Had enough of my poetry yet? That's why they pay me to fight demons instead. — Charles Stross Copy Share Image
Poetry has done enough when it charms, but prose must also convince. — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
“you not wanting me was the beginning of me wanting myself thank you” — Nayyirah Waheed Copy Share Image
“Be still, sad heart! and cease repining; Behind the clouds is the sun still shining” — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
“Nothing fills the world quite as poetry does. A poet need not dwell on the pagecount of his life.” — D.A. Botta Copy Share Image
happiness makes us older, less romantic, less in need of dreams. Discontent, not happiness, is the food of youth and poetry. — Nan Fairbrother Copy Share Image
I write poetry. It comes naturally to me, but from a technical point of view it forces me to pay close attention… — Rita Mae Brown Copy Share Image
I want a bedroom near the sky, an astrologer's cave Where I can fashion eclogues that are chaste and grave. — John Ashbery Copy Share Image
I think the best American poetry is the poetry that utilizes the resources of poetry rather than exploits the defects or triumphs… — Mark Strand Copy Share Image
What an ornament and safeguard is humor! Far better than wit for a poet and writer. It is a genius itself, and… — Walter Scott Copy Share Image
“The American identity has never been a singular one and the voices of poets invariably sing, in addition to their own, the… — Aberjhani Copy Share Image
I thought about joining the undead poets society but then I'd have to throw away my Silver pen. — Stanley Victor Paskavich Copy Share Image
In the French language, there is a great gulf between prose and poetry; in English, there is hardly any difference. It is… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“along with the rest of our helpless world; and, O, if you could, you would, where lovers walked, sell off trees and… — Carol Ann Duffy Copy Share Image
“Living is the opposite of poetry. Poetry is the recollection of living, or, more often than not, the lament of having not… — P.S. Baber Copy Share Image
Depending on who I am talking about or who's talking through me - if the person is a kind of hip-hop, or… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
“There is an universal tendency amongst mankind to conceive all beings like themselves, and to transfer to every object those qualities, with… — David Hume Copy Share Image
“Protect your heart from thoughtless people who have no regard for the damage they cause. For they are reckless in their pursuit… — Liz Newman Copy Share Image
A poem, necessarily, sits at a register that's different from our usual conversational voices. You have to listen more actively to get… — Tracy K. Smith Copy Share Image
Sometime in the last 50,000 years, before 12,000 years ago, a kind of paradise came into existence. A situation in which men… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
My poetry is a game. My life is a game. But I am not a game. — Federico Garcia Lorca Copy Share Image
I have always thought of poems as stepping stones in one's own sense of oneself. — Seamus Heaney Copy Share Image
The grand style is available now only in old poems, museums, and parodies. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
“May the energy of the day always call for celebration." Barbara Botch” — Barbara Botch Copy Share Image
“Love speaks to The soul In a language The brain Can’t comprehend.” — Chris Mc Geown Copy Share Image
When I cannot write a poem, I bake biscuits and feel just as pleased. — Anne Morrow Lindbergh Copy Share Image
All poetry, as discriminated from the various paradigms of prosody, is prayer. — Samuel Beckett Copy Share Image
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