The poet must work with brush and paper,but this is not what makes the poem. A man does not go in search… — Yang Wanli Copy Share Image
“Sweet hour, blessed hour, to carry me to you, and to bring you back to me, long enough to snatch one kiss,… — Emily Dickinson Copy Share Image
Poetry is the most mistaught subject in any school because we teach poetry by form and not by content. — Nikki Giovanni Copy Share Image
A line is a fuse that's lit. The line smolders, the rhyme explodes— and by a stanza a city is blown to… — Vladimir Mayakovsky Copy Share Image
“So what are your poems about? They're about ... how nothing is about, they're not about about. --Heather McHugh, 20-200 on 747” — Heather McHugh Copy Share Image
I don't think I've ever had more fun doing anything in my life than trading verses with Daryl Hall on 'Private Eyes.'… — Mayer Hawthorne Copy Share Image
He fertilizes a phrase or a line of poetry for weeks and then gives birth to it in a speech. — John Colville Copy Share Image
“The Pressure- Maybe one day, after centuries, we can become brilliant gems in crystal caves and we will be immortal after all.” — Keelie Breanna Copy Share Image
“cademics and intellectuals are culture vultures. In a gathering of today’s elite, it is perfectly acceptable to laugh that you barely passed… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
… that sour blend of loneliness and lust for recognition, shyness and extravagance, deep insecurity and self-intoxicated egomania, that drives poets and… — Amos Oz Copy Share Image
What poetry does above all else is develop sensibility. And that's what makes poetry so dangerous. That's why poetry is so good… — Sam Hamill Copy Share Image
“Somewhere between poetry and science, somewhere between heaven and earth, clairaudience is born. Clairaudience is the sweetest mystery any human being could… — Amelia Kinkade Copy Share Image
Writing a poem ... is a kind of possible love affair between something like the heart (that courageous but also shy factory… — Mary Oliver Copy Share Image
Such an obstacle Is falling in love. The greatest loss of clarity, Yet I can see you oh so well. My eyes… — Yours Truly Copy Share Image
“Shit is disgusting and horrible. A lot of people and things are disgusting and horrible, and I want to be a nice… — Ariana Reines Copy Share Image
For 2,500 years, people have been writing odes. Why? I think that there's something innately human in wanting to praise the world… — Barbara Hamby Copy Share Image
“It was never about the world being too big, it was more like she was too much for the world to handle.” — robert m drake Copy Share Image
Poetry and painting continue to be companions: they cast their shadow and light, their silences and tones, at the edges of each… — Pierre Coupey Copy Share Image
The iambic line, with its characteristic forward movement from short to long, or light to heavy, or unstressed to stressed, is the… — James Fenton Copy Share Image
The poet sees better than other mortals. I do not see things as they are, but according to my own subjective impression,… — Robert Schumann Copy Share Image
“love me get lost in me but beware side effects include a lot of shivering, baby a lot of drinking, maybe a… — Casey Renee Kiser Copy Share Image
“If you are looking for verses with which to oppress women, you will find them. If you are looking for verses with… — Rachel Held Evans Copy Share Image
You have to really dive deep back into yourself and get rid of so much modern analytical categorization. It's one of the… — Robert Morgan Copy Share Image
“I think of love, and you, and my heart grows full and warm, and my breath stands still.” — Emily Dickinson Copy Share Image
Neither is a dictionary a bad book to read. There is no can't in it, no excess of explanation, and it is… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“All were merged into one smoothly working machine; they were, in fact, a poem of motion, a symphony of swinging blades.” — Daniel James Brown Copy Share Image
I said, the poets are there I hear them singing and lying around their round table and around me still. — Anne Sexton Copy Share Image
“I hold it true, whate'er befall; I feel it when I sorrow most; 'Tis better to have loved and lost Than never… — Alfred Lord Tennyson Copy Share Image
I was born in a world of opera, theatre, films, poetry, art, and therefore, out of the wire, I made a stage.… — Philippe Petit Copy Share Image
“I don't think all writers are sad, she said. I think it's the other way around- all sad people write.” — Lang Leav Copy Share Image
The dance can reveal everything mysterious that is hidden in music, and it has the additional merit of being human and palpable.… — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
Babies are like poems. They're beautiful to their creator, but to other people, they're silly and they're irritating. — Doug Stanhope Copy Share Image
“ONE WORD One word — one stone in a cold river. One more stone— I'll need many stones if I'm going to… — Olav H. Hauge Copy Share Image
I've never read a political poem that's accomplished anything. Poetry makes things happen, but rarely what the poet wants. — Howard Nemerov Copy Share Image
“You like that poet, Bukowski?” “Yeah,” I answered, confused. “Don’t try.” “I don’t understand.” “That’s what it says, on Bukowski’s grave.” — Kami Garcia Copy Share Image
She knows more of love than the poets can say, and her eyes offer something that won't go away. — Harry Chapin Copy Share Image
Freedom is poetry, taking liberties with words, breaking the rules of normal speech, violating common sense. Freedom is violence. — Norman O. Brown Copy Share Image
A sculptor is a person who is interested in the shape of things, a poet in words, a musician by sounds. — Henry Moore Copy Share Image
“Don't ask me any questions. I've seen how things that seek their way find their void instead.” — Federico García Lorca Copy Share Image
a person hoping to become a poet must have the capacity of thinking of several things at a time. — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
