I have long admired Ron Whitehead. He is crazy as nine loons, and his poetry is a dazzling mix of folk wisdom… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
“I am permitted to travel in the corridor between sky and heather" from the poem "Beyond the Beacon" in TerraAffirmative” — Jay Woodman Copy Share Image
“When the hatred stops will the love begin? When there is no more greed will there then be peace?” — Sherman Kennon Copy Share Image
With a poem you can say 'I got my feeling into words for myself. I now have the equivalent in words for… — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
A person who's only suffering can't write a poem. There are choices to be made, and you need to be objective. — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
The completely solitary self: that's where poetry comes from, and it gets isolated by crisis, and those crises are often very intimate… — Seamus Heaney Copy Share Image
These impossible women! How they do get around us! The poet was right: can't live with them, or without them! — Aristophanes Copy Share Image
The poem that became the song 'Gold All Over the Ground' was written during 1967, when my dad was really falling in… — John Carter Cash Copy Share Image
“. . . for us there still exists a serene, unfathomable abyss in which God and the spirits dwell. The soul, in… — Adalbert Stifter Copy Share Image
Everywhere we are told that our human resources are all to be used, that our civilization itself means the uses of everything… — Muriel Rukeyser Copy Share Image
Both poetry and philosophy are prodigal of eulogy over the mind which ransoms itself by its own energy from a captivity to… — Horace Mann Copy Share Image
The idea that a poem was a made thing stayed with me, and I decided then that I wanted to be an… — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
“We are the poem's ancient band of twelve that proceeds through the ages. There were twelve of us, when we ruled the… — Selma Lagerlöf Copy Share Image
A garden should make you feel you've entered privileged space -- a place not just set apart but reverberant -- and it… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
“ The Good-Morrow I wonder by my troth, what thou, and I Did, till we lov'd? Were we not wean'd till then?… — John Donne Copy Share Image
“7. But what kind of love is it, really? Don’t fool yourself and call it sublimity. Admit that you have stood in… — Maggie Nelson Copy Share Image
“No poet, no artist of any art has his complete meaning alone. His significance, his appreciation is the appreciation of his relation… — T S Eliot Copy Share Image
Poetry is its own medium; it's very different than writing prose. Poetry can talk in an imagistic sense, it has particular ways… — Story Musgrave Copy Share Image
“He loves me, he loves me not. How many flowers must I kill before he loves me?” ~He Loves Me, He Loves… — Kimberly Kinrade Copy Share Image
I started writing poems on a Xanga page. I always loved writing. I also had a Deviant Art page, actually, because my… — Jamila Woods Copy Share Image
It is still true that it is easier to compose a poem in the form of a manual for adjusting a VCR… — Brian Ferneyhough Copy Share Image
Young poets are advised by their elders to avoid the practice of journalism as they would wet socks and gin before breakfast. — Archibald MacLeish Copy Share Image
There are two men inside the artist, the poet and the craftsman. One is born a poet. One becomes a craftsman. — Emile Zola Copy Share Image
The poetry you read has been written for you, each of you - black, white, Hispanic, man, woman, gay, straight. — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
Underneath the forms of fiction and poetry, you can bet your ass the ground comes from someone's actual life experience. — Lidia Yuknavitch Copy Share Image
Dreamlands Nightmare Hate is not the opposite of love, so the poet hates, the male-chauvinistic, womanizer thats narcissistic, the boss! Poets love,… — Javaz Copy Share Image
“But the reason we fly from the city is not in reality that it is not poetical; it is that its poetry… — G. K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Why don't we all take the time and do what this class in the poem have done. Think about what our actions… — Nikki Marie Copy Share Image
Poetry reminds us of the truths about life and human nature that we knew all along, but forgot somehow because they weren't… — Diane Ackerman Copy Share Image
“Justice is in the hands of the gods, an old poet wrote, mortal hands hold only mercy and the sword.” — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“Poetry is about finding the best way to plagiarize the reader’s ideas, thoughts, emotions, feelings and memories, their past present or future… — Cody Edward Lee Miller Copy Share Image
Let first the onion flourish there, Rose among roots, the maiden-fair, Wine-scented and poetic soul Of the capacious salad bowl. — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
Poets, for example, are generally considered starry-eyed and sensitive, but only by those who have never encountered one. — Craig Brown Copy Share Image
“You say you like to be by yourself, I am like that too. Although I don't think company would be so bad,… — Bailey Nadeen Copy Share Image
“Gather ye rose-buds while ye may, Old Time is still a-flying; And this same flower that smiles today, Tomorrow will be dying.” — Robert Herrick Copy Share Image
It's always good to show that poetry isn't the little depressed lyric people believe it to be, that it's something bigger. — John Fuller Copy Share Image
“There’s a great line from the poet Anaïs Nin that reads: “And the day came when the risk to remain tight in… — Jen Sincero Copy Share Image
The flower bloomed and faded. The sun rose and sank. The lover loved and went. And what the poets said in rhyme,… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Every poem is an infant labored into birth and I am drenched with sweating effort, tired from the pain and hurt of… — Jimmy Santiago Baca Copy Share Image
“Imagine a twelve-year-old-girl. Imagine her being attacked, raped and murdered. Take your time. Then imagine God. M. Barin, poet” — Håkan Nesser Copy Share Image
