“My space imekuwa null na void hakuna jokes ni poetry na voice so i write for my niggas who will never make… — Budding Dirt Copy Share Image
“Eighteen relatively sexless years passed by before my sister fell in love with an itinerant upholsterer who promised her the moon.” — John Popielaski Copy Share Image
I recently got into Haiku in Japan and I just think it's fantastic. Obviously, when you get rid of a whole section… — John Lennon Copy Share Image
I don't think poetry will die, but I think that poetry does demand a certain kind of attention to language. — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
But for a few phrases from his letters and an odd line or two of his verse, the poet walks gagged through… — John Updike Copy Share Image
I did not start out thinking I'm going to become a feminist poet. It was a tag I was given. — Rupi Kaur Copy Share Image
“Excessive brightness drove the poet into darkness. (essay : Hölderlin And The Essence Of Poetry, chapter from my copy of The origin… — Martin Heidegger Copy Share Image
“No man was ever yet a great poet, without at the same time being a profound philosopher.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“O King, may the world bow to your command; May lips drip with expressions of thanks and salutations; Since it is your… — Audrey Truschke Copy Share Image
Mary Mackey joins other visionary poets of dpaysement . . . recovering a lost part of herself in the edgy lyricism of… — Dennis Nurkse Copy Share Image
When I began rapping, I only had one form at my disposal. All I had, all I needed was a rhyme verse;… — Kate Tempest Copy Share Image
At birth we begin to discover that shapes, sounds, lights, and textures have meaning. Long before we learn to talk, sounds and… — Nancy Newhall Copy Share Image
“She asked me "what is it about these people - the silent ones, the thinking ones, and the brooding ones why do… — Avijeet Das Copy Share Image
Rama, the ancient idol of the heroic ages, the embodiment of truth, of morality, the ideal son, the ideal husband, and above… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Already known as one of America’s best and wittiest poets, William Trowbridge has, in Ship of Fool, found the perfect vessel to… — Charles Harper Webb Copy Share Image
“You have no control over how your story begins or ends. But by now, you should know that all things have an… — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image
“Wake up wild one! Your mind is a cageless bird waiting to fly to uncharted lands. Like the phoenix, you'll rise again… — Melody Lee Copy Share Image
“Knut, this is Jude. Remember I told you about him? He writes poetry.” Knut looked my half-Japanese self up and down. “Haiku?”… — J.L. Merrow Copy Share Image
“It looked like a love poem, and I was jealous of whoever inspired the sort of devotion he must have felt to… — Tammara Webber Copy Share Image
My brother told me I was going to be a poet. I had a good brother. He did a lot of good… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
“But all the clocks in the city Began to whirr and chime: 'O let not Time deceive you, You cannot conquer Time” — W.H. Auden Copy Share Image
“One clear moment, one of trance One missed step, one perfect dance One missed shot, one and only chance Life is all...but… — Sanober Khan Copy Share Image
I think Lindsay Kemp really introduced me to the work of Jean Genet, and through that, I kind of kept re-educating myself… — David Bowie Copy Share Image
Even when poetry has a meaning, as it usually has, it may be inadvisable to draw it out . . .. Perfect… — A. E. Housman Copy Share Image
The poet must be alike polished by an intercourse with the world as with the studies of taste; one to whom labour… — Isaac D'Israeli Copy Share Image
Poets have the gift to speak for others, Vasko Popa had the very rare quality of hearing the others. — Octavio Paz Copy Share Image
“Time is not ours and we would not own it. It does not wound us to say so. from the prose poem… — Jay Woodman Copy Share Image
As a very young poet, I had been brought up on that dogma that politics was bad for poetry. — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
“Poets find their voices when they articulate the wishes of the dead, especially those slain as sacrificial talismans to a larger frame… — Michael S. Harper Copy Share Image
“An epic without a focus - without a single action, a coherent plot, a single terrible point to make - was just… — Daniel Mendelsohn Copy Share Image
Some have at first for wits, then poets passed, Turned critics next, and proved plain fools at last. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
“Three things have a limited threshold: Time, pain, and death. While truth, love, and knowledge – Are boundless.” — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image
“One should, each day, try to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture, and if possible, speak… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Out of the attempt to harmonize our actual life with our aspirations, our experience with our faith, we make poetry, - or,… — Anna Brownell Jameson Copy Share Image
“Solitude is a powerful tool; the master who uses this tool must have courage, conviction, experience and vision!” — Alok Mishra Copy Share Image
What makes a poem is the discipline inherent in making a poem: trying to fit feelings in the requisite number of syllables… — Derek Walcott Copy Share Image
In my religion, there would be no exclusive doctrine; all would be love, poetry, and doubt. — Cyril Connolly Copy Share Image
“I dared fix my eyes one instant toward glory: a black point is settled in my avid eye.” — Joanna McClure Copy Share Image
One critic wrote . . . that my poems sounded as though they had been translated from the Hungarian. I don't know… — Stanley Kunitz Copy Share Image
“...but I spoke passionately at the rallies; inspired by phrases I had read in novels and poems, I would weave words together… — Azar Nafisi Copy Share Image
