But I am not political in the current events sense, and I have never wanted anyone to read my poetry that way. — Diane Wakoski Copy Share Image
I'd say people do need some help with poetry because I think poetry just helps takes us to places that Americans aren't… — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
one reason why I like writing poetry - you can say so many things in it that are true in poetry but… — Lucy Maud Montgomery Copy Share Image
I don't like a kind of workshop that is about editing--I don't want to sit there and be an editor. I don't… — Natasha Trethewey Copy Share Image
“Seseorang memberiku gaun puisi. "Pakailah,"katanya."Kau tak kan jenuh lagi." Tetiba cuaca mesra, matari biru, aku menapak di atas laut.” — Helvy Tiana Rosa Copy Share Image
I was around in 1970, and now I am around in 2015 ... there is no poetry and very little romance in… — Don McLean Copy Share Image
There is no peace to be taken With poets who are young, For they worry about the wars to be fought and… — Joyce Kilmer Copy Share Image
A true poet does not bother to be poetical. Nor does a nursery gardener scent his roses. — Jean Cocteau Copy Share Image
Poetry is not a silent art. The poem must perform, unaided, in its reader's head. Educated readers give themselves a good performance.… — Christopher Logue Copy Share Image
“this is not a Quote it's a poem. "A Thousand Kisses Deep" The ponies run, the girls are young, The odds are… — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
Children should Transcribe favourite Passages. A certain sense of possession and delight may be added to this exercise if children are allowed… — Charlotte Mason Copy Share Image
A glance at the history of European poetry is enough to inform us that rhyme itself is not indispensable. Latin poetry in… — James Fenton Copy Share Image
It is a function of creative men to perceive the relations between thoughts, or things, or forms of expression that may seem… — William Plomer Copy Share Image
“Expressions used almost exclusively in poetry ... tend to be concentrated in the oldest biblical texts. Generally, it may be said that… — Angel Sáenz-Badillos Copy Share Image
“Greedy lovely beast who consumed my heart, devoured my soul, and left me with a madness; a wicked devil’s tongue. Now I… — Melody Lee Copy Share Image
“To what temptations, to what extremities does lucidity lead! Shall we desert it now to take refuge in unconsciousness? Anyone can escape… — Emil Cioran Copy Share Image
And Robert Lowell, of course - in his poems, we're not located in his actual life. We're located more in the externals,… — Mark Strand Copy Share Image
Respect the language in which you write. Be kind, develop good vocabulary, and be creative in writing beautiful sentences. Your prose should… — Ruskin Bond Copy Share Image
I spent years of being a ghost / Unsure of where home is anymore / I tell them I feel nothing /… — Needa Muy Copy Share Image
Poetry is certainly something more than good sense, but it must be good sense, at all events, just as a palace is… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
The greatest poem ever known Is one all poets have outgrown: The poetry, innate, untold, Of being only four years old. — Christopher Morley Copy Share Image
I am what libraries and librarians have made me, with little assistance from a professor of Greek and poets — Heraclitus Copy Share Image
What a writer can do, what a fiction writer or a poet or an essay writer can do is re-engage people with… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
“She bid him farewell, And scrutinized his silhouette, That slowly faded in the shadows. She whispered, "Au-revoir" To the nocturnal mist.” — Ruqayya Shaheed Khan Copy Share Image
“Poetry is a distinct faculty, - it won't come when called, - you may as well whistle for a wind.” — George Gordon Byron Copy Share Image
“We survive. We're Irish. We have the souls of poets. We love our misery, we delight in the beauty of strange places… — Eilis Flynn Copy Share Image
Poetry is of so subtle a spirit, that in the pouring out of one language into another it will evaporate. — John Denham Copy Share Image
I am composed of contradictions, which is why poetry is a better form for me than philosophy — Czeslaw Milosz Copy Share Image
“Now, there's a twisty summer storm outside, and I desire nothing but this storm to come. The calm voice on the TV… — Ada Limon Copy Share Image
“If we all die and become stars then I must believe that our souls live in the stars. Now I know why… — Nicola An Copy Share Image
It is the essence of poetry to spring, like the rainbow daughter of Wonder, from the invisible, to abolish the past, and… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
A poem is an invocation, rebellious return to the blessedness of beginning again, wandering free in pure process of forgetting and finding. — Susan Howe Copy Share Image
“This poem serves to remind That food, it tends to spoil Leave it in your memory Not in the fridge, in foil.” — Madeleine Blais Copy Share Image
To starve a child of the spell of the story, of the canter of the poem, oral or written, is a kind… — George Steiner Copy Share Image
“How they had dreamed together, he and she... how they had planned, and laughed, and loved. They had lived for a while… — Elizabeth von Arnim Copy Share Image
For poetry, more than any other art, except music, has a compelling hold upon the spiritual side of life. — Lizette Woodworth Reese Copy Share Image
I used to buy scented poetry books on tour and read aloud to the band. Not what you'd expect, huh? — Suzi Quatro Copy Share Image
“There is no human society, however isolated, that has not developed and employed poetry as a cultural practice.” — Dana Gioia Copy Share Image
Poetry is what I've done my whole life. And every important thing in my life had found itself into poems. — Donald Hall Copy Share Image
Not the poem which we have read , but that to which we return , with the greatest pleasure, possesses the genuine… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
