“I want to throw a party for the heartbreak that turned you into a poet.” — Mindy Nettifee Copy Share Image
Poetry has a way of teaching one what one needs to know ... if one is honest. — May Sarton Copy Share Image
A poet cannot be a Party member ... without paying the price. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
“Fate would never permit happiness to a man of such talent- a content poet is a mediocre one, a happy poet is… — The Hakawati Rabih Alameddine Copy Share Image
“Keep your head up, he said, you are a lion, don’t forget that and neither will the sheep.” — Atticus Poetry Copy Share Image
There's nothing in the world for which a poet will give up writing, not even he is a Jew and the language… — Paul Celan Copy Share Image
“But no, I was out for stars: I would not come in. I meant not even if asked, And I hadn't been.” — Robert Frost Copy Share Image
poets are privileged to utter more than they can always quite explain, bringing up from the mind's unplumbed depths tokens of the… — Vernon Lee Copy Share Image
“The city shined in the sunlight like a bunch of metallic boobs. What? I'm not a poet. They look like boobs.” — Andy Weir Copy Share Image
“To summarize a poem or put it into prose is quite simply to misunderstand the essence of an art.” — Paul Valéry Copy Share Image
“People like me spend years learning the techniques of meditation. But you're a poet, and poets are born knowing the language of… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
“My mother had to abandon her quest, but managed to extract from the restriction itself a further delicate thought, like good poets… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
Not every gay person recites poetry or has read Keats. You can get readers through anything if the characters are complicated. You… — Marlon James Copy Share Image
I create my subjects somehow visualizing them in my style. I start as a poet, put the colors and composition down on… — Fernando Botero Copy Share Image
“In times of old when I was new And Hogwarts barely started The founders of our noble school Thought never to be… — J.K. Rowling Copy Share Image
“Man understood in the end what man is. He renounces the analysis of God, penetrating the impalpable, in which he has not… — José Rizal Copy Share Image
I find great consolation in having a lot of poetry books around. I believe that writing poetry and reading it are deeply… — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
“Government property. Trespassers will be prosecuted." The sweetest poetry is written on the signs you walk up to from the back, and… — Vironika Tugaleva Copy Share Image
“Christ, it's embarrassing--I start thinking about this goddam poem I sent her when we first started goin' around together. 'Rose my color… — J.D. Salinger Copy Share Image
“You can't just add a smattering of verses to a humanistic worldview.” — Joseph Stephen Copy Share Image
I think fiction goes to poetry for the intensity of its use of language. — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
Poetry is the way we help give name to the nameless so it can be thought. — Audre Lorde Copy Share Image
When you can be this, why are you ever anything else? - Broken Verses — Kamila Shamsie Copy Share Image
“I think it’s beautiful the way you sparkle when you talk about the things you love.” — Atticus Poetry Copy Share Image
“Love consists of this: two solitudes that meet, protect and greet each other. ” — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
In the earliest ages science was poetry, as in the later poetry has become science. — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
“~ Not every poem is meant for oral stimulation, some are better devoured mentally.” — Kiana Donae Copy Share Image
