Being deeply aware of fragility and ecstasy seems to me an essential part of being alive and living fully - and there's… — Alex Lemon Copy Share Image
That sense of mystery, but also of revelation, is what I turn to poems for. They're able to embody experience. We need… — Kevin Young Copy Share Image
“Has it ever occurred to you,’ he said, ‘that the whole history of English poetry has been determined by the fact that… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
And the night shall be filled with music, And the cares, that infest the day, Shall fold their tents like the Arabs,… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
“You're a caring, thoughtful, considerate human being. Maybe that is a curse in this cold world we live in. You have the… — Louis Sachar Copy Share Image
Translation makes me look at how a poem is put together in a different way, without the personal investment of the poem… — Marilyn Hacker Copy Share Image
“To me, the greatest pleasure of writing is not what it's about, but the music the words make.” — Truman Capote Copy Share Image
Defeat furnishes good material to the poets and the artists, but none of us care to have the glory of the conquered… — Susan Glaspell Copy Share Image
“Artists are makers, not just mouthers of slippery discourse. Language, the poets' medium, should not be privileged over the protean materials of… — Camile Pagli Copy Share Image
“Someday I will stop being young and wanting stupid tattoos. There are 7 people in my house. We each have different genders.… — Clementine von Radics Copy Share Image
All kids draw and write poetry and everything, and some of us last until we're about eighteen, but most drop off at… — John Lennon Copy Share Image
“The result was a sort of condensed literature, an essence of nutriment, a sublimate of art. It was a device which Mallarmé… — K.J. Huysmans Copy Share Image
“Now listen to me, please: On a winter day, when you were a lycée student, it was snowing, and you were lost… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
I loved a woman whose beauty Like the moon moved all the humming heavens to music till the stars with their tiny… — Peter Meinke Copy Share Image
“Edin Viso's poetry and prose bear the obvious marks of dark drama-of a soul variously splayed apart and cinched back together...This is… — Stephen T. Berg Copy Share Image
Poetry is the journal of the sea animal living on land, wanting to fly in the air. Poetry is a search for… — Carl Sandburg Copy Share Image
It's poetry to watch the game when the game is left alone, when there's not a bunch of flags on the ground. — Ray Lewis Copy Share Image
“(Poem on anorexic): The only way to escape the history of styles is not to have a body.” — Frank Bidart Copy Share Image
Yet that man is happy and poets sing of him who conquers with hand and swift foot and strength. — Pindar Copy Share Image
“Feelings and emotion ran through my veins like a hurricane. And that's when everything began to look like poetry. —You look like… — Altruistic Copy Share Image
“Note the lessons a broken heart has taught you but don't ever alter the love you can give. Don't let a broken… — Aline Alzime Copy Share Image
Perfect purity is possible if you turn your life into a line of poetry written with a splash of blood. — Yukio Mishima Copy Share Image
“Intellectual freedom depends upon material things. Poetry depends upon intellectual freedom.” — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
In all the twelve years I was at school no one ever succeeded in making me write a Latin verse or learn… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
“Your job is to abide in my pasture Eating sweet grass and drinking pure water, And sharing both with others— That is… — Jessica Coupe Copy Share Image
Alex loved books. He was the one who first introduced me to poetry. That's another reason I can't read anymore. — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
Sir, I admit your general rule, That every poet is a fool, But you yourself may serve to show it, That every… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
“I want to read every book that’s written hear every song that was sung I want to gaze at every cloud and… — Sanober Khan Copy Share Image
Art is a jealous mistress, and if a man has a genius for painting, poetry, music, architecture or philosophy, he makes a… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“We flatter those we scarcely know, We please the fleeting guest; And deal full many a thoughtless blow, To those who love… — Ella Wheeler Wilcox Copy Share Image
“she slammed the door and was gone. I looked at the closed door and at the doorknob and strangely I didn't feel… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
Poetry, from describing external events objectively, is becoming subjectified into a poetry of personal conscious expression. — Julian Jaynes Copy Share Image
There are two kinds of poets: those who feel and those who express themselves. The former are happier. — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
Poetry and I fit together. I can't imagine being without it... It is food and drink, it is all seasons, it is… — Lee Bennett Hopkins Copy Share Image
“This is partly because few teenagers are instinctively good poets. It’s about as common as cats being instinctively friendly.” — Kevin DeYoung Copy Share Image
“Exhaust the little moment. Soon it dies. And be it gash or gold it will not come Again in this identical disguise.” — Gwendolyn Brooks Copy Share Image
Reading poetry and reading the great works of the canon that we were reading in the '60s and the '70s and '80s… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
For if anything is capable of making a poet of a literary man, it is my hometown love of the human, the… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
In jazz, as in poetry, there is always that play between what’s regular and what’s wild. That has always appealed to me. — Robert Pinsky Copy Share Image
I'm not literary, and I'm not academic, and I don't think like a poet, so my stuff will never be like that. — Tanya Saracho Copy Share Image
