“Keep your head up, he said, you are a lion, don’t forget that and neither will the sheep.” — Atticus Poetry Copy Share Image
There's nothing in the world for which a poet will give up writing, not even he is a Jew and the language… — Paul Celan Copy Share Image
“But no, I was out for stars: I would not come in. I meant not even if asked, And I hadn't been.” — Robert Frost Copy Share Image
“To summarize a poem or put it into prose is quite simply to misunderstand the essence of an art.” — Paul Valéry Copy Share Image
poets are privileged to utter more than they can always quite explain, bringing up from the mind's unplumbed depths tokens of the… — Vernon Lee Copy Share Image
“The city shined in the sunlight like a bunch of metallic boobs. What? I'm not a poet. They look like boobs.” — Andy Weir Copy Share Image
“Death was everywhere. Death was everything. Career. Desire. Dream. Poetry. Love. Youth itself. Dying became just another way of living.” — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
Creations, whether they are children, poems, or organizations, take on a life of their own. — Starhawk Copy Share Image
He who without the Muse's madness in his soul comes knocking at the door of poesy and thinks that art will make… — Plato Copy Share Image
There are 2,000 verses of Scripture that tell us we must be committed to protecting the poor and the oppressed... There is… — Tony Campolo Copy Share Image
“The heart under your heart is not the one you share so readily so full of pleasantry & tenderness it is a… — Craig Arnold Copy Share Image
When I was learning to write I was surrounded by poets; Brian Blanchfield and Annie Guthrie were always with me as I… — Samantha Hunt Copy Share Image
It starts off like climbing a tree or solving a puzzle - poetry, if nothing else, is just fun to write. But… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
If you would shut your door against the children for an hour a day and say: 'Mother is working on her five-act… — Brenda Ueland Copy Share Image
Nothing I had written before 'Mary Poppins' had anything to do with children, and I have always assumed, when I thought about… — P. L. Travers Copy Share Image
I love to publish new writers, and we do so consistently. But a lot of contemporary American poets sound alike to me.… — Jonathan W. Galassi Copy Share Image
I'm a poet, first and foremost as a writer. That's who I am. That's what I'm most comfortable writing. — Dante Basco Copy Share Image
“Neuere Poeten tun viel Wasser in die Tinte. (More recent poets put a lot of water in the ink.) -- Goethe: Aus… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“As he took her hand he gave her all she had been waiting for-- a shiver down her spine.” — Atticus Poetry Copy Share Image
“Fate would never permit happiness to a man of such talent- a content poet is a mediocre one, a happy poet is… — The Hakawati Rabih Alameddine Copy Share Image
The first time I got onstage was when I was about 5 years old. It was at a church social, and I… — Willie Nelson Copy Share Image
“My job as a poet, is not to succumb to despair but to find in words, an antidote for the emptiness of… — Michelle Geaney Copy Share Image
“Children are like poems. They're beautiful -- to their creators -- but to others they're just silly and fucking annoying.” — Doug Stanhope Copy Share Image
“Cause I can love a poem up out of you-like my middle name is Harlem..and my fingerprints are permanent-you ain't gone wash… — Shanica Stewart Copy Share Image
I wrote you a poem on my wrists. I used a razor as a pen and I signed my name in blood.… — Molly Ringwald Copy Share Image
The definition of a dedicated individual..i got a tablet fulla verses dude I been writin since middle school — Marley Garcia Copy Share Image
“You don't have to be an angel. All you need is someone who can always see your best angle.” — Sam Haidy Copy Share Image
“Haunted by demons of the past, hounded by demons not yet met, the nevermore and evermore left her little peace.” ~A Tale… — Kimberly Kinrade Copy Share Image
“The American identity has never been a singular one and the voices of poets invariably sing, in addition to their own, the… — Aberjhani Copy Share Image
I thought about joining the undead poets society but then I'd have to throw away my Silver pen. — Stanley Victor Paskavich Copy Share Image
Poets think in short lines. Unless you're Samuel Beckett, Twitter might be more difficult for novelists. — Kenneth Goldsmith Copy Share Image
I think the best American poetry is the poetry that utilizes the resources of poetry rather than exploits the defects or triumphs… — Mark Strand Copy Share Image
What an ornament and safeguard is humor! Far better than wit for a poet and writer. It is a genius itself, and… — Walter Scott Copy Share Image
“I am republic I am maoist I am activist and I am this and I am that but why? Why can't; I… — Santosh Kalwar Copy Share Image
This verse really speaks to me: If you are kind only to your friends, how are you different from anyone else? Even… — God Copy Share Image
“Plus, dreams don't have to be logical, do they? Dreams are poems from the subconscious.” — Stephen King Copy Share Image
happiness makes us older, less romantic, less in need of dreams. Discontent, not happiness, is the food of youth and poetry. — Nan Fairbrother Copy Share Image
I write poetry. It comes naturally to me, but from a technical point of view it forces me to pay close attention… — Rita Mae Brown Copy Share Image
I want a bedroom near the sky, an astrologer's cave Where I can fashion eclogues that are chaste and grave. — John Ashbery Copy Share Image
Well I guess the plan was to write poetry and publish books and make a living from writing poetry. That was a… — Robert Adamson Copy Share Image
