The Language of Poetry may have many Tongues but her Kiss is Everlasting — Adrian Ernesto Cepeda Poet Copy Share Image
“the delicate fragrance of rose hips lingered on my fingers from tending the garden .” — Meeta Ahluwalia Copy Share Image
I don't like poems that invent memories, I have enough of my own. — Andre Naffis-Sahely Copy Share Image
I believe that all poetry is formal in that it exists within limits, limits that are either inherited by tradition or limits… — Mark Strand Copy Share Image
Today we haven't the heart to expel the painters and poets from society because we refuse to admit to ourselves that there… — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
Poetry is a sequence of dots and dashes, spelling depths, crypts, cross-lights, and moon wisps. — Carl Sandburg Copy Share Image
You don't have to be a renowned artist like Q-Tip to try your hand at poetry. You don't need any special equipment… — Michelle Obama Copy Share Image
Technology will never rescue anyone from being a bad poet, but if you're good, it has the potential to do a lot… — Stephen Vincent Benet Copy Share Image
Young poets bewail the passing of love; old poets, the passing of time. There is surprisingly little difference. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
“Yes, it was late, and, yes, I was being very dented-in-the-head-mutant-hillbilly, But you... you just sat there like some shitty poem.” — Mark Leyner Copy Share Image
“I fell out of love with him and he thought I fell in love with someone else, I did. I fell in… — Melody Lee Copy Share Image
One of the most famous lines in contemporary Russian poetry is "Erica makes four copies and that's enough." That's the ethos we're… — Masha Gessen Copy Share Image
The discoverer and the poet are inventors; and they are so because their mental vision detects the unapparent, unsuspected facts, almost as… — George Henry Lewes Copy Share Image
I was trying to pay the bills with poems, and it was easy to memorize my poems, because I'd be riding my… — Omari Hardwick Copy Share Image
The difference between genuine poetry and the poetry of Dryden, Pope, and all their school, is briefly this: their poetry is conceived… — Matthew Arnold Copy Share Image
Some difficulty is warranted and other difficulty I think is gratuitous. And I think I can tell the difference. There are certainly… — Billy Collins Copy Share Image
“What is the colour of Christmas? Red? The red of the toyshops on a dark winter’s afternoon, Of Father Christmas and the… — William Sansom Copy Share Image
“Love is not love which alters it when alteration finds, or bends with the remover to remove: O no! It is an… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
“I knew a very wise man . . . that . . . believed if a man were permitted to make all… — Andrew Fletcher Copy Share Image
“It is not death that allows us to understand each other, but poetry.” — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“Love is a game of tic-tac-toe, constantly waiting for the next x or o.” — Lang Leav Copy Share Image
“He calls me desperate (on my tombstone) I hope poetic license will allow: HUNGRY” — Eli Coppola Copy Share Image
“I’ve learned to lick my own foul wounds and prize the taste of ache.” — Chila Woychik Copy Share Image
My style of performance poetry came from the beatniks, Allen Ginsberg. — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
“Celebrate one soul, touch one heart, light one lamp; and the whole universe moves.” — Heather K. O'Hara Copy Share Image
A day which passed without a poem from my pen I considered lost and misused. — Ella Wheeler Wilcox Copy Share Image
language can't be appropriated by one person, one poet. The words belong to all of us. — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
