“What is madness but nobility of the soul at odds with circumstance.” — Theodore Roethke Copy Share Image
My life has been the poem I would have writ, But I could not both live and utter it. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The Poet's leaves are gathered one by one, In the slow process of the doubtful years. — Bayard Taylor Copy Share Image
I saw the gooseflesh on my skin. I did not know what made it. I was not cold. Had a ghost passed… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
“Some things are not always what they appear to be. Your thoughts lead you as far as the eyes can see.” — Laqueisha Malone Copy Share Image
Within the bottle's depths, the wine's soul sang one night. Drink wine, drink poetry, drink virtue. — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
How wide is all this long pretense! There is in love a sweetness ready penned, Copy out only that, and save expense. — George Herbert Copy Share Image
It seems to me that the poet has only to perceive that which others do not perceive, to look deeper than others… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The ravenous, rabid poet awaits the midnight moon. She’ll trick and out wit her unsuspecting lover, the beginning of a bloody swoon.” — Melody Lee Copy Share Image
Poetry, I have discovered, is always unexpected and always as faithful and honest as dreams. — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
“The blood jet is poetry, There is no stopping it. --from "Kindness", written 1 February 1963” — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
“...Nature becomes your teacher, and from her you will learn what is beautiful and who you are and what is your special… — Stephen Graham Copy Share Image
Does a firm persuasion that a thing is so, make it so?" He replied, "All poets believe it does. And in ages… — William Blake Copy Share Image
“In the great snowfall before the bomb" In the great snowfall before the bomb colored yule tree lights windows, the only glow… — Lorine Niedecker Copy Share Image
“HIS chosen comrades thought at school He must grow a famous man; He thought the same and lived by rule, All his… — W.B. Yeats Copy Share Image
“For my part, I love to give myself up to the illusion of poetry. A hero of fiction that never existed is… — Washington Irving Copy Share Image
As anyone who has the slightest knowledge of my work knows, I have little in common with Larkin, who was tall, taciturn… — Carol Ann Duffy Copy Share Image
“I was not prepared: sunset, end of summer. Demonstrations of time as a continuum, as something coming to an end, not a… — Louise Glück Copy Share Image
Freud thought that a psychosis was a waking dream, and that poets were daydreamers too, but I wonder if the reverse is… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I prefer always to think that I am creating a book, not a series of stand-alone poems. — Martha Ronk Copy Share Image
In bohemian circles, we were very aware that poetry was missing from popular culture. — Donovan Copy Share Image
Something should always change in a poem. The persona should learn something. — James Tate Copy Share Image
“Optimism / stung like grit in my swimsuit all the long ride home . . .” — Lesley Wheeler Copy Share Image
“But this music. This music has limbs that can hold me into morning.” — Aimee Herman Copy Share Image
Poetry is essentially the discovery, the love, the passion for the name of everything. — Gertrude Stein Copy Share Image
I was reading the dictionary. I thought it was a poem about everything. — Steven Wright Copy Share Image
We all write poems; it is simply that poets are the ones who write in words. — John Fowles Copy Share Image
