“Time held me green and dying Though I sang in my chains like the sea.” — Dylan Thomas Copy Share Image
“I will never apologize for expressing myself. I am who I am as so is my poetry.” — Shannon Lynette Copy Share Image
“Change happens for you the moment you want something more than you fear it.” — Eric Micha'el Leventhal Copy Share Image
“Wisdom is the poetry of the wise, and poetry is the wisdom of the poets.” — Ibrahim al-Koni Copy Share Image
I have met with women whom I really think would like to be married to a Poem and to be given away… — John Keats Copy Share Image
Every time you read a poem aloud to yourself in the presence of others, you are reading it into yourself and them.… — Seamus Heaney Copy Share Image
“Gotta love us brown girls, munching on fat, swinging blue hips, decked out in shells and splashes, Lawdie, bringing them woo hips.” — Patricia Smith Copy Share Image
I was just reading some poetry, and it talked about how things start as one thing and change into another, and I… — Tommy Lee Copy Share Image
The process of writing a poem represents work done on the self of the poet, in order to make form. — Muriel Rukeyser Copy Share Image
“It could be said that a single person has written all the books in the world such central unity is in them… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
As to London we must console ourselves with the thought that if life outside is less poetic than it was in the… — Goldwin Smith Copy Share Image
He who, in an enlightened and literary society, aspires to be a great poet, must first become a little child. — Thomas B. Macaulay Copy Share Image
The Gettysburg Adress has been included, of late, in several anthologies of poetry. It actually meets the major requirement of all poetry:… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
With most people, not describable as artists, all the finer part of their vitality goes into sex. They become third-rate poets during… — Wyndham Lewis Copy Share Image
Dreams are the bright creatures of poem and legend, who sport on earth in the night season, and melt away in the… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“It's possible to understand the world from studying a leaf. You can comprehend the laws of aerodynamics, mathematics, poetry and biology through… — Joy Harjo Copy Share Image
Yet poetry, though the last and finest result, is a natural fruit. As naturally as the oak bears an acorn, and the… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Hour of Stars (1920) The round silence of night, one note on the stave of the infinite. Ripe with lost poems, I… — Federico Garcia Lorca Copy Share Image
“Everything comes down so pasteurized everything comes down 16 degrees they say your amplifier is too loud turn your amplifier down are… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
When Walt Whitman writes in seeming defiance of tradition, he needs tradition for his protection, for the butcher and the baker and… — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
“the lion sleeps in the sun. its nose on its paws. it can kill a man.” — Wallace Stevens Copy Share Image
“When you get to find love, make sure it's because you get to find yourself” — Nicola An Copy Share Image
“What is this thing? trading passions for a tiny bit of acceptance.” — Charlotte Eriksson Copy Share Image
“I do not have more information after reading a poem; I have more experience.” — Eugene H. Peterson Copy Share Image
A rich poet from Harvard has no sense in his mind, except the aesthetic. — Beatrice Wood Copy Share Image
Let's be off before he gets his great horsey teeth into my poor lines of verse! — Cornelia Funke Copy Share Image
Poetry is the capture of a picture, a song, or a flair, in a deliberate prism of words. — Carl Sandburg Copy Share Image
“I am not obsessing. I am just sitting here perforating this post-it with a push-pin.” — Ada Limon Copy Share Image
“Sometimes, persevering...is simply having the courage to let go. ~Jason Versey” — Jason Versey Copy Share Image
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