Reclaiming the sacred in our lives naturally brings us close once more to the wellsprings of poetry. — Robert Bly Copy Share Image
The painter is, as to the execution of his work, a mechanic; but as to his conception and spirit and design he… — Friedrich Schiller Copy Share Image
“The act of love and the act of poetry Are not compatible With the reading aloud of a newspaper” — André Breton Copy Share Image
SOME YEARS, like some poets,and politicians and some lovely women, are singled out for fame far beyond the common lot, and 1929… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
Modern poets are bells of lead. They should tinkle melodiously but usually they just klunk. — Lord Dunsany Copy Share Image
I had never heard of Rumi until Robert Bly handed me this book and he said, ah, “These poems need to be… — Coleman Barks Copy Share Image
The challenge is to keep up with all the new poets at the same time I love the old ones. — Mary Oliver Copy Share Image
“My tongue remembers your wounded flavor. The vein in my neck adores you. A sword stands up between my hips, my hidden… — Li-Young Lee Copy Share Image
The only advice [for new writers and poets] I can offer is to be yourself: not the self someone else wants you… — Nikki Giovanni Copy Share Image
“I named you Fauna because I loved Robinson Jeffers’ poem about Flora and Fauna. I asked that they keep that name. I… — Fauna Hodel Copy Share Image
“...Want to know why my roses grow dead on a living vine? Prayer against civil war. Let us hate with a single… — Robin Schiff Copy Share Image
“Wonder of time,' quoth she, 'this is my spite, That, thou being dead, the day should yet be light. 'Since thou art… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
I rarely think of poetry as something I make happen; it is more accurate to say that it happens to me. Like… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
I got into an argument with someone because I said I think 2Pac will be regarded as a great poet. They said… — Scott Glenn Copy Share Image
“My memories are not books. They are only stories that I have been over so many times in my head that I… — Elizabeth McCracken Copy Share Image
Looking up at the stars, I know quite well That, for all they care, I can go to hell, But on earth… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“I am the poet with scaring words and blurred letters. I do not know if my poetry is a blessing or a… — Luis Alexandre Ribeiro Branco Copy Share Image
“Aimlessly It pounds the shore. White and aimless signals. No One listens to poetry. — from "Thing Language” — Jack Spicer Copy Share Image
“You must seduce poetry with the heart of your words before she'll sprinkle you with the magic of hers.” — Curtis Tyrone Jones Copy Share Image
Most of the more celebrated names among African-American authors, poets, and artists are known to the world because of their association with… — Aberjhani Copy Share Image
Novelists have to love humanity to write anything worthwhile. Poets have to love themselves. — Marita Golden Copy Share Image
She could become a spinster, like Emily Dickinson, writing poems full of dashes and brilliance, and never gaining weight. — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
If our hearts are ready for anything, we are touched by the beauty and poetry and mystery that fill our world. — Tara Brach Copy Share Image
“If Erik existed and lived life in despair, We wish him to know we are here and we care.” — E.A. Bucchianeri Copy Share Image
“Although life is hard in pace Lose not thy calm and grace. If thee are not tender Vow not to surrender Eternity… — Ana Claudia Antunes Copy Share Image
You're saying it wasn't your insecurities but in actuality, that's what made you leave. Now although the relationship is dead, I can't… — Needa Muy Copy Share Image
I write lyrics everyday as I go. I'm always taking notes in my phone whenever I am inspired by something. Most of… — Vic Fuentes Copy Share Image
I cannot understand why poetry is not taught at schools as a way of seeing, a quick, untiring path to essentials. — May Sarton Copy Share Image
Louise Gluck, C.K. Williams, Thomas Lux. A lot of the poets that I like are the ones that influenced me as a… — Stephen Dobyns Copy Share Image
“Insisting that his writing did not offer a philosophy of life, Hardy claims that each poem was an ‘impression’, intensely subjective and… — Geoffrey Harvey Copy Share Image
In the Book of Poetry there are three hundred poems, but the meaning of all of them may be put in a… — Confucius Copy Share Image
“I bought plum blossoms more for the name than for the color; I buy lipstick that way, too. In other words, if… — Dorothea Grossman Copy Share Image
“If you only knew how many sentences I have withheld in hopes that I will be allowed to speak them into your… — Alfa H Copy Share Image
A poem should never be changed out of context. A poem is your heart, and thoughts. The words are your soul and… — Jeremy Limn Copy Share Image
The art has to make it on its own, without explanations, and it’s the same for poetry. If the poem or the… — Lawrence Ferlinghetti Copy Share Image
“You—and I’ll venture every third writer in Europe nowadays—fancies himself a poet, when all you’re doing is building little towers of words… — Therese Anne Fowler Copy Share Image
“Friend who has fired the kingfishers and flamed the dragonflies – they catch your light however they move and beam it out… — Bryana Johnson Copy Share Image
We poets would die of loneliness but for women, and we choose our men friends that we may have somebody to talk… — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
“I submitted a poem last night to The New Yorker. They said it can take up to three months to hear back.… — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
Poetry is a popular genre in Afghanistan. If you turned on the radio, there would be a poetry program that would be… — Eliza Griswold Copy Share Image
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