In writing poetry, all of one's attention is focused on some inner voice. — Li-Young Lee Copy Share Image
“Poetry and beauty are born out of pain. This is their glory, this is our gain.” — S. Tarr Copy Share Image
“...I wish I could tell the tale of your beauty as my rough hands caress your face...” — John Geddes Copy Share Image
Ted Hughes has been appointed poet laureate to succeed Sir John Betjeman, which is a bit like appointing a grim young crow… — Philip Howard, 20th Earl of Arundel Copy Share Image
There’s plenty that poetry cannot do, but the miracle, of course, is how much it can do, how much it does do. — Mary Szybist Copy Share Image
“On an average trip he brought two physics books, a few philosophy books, several volumes of poetry, and one thesaurus” — Amanda Gefter Copy Share Image
Modern poetry, for me, began not in English at all but in Spanish, in the poems of Lorca. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“I found a night’s sky full of stars In your cinematic eyes And heard a symphony In your laughter.” — Justin Wetch Copy Share Image
“Each time we bow to the feet of anything we find riveting, the mind rises to be surprised with new crowning diamonds… — Curtis Tyrone Jones Copy Share Image
All the senses awaken and fall into harmony in poetic reverie. Poetic reverie listens to this polyphony of the senses, and the… — Gaston Bachelard Copy Share Image
Most poetry just confounds me. I really want to like it, but I can't help thinking it's a hoax. (p. 24) — Stephan Pastis Copy Share Image
Poems come from ordinary experiences and objects, I think. Out of memory - a dress I lent my daughter on her way… — Sharon Olds Copy Share Image
“He was almost a poet in his old age and his notion of what happened took a poetic turn. 'I had come… — Sherwood Anderson Copy Share Image
“The reason for the existence of the perfection conjured up in these fourteen lines is that it possesses ... the authorization to… — Peter Sloterdijk Copy Share Image
“I. Those of us born by water are never afraid enough of drowning. Bruises used to trophy my knees from my death-defying… — Clementine von Radics Copy Share Image
“And one gathers from this enormous modern literature of confes- 11 sion and self- analysis that to write a work of genius… — Lee A. Jacobus Copy Share Image
You cannot lecture on really pure poetry any more than you can talk about the ingredients of pure water-it is adulterated, methylated,… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Each story, novel, poem and play presents a vision of the world that illuminates the dark cave of life we stumble through.… — Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Copy Share Image
“But what you’re calling poetry is what everything is. It’s not even poetry — it’s seeing. These materialists are blind. You told… — Álvaro de Campos Copy Share Image
Only the very weak-minded refuse to be influenced by literature and poetry. — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
To read a poem is to hear it with our eyes; to hear it is to see it with our ears. — Octavio Paz Copy Share Image
Verses which do not teach men new and moving truths do not deserve to be read. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
A mighty good sausage stuffer was spoiled when the man became a poet. — Eugene Field Copy Share Image
Errors like straws upon the surface flow: Who would search for pearls must dive below — John Dryden Copy Share Image
I dream of silent verses where the rhyme glides noiseless as an oar. — Richard Aldington Copy Share Image
Painting is silent poetry, and poetry is painting with the gift of speech — Simonides Copy Share Image
We wrote verses that condemned us, with no hope of pardon, to the most bitter solitude. — Salvatore Quasimodo Copy Share Image
I want to be the best advocate and promoter for poetry that I can be. — Natasha Trethewey Copy Share Image
The demand that poetry be immediately understandable to everyone is truly absurd. — Mieczyslaw Jastrun Copy Share Image
