My intention is to write poems. That's what I've been doing most of my life. — Joseph Brodsky Copy Share Image
“Inside these letters, the eye will see Nearby are your friends, and VFD.” — Lemony Snicket Copy Share Image
The true poet has no choice of material. The material plainly chooses him, not he it. — J. D. Salinger Copy Share Image
“Poets are never happy with the things that are happening in our world.” — Avijeet Das Copy Share Image
There must of course be a relationship between translating and making poems of your own, but what it is I just don't… — Robert Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“I sent my words out onto the wind to paths unseen and parts unknown in hopes people will enjoy this book of… — Charles Johnson Copy Share Image
In the hands of a genius, engineering turns to magic, philosophy becomes poetry, and science pure imagination. — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
“Even the simplest poem May destroy your immunity to human emotions. All poems must carry a Government warning. Words Can seriously affect… — Elma Mitchell Copy Share Image
I've been surprised to learn how many people love poetry. It's beautiful to see that people want poetry in their lives. — Peleg Top Copy Share Image
Poetry cannot afford to lose its fundamentally self-delighting inventiveness, its joy in being a process of language as well as a representation… — Seamus Heaney Copy Share Image
“we might as well live life as if -as the poet Rumi put it-everything is rigged in our favor” — Arianna Huffington Copy Share Image
“I have a dark soul, that doesn't mean I don't love the sun, rainbows and things that emphasize the light.” — Melody Lee Copy Share Image
I am in the middle of it: chaos and poetry; poetry and love and again, complete chaos. Pain, disorder, occasional clarity; and… — Anna Akhmatova Copy Share Image
I have never received full credit from the SPLA [Sudanese People's Liberation Army], because the men are very sexist and feel that… — Kola Boof Copy Share Image
“I think, maybe, I fell in love with your patterns and inconsistencies, like the way you squeak in your sleep. And the… — Charlotte Scott Copy Share Image
“But I being fond of true philosophy, Say very often to myself, 'Alas! All things that have been born were born to… — George Gordon Byron Copy Share Image
“I think of thee!—-my thoughts do twine and bud About thee, as wild vines, about a tree, Put out broad leaves, and… — Elizabeth Barrett Browning Copy Share Image
This summer-sweet night is only one minute upon one minute upon another Beautiful cacophony, sugar upon lips, dancing to exhaustion I thought… — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
Common would come to my house and give me a freestyle verse. I'd make a new beat for it and put it… — Clinton Sparks Copy Share Image
“Thus the sons of earth now drink in The fire of heaven without danger. And it is our duty, poets, to stand… — Friedrich Hölderlin Copy Share Image
“Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman.” — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Our poems will have failed if our readers are not brought by them beyond the poems. — Muriel Rukeyser Copy Share Image
This dwarf still observes the world from his own self-imposed height. — Dejan Stojanovic Copy Share Image
Poetry is an awareness of the world, a particular way of relating to reality. — Andrei Tarkovsky Copy Share Image
“But to cast my life away just like that for nothing at all -- that I won’t do.” — Jaroslav Seifert Copy Share Image
![“I have never received full credit from the SPLA [Sudanese People's Liberation Army], because the men are very sexist and feel that I'm acting out of place, bringing too much attention to myself - but for the funeral of our leader John Garang, they had me write the poem "Chol Apieth" to eulogize…” quote by Kola Boof](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/42c/kola-boof-12327_acting_i-have-never-received-full-credit-from-t_3211157.jpg)
