The religion of the heart is as intimate as a wish breathed to the night sky. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Writing a poem doubles, triples the experience or connection that initiated it.” — Frances Mayes Copy Share Image
“...if human nature were not a mystery, we'd have no need of poets.” — Salmon Rushdie Copy Share Image
“…my sacred landscape is the foothills of the stars - I go there often to sleep ...” — John Geddes Copy Share Image
I've written some poetry, but...songs have to be more poetic, and I've really gotten to this non-poetic sort of writing. — Mike Gordon Copy Share Image
“In daylight we pick up our tinned rations and hike off, every artery and nerve of us, into the rest of our… — Tess Gallagher Copy Share Image
The poem might come to you as you're preparing to teach a lecture, right? And when you say, "no" to that occasion,… — Shirley Geok-lin Lim Copy Share Image
“Literature, especially poetry, and lyric poetry most of all, is a kind of family joke, with little or no value outside its… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
I got the writing bug in the fourth grade when a poem of mine was published in the school newspaper. Music criticism… — Ann Powers Copy Share Image
Frankly, writing poetry for children is plain old fun, and I consider myself blessed to have such a delightful career. — Jack Prelutsky Copy Share Image
I do not think [poetry] is more, or less, necessary than food, shelter, health, education, decent working conditions. It is as necessary. — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
I can write the saddest poem of all tonight. I loved her, and sometimes she loved me too. — Pablo Neruda Copy Share Image
The necessity of poetry has to be stated over and over, but only to those who have reason to fear its power,… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
“Beowulf is usually seen as a masculine text, but I think that's somewhat unfair. The poem, while (with one exception) not structured… — Maria Dahvana Headley Copy Share Image
Pure poetry in motion. A swift-moving, heartfelt tale of love and loss, two stories intersecting-an d connecting-by magic. Michelle Baker is a… — Trent Zelazny Copy Share Image
“And so it’s hard for a certain kind of naïve mind at a restless, awakening time of year not to wonder, for… — Lisa R. Spaar Copy Share Image
I tend to like the way poets form communities. Writing can be lonely after all. Modern life can be lonely. Poets do… — Rae Armantrout Copy Share Image
“Being his workmanship doesn’t mean we are all poets. It means we are all poems, individual created works of a creative God.… — Emily P. Freeman Copy Share Image
“He could guide anyone to the point of no return. He'd corral them with poetry, music, invoking the alcoholic gods that all… — Hannah Lillith Assadi Copy Share Image
Good poems do a lot of things at once. Often, by doing so, they encourage us to acknowledge mixed and incompatible feelings.… — Stephen Burt Copy Share Image
The first task of the poet is to create the person who will write the poems. — Stanley Kunitz Copy Share Image
Don't you just love poetry that gives you a crinkly feeling up and down your back? — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Poetry was the maiden I loved, but politics was the harridan I married. — Joseph Howe Copy Share Image
“insomnia has this romantic way of making the moon feel like perfect company.” — Sabrina Benaim Copy Share Image
“She dances under a glistening golden sky Dangerous and wild! Her hair smells of fire and ashes, while her eyes are full… — Melody Lee Copy Share Image
I think Whitman more than any other poet possessed the gift of revealing to others the beauty of everything around us, the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I loved everything. I read everything. Art and poetry and literature and trash and sci fi. I didn't know what I would… — Margaret Cho Copy Share Image
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