“The human spirit is poetry enough and I understand that, but I write to make it transparent to a world in love… — Christopher Poindexter Copy Share Image
Once every five hundred years or so, a summary statement about poetry comes along that we can't imagine ourselves living without — A. R. Ammons Copy Share Image
I have always believed that poems beg to be read aloud, even if the reader is in a world all her own. — J. Patrick Lewis Copy Share Image
“Every move, every sigh, every moan; everything you do for me is poetry from your soul to mine. You are my favorite… — Kirk Diedrich Copy Share Image
“Our ignorance often accelerates us. So much of what we know of motion propelled by what we don’t know about impact.” — Michael Schmeltzer Copy Share Image
“You who are sitting before me have the power to change my consciousness into painting, poem, melody or anything else!” — Suman Pokhrel Copy Share Image
Poetry is the silence and speech between a wet struggling root of a flower and a sunlit blossom of that flower. — Carl Sandburg Copy Share Image
“...that imperial guard which poets and humanists mount in relay around any great memory.” — Marguerite Yourcenar Copy Share Image
“Amazing Peace: A Christmas Poem Thunder rumbles in the mountain passes And lightning rattles the eaves of our houses. Flood waters await… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
“From hip-hop, I drew my earliest sense of what writing should mean. Grammar was never the point. Grammar was for the schoolmen… — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
The rational intellect doesn't have a great deal to do with love, and it doesn't have a great deal to do with… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
“I think I was enchanted When first a sombre Girl — I read that Foreign Lady** — The Dark — felt beautiful… — Emily Dickinson Copy Share Image
“some were simple idlers spending an inheritance pretending to be poets or painters; and a couple were medical students, who had a… — Iain Pears Copy Share Image
“Recuerdo que algún día yo le hablé de mi río y una como tormenta se agitó en sus estrañas. No sé si… — Julia de Burgos Copy Share Image
There were a few verses that I wrote literally on the spot. But the concept was there. It's about being in your… — Kurt Vile Copy Share Image
“John Burroughs beautifully expresses this in his poem “Waiting”: Serene, I fold my hands and wait, Nor care for wind, nor tide,… — Orison Swett Marden Copy Share Image
Wanderer, there is no road, the road is made by walking. The poem tells me it’s no big deal that I’m not… — Helen Oyeyemi Copy Share Image
But you, oh gardener, poet that you be / Though unaware, now use your seeds like words / And make them lilt… — Vita Sackville-West Copy Share Image
That young man with the long, auburn hair and the impudent face - that young man was not really a poet; but… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I write some country music. There's a song called 'I Hope You Dance.' Incredible. I was going to write that poem; somebody… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
“I fain would follow love, if that could be; I needs must follow death, who calls for me; Call and I follow,… — Alfred Tennyson Copy Share Image
The aim of good prose words is to mean what they say. The aim of good poetical words is to mean what… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
While I don't satisfy my curiosity about the way I work, I'm terribly curious about the way other poets work. But I… — Thom Gunn Copy Share Image
Kierkegaard was once asked, 'What is a poet?' He answered that a poet was an unhappy man whose moans and cries of… — Langdon Brown Gilkey Copy Share Image
“Have I experienced happiness with sufficient gratitude? Have I endured loneliness with grace?” — Mary Oliver Copy Share Image
I heard Nirvana, and discovered that songs could be like poetry, but a little bit more refined: you didn't have to have… — Justin Townes Earle Copy Share Image
I got a voodoo doll every time I pen a verse: Not only do they say they feel it, but they say… — Pusha T Copy Share Image
“Prose fills a space, like a liquid poured in from the top, but poetry occupies it, arrays itself in formation, sets up… — Simon Armitage Copy Share Image
Poetry is but another form of inquiry into the nature of phenomena, using with its own unique procedures and tools. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
My Verse, has been, is, and shall always be, a choir of beautiful light, a symphony of laughter, and a profound solo… — The Forgotten Copy Share Image
“The measure of one's love for good poetry and for good music is the hatred, the violent hatred, one feels for bad… — Alfred B. Douglas Copy Share Image
Cherries are red and the sky is blue, love never crossed my mind until the day I met you — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Just because we have birds inside is, we don't have to be cages. -from Instant Recognition between Strangers” — Dean Young Copy Share Image
There are three things in the world that he held in the smallest esteem - slugs, poets and caddies with hiccups. — P. G. Wodehouse Copy Share Image
It is not my purpose as a poet to condemn war (or to be exact, modern warfare). I only wish to present… — Herbert Read Copy Share Image
Each reader discovers for himself that, with respect to the simpler features of nature, succeeding poets have done little else than copy… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The only difference between me and others is that they think they can change something with cute little poems, nice cards or… — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
The last verse that became clear to my vision that day was this: "Give thanks in all circumstances, for this is the… — Mary C. Neal Copy Share Image
“Poetry emerges from the depths of struggle. It comes up fighting, demanding to be heard.” — Aisha Mirza Copy Share Image
Writing a poem is a lesson in the truest empathy. And to truly have empathy is to truly know power, or at… — Zachary Schomburg Copy Share Image
