I wouldn't be happy about being considered a love poet or an environmental - I don't want any of those tags. — W. S. Merwin Copy Share Image
“My mind feels in philosophical form. My heart thinks in poetic verse. My soul loses everything in translation.” — Cody Edward Lee Miller Copy Share Image
Every individual ought to know at least one poet from cover to cover: if not as a guide through the world, then… — Joseph Brodsky Copy Share Image
Someone who's awake in the middle of the night is a soul consciousness when everyone else is asleep, and that creates a… — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
“Such perfect incompleteness, suggestion and ambiguity are among the most valuable devices of the skilled poet, means by which the poem opens… — John Ciardi Copy Share Image
If you deconstruct Greece, you will in the end see an olive tree, a grapevine, and a boat remain. That is, with… — Odysseas Elytis Copy Share Image
I have never separated the writing of poetry from prayer. I have grown up believing it is a vocation, a religious vocation. — Derek Walcott Copy Share Image
I started writing when I was in school. I wrote essays and in my teen years I used to write sorrowful sad… — Sudha Murty Copy Share Image
“Poor Cecil, consumed by a grande passion, only to be told to compress his love manifesto into a haiku. “I won’t try… — Franny Billingsley Copy Share Image
Don’t you love quotations? I am immensely fond of them; a certain proof of erudition… [I]f you should happen to write an… — Frances Brooke Copy Share Image
“△ Remembrance of the Whole A Poem by Alexander Martini To remember is not to retrieve facts. It is to reawaken the… — Alexander Martini Copy Share Image
Words, sentences, ideas, no matter how subtle or ingenious, the maddest flights of poetry, the most profound dreams, the most hallucinating visions,… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
“The Fourth Sign of The Zodiac (Part 3) by Mary Oliver I know, you never intended to be in this world. But… — Mary Oliver Copy Share Image
“The Abundant Chamber by Stewart Stafford Divest yourself of sword and coin, And burn all your illusions and airs, Let the cave… — Stewart Stafford Copy Share Image
“ The Song of Wandering Aengus I went out to the hazel wood, Because a fire was in my head, And cut… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“She has been better educated than her sister, and has a more receptive mind. It seems as though someone had sown in… — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
I meet kids now who become novelists, poets, write for the theater and movies, who were simply inspired by what they saw… — Pat Conroy Copy Share Image
The poet is someone, I think, who's interested in registering experience immediately or giving you the sense of immediacy and directness. — Amiri Baraka Copy Share Image
“If you find yourself still clinging to every feeling you thought was lost forever... Maybe, just maybe, it's the only place you… — Alfa H Copy Share Image
They who in folly or mere greed Enslaved religion, markets, laws, Borrow our language now and bid Us to speak up in… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“O wayfarer! Yearn finds quench, not in meadows, seashores or altitude of mountain peaks; but when being and dance are one.” — Shah Asad Rizvi Copy Share Image
“Dreams. They start in your beautiful mind. Think of beautiful things and it will manifest into actions because your body will listen… — Happy Positivity Copy Share Image
When I turned 18, my mom, my nana and I all went and had tattoos of our favorite Bible verses put on… — Jordin Sparks Copy Share Image
“Every time your work is read, you die several deaths for every word, and poetry is like being flayed alive.” — Mary Stewart Copy Share Image
I will always try to turn sights and sounds into words. I will always try to shape words into my singing poems. — Arnold Adoff Copy Share Image
When you speak a new language you must see if you can translate all of the poetry of your old language into… — Dana Scott Copy Share Image
I think I view myself primarily as a fiction writer. Poetry is more of a "hobby," a time of rest from the… — Yuriy Tarnawsky Copy Share Image
“It is time I came back to my real life After this voyage to an island with no name, Where I lay… — May Sarton Copy Share Image
“Women who have been disappeared by violence are howling. The voices of disappeared women are echoing. I sing with these voices.” — Kim Hyesoon Copy Share Image
“And in Life's noisiest hour, There whispers still the ceaseless Love of Thee, The heart's Self-solace and soliloquy.” — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
I'm basically a poetry scholar, and I'm happier here in my studio with my row of Chinese dictionaries than I am, frankly,… — Sam Hamill Copy Share Image
“Times change, as do our wills, What we are - is ever changing; All the world is made of change, And forever… — Luís Vaz de Camões Copy Share Image
I guess that would have been 1968. I was a freshman in college and I wasn't writing good poems, but I was… — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
The life is like a image in mirror. it is so beautiful, so clear but so sensitive, it break into many parts… — Deepak Copy Share Image
I never really liked poetry readings; I liked to read poetry by myself, but I liked singing, chanting my lyrics to this… — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
In the United States, in poetry workshops, it's now quite a thing to make graduate students learn poems by heart. — Seamus Heaney Copy Share Image
“we were all born to the same world but with much greater circumstance but with these two hands and what I have… — K.R. Albers Copy Share Image
“...you called me poet-priest - I am. ...devoted to my art, faithful to you...or, is the other way around?...” — John Geddes Copy Share Image
The idea that language can be recombined to create new forms, new things, is of course very old in poetry. — Michael Helm Copy Share Image
“You are the poem I never knew how to write and this life is the story I have always wanted to tell.” — Tyler Knott Gregson Copy Share Image
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