“Love consists of this: two solitudes that meet, protect and greet each other. ” — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
Im looking for a guy who makes you want to dance and write poetry all day long. — Angela Sarafyan Copy Share Image
“~ Not every poem is meant for oral stimulation, some are better devoured mentally.” — Kiana Donae Copy Share Image
Are democracy and poetry exclusive of one another and, if so, why? — Janet Erskine Stuart Copy Share Image
Portsmouth has the honor, I believe, of establishing the first recorded pauper workhouse - though not in connection with her poets, as… — Thomas Bailey Aldrich Copy Share Image
I’m a poet. And then I put the poetry in the drama. I put it in short stories, and I put it… — Tennessee Williams Copy Share Image
I'm never quite sure how the poem is going to resolve itself and that I'm always in some way surprised. I make… — Rita Dove Copy Share Image
Sharp is your memory, sweet is your name, deep in my heart you'll always remain. Earth wants water, flower wants dew, I… — Azgraybebly Josland Copy Share Image
If anything, hearing another poet is a sacred experience I enter, but I can honestly say this does not influence my own… — Grace Cavalieri Copy Share Image
“Death be not proud, though some have called thee mighty and dreadful, for, thou art not so.” — John Donne Copy Share Image
The high-water mark, so to speak, of Socialist literature is W.H. Auden, a sort of gutless Kipling. — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“Be careful letting those decadent words roll of your tongue. A woman just might take them to heart... and immortalize them.” — Alfa H Copy Share Image
I've been writing since I was 10 or 11. I started with poetry because that was the easiest thing. It just kind… — Sasha Grey Copy Share Image
But if a stranger in the train asks me my occupation, I never answer "writer" for fear that he may go on… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When we want culture more than potatoes, and illumination more than sugar-plums, then the great resources of a world are taxed anddrawn… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“..the poem is made of sequences in which images, figures of speech and rhythm are undivided. One needs to enter this ‘undivision’",… — Michel Deguy Copy Share Image
We tend to be so bombarded with information, and we move so quickly, that there's a tendency to treat everything on the… — Rita Dove Copy Share Image
“Love makes temporary saints and poets of us all. We feel the source of life welling up inside us and long to… — John Maxwell Taylor Copy Share Image
Indolence, of course, is an absolutely crucial part of the creative process: you do not find poets sitting in rows in cavernous… — Tom Hodgkinson Copy Share Image
San Francisco has long been a leader in the arts, nurturing generations of painters, sculptors, poets, novelists, playwrights, film-makers, and performing artists… — Gavin Newsom Copy Share Image
