For what I have publish'd, I can only hope to be pardon'd; but for what I have burned, I deserve to be… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
“You broke me I’m trying to put all the pieces back together The process is taking longer than expected.” — Melody Lee Copy Share Image
“I love to feel the temperature drop and the wind increase just before a thunderstorm. Then I climb in bed with the… — Amanda Mosher Copy Share Image
A wise man can and should stand above his times, not so the poet, but he should be their apex. — Franz Grillparzer Copy Share Image
“The tags' chain stirs with the wind; and I sleep Paid, dead, and a soldier. Who fights for his own life Loses,… — Randall Jarrell Copy Share Image
“I didn't know till then the stars, in flakes of snow come down to fuck the earth, the lake.” — D.M. Thomas Copy Share Image
Lucknow, as far as I have heard, is always known for its culture, literature and poetry. So it has set a cultural… — Zeenat Aman Copy Share Image
“i even tried to bury myself alive but the dirt recoiled you have already rotted it said there is nothing left for… — Rupi Kaur Copy Share Image
Desmond O'Grady is one of the senior figures in Irish Literary life, exemplary in the way he has committed himself over the… — Seamus Heaney Copy Share Image
“I wrote a poem once — a simple thing, but instinct with longing — while sitting under a tree and listening to… — Jerome K. Jerome Copy Share Image
“It’s a beautiful way to put it: Leave the poetry in what you make. When something becomes too polished, it loses its… — Jason Fried Copy Share Image
“To wake up on a gloriously bright morning, in a tent pitched beneath spruce trees, and to look out lazily and sleepily… — Josiah Edward Spurr Copy Share Image
If I do a poetry reading I want people to walk out and say they feel better for having been there -… — Roger McGough Copy Share Image
To understand Vers libre, one must abandon all desire to find in it the even rhythm of metrical feet. One must allow… — Amy Lowell Copy Share Image
In civilized places idleness, once the prerequisite for abstract thought, poetry, religion, philosophy, and falling in love, has become a character flaw.… — Barbara Holland Copy Share Image
I am an artist. For me, a picture is like poetry. When you make art, this is not coming from an intellectual… — Alejandro Jodorowsky Copy Share Image
“We became poets before we learned to walk Our roots dug deep with the slight touch of love Our leaves sprouted after… — Avijeet Das Copy Share Image
The heroes of our youth grow old - 'the boys of summer in their ruin,' in Dylan Thomas's verse - yet we… — John Thorn Copy Share Image
If I had my life to live over again, I would have made a rule to read some poetry and listen to… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
What is the poem, after it is written? That is the question. Not where it came from or why. — Allen Tate Copy Share Image
I love John Ashbery. He's the - really the poet laureate of English language poetry, whether he's given that or not, he… — Jim Jarmusch Copy Share Image
I've hated poetry ever since I was at school. I include Shakespeare in that. I don't understand the obsession with him! — Eddie the Eagle Copy Share Image
“In your light I learn how to love. In your beauty, how to make poems. You dance inside my chest, where no… — Rumi Copy Share Image
I love Black poets. I love that as a Black girl, I get to participate in that legacy. So that's Yusef Komunyakaa,… — Amanda Gorman Copy Share Image
“We've all led raucous lives, some of them inside, some of them out. But only the poem you leave behind is what's… — Charles Wright Copy Share Image
To a large extent, the problems of poets are the problems of painters, and poets must often turn to the literature of… — Wallace Stevens Copy Share Image
I gave up on new poetry myself 30 years ago when most of it began to read like coded messages passing between… — Russell Baker Copy Share Image
For me, drawing is everything, because it informs everything. It even informs my poetry. It's the way I begin everything. — Jim Dine Copy Share Image
There's a Welsh poet, R.S. Thomas. He was a very crotchety, strange man, but his poems are wonderful. He was nominated for… — Stephen Dobyns Copy Share Image
The adventitious beauty of poetry may be felt in the greater delight with a verse given in a happy quotation than in… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
What we call a poem is mostly what is not there on the page. The strength of any poem is the poems… — Harold Bloom Copy Share Image
“My dear poetry, There’s a likeness between your eyes and the stars –the same charming brilliance, my eyes have ever laid upon.” — Ymatruz Copy Share Image
“Sometimes, the only things in this world that make sense are the moon, my madness and your hands messing up my hair,… — Melody Lee Copy Share Image
The arrogance of poets is only a defense; doubt gnaws the greatest among them; they need our testimony to escape despair. — Francois Mauriac Copy Share Image
“Midway between the too soiled ground and the too-sublime vaults, at the level of the air, entering the skin of the role,… — Michel Leiris Copy Share Image
“How can you take such a risk? This could mean anything! It could mean nothing at all! Haven’t you heard of fiction?… — Jason Ellis Copy Share Image
At Delphi I prayed to Apollo that he maintain in me the flame of the poem and I drank of the brackish… — Denise Levertov Copy Share Image
Poetry is a sort of truancy, a dream within the dream of life, a wild flower planted among our wheat. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The Windowsill Over the Sink [...] begins to crowd around you with its clutter showing you that you can keep everything but promises.” — Vern Rutsala Copy Share Image
'The Wizard of Poetry' - I had that title since I did 'The Pretty Toney' album. That's when the name first came… — Ghostface Killah Copy Share Image
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