Poetry, almost by definition, calls attention to its language and form. — Robert Morgan Copy Share Image
Roses are red, violets are blue, I'm counting the days until I can finally see you... — Chocolatyady Unknown Copy Share Image
The mirror is believed the way a poem is believed. It's believed because it's there. — Derek Walcott Copy Share Image
Because we are all poets or babies in the middle of the night, struggling with being. — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
Inspiration is a farce that poets have invented to give themselves importance. — Jean Anouilh Copy Share Image
Confessional poetry is, to my mind, more slippery than poems that are sloppily autobiographical; I find the confessional mode much more akin… — Cate Marvin Copy Share Image
Mercy without boasting, Gifts without terms, Goodness without anger, Forgive without reason, Any given time, I do my best to strive, In… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Be with someone who willingly runs in the storm with you, not someone who cowers away because of turbulent winds.” — Melody Lee Copy Share Image
What a poor appearance the tales of poets make when stripped of the colours which music puts upon them, and recited in… — Plato Copy Share Image
Hip-hop started with street poets with great lyrical skills, and that's what hip-hop has always been about for me. — Gza Copy Share Image
What the poet says has never been said before, but, once he has said it, his readers recognize its validity for themselves. — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
If your vision of the world is of a certain kind you will put poetry in everything, necessarily. — Georges Simenon Copy Share Image
“Songs given at night will bury themselves (as seeds do) in the dark in you, to shoot a shoot up come morning.… — Allison Boyd Justus Copy Share Image
“You wouldn't think the touch of someone's hand could blow your mind. It's nothing, right? People don't right songs and poems about… — Claire LaZebnik Copy Share Image
“Silent our body is a sacred temple, A place to connect with other people. Can't we just stay any younger? Really, we… — Ana Claudia Antunes Copy Share Image
The capacity of human beings to bore one another seems to be vastly greater than that of any other animal. Some of… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
Poetry has the virtue of being able to say twice as much as prose in half the time, and the drawback, if… — Christopher Fry Copy Share Image
The assumption behind any theology that I've ever been familiar with is that there is a profound beauty in being, simply in… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
“The fact that I am writing to you in English already falsifies what I wanted to tell you. My subject: how to… — Gustavo Pérez Firmat Copy Share Image
“There is the buried language and there is the individual vocabulary, and the process of poetry is one of excavation and of… — Derek Walcott Copy Share Image
My childhood was all about going to church, singing in church. And later on, after I got a little older, my mother… — Rudy Ray Moore Copy Share Image
