Poetry is a theorem of a yellow-silk handkerchief knotted with riddles, sealed in a balloon tied to the tail of a kite… — Carl Sandburg Copy Share Image
“you want to be angry but you can’t stop looking and when you look you love and when you love the entire… — Sina Queyras Copy Share Image
I think that when a poem can move readers across generations and across its specific class or race then it becomes truly… — Rita Dove Copy Share Image
Shakespeare is dangerous to young poets; they cannot but reproduce him, while they fancy that they produce themselves. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
“Poetry can be a form of restriction. Lock away tragedy inside pretty words. Quantify pieces of infinite love.” — Cody Edward Lee Miller Copy Share Image
“What are you able to build with your blocks? Castles and palaces, temples and docks. Rain may keep raining, and others go… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
“I sat in a box With walls on each side. Not too tall. Not too wide. To think. To ponder. To pray.… — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
“I like to imagine That when we look upon A pitch black night’s sky And ignorantly label it colorless Is it actually… — Justin Wetch Copy Share Image
“I define influence simply as literary love, tempered by defense. The defenses vary from poet to poet. But the overwhelming presence of… — Harold Bloom Copy Share Image
“One should wait, and gather meaning and sweetness a whole life long, a long life if possible, and then, at the very end, one… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
“The hidden well-spring of your soul must needs rise and run murmuring to the sea; And the treasure of your infinite depths… — Kahlil Gibran Copy Share Image
She sings the songs without words Songs that sailors, and blind men, and beggars have heard She knows more of love than… — Harry Chapin Copy Share Image
I can't tell you where a poem comes from, what it is, or what it is for: nor can any other man.… — A. R. Ammons Copy Share Image
[The poet] is endowed to speak for those who do not have the gift of language, or to see for those who… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
We read Charlotte Bronte not for exquisite observation of character, not for comedy, not for a philosophic view of life, but for… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
One of the things that was really influential early on was Ezra Pound's Cantos, one poem he worked on for 50 years.… — Richard Misrach Copy Share Image
I believe the best poetry of our times is growing too artistic; the study is too visible. If freedom and naturalness are… — Lucy Larcom Copy Share Image
“You can't assume i'm in bad shape just because i've run out of the energy to impress you.” — Curtis Tyrone Jones Copy Share Image
It was from the artists and poets that the pertinent answers came, and I know that panic would have broken loose had… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Wherever the poetry of myth is interpreted as biography, history, or science, it is killed. — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
There's nothing great Nor small, has said a poet of our day, Whose voice will ring beyond the curfew of eve And… — Elizabeth Barrett Browning Copy Share Image
“When words don't come easy, I make do with silence and find something in nothing." ~ Strider Marcus Jones, Poet” — Strider Marcus Jones Copy Share Image
No one is saved by good works (Ephesians 2:8-9), but every Christian has been saved for good works (verse 10). — David Jeremiah Copy Share Image
I'm not a writer. I think I can write short stories and poetry, but film writing, brilliant film writing, is a talent… — Samantha Morton Copy Share Image
People think the chorus is the hard part in 'Take on Me,' but they're wrong. The hard part was making the verses… — Morten Harket Copy Share Image
“A life without poetry is a life without heart, without laughter, without crying - it's a life without feelings.” — Sir Kristian Goldmund Aumann Copy Share Image
“I don't know about angels, but humans need unanswered questions so that they have a reason to look.” — Jackie Viramontez Copy Share Image
A book of poems doesn't just come out by chance, an editor has to select it, a publisher has to distribute it… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
“What did my fingers do before they held him? What did my heart do, with its love? From " Three Women: A… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
I'm afraid I take ... this rather clinical view of love: it's saving you from madness. I'm not so enthusiastic as other… — William Empson Copy Share Image
“With women poets we look at or into, but not up at, sacred things; we unlearn submission.” — Alicia Ostriker Copy Share Image
To me Art (poetry) is a continuous and continuing process and that when a man fails to write good poetry he fails… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
Prose-it might be speculated-is discourse; poetry ellipsis. Prose is spoken aloud; poetry overheard. — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
I'm always good for starting a bit of a tune and the first verse, but after that I just can never go… — Ringo Starr Copy Share Image
Some people are suspicious of others who have more than one talent. I've had poets tell me to my face that an… — Grace Zabriskie Copy Share Image
“Depression is like waking up and opening the blinds because your plants need sunlight, but it's 8p.m. It's always 8p.m and you… — Jenim Dibie Copy Share Image
I'm glad I understand that while language is a gift, listening is a responsibility. (U.S. poet and writer, 1943- ) — Nikki Giovanni Copy Share Image
Nostalgia is a sweet place for a poet and writer to be in. But it's an indulgence; a distraction. You can't live… — Gulzar Copy Share Image
Regarding R. H. Blyth: Blyth is sometimes perilous, naturally, since he's a high-handed old poem himself, but he's also sublime - and… — Reginald Horace Blyth Copy Share Image
I think of my peace paintings as one long poem, with each painting being a single stanza. — Robert Indiana Copy Share Image
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