“Its dark and I’m reading my scars because our moments remind me of where I should be.” — robert m drake Copy Share Image
Still may syllables jar with time, Still may reason war with rhyme, Resting never! — Ben Jonson Copy Share Image
“Find the beauty in everyone and everything, everyday! Roxanne Catherine Mapp” — Roxanne Catherine Mapp Copy Share Image
Many of the poems weave autobiographical elements with fabular or mythic materials. — Anna Journey Copy Share Image
“He remembers which sister I like least and asks how she is doing. (lines 9-11 of the poem 'Divorce')” — Carrie Etter Copy Share Image
“Poetry...is full of visions pulled more from our hearts than from our minds. Our greatest poems are written in the dust of… — John H Ritter Copy Share Image
“in a split second of letting down my guard and opening up my soul, you corrupted it with this magnificent disease called… — Yefon Isabelle Copy Share Image
Generally speaking, rhyme is the marker for the end of a line. The first rhyme-word is like a challenge thrown down, which… — James Fenton Copy Share Image
Scientific understanding is often beautiful, a profoundly aesthetic experience which gives pleasure not unlike the reading of a great poem. — Paul Nurse Copy Share Image
The best poem is that whose worked-upon unmagical passages come closest, in texture and intensity, to those moments of magical accident. — Dylan Thomas Copy Share Image
“Ever word collector sure know that feeling, whether you've been catching songs or poems or stories. You've been caught in the magic."… — Natalie Lloyd Copy Share Image
Every genuine poet is necessarily a Columbus. America existed for centuries before Columbus but it was only Columbus who was able to… — Yevgeny Zamyatin Copy Share Image
“We which were Ovids five books, now are three, For these before the rest preferreth he: If reading five thou plainst of… — Christopher Marlowe Copy Share Image
Poetry is creative expression; Prose is constructive expression... by creative I mean original. In Poetry the words are born or reborn in… — Herbert Read Copy Share Image
I liked to write from the time I was about 12 or 13. I loved to read. And since I only spoke… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
“Without this excitement they cannot have their Lyric Verse, and so they get it by any convenient means -- and with absolute… — A.S. Byatt Copy Share Image
“How we perceive the world and how we act in it are products of how and what we remember...No lasting joke, invention,… — Joshua Foer Copy Share Image
Constellations shine with light that was emitted aeons ago, and I wait for something to come to me, words that a poet… — Nicholas Sparks Copy Share Image
“The Snow Cricket Just beyond the leaves and the white faces Of the lilies, I saw the wings Of the green snow… — Mary Oliver poet Copy Share Image
“ Hap If but some vengeful god would call to me From up the sky, and laugh: “Thou suffering thing, Know that… — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
Stop this day and night with me and you shall possess the origin of all poems — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
Poetry puts starch in your backbone so you can stand, so you can compose your life. — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
Money is everywhere, but so is poetry. What we lack are the poets. — Federico Fellini Copy Share Image
Poetry is an extra hand. It can caress or tickle. It can clench and fight. — Adrian Mitchell Copy Share Image
True art can only spring from the intimate linking of the serious and the playful. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
“SOME PEOPLE SIMPLY DO NOT EXIST ANYMORE. GET USED TO IT. QUESTION MARK.” — Amy King Copy Share Image
The generous Critic fann'd the Poet's fire, And taught the world with reason to admire. — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
