Happy who in his verse can gently steer From grave to light, from pleasant to severe. — Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux Copy Share Image
“Those who lead us to our sacred selves walk not before us, but beside.” — Heather K. O'Hara Copy Share Image
“Love is a shadow. How you lie and cry after it --from "Elm", written 19 April 1962” — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
Every poet hopes that after-times Shall set some value on his votive lay. — Caroline Norton Copy Share Image
“Poetry is composing, you are writing words to move the world like music.” — Atticus Copy Share Image
Poetry is so close to music, not just in cadence and sound but in silences. That's why, to me, I can't talk… — Pattiann Rogers Copy Share Image
The poet should try to give his poem the quiet swiftness of flame, so that the reader will feel and not think… — Sara Teasdale Copy Share Image
“Inside my head / or in a distant / Galaxy / Soft I hear it / Calling me." from the song "In… — Jay Woodman Copy Share Image
“Poetry is the way that we transcend language through language. And thus our freedom lies in the poetry of all things” — Ilyas Kassam Copy Share Image
Man may be considered as a superior species of animal that produces philosophies and poems in about the same way a silkworm… — Hippolyte Taine Copy Share Image
History, at least in its ideal state of perfection, is a compound of poetry and philosophy. — Nathan Rothschild, 1st Baron Rothschild Copy Share Image
Modesty, tis a virtue not often found among poets, for almost every one of them thinks himself the greatest in the world. — Miguel de Cervantes Copy Share Image
Poetry's role is to provide spontaneous individual candor as distinct from manipulation and brainwash. — Allen Ginsberg Copy Share Image
"Look into thy heart and write!" is good advice, but not if interpreted to mean, "Look nowhere else!" The poet should know… — Harriet Monroe Copy Share Image
To be a poet is as serious, long-term and natural as the effort to be the best human you can be. To… — Alice Oswald Copy Share Image
What matters Death, if Freedom be not dead? No flags are fair, if Freedom's flag be furled. Who fights for Freedom, goes… — Joyce Kilmer Copy Share Image
“O, gentle Bard, if thou couldst but glimpse our digital age! We set words in light called ‘blogs,’ Which are, alas, neither… — Stewart Stafford Copy Share Image
When I started reciting my own poems in public, I worried that it would seem too theatrical, but now I find recitation… — James Arthur Copy Share Image
“The Choice You can carve out a life for yourself just as your bones have been carved from some larger bone your… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I have translated Bengali poets such as Subhash Mukhopadhyay and Sunil Gangopadhyay before. These were published by Hindi and Urdu magazines. But… — Gulzar Copy Share Image
“Simply stated, there is not a single verse anywhere in the Bible that pronounces us already forgiven for our future sins (meaning,… — Michael L. Brown Copy Share Image
A poem is something sacred. Let no one Take it for anything except itself. — Jose Marti Copy Share Image
There are so many things that poetry is about, one of which is memory. — Peter Davison Copy Share Image
Nobody has ever measured, not even poets, how much a heart can hold. — Zelda Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
It is better to live in a world of poetic meaning rather than hardcore reality. — Mark Gonzales Copy Share Image
In a machine, every part has a function. In a poem, every word needs to be there. — Elaine Equi Copy Share Image
“How can poetry be something we study, but also something that makes us cry?” — Rhian Williams Copy Share Image
“She had the power to change the world but she couldn't save the one she loved.” — robert m drake Copy Share Image
Our poets are men of talents who sing, and not the children of music. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
