So I really began as a failed poet - although when I first wanted to be a writer, I learned to write… — Nicholson Baker Copy Share Image
“With one glove off, you trace the heavens, / fingers full of reverence... (from Stargazers on a Winter's Night)” — Robert J. Tiess Copy Share Image
I was just reading some poetry, and it talked about how things start as one thing and change into another, and I… — Tommy Lee Copy Share Image
“It could be said that a single person has written all the books in the world such central unity is in them… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The process of writing a poem represents work done on the self of the poet, in order to make form. — Muriel Rukeyser Copy Share Image
As to London we must console ourselves with the thought that if life outside is less poetic than it was in the… — Goldwin Smith Copy Share Image
He who, in an enlightened and literary society, aspires to be a great poet, must first become a little child. — Thomas B. Macaulay Copy Share Image
Art as a whole is a riddle. Another way of putting this is to say that art expresses something while at the… — Theodor Adorno Copy Share Image
“What exactly is the new verse movement? The New Verse Movement of the 1910's was to make poetry relevant again by immersing… — R.M. Engelhardt Copy Share Image
I like when a poem ends on its "receipts," meaning it gives me something tactile or tangible to dwell on as I… — Allison Joseph Copy Share Image
Follow, poet, follow right To the bottom of the night, With your unconstraining voice Still persuade us to rejoice; With the farming… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“There is some awe mixed with the joy of our surprise, when this poet, who lived in some past world, two or… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“In Ms Yuka's class he once wrote a poem about it called: 'Listen' The last lines were - I know you know… — Steven Wright Copy Share Image
“You'll always be curious yet deliriously sinking into whatever your nightmare is until you let your wings know you're serious by leaping… — Curtis Tyrone Jones Copy Share Image
A French poet famously referred to the aroma of certain cheeses as the ‘pieds de Dieu’—the feet of god. Just to be… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
Lakoff's idea is that most of our thought is guided by underlying conceptual mappings between two domains that share some content, that… — Don Paterson Copy Share Image
“He will one day meet his true love... A fellow traveler on the road... Her eyes will be his ocean... In her… — Kem Copy Share Image
“Keep your head up, he said, you are a lion, don’t forget that and neither will the sheep.” — Atticus Poetry Copy Share Image
There's nothing in the world for which a poet will give up writing, not even he is a Jew and the language… — Paul Celan Copy Share Image
“But no, I was out for stars: I would not come in. I meant not even if asked, And I hadn't been.” — Robert Frost Copy Share Image
“The city shined in the sunlight like a bunch of metallic boobs. What? I'm not a poet. They look like boobs.” — Andy Weir Copy Share Image
poets are privileged to utter more than they can always quite explain, bringing up from the mind's unplumbed depths tokens of the… — Vernon Lee Copy Share Image
“To summarize a poem or put it into prose is quite simply to misunderstand the essence of an art.” — Paul Valéry Copy Share Image
“Death was everywhere. Death was everything. Career. Desire. Dream. Poetry. Love. Youth itself. Dying became just another way of living.” — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
I'm a poet, first and foremost as a writer. That's who I am. That's what I'm most comfortable writing. — Dante Basco Copy Share Image
Creations, whether they are children, poems, or organizations, take on a life of their own. — Starhawk Copy Share Image
“Neuere Poeten tun viel Wasser in die Tinte. (More recent poets put a lot of water in the ink.) -- Goethe: Aus… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“As he took her hand he gave her all she had been waiting for-- a shiver down her spine.” — Atticus Poetry Copy Share Image
“Fate would never permit happiness to a man of such talent- a content poet is a mediocre one, a happy poet is… — The Hakawati Rabih Alameddine Copy Share Image
“Cause I can love a poem up out of you-like my middle name is Harlem..and my fingerprints are permanent-you ain't gone wash… — Shanica Stewart Copy Share Image
“My job as a poet, is not to succumb to despair but to find in words, an antidote for the emptiness of… — Michelle Geaney Copy Share Image
“Children are like poems. They're beautiful -- to their creators -- but to others they're just silly and fucking annoying.” — Doug Stanhope Copy Share Image
The first time I got onstage was when I was about 5 years old. It was at a church social, and I… — Willie Nelson Copy Share Image
“Haunted by demons of the past, hounded by demons not yet met, the nevermore and evermore left her little peace.” ~A Tale… — Kimberly Kinrade Copy Share Image
“You don't have to be an angel. All you need is someone who can always see your best angle.” — Sam Haidy Copy Share Image
I wrote you a poem on my wrists. I used a razor as a pen and I signed my name in blood.… — Molly Ringwald Copy Share Image
The definition of a dedicated individual..i got a tablet fulla verses dude I been writin since middle school — Marley Garcia Copy Share Image
I think the best American poetry is the poetry that utilizes the resources of poetry rather than exploits the defects or triumphs… — Mark Strand Copy Share Image
What an ornament and safeguard is humor! Far better than wit for a poet and writer. It is a genius itself, and… — Walter Scott Copy Share Image
I thought about joining the undead poets society but then I'd have to throw away my Silver pen. — Stanley Victor Paskavich Copy Share Image
