“True beauty lies not upon gilded veneers, But found in the soul within.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If I feel physically as if the top of my head were taken off, I know that is poetry. — Emily Dickinson Copy Share Image
“Some can't handle the fiery poet, how she rips into souls burning words into prose.” — Melody Lee Copy Share Image
“I guess we'll become an archeological find, funded by some alien at some distant time” — P.J. Bayliss Copy Share Image
I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman. — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“Words are fossilized butterfly wings, pretty to look at sometimes, but only good for Museums. I want to miserably burn down the… — Jeremiah Walton Copy Share Image
“Really, for all the poetry in the world on the subject, when you get right down to it, it's mostly just boom!… — Martin Leicht Copy Share Image
“Words in a poem are like petals on a flower, only together, in the right position, at the right time are they… — David McDonald Copy Share Image
All the seven deadly sins are peccadilloes but without three of them, Pride, Lust, and Sloth, poetry might never have been born. — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
Don't saddle me with your ideals, and spare me all your guilt. For a poet with all the answers, has never yet… — Billy Bragg Copy Share Image
Making of poetry, music, dance and art as culture-making in the service of nation-making. You can find writings that make that purpose… — Mark McMorris Copy Share Image
It wasn't a deliberate decision to become a poet. It was something I found myself doing - and loving. Language became an… — Yusef Komunyakaa Copy Share Image
“It was language I loved, not meaning. I liked poetry better when I wasn't sure what it meant. Eliot has said that… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“I offer you my mouth— Let me marry my lips to the tops of your thighs, I kneel between your legs. I… — Chantelle Ann Copy Share Image
“To the enormous majority of persons who risk themselves in literature, not even the smallest measure of success can fall. They had… — Andrew Lang Copy Share Image
“The heart of a man is no heart at all If his heart is not loved by a women. The heart of… — colleen hoover Copy Share Image
“Francesca said nothing, wondering about a man to whom the difference between a pasture and a meadow seemed important, who got excited… — Robert James Waller Copy Share Image
The birth of a true poet is neither an insignificant event nor an easy delivery. Complications generally begin long before the fated… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Oh Susie, I often think that I will try to tell you how very dear you are, and how I'm watching for… — Emily Dickinson Copy Share Image
My dream is that people will find a way back home, into their bodies, to connect with the earth, to connect with… — Eve Ensler Copy Share Image
I was only sitting here in my white study with the awful black words pushing me around. — Anne Sexton Copy Share Image
“The secret to life is to live as though you know the secret." Barbara Botch” — Barbara Botch Copy Share Image
“...a passing face together with his grief turned you into a weeping Madonna...” — John Geddes Copy Share Image
“May be its mine bad-luck Or yours not to get me But I still have hope Of being yours” — Hasil Paudyal Copy Share Image
“There was a sound you could smell / like you were inhaling tomorrow.” — Cameron Conaway Copy Share Image
“The Writer and Poet is excusable only if he is Successful. Makes Money.” Within” — Linda Wagner-Martin Copy Share Image
Poetry is a response to the daily necessity of getting the world right. — Wallace Stevens Copy Share Image
