I guess the quality that makes one write poetry keeps one from selling it. — Louise Closser Hale Copy Share Image
the poet like an acrobat climbs on rime to a high wire of his own making. — Lawrence Ferlinghetti Copy Share Image
Everything is personal - the poems and the crime novels. I have never been involved in any murders, but there are strong… — Sophie Hannah Copy Share Image
It should be of the pleasure of a poem itself to tell how it can. The figure a poem makes. It begins… — Robert Frost Copy Share Image
Nobody really knows whether they are a poet. I knew I was interested from the age of 15. — James Fenton Copy Share Image
Mythologies, in other words, mythologies and religions are great poems and, when recognized as such, point infallibly through things and events to… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
“A poem is not an expression, nor it is an object. Yet it somewhat partakes of both. What a poem is Is… — Hayden Carruth Copy Share Image
Sometimes you have to be less ashamed about writing a bad poem than you would be about being silent. — Robert Hass Copy Share Image
Bertolucci is extraordinary in his ability to perceive, he's a poet...he is very easy to work for. — Marlon Brando Copy Share Image
Honey, check it out, you got me mesmerized with your black hair and your fat-ass thighs. Street poetry is my everyday but… — A Tribe Called Quest Copy Share Image
The reason I shift gears constantly, why I'm doing an opera, why I've done essays, why I've written poetry for years that… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
I have never reached certain levels of fame, like Lindsay Lohan did, or even Brittany Murphy. My career has always been this… — Amber Tamblyn Copy Share Image
These days, I find I'm applying a little more patience to my process. If I look back on my work, I can… — Ani DiFranco Copy Share Image
The middle class is doing fine in fiction. But it's not what gets me going. I love the working class, and everyone… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
“In The Sunset Sky The sunset sky dazzling with the golden hues, Taking bow in brilliant sparkle of experience Is it not… — Soma Mukherjee Copy Share Image
It is never the thing but the version of the thing: The fragrance of the woman not her self, Her self in… — Wallace Stevens Copy Share Image
The poet's, commonly, is not a logger's path, but a woodman's. The logger and pioneer have preceded him, like John the Baptist;… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
For most of human history, 'literature,' both fiction and poetry, has been narrated, not written — heard, not read. So fairy tales,… — Angela Carter Copy Share Image
I know I should be leaving this climate, I've got a verse, but can't rhyme it. — Jimmy Buffett Copy Share Image
“Your love is poetry in perpetual motion capturing my heart with centrifugal force.” — Truth Devour Copy Share Image
“Who was a queen and loved a poet once Humpbacked, a dwarf? ah, women can do that!” — Robert Browning Copy Share Image
The human creature is alone in his carapace. Poetry is a strong way out. — Stevie Smith Copy Share Image
Poetry is a mirror which makes beautiful that which is distorted. — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
“For poetry and I are one To separate is to decapitate For my poetry is forever.” — Kerry D. Brackett Copy Share Image
love make us poets, and the approach of death should make us philosophers. — George Santayana Copy Share Image
