All I do and say and think 'as a poet' is much truer and more intimate than anything I say face to… — Selima Hill Copy Share Image
Poetry is not a matter of feelings, it is a matter of language. It is language which creates feelings. — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
Why has our poetry eschewed The rapture and response of food? What hymns are sung, what praises said For home-made miracles of… — Louis Untermeyer Copy Share Image
“You don't even like poetry," Tessa said, her voice catching on a half laugh of relief. "No. But you make me want… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
The mind that finds its way to wild places is the poet's; but the mind that never finds its way back is… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
To the poet as a basement quilt, but perhaps To some reader a latticework of regrets ... — John Ashbery Copy Share Image
“Be generous with your smile and try not to frown. And you will see my children; your smile will never let you… — Benny Bellamacina Copy Share Image
Poetry depends on being simultaneously opaque and transparent. It can't be only one or the other. The pebble and the pool. — Peter J. Daniels Copy Share Image
“Don’t just exist; do something meaningful with your life. Discover a problem and fix it. Don’t just fit in; make it a… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
People think, 'Oh my goodness! I have to do something really big.' You don't. Do what you love. There's a great quote… — Maria Shriver Copy Share Image
My son is someone who wants to be a writer. My sons been writing for a long time, since he was 14,… — Laurence Fishburne Copy Share Image
“meanwhile I look at young girls stems flowers of chance. there must be a way. surely there must be a way that… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
This career essentially chased me down while I was on the spoken-word scene in New York. I kept hearing that my delivery… — Sonja Sohn Copy Share Image
There is no objection to the proposal: in order to learn to be a poet, I shall try to write a sonnet.… — James Fenton Copy Share Image
“…She wanders with her sad mouth And the grand mystery of amber eyes, Across the night, toward forgetfulness Like a star, fugitive… — Delmira Agustini Copy Share Image
“Do you know what the first poet said about our kind, young Ren? 'Cats are the great mystery, born in that space… — Marjorie M. Liu Copy Share Image
“Death be not proud, though some have called thee mighty and dreadful, for, thou art not so.” — John Donne Copy Share Image
The high-water mark, so to speak, of Socialist literature is W.H. Auden, a sort of gutless Kipling. — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“Be careful letting those decadent words roll of your tongue. A woman just might take them to heart... and immortalize them.” — Alfa H Copy Share Image
Sharp is your memory, sweet is your name, deep in my heart you'll always remain. Earth wants water, flower wants dew, I… — Azgraybebly Josland Copy Share Image
If anything, hearing another poet is a sacred experience I enter, but I can honestly say this does not influence my own… — Grace Cavalieri Copy Share Image
Most poets in their youth begin in adolescent sadness. I find it more rewarding to end in gladness. — James Broughton Copy Share Image
I'm never quite sure how the poem is going to resolve itself and that I'm always in some way surprised. I make… — Rita Dove Copy Share Image
Portsmouth has the honor, I believe, of establishing the first recorded pauper workhouse - though not in connection with her poets, as… — Thomas Bailey Aldrich Copy Share Image
I’m a poet. And then I put the poetry in the drama. I put it in short stories, and I put it… — Tennessee Williams Copy Share Image
Spending warm Summer days indoors, writing frightening verse to a buck-toothed girl in Luxembourg. — The Smiths Copy Share Image
In African-American culture, there's often a family historian, someone who does the genealogy or keeps the family Bible. I became aware that… — Kevin Young Copy Share Image
Poetry is a section of river-fog and moving boat-lights, delivered between bridges and whistles, so one says, 'Oh!' and another, 'How?' — Carl Sandburg Copy Share Image
Self-editing is the way I write. Ten verses of a song and it's finished. Then we start playing it and if I… — Nick Cave Copy Share Image
Good religious poetry... is likely to be most justly appreciated and most discriminately relished by the undevout. — A. E. Housman Copy Share Image
“We are the poem, his poem says, that emerges from the unity of the body and the mind. That fragile unity--this brief… — Jonah Lehrer Copy Share Image
The 14th-century poem 'Sir Gawain and the Green Knight' wasn't my top read at university. In fact, I finished it under some… — Cathy Newman Copy Share Image
One must write poetry in such as way that if one threw the poem in a window, the pane would break. — Daniil Kharms Copy Share Image
Don't you think that as a people, Americans have less poetry, real poetry, in their souls than any other nations? — Robert E. Howard Copy Share Image
“eighteenth-century Urdu poet Mir: It’s just your imagining that There’s a feeble body inside my clothes; In fact, there is nothing there… — Shamsur Rahman Faruqi Copy Share Image
“And honestly, there is no better way to explore your emotions than with poetry. Or audiotapes.” — Jay Asher Copy Share Image
Somebody's sent a funny little valentine to me. It's a bunch of baby-roses in a vase of filigree, And hovering above them… — James Whitcomb Riley Copy Share Image
I then carefully searched through the pages until I was able to find the verse that was crystal clear... It read: "Rejoice… — Mary C. Neal Copy Share Image
What's poetry? It's not real but maybe it's more than real. It's dreaming while you're awake. — Caryl Churchill Copy Share Image
“the princess jumped from the tower & she learned that she could fly all along. she never needed those wings.” — Amanda Lovelace Copy Share Image
