I like to move around in the landscape between poetry and prose, between the lyrical and the narrative. — Rigoberto Gonzalez Copy Share Image
Each delicately and fiercely imaged poem is a tribute to perseverence and survival and a lesson for us all. — Walter Bargen Copy Share Image
“The golden anchor beckons, the blue sail rises Like the wing of a dream unfolding to a new day. Let us depart,… — Delmira Agustini Copy Share Image
“Nurtured by negative circumstances, braiding raging tornadoes in her hair, she held her head high, wearing her weathered poetry with pride.” — Curtis Tyrone Jones Copy Share Image
“...when you're hard and unyielding your words score me with lines - I hate lines - I want curves - curves are… — John Geddes Copy Share Image
For wheresoe'er I turn my ravish'd eyes, Gay gilded scenes and shining prospects rise, Poetic fields encompass me around, And still I… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
I think many people love poetry who don't know they love it. People are sometimes afraid of poetry, or they've been introduced… — Ellen Bass Copy Share Image
“He wasn't like a moth attracted to her flame. No, he was like a vampire, in love with her eternal darkness.” — Melody Lee Copy Share Image
“Let me encourage you to start saying positive things about yourself. Maybe you don’t think you’re the most beautiful person on earth,… — Sadie Robertson Copy Share Image
If I begin a poem, "I am a donkey," reason kicks in and says, "She is taking on the persona of a… — Matthea Harvey Copy Share Image
I don't know if younger poets read a lot of, you know, the poets - the established poets. There was a lot… — Robert Adamson Copy Share Image
If you are a person this world will seem full of persons. When you are the being you will not feel bound.… — Mooji Copy Share Image
“Maria, lonely prostitute on a street of pain, You, at least, hail me and speak to me While a thousand others ignore… — James Kavanaugh Copy Share Image
“And sometimes if I want To imagine I’m a lamb (Or a whole flock Spreading out all over the hillside So I… — Alberto Caeiro Copy Share Image
You cannot call a poem female just because it is written by a woman. Nevertheless, I think attempts to find femininity in… — Kim Hyesoon Copy Share Image
“He lives forever in his words, in his poems, and in his stories. An inspiration to many writers and poets all around… — Avijeet Das Copy Share Image
A tramp, a gentleman, a poet, a dreamer, a lonely fellow, always hopeful of romance and adventure. — Charlie Chaplin Copy Share Image
“Crowded places, I shunned them as noises too rude And fled to the silence of sweet solitude.” — John Clare Copy Share Image
Most poets' revisions are disastrous. They buckle and dent what was originally forged at a red-hot heat. — Michael Longley Copy Share Image
“We let our lives mix with our dreams like two coloured paints, until we didn't know which is what and we didn't… — Atticus poet Copy Share Image
Religious poetry, civic poetry, lyric or dramatic poetry are all categories of man's expression which are valid only if the endorsement of… — Salvatore Quasimodo Copy Share Image
A sound we can not hear, yet within our hearts it's as loud as thunder. It's a word we can not speak,… — Jeffery Carter Copy Share Image
Exercises are like prose, whereas yoga is the poetry of movements. Once you understand the grammar of yoga; you can write your… — Amit Ray Copy Share Image
Teachers should be very careful not to spoil their pupils' taste for poetry for all time by making it a task and… — Ernest Shackleton Copy Share Image
Like all art, poems are only hints and guesses that draw our attention to something larger. — Luci Shaw Copy Share Image
“It is raining. I am tempted to write a poem. But I remember what it said on one rejection slip: After a… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
“The etymologist finds the deadest words to have been once a brilliant picture. Language is fossil poetry.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
There are two classes of poets - the poets by education and practice, these we respect; and poets by nature, these we… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
If our dreams could edit the news (and sometimes our nightmares) these poems are how they'd wake us up to the urgency… — Betsy Sholl Copy Share Image
I don't want to be studied! If I write a poem and smile, that's enough. It gives me the confidence to think… — Tim Key Copy Share Image
To me, poetry is somebody standing up, so to speak, and saying, with as little concealment as possible, what it is for… — Galway Kinnell Copy Share Image
Poetry is the utterance of deep and heart-felt truth - the true poet is very near the oracle. — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Copy Share Image
“The press of my foot to the earth springs a hundred affections, They scorn the best I can do to relate them.” — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
The poet's voice need not merely be the record of man, it can be one of the props, the pillars to help… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
You'll be a poorer person all your life if you don't know some of the great stories and great poems. — Walt Disney Copy Share Image
I think Lindsay Kemp really introduced me to the work of Jean Genet, and through that, I kind of kept re-educating myself… — David Bowie Copy Share Image
Even when poetry has a meaning, as it usually has, it may be inadvisable to draw it out . . .. Perfect… — A. E. Housman Copy Share Image
As a very young poet, I had been brought up on that dogma that politics was bad for poetry. — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
Poets have the gift to speak for others, Vasko Popa had the very rare quality of hearing the others. — Octavio Paz Copy Share Image
The poet must be alike polished by an intercourse with the world as with the studies of taste; one to whom labour… — Isaac D'Israeli Copy Share Image
