I would enjoy having dinner with the poet/playwright Derek Walcott. — Walter Dean Myers Copy Share Image
“some see things as they are: others as they are” (p.82) ~CXCI” — Manav Sachdeva Maasoom Copy Share Image
Sunshine cannot bleach the snow, Nor time unmake what poets know — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“We were strange in love her and I too wild to last too rare to die.” — Atticus Poetry Copy Share Image
I just love anything that's super-heightened. That feels more real to me, a more honest channel to express emotions. Like, poetry over… — Cole Escola Copy Share Image
As I started writing about loss and grief, I was taking what felt unmanageable and using my songwriting, my sense of poetry… — Rosanne Cash Copy Share Image
Anyone can express himself or herself, but what writers and poets want to do in their work, more than simply express themselves,… — Raymond Carver Copy Share Image
It is the job of poetry to clean up our word-clogged reality by creating silences around things. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The deeper the love the stronger the emotion. The stronger the emotion the greater the devotion. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
For a long time, I saw writing prose as chewing rocks compared to the velocities of writing poetry. — David Biespiel Copy Share Image
Music is not a science any more than poetry is. It is a sublime instinct, like genius of all kinds. — Ouida Copy Share Image
“Poetry is when emotion blooms like flowers with the petals of words and spreads the fragrance of perception.” — Debasish Mridha Copy Share Image
“The lunatic, the lover, and the poet Are of imagination all compact: One sees more devils than vast hell can hold, That… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
"The Dream of a Common Language" by Adrienne Rich. I carried it the entire hike. On my first night, when I felt… — Cheryl Strayed Copy Share Image
“THE METAPHYSICAL POETS Had we but world enough, and time, This coyness, lady, were no crime (Andrew Marvell, To His Coy Mistress)… — Ronald Carter Copy Share Image
“If this turns to friendship, it only means That one of us will suffer. That when we meet after the worst of… — Cyril Wong Copy Share Image
“Poetry and Philosophy (The Sonnet) Good poetry is but philosophy, Good philosophy is but poetry. It is only the majority amateurs, Who… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“It’s stranger than every strangeness And the dreams of all the poets And the thoughts of all the philosophers, That things are… — Alberto Caeiro Copy Share Image
“Read for yourselves, read for the sake of your inspiration, for the sweet turmoil in your lovely head. But also read against… — Adam Zagajewski Copy Share Image
And still it is not enough to have memories. One must be able to forget them when they are many, and one… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
“The art of the successful poem is that is says more than its words say.” — the mag man Copy Share Image
“Poetry is a useful place for lamentation...poems are a place where we can cry out.” — bell hooks Copy Share Image
“When it comes to love we are primates breaking sticks while pointing to our hearts.” — Atticus Poetry Copy Share Image
“How comforting it would be if we could wrap our souls in blankets too.” — Kaitlyn N. Lentulo Copy Share Image
In a poem the words should be as pleasing to the ear as the meaning is to the mind. — Marianne Moore Copy Share Image
