“They're just people that write poems that get published and anthologized all over the place but they're not poets.” — J.D. Salinger Copy Share Image
“Dismantle the sun, pour away the ocean and sweep up the woods: For nothing now can ever come to any good…” The… — Lori Ryan Copy Share Image
It is very difficult to pass from pleasure to work. Accordingly more poems have been swallowed up by sorrow than ever happiness… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
I was so used to doing art that my fingers were like albino spiders. So it was just natural for me to… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
“Consider, O Lord, how You sit atop the sky; like a man in a glass bottom boat. Consider sky elsewhere; worn thin… — Cecilia Llompart Copy Share Image
I had hoped to be a poet, and for a long time I tried to write poetry. My first published pieces were… — Norman Lock Copy Share Image
I wrote things for the school's newspaper, and - like all teenagers - I dabbled in poetry. — Stephen Colbert Copy Share Image
A novel is a work of poetry. In order to write it, one must have tranquility of spirit and of impression. — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
“The hallmarks of the noir style are fear, guilt and loneliness, breakdown and despair, sexual obsession and social corruption, a sense that… — Francis M. Nevins Copy Share Image
“…I return to visit my love, quietly I want the coldness of my heart to be taken away I yearn for tenderness… — Angkarn Chanthathip Copy Share Image
“Etched In Bone- At night I engrave my bones with poems. Scratching. Carving. Etching. During the day I feel every notch and… — Keelie Breanna Copy Share Image
“I already began to inspire the men with love. My breast began to take its right form, and such a breast! white,… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
“I, too, dislike it: there are things that are important beyond all this fiddle. Reading it, however, with a perfect contempt for… — Marianne Moore Copy Share Image
We may feel bitterly how little our poems can do in the face of seemingly out-of-control technological power and seemingly limitless corporate… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
I haven't been reading anything on tour so far, I haven't had a minute. Any moment that I've had recently on the… — Carla Azar Copy Share Image
A song doesn't happen as a whole verse; it happens linearly, line by line, almost word by word, phrase by phrase. And… — Robert Hunter Copy Share Image
My first collection of poems was published by Bloodaxe Books, which was then a very new imprint. — Helen Dunmore Copy Share Image
I'm a firm believer in the idea that theater excels over film and TV in its ability to let people play with… — Julie Taymor Copy Share Image
“Technology is grey. More technology, less colors. We're building a world with colors only in poems.” — Magdalena Ciocan Copy Share Image
Such were the notes thy once loved poet sung, Till death untimely stopped his tuneful tongue — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
The spark of true poetry flashes when ideas are juxtaposed that no one has yet thought of bringing together. — J. M. Coetzee Copy Share Image
This day's nothingness as if from spite became a flame and scorched the lips of children and poets. — Adam Zagajewski Copy Share Image
For me, poetry is the music of being human. And also a time machine by which we can travel to who we… — Carol Ann Duffy Copy Share Image
Poets, I think, are born. You can't teach it. It's genetic - the circumstances of how you were raised... and there's probably… — Rodney Crowell Copy Share Image
Poets and writers who are in love with the superlative all want to do more than they can. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“Every desire is an end and every end is a desire then the end of the world is a desire of the… — Sun Ra Copy Share Image
“Darkling I listen; and, for many a time I have been half in love with easeful Death...” — John Keats Copy Share Image
Why is it that all men who are outstanding in philosophy, poetry or the arts are melancholic? — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Poetry is the most concentrated form of literature; it is the most emotionalized and powerful way in which thought can be presented. — Amy Lowell Copy Share Image
“Forever, you’ll be treasured and remembered. For deeds paint the journey, And journey frames the life!” — Preethi Saravanakumar Copy Share Image
“Is her name nightmare, some mothball ambition slammed into hard shoes suspended from cain't nobody do me like shame having sex with… — Cathleen Margaret Copy Share Image
“All those other girls are cake...I'm Crème brûlée...Tiramisu, if you will. Just a few notches above.” — Brandi L. Bates Copy Share Image
I know I'm not a wordsmith. And I don't write poetry. Sometimes I think I should, because it's really helpful. But I… — Candace Bushnell Copy Share Image
It was said of Euripides, that every verse was a precept; and it may be said of Shakespeare, that from his works… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
All good poetry is forged slowly and patiently, link by link, with sweat and blood and tears. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
He must be theory-mad beyond redemption who ... shall ... persist in attempting to reconcile the obstinate oils and waters of Poetry and Truth. — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
Sure there are poets which did never dream Upon Parnassus, nor did taste the stream Of Helicon; we therefore may suppose Those… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Instead of trying to come up and pontificate on what literature is, you need to talk with children, to teachers, and make… — Rita Dove Copy Share Image
Etel's poetry really changed everything. Her poems are a way to connect with my consciousness and emotions, there's a romance to them,… — Michele Lamy Copy Share Image
Lord, let me write, leave me autistic and typing until my windows bust into a thousand silver doves and I know the… — Buddy Wakefield Copy Share Image
