“If poets have to be in some way criminals, she thinks, nowadays criminals could try being poets.” — Joseph McElroy Copy Share Image
Mirror, mirror on the wall, I am my mother after all, and though she isn't here with me, There's no one else… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“When it comes to matters of the heart and soul, I'm not a falling kind of girl. I'm more of a slamming,… — Melody Lee Copy Share Image
“Emily Dickinson , in my opinion, is the perfect (although admittedly slightly cliche) poet for lonely fat girls.” — Suzanne Supplee Copy Share Image
The poem in the head is always perfect. Resistance begins when you try to convert it into language. — Stanley Kunitz Copy Share Image
“It's just me throwing myself at you, romance as usual, us times us, not lust but moxibustion, a substance burning close to… — Alice Fulton Copy Share Image
I've been writing since I was a kid. Short stories, poetry, and all of that, and acting is just an extension of… — Omar Epps Copy Share Image
To find beauty in the sad, hope in the midst of loss, and dignity in failure is great poetic art. — David Mamet Copy Share Image
“Didn't it bother him that he was teaching his students poetry when he was certain it wouldn't make a difference in how… — Jenny Zhang Copy Share Image
“The fall of dusk upon the Egyptian scene is an unforgettable event, an event of unearthly beauty. Everything is transformed in colour… — Paul Brunton Copy Share Image
As for what I have done as a poet, I take no pride in whatever. Excellent poets have lived at the same… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
“river burial had a certain rustic poetry, but Ophion cared not at all about preserving the decency of the dead. The river… — John Varley Copy Share Image
Not even the great poets can explain in words what poetry is. Do you know why? Because poetry is indeed like love,… — Jean-Paul Malfatti Copy Share Image
“What does life give me in the end but sorrow? What do love's good and evil send but sorrow? I've only seen… — Hafez Copy Share Image
“...Her eyes, he says, are stars at dusk, Her mouth as sweet as red-rose-musk; And when she dances his young heart swells… — Conrad Aiken Copy Share Image
“Once upon a time, son, they used to laugh with their hearts and laugh with their eyes; but now they only laugh… — Gabriel Okara Copy Share Image
“You have the power to overcome. You have the power to persist. You have the power to be hurting and scared and… — Liz Newman Copy Share Image
“All shadows of clouds the sun cannot hide like the moon cannot stop oceanic tide; but a hidden star can still be… — Munia Khan Copy Share Image
A despot doesn't fear eloquent writers preaching freedom- he fears a drunken poet who may crack a joke that will take hold. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I just sit down and write. I never know when. The most recent one is 'Sarah Still,' which is about our life,… — Shelley Berman Copy Share Image
I could I trust starve like a gentleman. It's listed as part of the poetic training, you know. — Ezra Pound Copy Share Image
“...I'm constantly agitated, restless - I work moments like worry beads until I see your face...” — John Geddes Copy Share Image
Poets may be delightful creatures in the meadow or the garret, but they are menaces on the assembly line. — Rollo May Copy Share Image
I've always had a love for poetry and when I got signed to a record label I thought, 'How odd that I'm… — Jewel Copy Share Image
Earth, receive an honored guest; William Yeats is laid to rest. Let the Irish vessel lie Emptied of its poetry. — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
“Mini cat poem for ISF kids: William went high Into the air Furly had stepped On the edge of The board” — Debby Feo Copy Share Image
“There is something perfect to be found in the imperfect: the law keeps balance through the juxtaposition of beauty, which gains perfection… — Dejan Stojanovic Copy Share Image
Criticism starts - it has to start - with a real passion for reading. It can come in adolescence, even in your… — Harold Bloom Copy Share Image
Like the musician, the painter, the poet and the rest, the true lover of flowers is born, not made. — Celia Thaxter Copy Share Image
The poet sees things as they look. Is this having a faculty the less? or a sense the more? — Augustus William Hare Copy Share Image
Many attempts have been made by writers on art and poetry to define beauty in the abstract, to express it in the… — Walter Pater Copy Share Image
“She’s far from ordinary; she’s a rare breed, a black rose, a deep soul, a gypsy heart, a bright star. Or you… — Melody Lee Copy Share Image
Poetry is not only the most concise way of conveying the human experience; it also offers the highest possible standards for any… — Joseph Brodsky Copy Share Image
I have heard that hysterical women say They are sick of the palette and fiddle-bow, Of poets that are always gay — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
To the question always asked, 'why do you write?' the response of the poet will always be the briefest 'In order to… — Ash Sweeney Copy Share Image
The best poetry will be found to have a power of forming, sustaining, and delighting us, as nothing else can. — Matthew Arnold Copy Share Image
The Western poet and writer of romance has exactly the same kind of difficulty in comprehending Eastern subjects as you have in… — Lafcadio Hearn Copy Share Image
The purpose of poetry is to remind us / how difficult it is to remain just one person... — Czeslaw Milosz Copy Share Image
“When you find your twin flame you also find your freedom, for there is nothing more exhilarating, wild and free than absolute… — Melody Lee Copy Share Image
This will be a good time for poetry, you know, when things get darker and stranger and your very speech is being… — Anne Waldman Copy Share Image
