“She's a good poet but a very neurotic woman." "Don't the two go together?” — Michael Nava Copy Share Image
“...for if a woman's body can attract the holy angels, how much more the unholy man.” — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
“It was a scary thought. A man could be surrounded by poetry reading and not know it.” — Richard Russo Copy Share Image
The reason one writes poems is so that your poem will be remembered. — Peter Davison Copy Share Image
“the one who will jolt awake all the unwritten the unsung and the unlived in me. i am waiting for him.” — Sanober Khan Copy Share Image
My arms have mutinied against me brutes! My fingers fidget like ten idle brats, My back's been stiff for hours, damned hours.… — Wilfred Owen Copy Share Image
The first part of my name, Khalil Gibran, seems to be paying huge dividends in terms of the artistic life of the… — Khalil Gibran Muhammad Copy Share Image
I was working on the proof of one of my poems all the morning, and took out a comma. In the afternoon… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
The poetic myths are dead; and the poetic image, which is the myth of the individual, reigns in their stead. — Cecil Day-Lewis Copy Share Image
America may have great poets and novelists, but she never will have more than one necromancer. — Rebecca Harding Davis Copy Share Image
Nos beaux sentiments ne sont-ils pas les poe sies de la volonte ? Aren't our best feelings poetry of the will? — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
“Marxism, famously a cry of pain rather than a science, has had its poets, but so has every other major religious heresy.” — Harold Bloom Copy Share Image
I tried sex once with a woman and that woman was Gala. It was overrated. I tried sex once with a man… — Salvador Dali Copy Share Image
“What though the radiance which was once so bright Be now for ever taken from my sight, Though nothing can bring back… — William Wordsworth Copy Share Image
A poet, qua poet, has only one political duty, namely, in his own writing to set an example of the correct use… — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
After attending the gymnasium between my eighth and seventeenth years, I studied classical philology at Berlin University for two years under Boeckh… — Paul Heyse Copy Share Image
Prophets, mystics, poets, scientific discoverers are men whose lives are dominated by a vision; they are essentially solitary men . . .… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Probably when I was about 16 or 17 I started writing. I wouldn't call it poetry, even though I've referred to it… — Aldous Harding Copy Share Image
“One thing to which I am most grateful Is that my work slumbers on,sweetly, Not yet discovered, And shall not conjure that… — Philip Wickham Copy Share Image
That is to say, epic poetry has been invented many times and independently; but, as the needs which prompted the invention have… — Lascelles Abercrombie Copy Share Image
“Of this poetry I’m left with the emptiness of an endless secret” — Giuseppe Ungaretti Copy Share Image
America was based on a poetic vision. What will happen when it loses its poetry? — Azar Nafisi Copy Share Image
“Life is but a day; A fragile dew-drop on its perilous way From a tree’s summit.” — John Keats Copy Share Image
Free verse is chained in sentence-to-sentence links and breaks free in line breaks. — Shirley Geok-lin Lim Copy Share Image
“The space was tense. I could feel the air tearing between us... and it hurt.” — Alfa H Copy Share Image
“It’s been hard to believe in love again, but faith is at the center of every request.” — David Campos Copy Share Image
Language ought to be the joint creation of poets and manual workers. — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“Door of passage to the other side, the soul frees itself in stride.” — Jim Morrison Copy Share Image
“You own me with whispers like poetry. Your mouth is a melody I memorize.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image