And there are a lot more people reading poetry, but there are not so many people reading an individual poet. — Peter Davison Copy Share Image
With 'Sierra,' this mean girl had all these kids bullying me - and I wrote the first verse and chorus the night… — Maddie Marlow Copy Share Image
“As we change, our writing changes too. You cannot write the same poem twice. And that's a good thing.” — Katerina Stoykova Klemer Copy Share Image
The grand stye arises in poetry, when a noble nature, poetically gifted, treats with simplicity or with severity a serious subject. — Matthew Arnold Copy Share Image
I enjoy poetry where I can talk as bizarre as I please, but theology or philosophy, I always respect the truth by… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
I never think of poetry or the poetry scene, only separate poems written by individuals. — Philip Larkin Copy Share Image
A poem is a frozen moment melted by each reader for themselves to flow into the here and now. — Hilde Domin Copy Share Image
One of the ridiculous aspects of being a poet is the huge gulf between how seriously we take ourselves and how generally… — Billy Collins Copy Share Image
“How may we be saints and live in golden coffins Who will leave on our stone shelves pathetic notes for intervention How… — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
“I confess, I have setbacks like anyone. But they don’t cause distress or coalesce in a mess for I’ve learned to step… — Shaun Hick Copy Share Image
Poetry has an indirect way of hinting at things. Poetry is feminine. Prose is masculine. Prose, the very structure of it, is… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Since the beginning of establishment, poets and spoken word artists have always been both vocal supporters and critics of government. And in… — Malcolm-Jamal Warner Copy Share Image
“Show me that you can divide the notes of a song; But first, show me that you can discern Between what can… — Siddhartha Mukherjee Copy Share Image
The day I found you was when I found myself. The sun shines in the day, The moon shines in the night.… — Nghi Lam Copy Share Image
“I’ve wanted to write about them for a long while, but it’s a tricky subject, always put off for later and perhaps… — Wisława Szymborska Copy Share Image
Some of the old folk singers used to phrase things in an interesting way, and then, I got my style from seeing… — Bob Dylan Copy Share Image
A page with a poem on it is less attractive than a page with a poem on it and some tea stains. — Anne Carson Copy Share Image
I don't write poetry and then strum some chords and then fit the words on top of the chords. — Andrew Bird Copy Share Image
Every country has the writers she requires and deserves, which is why Nicaragua, in two hundred years of literacy, has produced one… — Paul Theroux Copy Share Image
“Filth and vermin though they shock the over-nice are imperfections of the flesh closely related in the just imagination of the poet… — William Carlos Williams Copy Share Image
He feared his maturity as it grew upon him with its ripe thought, its skill, its finished art; yet which lacked the… — T. E. Lawrence Copy Share Image
A certain amount of housekeeping also goes on in my poems. I wash doorknobs, do dishes, mop floors, patch carpets, cook. — Jane Hirshfield Copy Share Image
“Memories are either the greatest poetry, when they are memories of a vital happiness, or a burning pain, when they touch dried… — Ivan Goncharov Copy Share Image
“The feeling of being both trapped and free at the same time is the most mind twisting feeling of all.” — Melody Lee Copy Share Image
Like a great poet, Nature produces the greatest results with the simplest means. These are simply a sun, trees, flowers, water and… — Heinrich Heine Copy Share Image
“But of the heaven which is above the heavens, what earthly poet ever did or ever will sing worthily?” — Plato Copy Share Image
Poetry is all I write, whether for books or readings or for the National Theatre or for the opera house and concert… — Tony Harrison Copy Share Image
Most anthologists of poetry or quotations are like those who eat cherries or oysters, first picking the best and ending by eating… — Nicolas Chamfort Copy Share Image
The idea that myth is the opposite of knowledge, or the opposite of truth, is simply to disallow it. It is like… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
What is poetry? The suggestion, by the imagination, of noble grounds for the noble emotions. — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
“I think i should get love inked on my skin. Maybe that's the only way i am destined to keep it.” — Anjum Choudhary Copy Share Image
“Don’t let the bad times get you down, You have some of those moments where life tells you, it’s time to cry.… — Tiffany McDaniel, On the Savage Side Copy Share Image
There is some humour in 'Family Values.' I don't want everyone to think it's not going to make them laugh. But there… — Wendy Cope Copy Share Image
"You're next, after the feather dancers." And you had to get their attention, because otherwise people would go, "Oh, a poet." You… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
“If you can change the way you think in time you will notice a change in your heart and also a change… — The Prolific Penman Copy Share Image
Black actors on the road, flying around the country working as poets. Those people are inspirations for millions of kids who write. — Russell Simmons Copy Share Image
Walt Whitman's a hell of a lot more revolutionary than any Russian poet I've ever heard of. — John Dos Passos Copy Share Image
I'm reading a lot of poetry because it's a lot easier to dip in and dip out when you've got 10 minutes… — Hozier Copy Share Image
The great poet is a great artist. He is painter and sculptor. The greatest pictures and statues have been painted and chiseled… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
“What is a woman that you forsake her And the hearth fire and the home acre To go with that old grey… — Rudyard Kipling Copy Share Image
