The only people who still read poetry are poets, and they mostly read their own. — Barbara Holland Copy Share Image
“Time passes too fast. Like a hummingbird flying by, it’s just a blur to my eyes.” — Amanda Leigh Copy Share Image
“Look I'm not the God of Poetry or Good Descriptions, okay? - Hades” — Kaitlin Bevis Copy Share Image
The scripture that God used to save me was Isaiah 7.14, which today is still my favourite verse in the Bible. — Gloria Gaynor Copy Share Image
“You bothered yourself and changed the season. I was left behind with your awful sounds.” — Cat Alonso Copy Share Image
I feel that the task of criticizing my poetry is best left to others (i.e. critics) and would much rather have it… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
Prince or commoner, tenor or bass, Painter or plumber or never-do-well, Do me a favor and shut your face - Poets alone… — Dorothy Parker Copy Share Image
Poetry isn't a profession, it's a way of life. It's an empty basket; you put your life into it and make something… — Mary Oliver Copy Share Image
Mathematics is, as it were, a sensuous logic, and relates to philosophy as do the arts, music, and plastic art to poetry. — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Copy Share Image
For Liberal Democrats, the political choice between the hard Brexit menus offered by Boris Johnson and Jeremy Hunt might seem about as… — Ed Davey Copy Share Image
“Gluttony and sloth, as worldly goals, were quietly usurped by avarice and lust, which, together with poetry (yes, poetry), consumed all my… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
“Between two worlds life hovers like a star, 'Twixt night and morn, upon the horizon's verge. How little do we know that… — George Gordon Byron Copy Share Image
As poetry is the highest speech of man, it can not only accept and contain, but in the end express best everything… — Conrad Aiken Copy Share Image
“Hello," Life says, "Remember me? We started out together here When you were just a bundle Of innocent amazement. Remember how you… — Jacob Nordby Copy Share Image
Poetry can add its grain to an accumulation of consciousness against the idea that there is no alternative - that we're just… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
I think many people (like myself) prefer to read poetry mixed with prose; it gives you more to go by; the conventions… — William Empson Copy Share Image
I play guitar; you'll find me at home strumming 'Vincent' on the guitar. I also read a lot of poetry, and Shakespeare… — Dave Legeno Copy Share Image
Poetry may make us from time to time a little more aware of the deeper, unnamed feelings which form the substratum of… — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
“Think of it: a writer actually possesses the power to alter his past, to change what was once experienced as defeat into… — Franz Wright Copy Share Image
“He thought, in fine, that the dreams of poets were the realities of life.” — John William Polidori Copy Share Image
“She is a poem. She is an old one, a new one, one waiting to be written. She is.” — N'Zuri Za Austin Copy Share Image
A gay poet is just one of the very many poet gays of yesterday, today and tomorrow. — Jean-Paul Malfatti Copy Share Image
Reality only reveals itself when it is illuminated by a ray of poetry. — Georges Braque Copy Share Image
“Anything you want very badly is located outside of your comfort zone.” — Tracey L. Moore Copy Share Image
“She left my world spinning like windmills on the plains of la Mancha.” — Stephen Brooke Copy Share Image
Whom the gods do not intend to destroy, they first make mad with poetry. — Irving Layton Copy Share Image
Politics can be the graveyard of the poet. And only poetry can be his resurrection. — Langston Hughes Copy Share Image
I'm skilled in the Twitter and Instagram sense of the social media verse. — Victoria Justice Copy Share Image
“The imperfect is our paradise. —WALLACE STEVENS, “The Poems of Our Climate,” 1938.” — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
