In poetic thought, the role of the subconscious is played by euphony. — Joseph Brodsky Copy Share Image
“Bella came into my office. I was working on a poem. The poem was about butts.” — Justin Grimbol Copy Share Image
I started a PhD in English at the University of Chicago because I loved poetry-which I now realize is like saying I… — Michael Donaghy Copy Share Image
Lord, let me write, leave me autistic and typing until my windows bust into a thousand silver doves and I know the… — Buddy Wakefield Copy Share Image
“Look upward to him Look to him for everything Look to him for answers Look to him for a listening ear” — April Nichole Copy Share Image
When the poet is in love, he is incapable of writing poetry on love. He has to write when he remembers that… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
“Her skin smells of vintage books and pale moonlight, exotic things, forbidden loves and rainy nights.” — Melody Lee Copy Share Image
“Sugar cane reach up to God And every baby crying Shame the blanket of my night And all my days are dying” — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
The poetry and the songs that you are suppose to write, I believe are in your heart. You just have to open… — Judy Collins Copy Share Image
“To jump over centuries In one step is impossible. Jump too high or far, You’ll be way too late.” — Dejan Stojanovic Copy Share Image
I wanted to be a poet when I was 20; I had no interest in fiction or biography and precious little interest… — Peter Ackroyd Copy Share Image
“When you are incapable of speaking, Then words are searching for you. When you are incapable of smiling, Then happiness is searching… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Falling in love is easy. Staying in love is the challenge. The pursuit of loving another person is a selfless one. Sacrifice… — Jason Versey Copy Share Image
“When I have fears that I may cease to be Before my pen has glean’d my teeming brain, Before high piled books,… — John Keats Copy Share Image
“As to her rank, she should be at the very least a princess, seeing that she is my lady and my queen.… — Miguel de Cervantes Copy Share Image
I want to be remembered as an artist that gave you a piece of me, as opposed to some surface bullshit. I… — Drake Copy Share Image
“perhaps you know that Ingeborg Bachmann poem from the last years of her life that begins "I lose my screams" dear Antigone,… — Anne Carson Copy Share Image
Robert Frost really started this whole thing rolling. He was, I believe, the first poet who started going to colleges. Before that,… — Billy Collins Copy Share Image
That I make poetry and give pleasure - if I give pleasure - are because of you. — Horace Copy Share Image
A poem is, so to speak, a way of making you forget how you wrote it. — Randall Jarrell Copy Share Image
“between the word and the world lie fading eternities of soon” — Laura Riding Jackson Copy Share Image
“You are full of fear—lucky. You have so many opportunities to be brave.” — Vironika Wilde Copy Share Image
Poet and sculptor, do the work, / Nor let the modish painter shirk — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
“I hear they make greeting cards now to thank your therapist... for NOTHING” — Casey Renee Kiser Copy Share Image
A critic must accept what is best in a poet, and thus become his best encourager. — Edmund Clarence Stedman Copy Share Image
You don’t read or overhear the voice in the poem, you are the voice in the poem. — Helen Vendler Copy Share Image
No poet or orator has ever existed who believed there was any better than himself. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
He had an answer to almost everything and he retired at an early age. — Dejan Stojanovic Copy Share Image
As for the usefulness of poetry, its uses are many. It is the deification of reality. — Edith Sitwell Copy Share Image
