I think fiction goes to poetry for the intensity of its use of language. — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
“You can't just add a smattering of verses to a humanistic worldview.” — Joseph Stephen Copy Share Image
When you can be this, why are you ever anything else? - Broken Verses — Kamila Shamsie Copy Share Image
In the earliest ages science was poetry, as in the later poetry has become science. — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
“I think it’s beautiful the way you sparkle when you talk about the things you love.” — Atticus Poetry Copy Share Image
“eighteenth-century Urdu poet Mir: It’s just your imagining that There’s a feeble body inside my clothes; In fact, there is nothing there… — Shamsur Rahman Faruqi Copy Share Image
Don't you think that as a people, Americans have less poetry, real poetry, in their souls than any other nations? — Robert E. Howard Copy Share Image
Self-editing is the way I write. Ten verses of a song and it's finished. Then we start playing it and if I… — Nick Cave Copy Share Image
Good religious poetry... is likely to be most justly appreciated and most discriminately relished by the undevout. — A. E. Housman Copy Share Image
Spending warm Summer days indoors, writing frightening verse to a buck-toothed girl in Luxembourg. — The Smiths Copy Share Image
In African-American culture, there's often a family historian, someone who does the genealogy or keeps the family Bible. I became aware that… — Kevin Young Copy Share Image
Poetry is a section of river-fog and moving boat-lights, delivered between bridges and whistles, so one says, 'Oh!' and another, 'How?' — Carl Sandburg Copy Share Image
Most poets in their youth begin in adolescent sadness. I find it more rewarding to end in gladness. — James Broughton Copy Share Image
“If you see a sunset and try to describe it to someone in normal words, all you can say is, 'Boy, I… — Elizabeth Berg Copy Share Image
Oh, I've discarded a great many [poems]. And occasionally I've discarded and then resurrected. I would find a crumpled yellow ball of… — Conrad Aiken Copy Share Image
“Why is that I never get cut off from pity, sympathy, participation, in spite of the fact that I am living out… — Anaïs Nin Copy Share Image
True love is a sacred flame that burns eternally, And none can dim its special glow or change its destiny. True love… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
So, then, the best of the historian is subject to the poet; for whatsoever action or faction, whatsoever counsel, policy, or war-stratagem… — Philip Sidney Copy Share Image
“We write a line we're especially proud of, and weeks later find it staring -no glaring - back at us from some… — Robin Behn Copy Share Image
“. . . a sense of humor is a sense of proportion. It is also a sense of delight--delight in noting life… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Sleep that knits up the raveled sleave of care, The death of each day's life, sore labor's bath, Balm of hurt minds,… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
![“Oh, I've discarded a great many [poems]. And occasionally I've discarded and then resurrected. I would find a crumpled yellow ball of paper in the wastebasket, in the morning, and open it to see what the hell I'd been up to; and occasionally it was something that needed only a very slight change…” quote by Conrad Aiken](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/333/conrad-aiken-9766_balls_oh-i-ve-discarded-a-great-many-poems-and_2787753.jpg)
