“The world and the friends that lived in it are shadows: you alone remain real in this drowsing room.” — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Well, I had this little notion - I started writing when I was eleven, writing poetry. I was passionately addicted to it;… — Harry Mathews Copy Share Image
“I loved them all equally, from the short story, to the poem, to the play, for nothing could touch me so deeply… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The poems are all wrong. It's a bang, a really big bang. Not a whimper. And sometimes gold can stay. — Kami Garcia Copy Share Image
It is fatal to decide, intellectually, what good poetry is because you are then in honour bound to try to write it,… — Philip Larkin Copy Share Image
God may reduce you on Judgment Day to tears of shame, reciting by heart the poems you would have written, had your… — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
You will enjoy the TV and radio forecast much more if you stop taking it as advice and simply treat it as… — Victoria Coren Mitchell Copy Share Image
No poetry that I'm aware of, however bad or glorious, has ever left somebody a worse person than they were before they… — Felix Dennis Copy Share Image
“Never mind what lies behind Death, Mr. Bast, but be sure that the poet and the musician and the tramp will be… — E.M. Forster Copy Share Image
“To survive as a human being is possible only through love. And, when Thanatos is ascendant, the instinct must be to reach… — Chris Hedges Copy Share Image
House of Illustrations Draw in broken hearts without Patience However, I see no explanation For the lovebug that I have so there… — SdotHawkins Copy Share Image
“(This is from a tribute poem to Ronnie James Dio: Former lead vocalist of the band Rainbow, Black Sabbath. This is written… — Munia Khan Copy Share Image
The more stringent the rules and the more limiting they are, the more the poet and writer is forced to resort to… — Simin Behbahani Copy Share Image
“ To Bury A Star " "I pulled a star from the darkest corner of night and hid it within my bosom.… — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
“Always the wild child, conceived in flames, born of fire. Drawn to the forbidden, witch, warlock, burning stones. Her blood is made… — Melody Lee Copy Share Image
“Who robbed the woods, The trusting woods? The unsuspecting trees Brought out their burrs and mosses His fantasy to please. He scanned… — Emily Dickinson Copy Share Image
“A poet is someone who can pour light into a cup, then raise it to nourish your beautiful parched, holy mouth.” — Hafiz Copy Share Image
Genius in general is poetic. Where genius has been active it has been poetically active. The truly moral person is a poet. — Novalis Copy Share Image
“Forget the ones who tell you you are not enough and wait for the ones who tell you you are everything.” — N.R.Hart Copy Share Image
And here in my isolation I can grow stronger. Poetry seems to come of itself, without effort, and I need only let… — Paul Gauguin Copy Share Image
The point of an experiment is not to arrive at a predetermined end point, to prove or disprove anything, but to deliver… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Constantly risking absurdity and death whenever he performs above the heads of his audience, the poet, like an acrobat, climbs on rhyme… — Lawrence Ferlinghetti Copy Share Image
I've written poems about gifts. Life is inspirational; sometimes it comes from the most unlikely places. — Ama Ata Aidoo Copy Share Image
I became a very passionate Christian when I was 17. I started writing and performing poetry at different venues across the U.K.… — Michaela Coel Copy Share Image
In addition to writing in received forms, I have also had fun making up forms - Möbius strips and visual poems, particularly. — Denise Duhamel Copy Share Image
“We can burst the bonds which chain us, Which cold human hands have wrought, And where none shall dare restrain us We… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
A poem is a verbal artifact which must be as skillfully and solidly constructed as a table or a motorcycle. — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
Poetry is the universal language which the heart holds with nature and itself. He who has a contempt for poetry, cannot have… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
We aren't trying to make poetry or anything beautiful. It's just a rock show. We just want to enjoy playing loud. That's… — David Pajo Copy Share Image
He passes from lyric to epic poetry in order to speak about the world and the torment in the world through man,… — Salvatore Quasimodo Copy Share Image
Indeed, as any one who has ever worked among the poor knows only too well, the brotherhood of man is no mere… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
The purpose of the poetry is not to dazzle us with an astonishing thought, but to make one moment of existence unforgettable… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
Poetry asks people to have values, form opinions, care about some other part of experience besides making money and being successful on… — Toi Derricotte Copy Share Image
It seems to me that readers sometimes make the genesis of a poem more mysterious than it is (by that I perhaps… — James Schuyler Copy Share Image
These poems, with all their crudities, doubts, and confusions, are written for the love of Man and in praise of God, and… — Dylan Thomas Copy Share Image
“Our real poems are already in us / and all we can do is dig. / We can work for years and… — Jonathan Galassi Copy Share Image
“And if you were such a good clairvoyant, why didn't you just write things straight out? What's with all the stupid rhyming… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
See I'm a poet to some, a regular modern day Shakespeare. Jesus Christ the King of these Latter Day Saints here — Eminem Copy Share Image
As I am a poet I express what I believe, and I fight against whatever I oppose, in poetry. — June Jordan Copy Share Image
The poet is in command of his fantasy, while it is exactly the mark of the neurotic that he is possessed by… — Lionel Trilling Copy Share Image
