“THE SEA: I’ve swallowed so many hearts and, oh God, I’m still mine alone.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
He that would earn the Poet's sacred name, Must write for future as for present ages. — Christopher Pearse Cranch Copy Share Image
I secretly assumed, as poets do, The duty on me to define the moon. — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
“Evanescent grace, you vanish as a vapor does, or love in open air.” — Jill Alexander Essbaum Copy Share Image
This is my heartbeat like yours, it is a hatchet It can build a house or tear one down. — Andrea Gibson Copy Share Image
Though I may deny poets their monopoly on inspiration, I still place them in a select group of Fortune's darlings. — Wislawa Szymborska Copy Share Image
“Higher still and higher From the earth thou springest Like a cloud of fire; The blue deep thou wingest, And singing still… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
Living at that pitch, on that edge, is something which many poets engage in to some extent. — Paul Muldoon Copy Share Image
“As the poet Alexander Pope said: Nature and Nature’s laws lay hid in night: God said, Let Newton be! and all was… — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
I don't know whether a poem has be there to help to develop something. I think it's there for itself, for what… — Marilyn Hacker Copy Share Image
Na jane kya hogaya tha mujhe jo kar baithi pyar mein tujhe Na jane kya khata hogayi thi mujhse Jo mil gayi… — Mishal Copy Share Image
Money is like poetry because both involve learning to communicate in a compressed language that packs a lot of meaning and consequence… — John Lanchester Copy Share Image
“You said one day you would come back for us The ones that believed in you The ones that asked you into… — April Nichole Copy Share Image
“Mr Rutger cornet de Groot. Never read any American poetry or any other foreign poetry, which is why he always mentions 2… — Martinus Hendrikus Benders Copy Share Image
“The Final Poem A forge burns in my heart. I am redder than dawn, Deeper than seaweed, More distant than gulls, More… — Andrée Chedid Copy Share Image
“Any story told in this machine age must be a story of fragments, for fragments are all the world has left: interrupted… — Dexter Palmer Copy Share Image
I don't know that I had a sense that there was such a thing as "the poetry world" in the 1960s and… — Robert Hass Copy Share Image
“It is true that biographical readings of the plays are dangerous, unregulated, prone to sentimentalization. It is absurd to cherry-pick passages of… — Charles Nicholl Copy Share Image
I happen to believe that there are a lot of good poets around at present, but a poet like Alex Kuo, who… — Carolyn Kizer Copy Share Image
A revolutionary poem will not tell you who or when to kill, what and when to burn, or even how to theorize.… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
“Thinking has a quiet skin. But I feel the and of things inside it. Blue hills most gentle in calm light, then… — Laure Sheck Copy Share Image
“the poem of the world is uninterrupted, but few are the ears that hear it.” — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“Allow me to feel, Then I bow to you to heal, Looking to release With peace.” — Bri Miller Copy Share Image
“...the feelings that pass between us are deeper than fleshly touches...” — John Geddes Copy Share Image
“In his laughter, he found echoes of all the happiness he ever wanted” — Kakarot Hancock Copy Share Image
In my late teenage years, I developed a real passion for it, and wrote a lot of poetry. — Danielle Steel Copy Share Image
“Three birds sit on a wire One bird poops Three birds shit on a wire” — Eric Mancini Copy Share Image
Poetry, for me, conveys the essence of narrative rather than its particulars. — Delia Sherman Copy Share Image
