“To toil, to think, to long, to grieve,— Is such my future fate? The morn was dreary, must the eve Be also… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
“When put to the best use, poetry has not only the power to stir one’s emotions and thoughts, but also the soul… — Alok Mishra Copy Share Image
“I started this chapter with some lines from T. S. Eliot’s poem “East Coker” that I’ve always loved:” — Hillary Rodham Clinton Copy Share Image
The poets are almost always wrong about the facts. That's because they're not interested in the facts, only the truth. — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
Straight photography, following the medium, is intoxicating - trying to wrestle it into the form of a poem. — Thomas Roma Copy Share Image
Sometimes a poem should just be about a girl jumping rope. It doesn't have to be something that is imbued with more… — Clint Smith Copy Share Image
“There is a time when the soul closes its eyes and kneels before its own divinity; and a time when it rises… — Heather K. O'Hara Copy Share Image
“I'm always crazy around you Rose. Here, I'm going to write an impromptu poem for you. 'Rose is in red But never… — Adrian Ivashkov Copy Share Image
“But what distressed him greatly was not having another hermit there to confess him and to receive consolation from; and so he… — Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra Copy Share Image
Twitter -Anette:I just need someone that understands. But no one understands. Zediam:Maybe your teddy? Anette:100% cotton Zediam:to absorb all your problems... Anette:Boneless… — Anette Sandberg Copy Share Image
“I close my eyes Only for a moment, then the moment's gone All my dreams Pass before my eyes, a curiosity... Same… — Kansas Copy Share Image
“to know a country takes all we know of love: some days better than others, but never easy to keep our promise… — Richard Blanco Copy Share Image
Like a pianist runs her fingers over the keys, I'll search my mind for what to say. Now, the poem may want… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
And we were Banksy on an overpass in New Orleans spray-painting porch lights on the hurricane. We were welcome mats for the… — Andrea Gibson Copy Share Image
“I often repeat repeat myself, I often repeat repeat. I don't don't know why know why, I simply know that I I… — Jack Prelutsky Copy Share Image
I've been trying to write for as long as I can remember. But those first fifteen years didn't produce much of great… — Kingsley Amis Copy Share Image
When the theater gates open, a mob pours inside, and it is the poet's task to turn it into an audience. — Franz Grillparzer Copy Share Image
Poetry is not only a set of words which are chosen to relate to each other; it is something which goes much… — Tahar Ben Jelloun Copy Share Image
Living in a state of psychic unrest, in a Borderland, is what makes poets write and artists create. — Gloria E. Anzaldúa Copy Share Image
I may as well tell you, here and now, that if you are going about the place thinking things pretty, you will… — P. G. Wodehouse Copy Share Image
'The Narrow Road to the Deep North' is one of the most famous books of all Japanese literature, written by the great… — Richard Flanagan Copy Share Image
“There are days when my imagination in my enemy. It likes to keep me company in my darkest of times and romanticizes… — Alfa H Copy Share Image
“Forge your iron; shape it by force, not into a flower you already know but into what can also be a flower… — João Cabral de Melo Neto Copy Share Image
“There are dewdrops on the nightingale's wings, bright beads of moon distilled by hope. On the marble fountain is the kiss of… — Federico García Lorca Copy Share Image
“Poetry is like...first all you have is... A line weaving through your mind Like the tail of a child's kite Unfettered by… — Vaddey Ratner Copy Share Image
Most poets are elitist dregs more concerned with proving their skill with a dictionary than communicating ideas with impact. — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
“Why can’t I quiet the thoughts running through my head? Put down the pen and climb snugly into bed?” — Amanda Leigh Copy Share Image
There are certain things in which mediocrity is not to be endured, such as poetry, music, painting, public speaking. — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
Mephostopheles is the name of a male gigolo I knew. When he's reaching up to grab me, I suppose it's an erotic… — Thom Yorke Copy Share Image
As for political poetry, as it's usually defined, it seems there's very little good political poetry. — Kenneth Koch Copy Share Image
The aim of the poet, or other artist, is first to make something; and it's impossible to make something out of words… — James Schuyler Copy Share Image
“I have found that sitting in a place where you have never sat before can be inspiring - I wrote my very… — Dodie Smith Copy Share Image
There are three good things in this world. One is to read poetry, another is to write poetry, and the best of… — Rupert Brooke Copy Share Image
“Every particle of dust on a patch of earth Was a sun-cheek or brow of the morning star; Shake the dust off… — Omar Khayyam Copy Share Image
I was apprehensive. I feared every time I talked about poetry, it would be filtered through the lens of race, sex, and… — Rita Dove Copy Share Image
“Poetry ought to be a by-product of living, and you can't have a by-product unless you've got a product first .” — Wallace Stegner Copy Share Image
“The poet William Butler Yeats said, “We taste and feel and see the truth. We do not reason ourselves into it.” — Dawson Church Copy Share Image
Take time for good books; time to absorb the thoughts of poets and philosophers, seers and prophets. — Wilferd Peterson Copy Share Image
The poet uses the results of science and philosophy, and generalizes their widest deductions. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Arthur Rimbaud was a disreputable, mean, ruthless, perverse, hateful wretch. He was also one of the greatest poets who ever lived. — Raymond Sokolov Copy Share Image
