With living colours give my verse to glow: The sad memorial of a tale of woe! — William Falconer Copy Share Image
'Beloved Renegade' is a meditation on Walt Whitman, on tenderness, on dying. — Robert Gottlieb Copy Share Image
Poems, novels - these things belong to the nation, to the culture, and the people. — Joseph Brodsky Copy Share Image
“I bade good morrow, And thought to leave her far away behind; But cheerly, cheerly, She loves me dearly; She is so… — John Keats Copy Share Image
“Now picture a volume of human / Reduced to planes and fluttering / Under my thumb like a flipbook / Showing the disease in action” — Amit Majmudar Copy Share Image
“A life without books is a thirsty life, and one without poetry is...like a life without pictures.” — Stephen King Copy Share Image
If you show a poetry professor your shiny new multiple choice teaching technology, he will invite you to exit his office. — Andrew Ng Copy Share Image
The ancient Greek oral poets all had this anxiety about the deficiencies of their memories and always began poems by praying to… — David Antin Copy Share Image
Poetry wants to make things mean more than they mean, says someone, as if we knew how much things meant, and in… — Rae Armantrout Copy Share Image
Around 10 years old I started being into church and being around the church. I started doing poetry - I was doing… — Cupcakke Copy Share Image
While I've had a great distaste for what's usually called song in modern poetry or for what's usually called music, I really… — David Antin Copy Share Image
I started out in life as a poet; I was only writing poetry all through my 20s. It wasn't until I was… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
The good, supreme, divine poetry is above the rules and reason. Whoever discerns its beauty with a firm, sedate gaze does not… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
What shall I say about poetry? What shall I say about those clouds, or about the sky? Look; look at them; look… — Federico Garcia Lorca Copy Share Image
“yoga soul today. instant resonation. Spring Somewhere a black bear has just risen from sleep and is staring down the mountain. All… — Mary Oliver Copy Share Image
You go to a Springsteen show, and half of the people are there to party and forget about their cares, and they're… — Mat Kearney Copy Share Image
“The details make life holy. If you want a little happiness in life don’t forget to look at the little things. It… — Noah Ben Shea Copy Share Image
“Promise me this. When you find yourself in need of inspiration, bypass the roses that will clamor aimlessly for attention. And focus… — Alfa H Copy Share Image
A starry sky is equally interesting to a scientist, a mystic, an ethics scholar, and a poet. Looking at the stars, each… — Alija Izetbegovic Copy Share Image
