I hope I'm not implying role of contemporary poet for myself, although there's a kind of resonant paradigm. It's traditionally a difficult… — Anne Waldman Copy Share Image
Profound subject matter can be encompassed in small space - for proof, look at any sonnet by Shakespeare! — Cynthia Ozick Copy Share Image
“It is widely held among scholars that the Prologue is a preexisting poem that the author of John has incorporated into his… — Bart D. Ehrman Copy Share Image
“They chased money, fast cars, and business empires. And all I ever wanted was to stare at the stars in the night… — Avijeet Das Copy Share Image
“I prepare my portrait for my woman to hang on a wall when I die. she says: Is there a wall to… — Mahmoud Darwish Copy Share Image
All poets pretend to write for immortality, but the whole tribe have no objection to present pay and present praise. — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Poetry is the universal possession of mankind, revealing itself everywhere, and at all times, in hundreds and hundreds of men. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
The fact is that poetry is not the books in the library . . . Poetry is the encounter of the reader… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I have been in love with Emily Dickinson's poetry since I was 13, and, like an anonymous post on findagrave.com says, 'Dear… — Helen Oyeyemi Copy Share Image
“Lives of great men all remind us We can make our lives sublime, And, departing, leave behind us Footprints on the sands… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
“Like every great writer before or since, Jonson understood that the best poets 'are both made and born'. That all great writing… — James Shapiro Copy Share Image
The miracle of man is not how far he has sunk but how magnificently he has risen. We are known among the… — Robert Ardrey Copy Share Image
“Robin Goodfellow is a very old faerie. Not only that, he has ballads, poems, and stories written about him, so he is… — Julie Kagawa Copy Share Image
“Here, Earth-born, over the lilt of the water, Lisping its music and bearing a burden of light, Bosoming day as a laughing… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“By the sweet power of music: therefore the poet did feign that Orpheus drew trees, stones and floods; since nought so stockish,… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
“Leaning into the afternoons I cast my sad nets towards your oceanic eyes. There in the highest blaze my solitude lengthens and… — Pablo Neruda Copy Share Image
I tend to like poems that are short as well as funny. I love Joe Brainard and Aram Saroyan. And I think… — Elaine Equi Copy Share Image
The poet, the artist, the sleuth, whoever sharpens our perception tends to antisocial; rarely 'well adjusted,' he cannot go along with currents… — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
As a poet and as a mathematician, he would reason well; as a mere mathematician, he could not have reasoned at all. — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
“Morning and evening Maids heard the goblins cry: 'Come buy our orchard fruits, Come buy, come buy” — Christina Rossetti Copy Share Image
“Middle age is when you’re sitting at home on a Saturday night and the telephone rings and you hope it isn’t for… — Sandi Toksvig Copy Share Image
If you want meaning, you read poetry or a novel or something, you don't read song lyrics. You're supposed to listen to… — Roddy Woomble Copy Share Image
“His pen spoke more to her than he ever did”. In the war of words, some are unwritten and some are unspoken.” — Nishikant Copy Share Image
The universe of poetry is the universe of emotional truth. Our material is in the way we feel and the way we… — Muriel Rukeyser Copy Share Image
“Those blessèd structures, plot and rhyme— why are they no help to me now I want to make something imagined, not recalled?” — Robert Lowell Copy Share Image
Poetry is a beautiful way of spoiling prose, and the laborious art of exchanging plain sense for harmony. — Horace Walpole Copy Share Image
I need scarcely observe that a poem deserves its title only inasmuch as it excites, by elevating the soul. The value of… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
“Marriage is a book in which the first chapter is written in poetry and the remaining chapters in prose.” — Beverley Nichols Copy Share Image
“Oh on my breast in days hereafter Light the earth should lie, Such weight to bear is now the air, So heavy… — A.E. Housman Copy Share Image
“Laura remarked that science was dependent upon poetry, that all scientific description was metaphoric.” — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
Walt Whitman, he who laid end to end words never seen in each other's company before outside of a dictionary. — David Lodge Copy Share Image
My dad was the cause of me being in show business. He was not only in poetry but in acting a bit.… — Chuck Berry Copy Share Image
“grappling with some small understanding of this place, this time, we're in" my poem "In a BishopsWood Clearing” — Jay Woodman Copy Share Image
It is a happy thing that there is no royal road to poetry. The world should know by this time that one… — Gerard Manley Hopkins Copy Share Image
Many poets write as if they had been decerebrated, and not simply lobotomized, as a cure for their melancholia. — Randall Jarrell Copy Share Image
There is a specific kind of day when I feel like writing poems. My senses become really sharp. This day is when… — Kim Hyesoon Copy Share Image
“This is how it always is when I finish a poem. A great silence overcomes me, and I wonder why I ever… — Jalaluddin Rumi Copy Share Image
It may be said that poems are in one way like icebergs: only about a third of their bulk appears above the… — Howard Nemerov Copy Share Image
“Ah, only plunged toward you does my face cease being on display, grows into you and twines on darkly, endlessly, into your… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
And sometimes you look at the first poems by someone and you go, "They have freshness and a sense of wonder that… — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
