“I beg you, help me, in angelic charity, Pray my efforts will reflect your mastery!” — E.A. Bucchianeri Copy Share Image
It’s a good poem if I’m a different person when I’m finished reading it. — Brandon Stanton Copy Share Image
I have never yet known a poet who did not think himself super-excellent. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
In most men there exists a poet who died young, whom the man survived. — Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve Copy Share Image
You can't write poems about trees when the woods are full of policemen. — Bertolt Brecht Copy Share Image
Experiments with the "as if" of fiction are often more lively in poetry and criticism and other modes of writing than in… — Ben Lerner Copy Share Image
“True beauty is measured by the number of pearls within you, not those around your neck.” — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image
Our nature as sensitive beings is far too complex to break apart, re-examine and reshape in a poem. — Masiela Lusha Copy Share Image
I link what I do more to poetry usually because it sounds less lofty than a lot of other things. — Rick Owens Copy Share Image
“There are two Souls, whose equal flow In gentle stream so calmly run, That when they part—they part?—ah no! They cannot part—those… — George Gordon Byron Copy Share Image
I have wonderful band mates that make music that I'm forced to listen to for hours on end until I come up… — Nikki Jean Copy Share Image
I didn't study other poets and react against them. I kind of found them later and realised I was different. Quite throwaway,… — Tim Key Copy Share Image
“In the busyness of living, he is the kind of man that makes a woman pause and write romantic poetry.” — Terry a O'Neal Copy Share Image
women have always been poor, not for two hundred years merely, but from the beginning of time. ... Women, then, have not… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“In all people I see myself, none more and not one a barleycorn less, And the good or bad I say of… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
Watching and learning from the great Josette Bushell-Mingo, who was playing Cleopatra in Antony and Cleopatra at the time, and then to… — Gugu Mbatha-Raw Copy Share Image
So you have in Iraq some people falling prey to the system, some people managing to negotiate independence, and other people becoming… — Elliott Colla Copy Share Image
“Our mind is who we are; it’s where we feel and think and believe. It’s where we have love and hate and… — Rosamund Lupton Copy Share Image
“Ah, distinctly I remember it was in the bleak December And each separate dying ember wrought its ghost upon the floor. Eagerly… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
“[H]e was soon to be head clerk; it was time to settle down. So he gave up his flute, exalted sentiments, and… — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
Sam Hamill is a writer unabashedly taking his place within the community of literature and the community of all sentient beings-his fidelity… — Jane Hirshfield Copy Share Image
I've approached every character I've ever played with a poem, first and foremost. — Omari Hardwick Copy Share Image
“A great poet from ancient times put it this way: Love is the beauty of the soul.” — Jeff Wheeler Copy Share Image
“I’m here now. Letting them out. Freeing my words Building better walls.” — Tamara Ireland Stone Copy Share Image
Life would die without poets, and democracy must have its spellbinders. — Joyce Cary Copy Share Image
“You see demons in the eyes of the world, and the world sees bottomless pit in yours.” — Neal Shusterman Copy Share Image
Poetry is one of the few nasty childhood habits I've managed to grow out of — Tom Holt Copy Share Image
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