler Copy Share Image
“In the verse of each day, find your own way, let perseverance be the words you say.” — Covenant A. Akinlotan Copy Share Image
A poet clings to his own tradition and avoids internationalism. — Salvatore Quasimodo Copy Share Image
When I was in college, I really liked poetry. I don't read much anymore. — Steve Martin Copy Share Image
My earliest poems were a way of talking to somebody. I suppose to myself. — Philip Levine Copy Share Image
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