Poetry is a deliberate attempt to make language suggestive and imprecise. — Kenneth Koch Copy Share Image
The poet can only write the poems; it takes the reader to complete the meaning. — Nikki Giovanni Copy Share Image
“I came to pen another poem for you, but even every unwritten poem is you.” — Kamand Kojouri Copy Share Image
I've read some of your modern free verse and wonder who set it free. — John Barrymore Copy Share Image
“The night has a thousand eyes and I'm a gypsy dancer still hungry for more.” — Bob Miller Copy Share Image
Now, the process of writing poetry is very messy. Not systematic, never quite the same — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
“Infectious smile has infected tears The laughter strikes with spears I am not dear and they are not sincere Feeling fear I… — Louis Cecile Copy Share Image
The greatest poem is not that which is most skillfully constructed, but that in which there is the most poetry. — Leopold Schefer Copy Share Image
I think that when you reveal things that are going to cause pain, you have rhetorical resources in poetry. — Vijay Seshadri Copy Share Image
Life is a beautiful poem interspersed with the words of pain and pleasure and its script, music, composition, lyrics, chorus and everything… — Anuj Somany Copy Share Image
Only when the poet and the scientist work in unison will we have living experiences and knowledge of the marvels of the… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
The painting rises from the brushstrokes as a poem rises from the words. The meaning comes later. — Joan Miro Copy Share Image
Poetry and preaching do not go well together; when the preacher mounts the pulpit the poet usually goes away. — Edith Hamilton Copy Share Image
When I start writing a poem, I don't think about models or about what anybody else in the world has done. — Gwendolyn Brooks Copy Share Image
Usually the poems are written in one sitting. There's always a groping towards some satisfying ending. But I'd say the hardest part… — Billy Collins Copy Share Image
... not only dowomen sufferindignities in daily life, but the literature of the world proclaims their inferiority and divinely decreed subjection in… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
“I treasure ruefully some memories of W.H. Auden that go back to the middle 1960s, when he arrived in New Haven to… — Harold Bloom Copy Share Image
But give thanks, at least, that you still have Frost's poems; and when you feel the need of solitude, retreat to the… — Robert Graves Copy Share Image
When I was little, my dad told me about Anandpur Sahib and the court of Guru Gobind Singh. That we came from… — Rupi Kaur Copy Share Image
“If you see her staring into space, probably her mind is in a deep poetic embrace or a story is brewing in… — Melody Lee Copy Share Image
I wanted to remember the original energy; strip away all the glamour and limousines and tons of drugs. I wanted to get… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
As anthropomorphic and surreal people have said my early writing was, to me it was really stock and almost banal in the… — Devendra Banhart Copy Share Image
“something genuine like a mark in a toilet, graced with guts and gutted with grace” — E.E. Cummings Copy Share Image
I started writing poetry when I was in the fifth grade, just rhyming in class. — Jay Rock Copy Share Image
Poetry looking in the mirror sees art, and art looking in a mirror sings poetry. — Aberjhani Copy Share Image
“Don't shrink your standards, link yourself with those who think and ink like you.” — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
“I have found that happiness is a defiant act of bravery in spite of a callous world.” — Liz Newman Copy Share Image
I was very lucky to have a mother who encouraged me to become a poet. — Philip Levine Copy Share Image
“The work is to somehow talk ourselves beyond / the sleepiness of selfhood” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I think poetry can lead to policy, and I can hear the laughter when I say that. — Fred D'Aguiar Copy Share Image
