My teaching was animated by what I was reading and being excited by as a poet. — Seamus Heaney Copy Share Image
“Life's like us We find it- and then the death A poem for a goodbye? Why insist?” — Daie-Soko Copy Share Image
The reason modern poetry is difficult is so that the poet's wife cannot understand it. — Wendy Cope Copy Share Image
“That year, we knew the sky existed because we believed in the storm, but we never saw the sky.” — Jorge Galán Copy Share Image
Poetry can't give us the laws and institutions and representatives, the antidotes we need: only public activism by massive numbers of citizens… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
“I know a beautiful soul when I feel one. The empath in me honors the authentic in you.” — Melody Lee Copy Share Image
A novel is a work of poetry. In order to write it, one must have tranquility of spirit and of impression. — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
My first collection of poems was published by Bloodaxe Books, which was then a very new imprint. — Helen Dunmore Copy Share Image
I'm a firm believer in the idea that theater excels over film and TV in its ability to let people play with… — Julie Taymor Copy Share Image
“Technology is grey. More technology, less colors. We're building a world with colors only in poems.” — Magdalena Ciocan Copy Share Image
Such were the notes thy once loved poet sung, Till death untimely stopped his tuneful tongue — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
But Carroll's were more convoluted, and they struck me as funny in a new way: 1) Babies are illogical. 2) Nobody is… — Steve Martin Copy Share Image
“She walked among the stars, The princess of the heavens, Looking for the one who caught her crystal tears That spilled out… — Kallista Pendragon Copy Share Image
“trees [-] Inside their wooden samurai armor they are geisha beauties, each one a ‘person-of-the-arts,’ limbs dancing, arranging flowers, carrying the wind’s… — A. A. Attanasio Copy Share Image
Poetry is not the language we live in. It's not the language of our day-to-day errand-running and obligation-fulfilling, not the language with… — Tracy K. Smith Copy Share Image
After I'd produced about two dozen pen and ink drawings, one evening I decided that they needed poems to accompany them. I… — Jack Prelutsky Copy Share Image
“Degraded bird, I give you back your eyes forever, ascend now whither you are tossed; Forsake this wrist, forsake this rhyme; Soar,… — Edna St. Vincent Millay Copy Share Image
I lost many literary battles the day I read 'Their Eyes Were Watching God.' I had to concede that occasionally aphorisms have… — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
You want a poem to unsettle something. There's a deep and interesting kind of troubling that poems do, which is to say,… — Tracy K. Smith Copy Share Image
Poems like to have a destination for their flight. They are homing pigeons. — May Sarton Copy Share Image
“Suddenly I remembered that laugh, it told a different story, our story.” — robert m drake Copy Share Image
Poetry is ... the physical enactment of a process of knowing by means of language. — Mark Doty Copy Share Image
To be a good poet, you must care more about the writing, than the writer. — Lucille Clifton Copy Share Image
Artist by nature, actor by instinct, poet by accident, and vagabond by choice. — Don Blanding Copy Share Image
“Next o'er his books his eyes began to roll, In pleasing memory of all he stole.” — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
“We all must face death and walk with it. But we also must love and live in it.” — Rolando Mithcell Copy Share Image
“I like your mind when it plays with mine. We harmonize, like a dirty sweet symphony.” — Melody Lee Copy Share Image
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