“poetry is the tombstone of experience, nothing i write is my own. ~from "the damned” — D.W.Metz Copy Share Image
Every healthy man can do without food for two days — but without poetry, never! — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
“When power leads man toward arrogance, poetry reminds him of his limitations.” — John Fitzgerald Kennedy Copy Share Image
Screw poetry, it’s you I want, your taste, rain on you, mouth on your skin. — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“the sapphire depth of my own love...startles and warms and wounds my soul.” — Sanober Khan Copy Share Image
“Your greatest dreams will always slumber within the vicious depths of fear.” — robert m drake Copy Share Image
“What is the point of all these books when I learn best by reading your body?” — Kamand Kojouri Copy Share Image
A long poem is a test of invention which I take to be the Polar star of poetry, as fancy is the… — John Keats Copy Share Image
“If life is a poem, be the poet. If life is a story, be the author. If life is an adventure, be… — Steve Maraboli Copy Share Image
Juicy J was always one of my favorites. For one, he was a producer and I just used to love how he… — Mike Will Made It Copy Share Image
“Not songs of loyalty alone are these, But songs of insurrection also, For I am the sworn poet of every dauntless rebel… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
A lot of artists start out as failed poets, then move on to being failed short-story writers before they finally break through… — Gary Reilly Copy Share Image
“How many ghosts must I always carry with me? How much more must I expand to accommodate?” — Chloë Rose Copy Share Image
My first poem was a bolt from the blue … it broke a spell of disillusion and suicidal despondence. … it filled… — William Carlos Williams Copy Share Image
“How to raise sons who respect women: Never give them the opportunity to see you disrespect yourself.” — Alfa H Copy Share Image
All things that are living are expression and therefore part of the inherent symbology of life. Art, therefore, that is encumbered with… — Marsden Hartley Copy Share Image
“May your love for me be like the scent of the evening sea drifting in through a quiet window so i do… — Sanober Khan Copy Share Image
“The general welcomes Tamburlaine receiv'd, When he arrived last upon the 1 stage, Have made our poet pen his Second… — Christopher Marlowe Copy Share Image
One of my great surprises when I was in America was about twenty-five years ago in Harvard, hearing Randall Jarrell deliver a… — Stephen Spender Copy Share Image
I compelled myself all through to write an exercise in verse, in a different form, every day of the year. I turned… — Conrad Aiken Copy Share Image
“Usually when your imagination is bigger then one's comprehension, this normally means you've out grown the small circle. Get with like-mined people… — Takina Cupp Copy Share Image
“We celebrate, we create, as citizens of Shatter. We hold a bond of unending happiness. This planet, at the edge of the… — L'Poni Baldwin Copy Share Image
“But the question is: Is this an appropriate use of this verse, to put God on the hook for a life of… — Eric J. Bargerhuff Copy Share Image
“my dear, I have nothing to say. my heart burns like the evening sky.” — Sanober Khan Copy Share Image
If he had had no education, maybe Basho could have been a much greater poet. — Nanao Sakaki Copy Share Image
History is a symphony of echoes heard and unheard. It is a poem with events as verses. — Charles Angoff Copy Share Image
Theatre has to be theatrical. It has to draw attention to itself, like poetry. — Tony Harrison Copy Share Image
“Excuse me, I feel interrupted and I think I've overdose from the idea of loving you.” — robert m drake Copy Share Image
The poem comes in the form of a blessing, like rapture breaking on the mind. — Stanley Kunitz Copy Share Image
Poetry was my 'in' to the idea that I could express myself through art. — Sebastian Lelio Copy Share Image
When you write poetry you are always addressing the world somehow. — John Cooper Clarke Copy Share Image
A poem deserves its title only inasmuch as it excites, by elevating the soul. — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
You didn't realize emotion could be a weapon? Have you not read the poetry of Jewel? — LIZ Copy Share Image
