I don't think poetry has a readership anywhere, really, that's that big. — Derek Walcott Copy Share Image
“I lock my door upon myself - a poet had said. I turn my key and there's -- happiness.” — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
Poetry is the lifeblood of rebellion, revolution, and the raising of consciousness. — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
Democritus maintains that there can be no great poet without a spite of madness. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
“Birds shouldn't be able to find tears They are the definition of freedom” — Maddy Kobar Copy Share Image
Poetry makes its own pertinence, and a single stanza outweighs a book of prose. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“We are all a little broken, looking for something whole to hang on to. But sometimes, what seems whole is even more… — J.A. ANUM Copy Share Image
Broken bones and skinned knees, this game is not for the weak. One ball, one goal, shoot, score! Soccer makes me whole. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
All good poetry is forged slowly and patiently, link by link, with sweat and blood and tears. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It was said of Euripides, that every verse was a precept; and it may be said of Shakespeare, that from his works… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
He must be theory-mad beyond redemption who ... shall ... persist in attempting to reconcile the obstinate oils and waters of Poetry and Truth. — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
Sure there are poets which did never dream Upon Parnassus, nor did taste the stream Of Helicon; we therefore may suppose Those… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Etel's poetry really changed everything. Her poems are a way to connect with my consciousness and emotions, there's a romance to them,… — Michele Lamy Copy Share Image
Instead of trying to come up and pontificate on what literature is, you need to talk with children, to teachers, and make… — Rita Dove Copy Share Image
“I believe in being a poet in all moments of life. Being a poet means being human. I know some poets whose… — Forough Farrokhzad Copy Share Image
“I am in danger of wanting my personal absolute to be a demigod of a man, and as there aren't many around,… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
“Hardy’s astonishing technical versatility has won the admiration of major poets from Ezra Pound and Cecil Day Lewis to Philip Larkin. Among… — Geoffrey Harvey Copy Share Image
“I believe that poems, sometimes, perhaps most of the time, ignite something into us. They can transform us overnight. Poems can go… — Yash Thakur Copy Share Image
Smuggling poems out of prison in the soles of mt shoes i'm way past finding salvation in the arms of a woman,… — Raegan Butcher Copy Share Image
“A poem is a heroic act of integration that binds into rough harmony the chorus of forces within and outside the soul.… — Tony Hoagland Copy Share Image
I'm passing on a tradition of which I am part. There's a long line of poets who went before me, and I'm… — Diane Wakoski Copy Share Image
Any extreme political creed brought only darkness in the long run; it lit up nothing. The best politics were those of caution,… — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image
“Daisy, simple and discreet flower, That earned the heart of this poet.” — Luis Alexandre Ribeiro Branco Copy Share Image
With lyrics, being a poet gave me a different approach than other people. — Jamila Woods Copy Share Image
“You are that one breath. that puts all the remaining breaths. back into my body.” — Sanober Khan Copy Share Image
Literature is a state of culture, poetry is a state of grace, before and after culture. — Juan Ramon Jimenez Copy Share Image
Poetry in motion walking by my side, her lovely locomotion keeps my eyes open wide. — Johnny Tillotson Copy Share Image
“Faith is the poetry of our dreams; action is the builder of our reality.” — Steve Maraboli Copy Share Image
The duty of a lyrical poet is not to express or explain, it is to intensify life. — James Stephens Copy Share Image
“I seek to be moved, my imagination reborn. Let me feast on poems that feed my hunger.” — Susie Clevenger Copy Share Image
