“My head bows before the thing you mention. But my heart doesn't speak that language. - The Epic of Sheik Bedreddin , Verse 9.” — Nâzım Hikmet Copy Share Image
“How can I be the bigger person When the force you pitched me against Was a trainwreck?” — Amber Campbell Copy Share Image
“If I had known his favorite game was mental twister, I would have suggested a movie over game night.” — Alfa H Copy Share Image
Poetry, mythology, and religion represent the world as man would like to have it, while science represents the world as he gradually… — Joseph Wood Krutch Copy Share Image
If I don't take the risk, I'll wind up with a bloodless poem. I have to be out there on the edge. — Ted Kooser Copy Share Image
I am interested in the movement of my own thoughts and in trying make the poems feel more accurate to experience, including… — Rachel Zucker Copy Share Image
“you will think your parents are shatterproof until one day you find out they aren't. - what it really means to lose… — Amanda Lovelace Copy Share Image
You do not become a critic until it has been completely established to your own satisfaction that you cannot be a poet. — Theophile Gautier Copy Share Image
We hardly know an instance of the strength and weakness of human nature so striking and so grotesque as the character of… — Thomas B. Macaulay Copy Share Image
“The hares of the dawn' -- the ingenuous metaphor of the cowboy poet -- are the little round clouds on the horizon… — Romulo Gallegos Copy Share Image
I encourage my students to be honest in their assessment of both the published work we read and the work of their… — Cate Marvin Copy Share Image
“Partial skinning may be less painful, perhaps delay unpleasantness, how pain set in breasts, back, and belly offers less agony, some reprieve,… — Cathleen Margaret Copy Share Image
I think that poets can say, "What we want is for everybody on earth to wake up free from fear and with… — Robert Hass Copy Share Image
“The question of what kind of a thing a text or poem is now becomes a function neither of what the poet… — Jennifer Ashton Copy Share Image
“ The Quitter When you're lost in the Wild, and you're scared as a child, And Death looks you bang in the… — Robert W. Service Copy Share Image
“So I’m reading some poem by Louise . . . something, I forget her last name, but it’s about Hades and the… — Julie James Copy Share Image
“...loving a fairy lady with a magic song will leave you desolate on a cold hillside ... but from there you can… — John Geddes Copy Share Image
“But he never forgot how once by not knowing time, He escaped into the clockless land of ever, Where time hides tick-less… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“That sadness that you do not speak of, that haunts you in the ache of midnight. Give it to me. I want… — Nikita Gill Copy Share Image
“A lazy summer's day and a long, lost love. Can a poet ask for anything more than a broken heart ordained from… — douglas laurent Copy Share Image
“So it's off with the shellsuit and on with the Armanis, Bring out the champagne and the caviar sarnies” — Roger McGough Copy Share Image
“Do not worry about your contradictions - Persephone is both floral maiden and queen of death. You, too, can be both.” — Nichole McElhaney Copy Share Image
You can find poetry in your everyday life, your memory, in what people say on the bus, in the news, or just… — Carol Ann Duffy Copy Share Image
The moon is swimming naked and the summer night is fragrant with a mighty expectation of relief. — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
“She has learned to love. To fear. To hate. And then to love again. Through it all, she writes.” ~Once Upon A… — Kimberly Kinrade Copy Share Image
The miracle of man is not how far he has sunk but how magnificently he has risen. We are known among the… — Robert Ardrey Copy Share Image
Ordering a man to write a poem is like commanding a pregnant woman to give birth to a red-headed child. — Carl Sandburg Copy Share Image
“I touched curiosity, I kissed sin, I felt regret, And I was forgiven. But life won't let me forget.” — J.A. ANUM Copy Share Image
Reciting poetry isn't acting, it's memory work. Actor's are deceivers. People who pretend to be something else for a living aren't right… — Hetty King Copy Share Image
I am a genius who has written poems that will survive with the best of Shakespeare, Wordsworth and Keats — Irving Layton Copy Share Image
“A single poem, alone can turn tides scatter galaxies and burst forth with rivers from paradise.” — Sanober Khan Copy Share Image
“I didn't know who to believe but one thing I do know: when a man is living many claim relationships that are… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
The south produced statesmen and soldiers, planters and doctors and lawyers and poets, but certainly no engineers and mechanics. Let Yankees adopt… — Margaret Mitchell Copy Share Image
“Poetry was a way to combat the staid and formulaic language of politicians that opposed the flexible and dynamic language of poets… — Azar Nafisi Copy Share Image
We need the whole song, all the verses and the choruses to serve us as our own story unfolds because- trust me-… — Gloria Gaither Copy Share Image
“What if the poem loses? What if it never tastes victory like the intent it was written with?” — Akif Kichloo Copy Share Image
You I am sure will forgive me for sincerely remarking that you might curb your magnanimity and be more of an artist,… — Bob Dylan Copy Share Image
“Des Menschen Kraft, im Dichter offenbart The human power is revealed by poet Il potere dell'umanità si rivela nel poeta” — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
“Don't let a king or a prince or a fairytale tell you you are smaller than that or who you are meant… — Nikita Gill Copy Share Image
The music is the shining path over which the poet travels to bring his song to the world. — Lotte Lehmann Copy Share Image
