I am not at all clear what free verse is anymore. That's one of the things you learn not to know. — Howard Nemerov Copy Share Image
In the end, time is the best ally of poets. It clarifies their works and makes them accessible to an ever widening… — Mieczyslaw Jastrun Copy Share Image
“A butterfly is a travelling flower, turning the air into a garden and carrying the poetry of spring on wings painted by… — Bhuwan Thapaliya Copy Share Image
You don't go after poetry, you take what comes. Maybe the gods do it through me but I certainly do a hell… — Phyllis Gotlieb Copy Share Image
He was my North, my South, my East and West, My working week and my Sunday rest, My noon, my midnight, my… — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
Homer must have felt this pressure to come up with an epic poem that would sound totally new to an audience that… — Anne Carson Copy Share Image
When it comes to atoms, language can be used only as in poetry. The poet, too, is not nearly so concerned with… — Niels Bohr Copy Share Image
“Through these uncharted roads, I hope to escape my recollections; I am so tired of seeing signboards, and following the same directions.” — Akash Mandal Copy Share Image
“I am moved by fancies that are curled Around these images, and cling: The notion of some infinitely gentle Infinitely suffering thing.… — T.S. Eliot Copy Share Image
“What needs my Shakespeare for his honoured bones, The labor of an age in pilèd stones, Or that his hallowed relics should… — John Milton Copy Share Image
I am not concerned with Poetry. My subject is War, and the pity of War. The Poetry is in the pity. Yet… — Wilfred Owen Copy Share Image
“We pull our boots on with both hands but we can't punch ourselves awake and all I can do is stand on… — Richard Siken Copy Share Image
I'm working on poems about work, I guess. Or related to work. Which sounds dull as drywall but I'm having great fun… — Randall Mann Copy Share Image
There learned arts do flourish in great honour And poets's wits are had in peerless price; Religion hath lay power, to rest… — Edmund Spenser Copy Share Image
“Hometown Human Sonnet Everybody loves Rumi, I learnt his tongue, So I could pick up where he left off. Better than basking… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
I thank whatever gods may be for my undefeatable soul. In the fell grip of circumstance I have not grimaced nor cried… — Samuel Kermis Copy Share Image
“L.S. Jones @lovenutumoncho 15h "Poetry is the triumphant spirit demonstrating it's grace in spite it's painful journey to expression!" LSJONES” — L.S. Jones Copy Share Image
For me, a paragraph in a novel is a bit like a line in a poem. It has its own shape, its… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
The morning wind forever blows, the poem of creation is uninterrupted; but few are the ears to hear it. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
By making us stop for a moment, poetry gives us an opportunity to think about ourselves as human beings on this planet… — Rita Dove Copy Share Image
“Suddenly, everything was beautiful. The way she viewed the world was nothing more but a reflection of herself.” — robert m drake Copy Share Image
All literature up to today is sexist. The Muses never sang to the poets about liberated women. It's the same old chanson… — Allan Bloom Copy Share Image
I always say that a poet loves the world, and the prose writer needs to create an alternative world. — Mary Karr Copy Share Image
“The fear of loving a dog, is knowing one day they’ll be gone and you could never find eyes that express all… — robert m drake Copy Share Image
“Good, he did not have enough imagination to become a mathematician. [Upon hearing that one of his students had dropped out to… — David Hilbert Copy Share Image
“Quit bothering with angels, I say. They’re no good for Indians. Remember what happened last time some white god came floating across… — Natalie Díaz Copy Share Image
“With poetry, rules are meant to be broken. And that's the beauty of poetry; it's rebellious, like me.” — Melody Lee Copy Share Image
Poetry is much more important than the truth, and, if you don't believe that, try using the two methods to get laid. — Mark Forsyth Copy Share Image
“peace was never at the forefront of my mind. a war waged inside of me, but i began to take joy in… — Mecca-Amirah Jackson Copy Share Image
Solitude is very important in my work as a mode of inspiration, but isolation is not good in this respect. I am… — Wislawa Szymborska Copy Share Image
“We are a handful of dust in God’s image Before we return again to dusty grave Life isn’t a war, it’s a… — Justin Wetch Copy Share Image
“My head bows before the thing you mention. But my heart doesn't speak that language. - The Epic of Sheik Bedreddin , Verse 9.” — Nâzım Hikmet Copy Share Image
If I don't take the risk, I'll wind up with a bloodless poem. I have to be out there on the edge. — Ted Kooser Copy Share Image
I am interested in the movement of my own thoughts and in trying make the poems feel more accurate to experience, including… — Rachel Zucker Copy Share Image
“you will think your parents are shatterproof until one day you find out they aren't. - what it really means to lose… — Amanda Lovelace Copy Share Image
You do not become a critic until it has been completely established to your own satisfaction that you cannot be a poet. — Theophile Gautier Copy Share Image
“How can I be the bigger person When the force you pitched me against Was a trainwreck?” — Amber Campbell Copy Share Image
Poetry, mythology, and religion represent the world as man would like to have it, while science represents the world as he gradually… — Joseph Wood Krutch Copy Share Image
“If I had known his favorite game was mental twister, I would have suggested a movie over game night.” — Alfa H Copy Share Image
“If your everyday life seems poor, don't blame it; blame yourself; admit to yourself that you are not enough of a poet… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
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