“Tears upon the dry sponge of heart do not prove I am Promethean.” — Adrian C. Louis Copy Share Image
“Sewn together patterns, like many clashing moods, She wears what No others dare” — Maddy Kobar Copy Share Image
Any healthy man can go without food for two days - but not without poetry. — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
“...for life's not a paragraph/ and death, i think, is no parenthesis.” — e. e. cummings Copy Share Image
“Forever, you’ll be treasured and remembered. For deeds paint the journey, And journey frames the life!” — Preethi Saravanakumar Copy Share Image
“Is her name nightmare, some mothball ambition slammed into hard shoes suspended from cain't nobody do me like shame having sex with… — Cathleen Margaret Copy Share Image
“All those other girls are cake...I'm Crème brûlée...Tiramisu, if you will. Just a few notches above.” — Brandi L. Bates Copy Share Image
I know I'm not a wordsmith. And I don't write poetry. Sometimes I think I should, because it's really helpful. But I… — Candace Bushnell Copy Share Image
For me, poetry is the music of being human. And also a time machine by which we can travel to who we… — Carol Ann Duffy Copy Share Image
Poets, I think, are born. You can't teach it. It's genetic - the circumstances of how you were raised... and there's probably… — Rodney Crowell Copy Share Image
Poets and writers who are in love with the superlative all want to do more than they can. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“Every desire is an end and every end is a desire then the end of the world is a desire of the… — Sun Ra Copy Share Image
“The greatest poet does not moralize or make applications of morals... he knows the soul. The soul has that measureless pride which… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
I grew up around poets and novelists and my dad wrote poems about everything - from a cat sleeping in a window… — Lucinda Williams Copy Share Image
Mediocre prose might be read as an escape, might be spoken on television by actors, or mouthed in movies. But mediocre poetry… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
“Four very strange and truly poetic human beings in this century have attained mastery in prose, for which this century was not… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Well, probably I was fed up with concrete poetry. There was a lot of badTo be a part of a championship team,… — Ian Hamilton Finlay Copy Share Image
“In fiction, the characters have their own lives. They may start as a gloss on the author’s life, but they move on… — Jane Yolen Copy Share Image
“Shakespeare is above all writers, at least above all modern writers, the poet of nature; the poet that holds up to his… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
What has praise and fame to do with poetry? Was not writing poetry a secret transaction, a voice answering a voice? So… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“There is a reason that the world is not black and white, for chaos demands color.” — Liz Newman Copy Share Image
“moonlight the falsest the most languid the most petit-bourgeois strikes me I like it” — Nazim Hikmet Copy Share Image
“Poetry is a separate language, or more specifically, a language within a language.” — Paul Valéry Copy Share Image
“Every book has to wait for the right time to be read and understood.” — Kamand Kojouri Copy Share Image
Writing poetry helps me to write my fiction; each thing helps the other. — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
“...have I told you? - your eyes are a dark poem of dancing snow at midnight ...” — John Geddes Copy Share Image
Never before had a woman put such agonizing poetry on canvas as Frida did — Diego Rivera Copy Share Image
Love is the poetry of our feelings. But there are some horrible poems. — Antonio Gala Copy Share Image
if I had one ambition it was to make my life itself into a poem. — Natalie Clifford Barney Copy Share Image
