Being a poet is one of the unhealthier jobs--no regular hours, so many temptations! — Elizabeth Bishop Copy Share Image
“Xs and Os Love is a game of tic-tac-toe, constantly waiting, for the next x or o.” — Lang Leav Copy Share Image
O woman! thou wert fashioned to beguile: So have all sages said, all poets sung. — Jean Ingelow Copy Share Image
Poets think in short lines. Unless you're Samuel Beckett, Twitter might be more difficult for novelists. — Kenneth Goldsmith Copy Share Image
This verse really speaks to me: If you are kind only to your friends, how are you different from anyone else? Even… — God Copy Share Image
“I am republic I am maoist I am activist and I am this and I am that but why? Why can't; I… — Santosh Kalwar Copy Share Image
“My job as a poet, is not to succumb to despair but to find in words, an antidote for the emptiness of… — Michelle Geaney Copy Share Image
“Children are like poems. They're beautiful -- to their creators -- but to others they're just silly and fucking annoying.” — Doug Stanhope Copy Share Image
“Cause I can love a poem up out of you-like my middle name is Harlem..and my fingerprints are permanent-you ain't gone wash… — Shanica Stewart Copy Share Image
The first time I got onstage was when I was about 5 years old. It was at a church social, and I… — Willie Nelson Copy Share Image
“You don't have to be an angel. All you need is someone who can always see your best angle.” — Sam Haidy Copy Share Image
“Delvig's best poem is the one he dedicated to Pushkin, his schoolmate, in January 1815. A boy of sixteen, prophesying in exact… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
“Will gave a short, disbelieving laugh. "It's true," he said. "I am no hero." "No," Tessa said. "You are a person, just… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
The world's history is a divine poem, of which the history of every nation is a canto, and every man a word.… — James A. Garfield Copy Share Image
Nobody knows that in reading we are re-living our temptations to be a poet. All readers who have a certain passion for… — Gaston Bachelard Copy Share Image
“the flight which the poet makes over the face of the earth and then, as if he had been ordained to re-enact… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
When you are writing literary writing, you are communicating something subtextual with emotions and poetry. The prose has to have a voice;… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
“Poetry has an immediate effect on the mind. The simple act of reading poetry alters thought patterns and the shuttle of the… — Ivan M. Granger Copy Share Image
“MY FATHER If I have to write a poem about my father it has to be about integrity and kindness — the… — Neena H Brar Copy Share Image
A poet should leave traces of his passage, not proofs. Traces alone engender dreams. — Rene Char Copy Share Image
“I am certain, my love, that poetry was born only after your birth.” — Kamand Kojouri Copy Share Image
In my opinion, Al Moritz may be the best poet of his generation in Canada. — George Murray Copy Share Image
“life is not a poem, nor a paragraph, it is a sentence, i can end it at anytime” — Dani Lambias Copy Share Image
Iambics march from short to long;-- With a leap and a bound the swift Anapaests throng — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
I may turn out an intellectual, but I'll never write anything but mediocre poetry. — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“Poetry is dying first. It'll be absorbed into prose sooner or later.” — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
The great philosophers are poets who believe in the reality of their poems. — Antonio Machado Copy Share Image
Great Poets discover themselves. Little Poets have to be 'discovered' by somebody else. — Marie Corelli Copy Share Image
“Poetry is man’s rebellion against being what he is. (1879-1958)” — James Branch Cabell Copy Share Image
