Twentieth-century American poetry has been one of the glories of modern literature. — Helen Vendler Copy Share Image
“He was the one that healed her, that made her scars feel beautiful.” — Atticus Poetry Copy Share Image
Rarest of the real poets are born poets. They are the oddballs, not the professors. — James Broughton Copy Share Image
“Ideas must work through the brains and arms of men, or they are no better than dreams” — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“I reach out in love, my hands are guns, my good intentions are completely lethal.” — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
Each genre exerts a considerable spell, as a kind of "form" to be filled, as a Shakespearean sonnet is filled. — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
“Like the bioluminescent creatures of the deep sea produce their own light I also have the ability to create my own light… — Rhys Blanco Copy Share Image
If I'm excited by something bodily, and curious about it, I generally want to delve into it and explore it with poetry.… — Pattiann Rogers Copy Share Image
To me the poets are closer than I am to the idea of voice, to a sort of primeval song that we… — Francesco Clemente Copy Share Image
I think that poetry is important when you are shipwrecked, when the ordinary structures that hold you up are gone. — Robert Bly Copy Share Image
Early on, if I was alone two three nights in a row, I'd start writing poems about suicide. — Jack Nicholson Copy Share Image
The poet is a man who lives at last by watching his moods. An old poet comes at last to watch his… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I hope to go into a poem sober and come out a little drunk. And if I do then that's a real… — Dannie Abse Copy Share Image
I don't let a poem go into the world unless I feel that I've transformed the experience in some way. Even poems… — Stephen Dunn Copy Share Image
“The vitality of the ordinary members of society is dependent on its Outsiders. Many Outsiders unify themselves, realize themselves as poets or… — Colin Wilson Copy Share Image
Turkey is a complex country. Most readers are women, of all generations, and they are passionate about books. However, the written culture… — Elif Safak Copy Share Image
When I'm most deeply involved in my writing, sometimes I do dream about poetry, and occasionally I wake up from a dream… — James Arthur Copy Share Image
“All beauty comes from beautiful blood and a beautiful brain. If the greatnesses are in conjunction in a man or woman it… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
"You know that it is quite preposterous of you to chase rainbows," said the sane person to the poet. "Yet it would… — Thomas William Hodgson Crosland Copy Share Image
It doesn't matter if people are playing jazz or writing poetry. If they want to be successful, they need to learn how… — Jonah Lehrer Copy Share Image
If we will admit time into our thoughts at all, the mythologies, those vestiges of ancient poems, wrecks of poems, so to… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
