The painter puts brush to canvas, and the poet puts pen to paper. The poet has the easier task, for his pen… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A beautiful woman is a practical poet, taming her savage mate, planting tenderness, hope and eloquence in all whom she approaches. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“That poem is so damned long. You'd think old Walt could have taken a line or two to tell us how to… — John Green Copy Share Image
“These hands will never go away they will scoop you up at anytime anytime that you want to be loved” — April Nichole Copy Share Image
“Poetry excites innate emotions and perceptions that let you create a new world where you have never visited and no one else… — Debasish Mridha Copy Share Image
“Poetry can bridge that gap between what is solid and what is suggested; poetry can pull cogent meaning from the veiled truths… — Bryant McGill Copy Share Image
Poetry is fascinating. As soon as it begins the poetry has changed the thing into something extra, and somehow prose can go… — Michael Tippett Copy Share Image
I do want to do the entire alphabet. There's in [Walker's Alphabet] a poem called "A Life" in that grouping. I was… — Shirley Geok-lin Lim Copy Share Image
“I know you are reading this poem which is not in your language guessing at some words while others keep you reading… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
“But something special happened to American poetry in the 19th century when Walt Whitman broke with more traditional English poetics and fashioned… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“O Solitude! if I must with thee dwell, Let it not be among the jumbled heap Of murky buildings; climb with me… — John Keats Copy Share Image
“Cotton rows crisscross the world And dead-tired nights of yearning Thunderbolts on leather strops And all my body burning Sugar cane reach… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
“Imaginative poetry produces a far greater mental strain than novels. It produces probably the severest strain of any form of literature. It… — Arnold Bennett Copy Share Image
“I surrendered my identity in your eyes. Now I'm just like everybody else, and it's so funny, the way monogamy is funny,… — Jeffrey McDaniel Copy Share Image
I work on words, mostly, toward them being poetry or short stories, and then some of those become songs. They all find… — P. J. Harvey Copy Share Image
Certainly in my youth there was lots of singing, lots of storytelling, and whenever we went to a party, you had to… — Genevieve O'Reilly Copy Share Image
“Poetry has a mysterious way of illustrating the landscapes of life. One can't help but love its audacity to record the journey.” — L.v. Jones Copy Share Image
Sometimes I write quickly, sometimes I spend several weeks on a single poem. I would really love for readers not to be… — Wislawa Szymborska Copy Share Image
I'mma thank you for it all, the blessings and the curses. And I hope you listening, there's a lesson in the verses. — Dmx Copy Share Image
“There is chaos in everyone's heart. Some just grow flowers on it while others tear it apart.” — Fiphie Copy Share Image
“ink marks the page/where you execute your will like a doe announcing an/ox-stern mate with a single, bleary blink.” — Melissa Lee-Houghton Copy Share Image
Art is its own excuse, and it's either Art or it's something else. It's either a poem or a piece of cheese. — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
Simonides, a poet famous in his generation, is, I think, author of the oldest satire that is now extant, and, as some… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
Once an interesting idea or theme occurs to me then I would want to write a poem about it. The rest, frankly,… — Ama Ata Aidoo Copy Share Image
“with shrunken fingers we ate our oranges and bread, shivering in the parked car; though we know we had never been there… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
I don't see that a single line can constitute a stanza, although it can constitute a whole poem. — James Fenton Copy Share Image
There is a great deal of freshness and charm in '400 Blows.' There is also a great deal of visual poetry in… — Amitava Kumar Copy Share Image
“A poet's work . . . to name the unnamable, to point at frauds, to take sides, start arguments, shape the world… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
We are not concerned with the very poor. They are unthinkable, and only to be approached by the statistician or the poet. — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
I hate two kinds of sentences you hear in workshops, the ones beginning "I really like ..." and the ones beginning "My… — Denis Johnson Copy Share Image
“You are either in a state of perfection or a state of learning. Reading is one of the best ways to learn… — Cupideros Copy Share Image
In perhaps 50 years, 60 years, we can finish completely this civilization, and offer to our children the possibility to invent a… — Philippe Starck Copy Share Image
“We swam deep in the waves, a wild chase .. Stained with memories and pain. Who knew a gulf would lay between?… — honeste Copy Share Image
The sensuality of desperate lives. Only poets talk like that. But poetry has never had an answer for anything. All it does… — Jean-Claude Izzo Copy Share Image
Shakespeare wrote better poetry for not knowing too much; Milton , I think, knew too much finally for the good of his poetry. — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
The poet craves emotion, and feeds the fire that consumes him, and only under this condition is he baptized with creative power. — George Edward Woodberry Copy Share Image
I have no very sophisticated understanding of literary forms. Short stories are shorter than novels, and poems are typically shorter than either,… — Sally Rooney Copy Share Image
Unhappie Verse, the witnesse of my unhappie state, Make thy selfe fluttring wings of thy fast flying Thought — Edmund Spenser Copy Share Image
If you've got a verse with a lot of rhythm, you want to pair it with something that doesn't. — Max Martin Copy Share Image
I have not the slightest pretension to call my verses poetry; I write now and then for no other purpose than to… — Alfred Nobel Copy Share Image
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