“If only I could touch what's broken inside me and tell it, I’m sorry.” — jenim dibie Copy Share Image
Poetry itself is music. I'm just lucky that I can convert it into music. — Benjamin Clementine Copy Share Image
As a schoolboy, poetry seemed defined by preciousness. It was all very rarefied. — Simon Schama Copy Share Image
Sometimes I just go into Shakespearean sonnets and end it with a nice little couplet. — Brook Lopez Copy Share Image
“They wrote to me and said something about it, and I said that if it doesn't involve any work, I'll do it.… — Robert Bly Copy Share Image
People in power tend to find poetry dangerous to them because it is dislocating, they can't catch it, can't control it. They… — Elia Suleiman Copy Share Image
A Grecian history, perfectly written should be a complete record of the rise and progress of poetry, philosophy, and the arts. — Thomas B. Macaulay Copy Share Image
The only people who have trouble with poetry are the people who link it with literature. It's much more akin to mountain-walking,… — Theo Dorgan Copy Share Image
I deliberately wrote a poem in my last book where I was suggesting that there are other passions as great as or… — Thom Gunn Copy Share Image
I am reading Jonson's verses to the memory of Shakespeare; an insolent, sparing, and invidious panegyric... — John Dryden Copy Share Image
“But I am wise if not yet quite old, wanting the poem more than the lover, wanting words more than the sticky… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
When a great poet has lived, certain things have been done once for all, and cannot be achieved again. — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
But I think for me, writing poetry when I was younger really helped me to condense an idea or a story into… — Arlo Parks Copy Share Image
When I devoted myself to poetry - and poetry is a very serious medium - I don't think the people that knew… — Ana Castillo Copy Share Image
My father is a poet. He's a literary giant of this country - writes in Hindi - and also quite unique because… — Amitabh Bachchan Copy Share Image
“He read the verses backwards but then they were not poetry. Then he read the flyleaf from the bottom to the top… — James Joyce Copy Share Image
It is useless to check the vain dunce who has caught the mania of scribbling, whether prose or poetry, canzonets or criticisms,--let… — Sarah Josepha Hale Copy Share Image
I think the first time I really heard poetry was in the schoolyard. Just the little limericks that kids say when they're… — Jill Scott Copy Share Image
“My friend Debbie from Texas sent me a poem to cheer me up. Her father told her that a friend of his… — Hillary Rodham Clinton Copy Share Image
I'm not really quiet or shy. Ask any of my friends! But I always ground my poetry in life itself. Poetry is… — Anne Stevenson Copy Share Image
