More people are reading poetry now than at any time in the history of the human race. — Andrew Motion Copy Share Image
Although I am losing my Soviet citizenship, I do not cease to be a Russian poet. — Joseph Brodsky Copy Share Image
If language had been the creation not of poetry but of logic, we should only have one. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Poetry is not a silent art. The poem must perform, unaided, in its reader’s head. — Christopher Logue Copy Share Image
“Only the poet or the saint can water an asphalt pavement in the confident anticipation that lilies will reward his labour.” — Somerset maugham Copy Share Image
There is as much difference between good poetry and fine verses, as between the smell of a flower-garden and of a perfumer's… — Augustus William Hare Copy Share Image
He who creates three to five haiku poems during a lifetime is a haiku poet. He who attains to completes ten is… — Matsuo Basho Copy Share Image
“Hay una estrella mas abierta que la palabra 'amapola'? Is there a star more wide open than the word 'poppy"?” — Pablo Neruda Copy Share Image
A poet's job is to find a name for everything: to be a fearless finder of the names of things. — Jane Kenyon Copy Share Image
In the dance, one finds the cinema, the comic strips, the Olympic hundred meters and swimming, and what's more, poetry, love and… — Maurice Bejart Copy Share Image
“And when I die bury me upside down so the whole world can Kiss my ass Open my mouth Pull my tongue… — Lourd Ernest H. de Veyra Copy Share Image
In my case, performance is part of the medium. Sometimes I feel that it's my main medium, and that the presentation of… — James Arthur Copy Share Image
THE POET A moody child and wildly wise Pursued the game with joyful eyes, Which chose, like meteors, their way, And rived… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“Miss Honey gives us a little song about each word and we all sing it together and we learn to spell it… — Roald Dahl Copy Share Image
She has her own glamour, Willy lad. All poets do, all the bards and artists, all the musicians who truly take the… — Emma Bull Copy Share Image
“But all this was beside the point. What scared Amy was the mere fact of what looked inescapably like recreational malevolence. The… — Jincy Willett Copy Share Image
“We are all born with genius. It's like our fairy godmother. But what happens in life is that we stop listening to… — Milton Glaser Copy Share Image
“Adam and Eve didn't know what they would win or what they would lose until they'd both won and lost it. It's… — Tiffany Reisz Copy Share Image
“You're asking yourself if you will ever get over it. - I don't believe we ever do. Getting over something implies you… — Alfa H Copy Share Image
“There’s plenty of room for strangeness, mystery, originality, wildness, etc. in poems that also invite the reader into the human and alive… — Thomas Lux Copy Share Image
Poetry and language are often at the heartbeat of movements for change. — Amanda Gorman Copy Share Image
“Rare-book people have this in common with poets: they too are born, not made.” — E. Millicent Sowerby Copy Share Image
“I don't expect you to fight over me... But I do expect you to fight for me... for us.” — Alfa H Copy Share Image
I'm fighting against the bad poet who is prone to using too many words. — Wislawa Szymborska Copy Share Image
Poems give you the lives of others and then circle in on your own inner world. — Frances Mayes Copy Share Image
“On the contrary I am not a poet, I am just a writer who happens to write poetry.” — Kenneth G. Ortiz Copy Share Image
