“Beware of the compound adjective, beloved of the tyro and the 'poetess'.” — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
I believe that only poetry counts ... A great novelist is first of all a great poet. — Francois Mauriac Copy Share Image
The poet laureate of England talked about murdering Jews on the West Bank. — Steven T. Katz Copy Share Image
“Poetry is the song of the heart, dance of the mind, and the outer expression of the inner beauty of the soul.” — Debasish Mridha Copy Share Image
Let's get my incantation right: "I wish I may, I wish I might" Give earth another satellite. — Robert Frost Copy Share Image
“But many people just love to be in the midst of that poetry, to keep experiencing what’s perplexing, what’s beautiful, what’s true.” — John Timpane Copy Share Image
I started writing poetry as a teenager in suburban Chicago out of emotional desperation. — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
Lyrical poets have to be in touch with visceral experience. I've always tried to avoid virtual experiences. That's emerging in my fiction. — Steven Heighton Copy Share Image
Modern poets mix too much water with their ink. [Ger., Neuere Poeten thun viel Wasser in die Tinte.] — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
A poem begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness. — Robert Frost Copy Share Image
What characterizes a poem is its necessary dependence on words as much as its struggle to transcend them. — Octavio Paz Copy Share Image
How can I compare such a thing Not a song could explain this love Leave me now and it will forever sting… — Jade Copy Share Image
“The greatest poet in the English language found his poetry where poetry is found: in the lives of the people. He could… — James Baldwin Copy Share Image
Everybody is different. Some comedy is more musical like Steven Wright. His is a pillar of comedy to me. He invented a… — Louis C. K Copy Share Image
“At the height of the Cultural Revolution, rather than risk having to face dire consequences for his accumulated writings, he burned several… — Gao Xingjian Copy Share Image
When you think intensely and beautifully, something happens. That something is called poetry. If you think that way and speak at the… — Robert Bringhurst Copy Share Image
Look at Allen Ginsberg. In poems like 'Kaddish' and 'Howl,' you can hear a cantor between the lines. It's fully alive, and… — Derek Walcott Copy Share Image
Sunlight 's a thing that needs a window Before it enter a dark room. Windows don't happen." So two old poets, Hunched… — R. S. Thomas Copy Share Image
I'm very fortunate in that my parents are artists. My mom is a brilliant poet... She still is a great visual artist.… — Ari Aster Copy Share Image
“Be gentle with yourself while healing. And be prepared for great strength.” — Melody Lee Copy Share Image
You have no idea, how much poetry there is in the calculation of a table of logarithms! — Carl Friedrich Gauss Copy Share Image
My poem will be always incomplete because it cannot be as beautiful as you are — Nishant Grover Copy Share Image
The passionate heart of the poet is whirled into folly and vice. — Alfred Lord Tennyson Copy Share Image
There is room neither for the poet nor for the contemplator in an egalitarian world. — Jacques Maritain Copy Share Image
I can't look at things in the simple, large way that great poets do. — Isaac Rosenberg Copy Share Image
“we live so loudly that if our lives / become history it will be written in bold” — Reese Lieberman Copy Share Image
“She knew she was really sad when she stopped loving the things she loved.” — Atticus Poetry Copy Share Image
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