Writing poems is my way of celebrating with the world that I have not committed suicide the evening before. — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
“line came into my mind, something that Hannah Arendt had once said about the poet Auden: that life had manifested the heart’s… — John Boyne Copy Share Image
“(Wallace) Stevens turns to the idea of the weather precisely as the religious idea turns to the idea of God.” — Harold Bloom Copy Share Image
I was nervous, so I read the New Testament. I read the verse about have no fear, and I felt relaxed. Then… — Religion Copy Share Image
Poetry is any page from a sketchbook of outlines of a doorknob with thumb-prints of dust, blood, dreams. — Carl Sandburg Copy Share Image
A poet is a nightingale, who sits in darkness and sings to cheer its own solitude with sweet sounds. — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
“In the end, everyone is aware of this: nobody keeps any of what he has, and life is only a borrowing of… — Pablo Neruda Copy Share Image
“A month alone behind closed doors forgotten books, remembered, clear again. Poems come, like water to the pool Welling, up and out,… — Yuan Mei Copy Share Image
“ Gains for all our losses There are gains for all our losses There are balms for all our pains But when… — R.H. Stoddard Copy Share Image
“The individual unit of society is the individual & We The People have that authority to be free! It's as if they… — Jose R. Coronado Copy Share Image
“A Poem: You, with your way of innocence, would have been hurt; thinking I run from you; that I despise you, but… — Brie Edison Copy Share Image
“There is a good deal of the Nietzschean standpoint in this verse. It is the evolutionary and natural view. Of what use… — Aleister Crowley Copy Share Image
The things Nas' Illmatic was saying were sometimes hard realities but it was done on such a high level, I felt I… — Erik Parker Copy Share Image
Poetry is a process of getting back to the unconscious. Hence, I am always writing-even when I'm not facing the white space.… — Yusef Komunyakaa Copy Share Image
Stop this day and night with me and you shall possess the origin of all poems, You shall possess the good of… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
The architect who combines in his being the powers of vision, of imagination, of intellect, of sympathy with human need and the… — Louis Sullivan Copy Share Image
It is a commonplace that Racine is untranslatable. This is not because his verse is difficult, but because it is not. — Kenneth Rexroth Copy Share Image
I read a lot. I liked a tremendous number of poets and writers. The person whose work I liked the most was… — Grace Paley Copy Share Image
Poetry is engendered in solitude, so what better meter for it than the clip of a buckskin horse? — Edward Hoagland Copy Share Image
“Oh, precious losing streak, you're too cute for your own good. I try to laugh about it but my face is made… — Casey Renee Kiser Copy Share Image
“Once in a golden hour I cast to earth a seed. Up there came a flower, The people said, a weed.” — Alfred Lord Tennyson Copy Share Image
There are only three things in the world, one is to read poetry, another is to write poetry, and the best of… — Rupert Brooke Copy Share Image
I was 12 or 13 years old. So I started to write poetry and fiction, even though I was really into biology… — Darren Aronofsky Copy Share Image
“There are many unspeakable words, forgotten, or forbidden. Great thanks to the poets who make them all become reachable.” — Toba Beta Copy Share Image
God prefers bad verses recited with a pure heart to the finest verses chanted by the wicked. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
You must have a certain amount of maturity to be a poet. Seldom do sixteen-year-olds know themselves well enough. — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
The art of poetry is to touch the passions, and its duty to lead them on the side of virtue. — William Cowper Copy Share Image
I don't want my poems to be sentimental, though I do acknowledge that sentiment is probably rather under-reported in a lot of… — Andrew Motion Copy Share Image
Imagination in poetry, as distinguished from mere fancy is the transfiguring of the real or actual to the ideal. — Alfred Austin Copy Share Image
“We must lice with our hearts in our hands - like Mary. We must hold the blood- red heart and no be… — Kelli Russell Agodon Copy Share Image
The mind of a poet often performs miracles-a few coarse-grained words, apprehended become bullets and roses. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Honestly, I can't understand English poetry. Because I am not an English speaker, when I read it I never know how to… — Jenova Chen Copy Share Image
That's the way it is with poetry: When it is incomprehensible it seems profound, and when you understand it, it is only… — Galway Kinnell Copy Share Image
Let my name perish, -- the poetry is good poetry and the music is good music, and beauty dieth not, and the… — Sidney Lanier Copy Share Image
“He gives me that hint of a half smile tempered with those smoky eyes, a look that’s probably stolen virginities, broken hearts,… — Roxanne St. Claire Copy Share Image
Every poem that I write is, in a sense, trying to find adequate words for this unspeakable word, around which my entire… — Kevin Hart Copy Share Image
I always say that I'll have a go and see whether the poem works and if it does, then fine. — Carol Ann Duffy Copy Share Image
I know nothing new except that Herr Gellert, the Leipzig poet, is dead, and has written no more poetry since his death. — Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Copy Share Image
They're very different things, a poem and a song, you wouldn't think they would be, but they are. — John Cooper Clarke Copy Share Image
“Never ask a writer what they are writing while they are writing, unless you’re prepared for sharp teeth, fangs and blood on… — Melody Lee Copy Share Image
