“And I choose to be alone Rather than wrapped in arms I could never need.” — Merrit Malloy Copy Share Image
History is a cyclic poem written by time upon the memories of man. — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
Most Americans do not like poetry. We may respect it, but we do not enjoy it. — Gilbert Highet Copy Share Image
I wish I could write lyrical poems, but I just write the way they come. — Tom Paulin Copy Share Image
Why shouldn't poetry address what happened yesterday and be published in the newspaper? — Tony Harrison Copy Share Image
To write at the same temperature at which I live I should write nothing but poetry. — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
We are the opening verse of the opening page of the chapter of endless possibilities. — Rudyard Kipling Copy Share Image
“A man of few words, I just sit still on this hill, I know death will persist, I write when my mind… — P.J. Bayliss Copy Share Image
The thing about the poetry is that, because of the way it started, it was always something on the side. There's nobody… — Tim Key Copy Share Image
It is always better to write for the whole of society than for the poetry-reading public. — Tony Harrison Copy Share Image
Do poets have any insight into what's the right ratio? I doubt it, but I think that they can be awake to… — Robert Hass Copy Share Image
“Life shines on life. It is a verse versa game. We can not only give, but we should also receive. We should… — Theogene TUYISHIMIRE Copy Share Image
“I walk through the old yellow sunlight to get to my kitchen table the poem about me lying there with the books… — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
The poem in which the reader does not feel himself or herself a participant is a lecture, listened to from an uncomfortable… — Mary Oliver Copy Share Image
“No sword Of wrath her right arm whirl'd, But one poor poet's scroll, and with his word She shook the world.” — Alfred Tennyson Copy Share Image
It is what the poets of Ireland used to be saying, that every brave man, good at fighting, and every man that… — Lady Gregory Copy Share Image
“So then he tried saying the grass is green and the sky is blue and so to propitiate the austere spirit of… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
My dance is a sacred poem in which each movement is a word and whose every word is underlined by music. The… — Mata Hari Copy Share Image
“At start of spring I open a trench In the ground. I put into it The winter’s accumulation of paper, Pages I… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
I never edit the songs that come out. And they tend to come out as a whole. The closest thing I have… — Laura Marling Copy Share Image
“I'm in love with New York. It matches my mood. I'm not overwhelmed. It is the suitable scene for my ever ever… — Anaïs Nin Copy Share Image
“The beauty of that poem is that everybody can relate, because we all feel like nobody. We all feel like we are… — Amy Harmon Copy Share Image
I teach a lecture course on American poetry to as many as 150 students. For a lot of them, it's their only… — Robert Hass Copy Share Image
