I definitely used to write a lot at school. Comic poetry and drawings about people. — Sally Phillips Copy Share Image
“Our necessity. Our open mouth Where bread Goes in And dreams Come out.” — Roberto Bolaño Copy Share Image
“And the stars blinked as they watched her carefully jealous of the way she shone.” — Atticus Poetry Copy Share Image
“It's funny how fast a book goes, but how slow the wait appears. the book may end, but the mind still thinks...waiting… — Nandanie Phalgoo Copy Share Image
I wrote a staggeringly bad poem when I was 19 after a girlfriend dumped me. I seem to remember comparing her to… — Simon Schama Copy Share Image
He who writes prose builds his temple to Fame in rubble; he who writes verses builds it in granite. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
Poetry is something that happens in universities, in creative writing programs or in English departments. — Mark Strand Copy Share Image
For me, poetry is a situation - a state of being, a way of facing life and facing history. — Tahar Ben Jelloun Copy Share Image
“Si todos los rios son dulces de donde saca sal el mar? If all rivers are sweet where does the sea get… — Pablo Neruda Copy Share Image
“... And one day it dawned on me that I had spent entirely too much time waiting on you to grow a… — Alfa H Copy Share Image
Geometry in every proposition speaks a language which experience never dares to utter; and indeed of which she but halfway comprehends the… — William Whewell Copy Share Image
“... While much recent historicist criticism has assumed early nineteenth-century readers attuned to subtle ideological nuances in poetry, actual responses from readers… — Andrew Elfenbein Copy Share Image
Seek wisdom in books, rare manuscripts, and cryptic poems if you will, but seek it out also in simple stones, and fragile… — Scott Cunningham Copy Share Image
We had collaborated with Allen Ginsberg on one of his last projects just before he died in the spring of '97, a… — Eric Drooker Copy Share Image
Sometimes he would advise me to read poetry, and would send me in his letters quantities of verses and whole poems, which… — Peter Kropotkin Copy Share Image
For me, fishing and journalism touched the same places in my head. In comparison with that of poets, the fly fishers' and… — Howell Raines Copy Share Image
“Teach me to sing and recite, To whistle and jingle and strum. Teach me to color and paint, To sculpt and weave… — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
Entering into writing a poem is an emotional endeavor for me as well as a spiritual and creative one. Having to write… — Richard Blanco Copy Share Image
The very idea of a bird is a symbol and a suggestion to the poet. A bird seems to be at the… — John Burroughs Copy Share Image
“The gentle downward slope gets steeper and imperceptibly becomes an abyss.” — Tomas Tranströmer Copy Share Image
“We are God’s art. We are God’s poem, created to display His beauty and goodness.” — Gregory Dickow Copy Share Image
“how is it that he's always in my thoughts. even when i am not thinking.” — Sanober Khan Copy Share Image
“Sanity is a sonnet with a strict meter and rhyme scheme-and my mind is free verse.” — Holly Schindler Copy Share Image
“I knew I loved you when 'home' went from being a place to being a person.” — Eric Micha'el Leventhal Copy Share Image
“One eats in holiness and the table becomes an altar. Martin Buber” — Sylvia Shaw Judson Copy Share Image
