“The human spirit is poetry enough and I understand that, but I write to make it transparent to a world in love… — Christopher Poindexter Copy Share Image
“The head's a cloud anchor that the feet must follow. Travel light, he said, or don't travel at all.” — Jim Harrison Copy Share Image
Once every five hundred years or so, a summary statement about poetry comes along that we can't imagine ourselves living without — A. R. Ammons Copy Share Image
“Every move, every sigh, every moan; everything you do for me is poetry from your soul to mine. You are my favorite… — Kirk Diedrich Copy Share Image
I have always believed that poems beg to be read aloud, even if the reader is in a world all her own. — J. Patrick Lewis Copy Share Image
Wanderer, there is no road, the road is made by walking. The poem tells me it’s no big deal that I’m not… — Helen Oyeyemi Copy Share Image
“...that imperial guard which poets and humanists mount in relay around any great memory.” — Marguerite Yourcenar Copy Share Image
But you, oh gardener, poet that you be / Though unaware, now use your seeds like words / And make them lilt… — Vita Sackville-West Copy Share Image
During my twenties and thirties, my interest in the political poem increased as my apparent access to it declined. I sensed resistances… — Eavan Boland Copy Share Image
I don't now whether I am a poet or not, but I'm quite sure that I write with the transparency of the… — Jean-Paul Malfatti Copy Share Image
Fiction is supposed to be immersive and supposed to be entertaining and narrative, so structures have to be buried a little bit.… — Eleanor Catton Copy Share Image
“O, if I say, you look upon this verse, When I perhaps compounded am with clay, Do not so much as my… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
“The serious poet should seek to explore the 'sources' of these global nightmares-and to explore them not just in poetry, but in… — John Berryman Copy Share Image
“I could crawl inside the lyrics and know each note intimately. They would claw at my soul, until I could no longer… — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
The trouble with poetry is it's often written to the sound of a drum only the poet may hear; nonetheless, blessed are… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
“I'm sorry,' I said. 'I'm sorry for everything. For the past and the future.' An apology, said while in dull pain, made… — Matt Haig Copy Share Image
I write some country music. There's a song called 'I Hope You Dance.' Incredible. I was going to write that poem; somebody… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
That young man with the long, auburn hair and the impudent face - that young man was not really a poet; but… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“You who are sitting before me have the power to change my consciousness into painting, poem, melody or anything else!” — Suman Pokhrel Copy Share Image
Poetry is the silence and speech between a wet struggling root of a flower and a sunlit blossom of that flower. — Carl Sandburg Copy Share Image
“Change, change, change it all Fuck the egg, it'll crack And they point and condemn Those these and them Digiting a shower… — Kat Clark Copy Share Image
Solitude gives birth to the original in us, to beauty unfamiliar and perilous - to poetry. But also, it gives birth to… — Thomas Mann Copy Share Image
“Like the bioluminescent creatures of the deep sea produce their own light I also have the ability to create my own light… — Rhys Blanco Copy Share Image
Each genre exerts a considerable spell, as a kind of "form" to be filled, as a Shakespearean sonnet is filled. — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
My passion is bringing storylines around and constructing a full body of work rather than just a 16-bar verse. — Kendrick Lamar Copy Share Image
“I do not know which to prefer,/ The beauty of inflections/ Or the beauty of innuendos, / The blackbird whistling/Or jus after.” — John Green Copy Share Image
“I didn't dare look at Conrad. I was afraid my love for him and my need for him to say yes would… — Jenny Han Copy Share Image
“Till the time you realize your conquest you already reach that stage when you start losing the grip.” — Neel Preet Copy Share Image
Poets know how useful passion is for publication. Nowadays a broken heart will run to many editions. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Literary poetry in a painter is something special, and is neither illustration nor the translation of writing by form. — Paul Gauguin Copy Share Image
I don't think the nature of my poetry is satirical or even ironic, I think it's essentially lyrical but again I don't… — Kenneth Koch Copy Share Image
“The lives and deaths of characters in stories and poems, however tragic, help us to learn about the world and - if… — Nicola Morgan Copy Share Image
One of the most intuitive nature writers of our recently past century, Peter Matthiessen, lends a poets voice to the desperate effort… — Ron Franscell Copy Share Image
“Being a star is depressing. It twinkles but is distant and cold. I'd rather be the moon, Shine in your glory and… — Avinash Matta Copy Share Image
Even though poetry was written for the 'minds ear' as well as the physical ear, the minds ear can be trained only… — Yvor Winters Copy Share Image
Because I was writing verse, my instructor suggested I study Shakespeare. The Shakespeare teacher insisted you couldn't understand the text without seeing… — Jamey Sheridan Copy Share Image
As an actor, I come to set, and I have already broken the character down by writing a poem about the character.… — Omari Hardwick Copy Share Image
“Poetry is simple when you write what you see and feel, searching for the words only makes it difficult” — Rayvon L. Browne Copy Share Image
His writer's words poured over her like poetry, and she couldn't find a single wisecrack to put up between them. — Susan Elizabeth Phillips Copy Share Image
Baudelaire's L'Héautontimorouménos was long seen to be a sexual sadomasochistic poem, it is now generally accepted that the poem is about writing… — Stephen Dobyns Copy Share Image
