I think we got much better poetry when it was all regarded as sinful or subversive, and you had to hide it… — Philip Larkin Copy Share Image
I thought I was going to be a poet when I was in college, but then I found out I was poor… — Josh Lieb Copy Share Image
“In the shadow of skyscrapers, half-nude men in dugouts cast nets into the lagoon. The work of arms and shoulders. I think… — Teju Cole Copy Share Image
“willow trees, willow trees they remind me of Desdemona I'm so damned literary and at the same time the waters rushing past… — Frank O'Hara Copy Share Image
Subtract from many modern poets all that may be found in Shakespeare, and trash will remain. — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
And what is the very essence of poetry if it is not this 'metaphorical language'-this marking of the before unapprehended relations of… — Owen Barfield Copy Share Image
The poets whom I knew then were all men and all seemed dauntingly sure of themselves - although I am sure that… — Helen Dunmore Copy Share Image
“Someone once told me that explaining is an admission of failure. I'm sure you remember, I was on the phone with you,… — Richard Siken Copy Share Image
“Pressure knocks at my door A clock ticks and demands its due The lava burns from the floor But not in a… — Justin Wetch Copy Share Image
“In his pocket he kept a poem written by Martin Niemöller, who had lived in Nazi Germany. First they came for the… — Malala Yousafzai Copy Share Image
The poet's discourse can be compared to the track of a charged particle through a cloud-chamber. An energised field of association and… — George Steiner Copy Share Image
“Duroy, who felt light hearted that evening, said with a smile: "You are gloomy to-day, dear master." The poet replied: "I am… — Guy de Maupassant Copy Share Image
“I've always said that you know you're a poet when you type an em dash and you hit the delete button, and… — Jericho Brown Copy Share Image
What was transformative was being at the inauguration, reading my poem, and realizing that the quest for home and identity had always… — Richard Blanco Copy Share Image
“Do you think you might be able to love me someday?" He asked and heard her laugh softly. "I already do." She… — Jasmine Dubroff Copy Share Image
“To persons standing alone on a hill during a clear midnight such as this, the roll of the world eastward is almost… — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
My life's purpose is to write poetry - but behind the poetry must be the vision of a fresh revelation for men. — William Soutar Copy Share Image
“I'd rather be not the light in your life The bright day might make me obscure I'd rather be the cold darkness… — Sanhita Baruah Copy Share Image
“I am that rose that grew from concrete, I am the ENTIRE mother to son Langston Hughes poem. And I'm still climbing...” — Jaha Knight Copy Share Image
“I never heard sound and thrill of my painful heart until that very day she touched it.” — Santosh Kalwar Copy Share Image
Andrea Gibson is a truly American poet, or rather, she represents the America I want to live in. Her work lights a… — Cristin O'Keefe Aptowicz Copy Share Image
I want to whisper poetry into your mind and imprint love letters to your soul and dance with you in an empty… — Jeffrey McDaniel Copy Share Image
Music resembles poetry, in each Are nameless graces which no methods teach, And which a master hand alone can reach. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
“You are my drug of choice I know you’re no good for me And though I swear my lips Will never touch… — Justin Wetch Copy Share Image
What poetry can, must, and will always do for us: it complicates us, it doesn’t ‘soothe.’ — Jorie Graham Copy Share Image
“You are not who you think. You're not even the thinker. You are the one conscious of the thought.” — Kamand Kojouri Copy Share Image
I love you. I love you, but I’m turning to my verses and my heart is closing like a fist. — Frank O'Hara Copy Share Image
I was born not to be a poet myself, but to be the instrument of the very poet that has always been… — Jean-Paul Malfatti Copy Share Image
The poem is the device through which the ordinary world is seen in a new way - engaging, compelling, even beautiful. — Ted Kooser Copy Share Image
If you read quickly to get through a poem to what it means, you have missed the body of the poem. — M. H. Abrams Copy Share Image
Katherine Sedley was the only daughter and heiress to the libertine poet Sir Charles Sedley, and grew into a thoroughly scandalous lady… — Susan Holloway Scott Copy Share Image
A poet, to whom no one cruel and imposing listens, / Disdained by senates, whispers to your dust, — Carolyn Kizer Copy Share Image
The way a small child might dream of visiting Disneyland, I dreamed of writing books. Never did I think my poems would… — Rupi Kaur Copy Share Image
“Leave the comfort of your dark cocoon... Allow your imagination to take flight. Embrace those marvelous magical wings and soar!” — Melody Lee Copy Share Image
No other human being, no woman, no poem or music, book or painting can replace alcohol in its power to give man… — Marguerite Duras Copy Share Image
Poetry must speak of others, in order to speak for the poet's imagination, in order to speak of itself; it is slowed… — Shirley Geok-lin Lim Copy Share Image
Poetry is the sister of Sorrow. Every man that suffers and weeps is a poet; every tear is a verse, and every… — Marc-Andre Fleury Copy Share Image
I am not as these are, the poet saithIn youth's pride, and the painter, among menAt bay, where never pencil comes nor… — Dante Gabriel Rossetti Copy Share Image
It is the role of the poet to look at what is happening in the world and to know that quite other… — V. S. Pritchett Copy Share Image
I originally went to school for writing, for non-fiction. I'm specifically a poetry major within literature, but I don't know. — Paloma Elsesser Copy Share Image
