Certainly the modern poets I cherish most are disturbing spirits; they do not come to coo. — Stanley Kunitz Copy Share Image
“The best works around us, whether they are poetry, music, or artwork, come from the heart.” — Ashley Wiger Copy Share Image
Boston: Their hotels are bad. Their pumpkin pies are delicious. Their poetry is not so good. — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
I keep all my poems in my journals and lock them away. They are the start of everything. — Stevie Nicks Copy Share Image
Move him into the sun Gently its touch awoke him once, At home, whispering of fields unsown. Always it woke him, even… — Wilfred Owen Copy Share Image
It's always good when women win things in fiction because it tends to be more male-dominated, unlike poetry, which is more equal — Carol Ann Duffy Copy Share Image
“Here's how I used to think you made a book: a poet comes along, mouth half open, inspired, then suddenly the idiot… — Vladimir Mayakovsky Copy Share Image
But one does not make living writing poetry unless you're a professor, and one frankly doesn't get a lot of girls as… — Jeffery Deaver Copy Share Image
“The poet Robert Browning caused considerable consternation by including the word twat in one of his poems, thinking it an innocent term.… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
I find it hard to write poems in reaction to world/national events unless there's a way in that's so evident to me… — Allison Joseph Copy Share Image
The short story is at an advantage over the novel, and can claim its nearer kinship to poetry, because it must be… — Elizabeth Bowen Copy Share Image
“LESLIE CHEUNG JUMPS OFF MY BUILDING CLOSES HIS EYES AND THEN SINGS A SONG WE BOTH KNOW AND LOVE // LESLIE CHEUNG… — Richard Chiem Copy Share Image
“I believe that no great lyric poet ever speaks in the so-called “proper” language of his or her time. Emily Dickinson didn’t… — Ilya Kaminsky Copy Share Image
My friends never talk to me about my poetry because they're embarrassed that I write it or they're embarrassed by what I… — Peter Davison Copy Share Image
“I like masculine aesthetics. But I also write, make art, have written poetry, and like feminine aesthetics as well. I am probably… — Angel Millar Copy Share Image
“When the rose’s flash to the sunset Reels to the wrack and the twist, And the rose is a red bygone, When… — Carl Sandburg Copy Share Image
I often use official documents or bureaucratic forms within my work. I find their structure and language style leaves a lot of… — Jill Magid Copy Share Image
Nor sequent centuries could hit Orbit and sum of SHAKSPEARE's wit. The men who lived with him became Poets, for the air… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“Learning to be a lady / is like learning / to live within a shell, / to be a crustacean encased /… — Stephanie Hemphill Copy Share Image
In law school they teach you that everything is a contract; well, in poetry everything is a narrative. — Nikki Giovanni Copy Share Image
Often when I write poetry I don't quite know what I'm saying myself. I mean, I can't restate the poem. The meaning… — Pattiann Rogers Copy Share Image
Some people swear by writing courses, but whether it really helps American poetry, I have doubts. — Robert Morgan Copy Share Image
I don't think there's any law where you have to read a poem and immediately understand it. — Nick Laird Copy Share Image
The poet is he who fights on the passionate Side and whoever loses he wins; when he Is defeated it is hard… — Allen Tate Copy Share Image
I am gonna write poems til i die and when i have gotten outta this body i am gonna hang round in… — Ntozake Shange Copy Share Image
The title of the poems was The Only Bar in Dixon. We sent it out to The New Yorker on a fluke,… — James Welch Copy Share Image
“To have opinions is to sell out to yourself. To have no opinion is to exist. To have every opinion is to… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
Verse hath a middle nature: heaven keeps souls, The grave keeps bodies, verse the fame enrols. — John Donne Copy Share Image
The poem has to bear the weight with image, language... the screenplay with dialogue, plot. — Julianna Baggott Copy Share Image
It seems more than likely that the translating of poetry is going to rub off on the translator if he or she… — Ron Padgett Copy Share Image
I took my vow to poetry; this is where I'm going to be. These are my people; this is my tribe. This… — Anne Waldman Copy Share Image
“The narrator commands the Muse, “Tell me”: enn-epe. An epic poem is, at its root, simply a tale that is told.” — Homer Copy Share Image
“A revolution in the eyes of man carries purpose. A revolution in the eyes of the awakened carries bliss.” — Sal Martinez Copy Share Image
And how can poetry stand up against its new conditions? Its position is perfectly precarious. — John Crowe Ransom Copy Share Image
“The neurologist had dismissed her case after a single visit, handing out an easy nostrum by telling her father that if she… — Flora Rheta Schreiber Copy Share Image
“The voice you hear when you read to yourself is the clearest voice: you speak it speaking to you.” — Thomas Lux Copy Share Image
If you are a man of learning, read something classic, a history of the human struggle and don't settle for mediocre verse. — Rumi Copy Share Image
Let me slow it down 'fore I get a ticket. Nigga want a verse from me, it's gon' cost a chicken. — 2 Chainz Copy Share Image
Shakespeare was a man who wrote poetry. I'm a man who writes poetry. Why not compare yourself to the best? — Jay-Z Copy Share Image
The poet's perfect expression is the token of a perfect experience; what he says in the best possible way he has felt… — John Drinkwater Copy Share Image
