“Sometimes I think, I need a spare heart to feel all the things I feel.” — Sanober Khan Copy Share Image
I was too slow a mover to be a boxer. It was much easier to be a poet. — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
A poet is someone who stands outside in the rain hoping to be struck by lightning. — James Dickey Copy Share Image
Poets, the first instructors of mankind, Brought all things to the proper native use. — Horace Copy Share Image
I never 'plan' a stanza. Words cluster like chromosomes, determining the procedure. — Marianne Moore Copy Share Image
“¿Acaso no oyes al viento cuando pasa silbando mensajes? Tu alma existe, pero no gravita.” — Livia Alves Copy Share Image
I am grateful for - though I can't keep up with - the flood of articles, theses, and textbooks that mean to… — A. R. Ammons Copy Share Image
When you act, you've got to be like a poet or a musician. It's not about evidence before court. It's not a… — Rhys Ifans Copy Share Image
“Since you are gone, I collect the stars each night - building my own night sky, so I have something to hold… — Laura Chouette Copy Share Image
“No matter how you were taught by your teacher about how to recite a poem, it is impossible to wear your teacher's… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
The poet begins where the man ends. The man's lot is to live his human life, the poet's to invent what is… — Jose Ortega y Gasset Copy Share Image
Literature, fiction, poetry, whatever, makes justice in the world. That's why it almost always has to be on the side of the… — Grace Paley Copy Share Image
I see a poem as a multi-coloured strip behind peeling plaster, in separate, shining fragments. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“There is a LOT of bad news every day. The world seems to be getting more and more crazy. So every time… — Marcy Ferro Copy Share Image
I actually very rarely see comedy myself, and although I admire the work of some comics, it does come from all over,… — Dylan Moran Copy Share Image
Poetry is statement of a series of equations, with numbers and symbols changing like the changes of mirrors, pools, skies, the only… — Carl Sandburg Copy Share Image
“The truth is: I did want to be my dad's poem. I wanted to be his drawing, his novella, his most refined… — Alysia Abbott Copy Share Image
“In my tradition, God revealed Himself in words and lives in stories and, no, you cannot touch or even see Him. The… — Jonathan Rosen Copy Share Image
“This ploughman dead in battle slept out of doors Many a frozen night, and merrily Answered staid drinkers, good bedmen, and all… — Edward Thomas Copy Share Image
“Promise me no promises, So will I not promise you: Keep we both our liberties, Never false and never true: Let us… — Christina Rossetti Copy Share Image
“To fill the days up of his dateless year Flame from Queen Helen to Queen Guenevere? For first of all the sphery… — Algernon Charles Swinburne Copy Share Image
Spring has returned. The Earth is like a child that knows poems. — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
Our actions are like the terminations of verses, which we rhyme as we please. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
When I first wanted to be a writer, I learned to write prose by reading poetry. — Nicholson Baker Copy Share Image
You explain nothing, O poet, but thanks to you all things become explicable. — Paul Claudel Copy Share Image
“Predators prey on the weak; poets prey on brilliant ideas.” — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
Exaggerated history is poetry, and truth referred to a new standard. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
It's sometimes hard to know who's choosing whom - the poem, the song, or the writer. — Cornelius Eady Copy Share Image
I didn't want to deal in poetry. I got rid of that after a few months. — Tom Wesselmann Copy Share Image
All this time I drank you like the cure, when maybe you were the poison. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
