Words become luminous when the poet's finger has passed over them its phosphorescence. — Joseph Joubert Copy Share Image
Poetry is to philosophy what the Sabbath is to the rest of the week. — Augustus William Hare Copy Share Image
A great poet does not express his or her self; he expresses all of our selves. — Gary Snyder Copy Share Image
Having my poems set to music by Eric Moe has completely knocked my socks off. — Matthea Harvey Copy Share Image
A speech is poetry: cadence, rhythm, imagery, sweep! A speech reminds us that words, like children, have the power to make dance… — Peggy Noonan Copy Share Image
“v. It would be very odd if two poets were killed in the same way... May on Lake Asquam, by Jean Giraudoux” — Jean Giraudoux Copy Share Image
“ This is Just to Say I have eaten the plums that were in the icebox and which you were probably saving… — William Carlos Williams Copy Share Image
I think of myself as a poet. I grew up with poetic influences - what I know from my background is the… — Donovan Copy Share Image
Ideally, I'd like to write poetry for public performances and prose for a different, more contemplative kind of consumption. — Amitava Kumar Copy Share Image
That metre itself forms an essential part of all true poetry is a principle which not even the assertions of an Aristotle… — H. P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
“I get the romance. Show me the plan. Poetry's easy; it's the parent-teacher conferences that are hard.” — The Good Wife Copy Share Image
the poems to come are for you and for me and are not for mostpeople... you and i are human beings; mostpeople… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Our lips were for each other and our eyes were full of dreams. We knew nothing of travel and we knew nothing… — Roman Payne Copy Share Image
When the modern movement began, starting perhaps with the paintings of Manet and the poetry of Baudelaire and Rimbaud, what distinguished the… — J. G. Ballard Copy Share Image
“SHUT UP," Carot Top say, the cocane now taking effect. "This isnt Poetry 101. People want to laugh. Your suposed to be… — Seinfeld 2000 Copy Share Image
“A Parting Guest What delightful hosts are they— Life and Love! Lingeringly I turn away, This late hour, yet glad enough They… — James Whitcomb Riley Copy Share Image
“The creative writer is compulsively concrete . . . . His fictional house should be haunted by ideas, not inhabited by them;… — Wallace Stegner Copy Share Image
Anybody doesn't like these pitchers don't like potry, see? Anybody don't like potry go home see television shots of big hatted cowboys… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
“ The Arrow and the Song I shot an arrow into the air, It fell to earth, I knew not where; For,… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
When we are alone on a starlit night, when by chance we see the migrating birds in autumn descending on a grove… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
You know, people speak in poetry all the time. They just don't realize it. — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language. — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
“Between my finger and my thumb The squat pen rests; snug as a gun.” — Seamus Heaney Copy Share Image
I like it when someone gives me a new book of poetry by a poet I haven't read. — Nell Freudenberger Copy Share Image
I've learned about marrying poetry and prose and making both accessible. — Jacqueline Woodson Copy Share Image
“too much explanation can take the pleasure out of any poetry. (Preface, vii)” — Harold G. Henderson Copy Share Image
For poets (bear the word) Half-poets even, are still whole democrats. — Elizabeth Barrett Browning Copy Share Image
“Poetry is born of a lack of love, born of a crazy and impossible passion...” — Luis Alexandre Ribeiro Branco Copy Share Image
Now the ears of my ears are awake and now the eyes of my eyes are opened. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
