Im looking for a guy who makes you want to dance and write poetry all day long. — Angela Sarafyan Copy Share Image
Every poem, formal or free, has an ideal shape, and the job of the poet is to find it. — Peter Meinke Copy Share Image
Sandra Kasturi's magical poems transform the ordinary into the surreal and exotic. — Phyllis Gotlieb Copy Share Image
“Straight between them ran the pathway, Never grew the grass upon it” — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
Are democracy and poetry exclusive of one another and, if so, why? — Janet Erskine Stuart Copy Share Image
“the poem is a dice throw on a patch of darkness that may or may not glow” — Mahmoud Darwish Copy Share Image
“if I finally do catch you and put my mouth to yours you will taste that summer.” — Sina Queyras Copy Share Image
We stalk the truth as poets, sensualists, a duality, limited insanity. We labor in our muse, carving alphabets of experience into our… — Masiela Lusha Copy Share Image
The degree in which a poet's imagination dominates reality is, in the end, the exact measure of his importance and dignity. — George Santayana Copy Share Image
“I know you . . . That you hold inside Vast possibilities and dreams And limitless love.” — Ilchi Lee Copy Share Image
The events of life have never fallen into the form of the short story or the form of the poem, or into… — William Saroyan Copy Share Image
“The poets and artists and philosophers, resistance activists, secret scouts and troublemakers, had become, as they must, soldiers.” — China Miéville Copy Share Image
Summary riposte To the dreary wail There's no knowing what Love is all about. Poets know a lot. — Robert Frost Copy Share Image
True poetry is similar to certain pictures whose owner is unknown and which only a few initiated people know. — Eugenio Montale Copy Share Image
I think all poets must feel this: that there is constantly something new to be discovered in the language. It's like a… — Carol Ann Duffy Copy Share Image
“What would you have me do? Seek for the patronage of some great man, And like a creeping vine on a tall… — Edmond Rostand Copy Share Image
“Poets to Come POETS to come! orators, singers, musicians to come! Not to-day is to justify me, and answer what I am… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
My brother and I were brought up sort of thinking that we were English. I remember hearing the poet Roy Campbell on… — Justin Cartwright Copy Share Image
“The poet makes himself a seer through a long, tremendous, planned detachment of all his senses. All the forms of love, of… — Arthur Rimbauld Copy Share Image
“Why did the poor poet of Tennessee, upon suddenly receiving two handfuls of silver, deliberate whether to buy him a coat, which… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
If you put a real leaf and a silk leaf side by side, youll see something of the difference between Homers poetry… — Alice Oswald Copy Share Image
“somewhere there is a women in China holding a black umbrella so she won’t taste the salt of the rain when the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“It was a saying about noble figures in old Irish poems—he would give his hawk to any man that asked for it,… — Ted Hughes Copy Share Image
I would rather write poems than prose, any day, any place. Yet each has its own force. — Mary Oliver Copy Share Image
Never get so attached to a poem that you forget truth that lacks lyricism. — Joanna Newsom Copy Share Image
Anything I can sing, I call a song. Anything I can't sing, I call a poem. — Bob Dylan Copy Share Image
Like a piece of ice on a hot stove the poem must ride on its own melting. — Robert Frost Copy Share Image
“Occasionally you can hear her howl, when the sky is black and the moon is full.” — Melody Lee Copy Share Image
For even bad poetry has relevance for what it does not say for what it leaves out. — Lawrence Ferlinghetti Copy Share Image
Poetry offers the fairest hope of restoring our lost unity of mind. — Richard M. Weaver Copy Share Image
The function of poetry is to point out that the sign is not identical to the referent. — Roman Jakobson Copy Share Image
