“What if the poem loses? What if it never tastes victory like the intent it was written with?” — Akif Kichloo Copy Share Image
“Poetry was a way to combat the staid and formulaic language of politicians that opposed the flexible and dynamic language of poets… — Azar Nafisi Copy Share Image
“Des Menschen Kraft, im Dichter offenbart The human power is revealed by poet Il potere dell'umanità si rivela nel poeta” — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
“Don't let a king or a prince or a fairytale tell you you are smaller than that or who you are meant… — Nikita Gill Copy Share Image
“My space imekuwa null na void hakuna jokes ni poetry na voice so i write for my niggas who will never make… — Budding Dirt Copy Share Image
The music is the shining path over which the poet travels to bring his song to the world. — Lotte Lehmann Copy Share Image
I don't think poetry will die, but I think that poetry does demand a certain kind of attention to language. — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
I recently got into Haiku in Japan and I just think it's fantastic. Obviously, when you get rid of a whole section… — John Lennon Copy Share Image
Paul Otremba’s remarkable first book, The Currency, is an intriguing foray into lyric epistemology that tries to come to ter ms with… — Michael Collier Copy Share Image
Poetry has always been this completely alien art to me. I am the sort of bloke who, when he gets into things,… — Frank Skinner Copy Share Image
“That men, who might have tower'd in the van Of all the congregated world, to fan And winnow from the coming step… — John Keats Copy Share Image
There are still many writers out in the Bay, extraordinary writers like Gina Valdez, a poet who I just saw in Portland.… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
I want books written out of a brain and heart and soul crowded and vital with Life, spelled with a big L.… — Gertrude Atherton Copy Share Image
“People say I must be cold–natured—sexless—on account of it. But I won’t have it! Some of the most passionately erotic poets have… — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
It was Rick's Rubin idea to have the 'Brooklyn' verse repeat. It already was a story, but having that made it a… — Scott Avett Copy Share Image
I tended to write poems about both social and spiritual problems, and some problems one doesn't really want to solve, and so… — C. K. Williams Copy Share Image
But for a few phrases from his letters and an odd line or two of his verse, the poet walks gagged through… — John Updike Copy Share Image
“Eighteen relatively sexless years passed by before my sister fell in love with an itinerant upholsterer who promised her the moon.” — John Popielaski Copy Share Image
“It looked like a love poem, and I was jealous of whoever inspired the sort of devotion he must have felt to… — Tammara Webber Copy Share Image
“One clear moment, one of trance One missed step, one perfect dance One missed shot, one and only chance Life is all...but… — Sanober Khan Copy Share Image
“But all the clocks in the city Began to whirr and chime: 'O let not Time deceive you, You cannot conquer Time” — W.H. Auden Copy Share Image
My brother told me I was going to be a poet. I had a good brother. He did a lot of good… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
“No man was ever yet a great poet, without at the same time being a profound philosopher.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Wake up wild one! Your mind is a cageless bird waiting to fly to uncharted lands. Like the phoenix, you'll rise again… — Melody Lee Copy Share Image
I did not start out thinking I'm going to become a feminist poet. It was a tag I was given. — Rupi Kaur Copy Share Image
“Excessive brightness drove the poet into darkness. (essay : Hölderlin And The Essence Of Poetry, chapter from my copy of The origin… — Martin Heidegger Copy Share Image
“Knut, this is Jude. Remember I told you about him? He writes poetry.” Knut looked my half-Japanese self up and down. “Haiku?”… — J.L. Merrow Copy Share Image
In poetry, you must love the words, the ideas and the images and rhythms with all your capacity to love anything at… — Wallace Stevens Copy Share Image
The pilgrim is a poetic traveler, one who believes that there is poetry on the road, at the heart of everything. — Phil Cousineau Copy Share Image
You're always believing ahead of your evidence. What was the evidence I could write a poem? I just believed it. The most… — Robert Frost Copy Share Image
I have never been in a band. But in my grand day of cabaret at Les Deux Cafes, I was doing this… — Michele Lamy Copy Share Image
Anticipating that most poetry will be worse than carrying heavy luggage through O'Hare Airport, the public, to its loss, reads very little… — Russell Baker Copy Share Image
“I've almost seen him. And Poet," she says, and I want tot say, You have seen him and you didn't want him.” — Cath Crowley Copy Share Image
“What was she left with but ashes and darkness once the light of the flame went out? The smell of smoke lingered… — Eric Overby Copy Share Image
As we produce work that becomes pure poetry, we impact and influence our teammates, we wow our suppliers, we inspire customers and… — Robin S. Sharma Copy Share Image
“The amount of her madness depends on the amount of her love. If she is crazy, frantic, insane with you, then simply… — Melody Lee Copy Share Image
There is nothing more poetic than the truth. He who does not see poetry in it will always be a poor versifier… — Multatuli Copy Share Image
I've done a number of readings at poetry lounges in Vancouver and Los Angeles. I've compiled a book of poetry that's completed,… — Corin Nemec Copy Share Image
Neither men, nor gods, nor booksellers' shelves permit ordinary poets to exist. [Lat., Mediocribus esse poetis Non homines, non di, non concessere… — Horace Copy Share Image
and, unlike the celebrated herd in the poem, they were not forty children conducting themselves as one, but every child was conducting… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
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