“Nothing fills the world quite as poetry does. A poet need not dwell on the pagecount of his life.” — D.A. Botta Copy Share Image
“Never cry because you have mountains of problem in your hands to solve. Always smile because each problems will someday resolve.” — Santosh Kalwar Copy Share Image
That's how I always try to start my thoughts. I write them down first, eventually it turns into a poem, and if… — Benjamin Clementine Copy Share Image
As a poet and as a mathematician, he would reason well; as a mere mathematician, he could not have reasoned at all,… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
Trusty, dusky, vivid, true, With eyes of gold and bramble-dew, Steel-true and blade-straight, The great artificer made my mate. — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
If we were in the habit of reading poets their obscurity would not matter; and, once we are out of the habit,… — Randall Jarrell Copy Share Image
“Who can guess the impatience of stone to be ground down, to be a part of something livelier?” — Mary Oliver Copy Share Image
It is time to get drunk! So as not to be the martyred slaves of Time, get drunk; get drunk without stopping!… — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
“I will find you another long-forgotten Queen Mab poem in no time. Depend on it. I refuse to let Cody or anyone… — Martin Millar Copy Share Image
Nas' Illmatic blew my mind when I first heard it. The poetry was done on such a high level that in a… — Erik Parker Copy Share Image
The story of scientific discovery has its own epic unity-a unity of purpose and endeavour-the single torch passing from hand to hand… — Alfred Noyes Copy Share Image
You might learn as much about how to write by reading Shakespeare, Tolstoy, Wallace Stevens, Raymond Chandler, Saul Bellow, Paul Muldoon or… — David Denby Copy Share Image
“Basil my dear boy puts everything that is charming in him into his work. The consequence is that he has nothing left… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
How does a poet teach himself or herself? I think chiefly by imitation, chiefly by practising it as a deliberate technical exercise… — Derek Walcott Copy Share Image
“La Nebuleuse is a poem of lovely & deep perspective, where, symboloized by artless beings, are seen the successive generations of men… — Remy de Gourmont Copy Share Image
“ Happiness So early it's still almost dark out. I'm near the window with coffee, and the usual early morning stuff that… — Raymond Carver Copy Share Image
It is the misfortune of poetry, to be seldom safely enjoyed by those who enjoy it completely. — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“in a split second of letting down my guard and opening up my soul, you corrupted it with this magnificent disease called… — Yefon Isabelle Copy Share Image
Generally speaking, rhyme is the marker for the end of a line. The first rhyme-word is like a challenge thrown down, which… — James Fenton Copy Share Image
Scientific understanding is often beautiful, a profoundly aesthetic experience which gives pleasure not unlike the reading of a great poem. — Paul Nurse Copy Share Image
The best poem is that whose worked-upon unmagical passages come closest, in texture and intensity, to those moments of magical accident. — Dylan Thomas Copy Share Image
“Ever word collector sure know that feeling, whether you've been catching songs or poems or stories. You've been caught in the magic."… — Natalie Lloyd Copy Share Image
“He remembers which sister I like least and asks how she is doing. (lines 9-11 of the poem 'Divorce')” — Carrie Etter Copy Share Image
“Poetry...is full of visions pulled more from our hearts than from our minds. Our greatest poems are written in the dust of… — John H Ritter Copy Share Image
“We are the kind of Love Story that keeps souls awake at night and causes hearts to have stage fright.” — Alfa H Copy Share Image
The poet, as a rule, is a half-man - a sissy, not a real person, and he is in no shape to… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
Poets use metaphors and symbolism to construct images. I construct my images in the same way, except that I am using a… — Shirin Neshat Copy Share Image
Every genuine poet is necessarily a Columbus. America existed for centuries before Columbus but it was only Columbus who was able to… — Yevgeny Zamyatin Copy Share Image
“Sometimes,' she said, remembering that morning, 'I write poems that are taller than I am” — Rumer Godden Copy Share Image
Like the minor poet who knows the meanness of his gift, I am doomed to a lifetime of frustration: to be able… — Elizabeth Bear Copy Share Image
“you’ll find the buildings taller, that the halls are full of ghosts but everything still here is what you remember most” — Savannah Brown Copy Share Image
“Byron wrote his shortest and most eloquent poem as a testament to a titled woman who had taken leave of her husband… — William Manchester Copy Share Image
When we first meet what we love, we could become poets for our longing. When we are removed from what we love,… — Martin Prechtel Copy Share Image
“You smug-faced crowds with kindling eye Who cheer when soldier lads march by, Sneak home and pray you'll never know The hell… — Siegfried Sassoon Copy Share Image
The poetry of India can be truly known only through scanning the poetry of all languages. — Gulzar Copy Share Image
“Under a night’s sky Filled with a hundred billion stars Is it so crazy to believe Our paths were destined to cross?” — Justin Wetch Copy Share Image
“That we have ignored the lessons of modern war poetry speaks volumes to the lack of concern for that which we do… — David McDonald Copy Share Image
All kids, when they go to school, are pretty good artists and dancers and singers and poets. All that gets buried, basically… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I have never been in a band. But in my grand day of cabaret at Les Deux Cafes, I was doing this… — Michele Lamy Copy Share Image
You're always believing ahead of your evidence. What was the evidence I could write a poem? I just believed it. The most… — Robert Frost Copy Share Image
