Herman has taken to writing poetry. You need not tell anyone, for you know how such things get around. — Elizabeth Shaw Melville Copy Share Image
The poetry that sustains me is when I feel that, for a minute, the clouds have parted and I've seen ecstasy or… — Rita Dove Copy Share Image
Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in… — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
“Beauty crowds me till I die, Beauty, mercy have on me! But if I expire today, Let it be in sight of… — Emily Dickinson Copy Share Image
“Severed and gone, so many years! And art thou still so dear to me, That throbbing heart and burning tears Can witness… — Anne Brontë Copy Share Image
“I worry there is something broken in our generation, there are too many sad eyes on happy faces.” — Atticus Poetry Copy Share Image
The progress of our soul is like a perfect poem. It has an infinite idea which, once realised, makes all movements full… — Rabindranath Tagore Copy Share Image
In all the poems I've written I've not really engaged in politics, and when I've found myself moving in that direction I've… — Simon Armitage Copy Share Image
“Rincewind picked up a spare paper and read it. It was headed: Examination for the post of Assistant Night-Soil Operative for the… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Music is the purest form of art... therefore true poets, they who are seers, seek to express the universe in terms of… — Rabindranath Tagore Copy Share Image
“There is a monstrous garden in the sky Nightly they sow it fresh. Nightly it springs, Luridly splendid, towards the moon on… — Margery Lawrence Copy Share Image
“Once in a while, though, he went on binges. He would sneak into bookstores or libraries, lurk around the racks where the… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
While I was in school, trying to figure out how to write an essay that could both satisfy my nonfiction workshops and… — John D'Agata Copy Share Image
“In the old days a poet once said" In the old days a poet once said our nation is destroyed yet the… — Ko Un Copy Share Image
“It's a poem, for crying out loud! The beauty of poetry is that it can mean different things to different people at… — Wendy Higgins Copy Share Image
“Do not stand at my grave and weep, I am not there, I do not sleep. I am in a thousand winds… — Mary Elizabeth Frye Copy Share Image
A painter can turn pennies into gold, for all subjects are capable of being transformed into poems. — Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres Copy Share Image
“This is my life and lovestory listen losely and hold on tight this a roller coaster hell of a ride” — Patrick Cruz Copy Share Image
Pondering and listening to the inspiration. Thinking bout the correct terms so you can feel the relation. — Raghib Clitso Copy Share Image
Time ain’t nothing, but time. It’s a verse with no rhyme, And it all come down to you. «El tiempo solo es… — Kerstin Gier Copy Share Image
“Now of all voyagers I remember, who among them Did not board ship with grief among their maps?” — Mary Oliver Copy Share Image
I guess the thing that I'm most proud of is that I kept on writing poetry. I understand that poetry is sort… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
But there is some way in which poets believe that and this is dangerous, too believe that their calling gives them a… — Peter Davison Copy Share Image
ever been kidnapped by a poet if i were a poet i'd kidnap you put you in my phrases and meter… — Nikki Giovanni Copy Share Image
My poems tend to be more celebratory and lyrical, and the novels so far pretty dark. Poetry doesn't seem to me to… — John Burnside Copy Share Image
“...we went to watch the waves that bitter day and the wind took your red cap and mittens - blew them into… — John Geddes Copy Share Image
“One day The Universe Will be pleased by The fruit of man's works Excerpt from: 'Jacob's Ascent, New Collected poems by Mekael'… — Mekael Shane Copy Share Image
I switch between fixed forms and free verse often, and enjoy being a poet who can "swing both ways," so to speak. — Allison Joseph Copy Share Image
Learning to program has no more to do with designing interactive software than learning to touch type has to do with writing… — Ted Nelson Copy Share Image
“The writing of the poetry is natural. It's the feeling of being connected to someone which moves the pen...” — Jr. Lily Copy Share Image
Being Poet Laureate made me realize I was capable of a larger voice. There is a more public utterance I can make… — Rita Dove Copy Share Image
“Welcome to His poem. His play. His novel. Skip the bowls of fruit and statues. Let the page flick your thumbs. This… — N.D. Wilson Copy Share Image
If sexual intercourse, as the poets tell us, began in 1963, it was another decade and a half before the American political… — Michael Kinsley Copy Share Image
If there is poetry in my book about the sea, it is not because I deliberately put it there, but because no… — Rachel Carson Copy Share Image
Why do you always write poetry? Why do you not write prose? Prose is so much more difficult. — Walter Pater Copy Share Image
Dancing used to be my one and only thing and then I started getting into poetry and writing stories and then music… — Tate McRae Copy Share Image
“If your everyday life seems poor, don't blame it; blame yourself; admit to yourself that you are not enough of a poet… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I cant wait to exchange more words, I can't wait to know him, until then he's just a stranger in my poems. — Arianna Lyzette Copy Share Image
“There are a lot of human experiences that challenge the limits of our language,” she said. “That’s one of the reasons that… — Ava Dellaira Copy Share Image
I've thought of the last line of some poems for years and tried them out, It wouldn't work because the last line… — Howard Nemerov Copy Share Image
