When I first started to write, I was aware of being queer, but I didn't write about it. Queer poems would probably… — Thom Gunn Copy Share Image
Dreamland's Rehab Living with a tweaker, baby! Arm yourself with the poets mosquito repellant. Poets repellant TRUTH! Javaz — Javaz Copy Share Image
Love is an irrational force, making humans do all sorts of strange and wonderful things like write poetry and take up the… — Amy Dickinson Copy Share Image
The writing of a poem is, for me, in the first place, an almost total act of abandon leading to discovery leading… — Marvin Bell Copy Share Image
“We are the instruments of genius, yet more the rhythm and less the drum as each expanding beat arises.” — Heather K. O'Hara Copy Share Image
For me rappers and dancers are poets and artists and often times the most interesting performances are given by them. — Ice Cube Copy Share Image
My paintings repeat a feeling about Lake Michigan, or water, or fields...it's more like a poem...and that's what I want to paint. — Joan Mitchell Copy Share Image
“… Fourier 's great mathematical poem ... { Referring to Joseph Fourier 's mathematical theory of the conduction of heat, one of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Be not so set upon poetry, as to be always poring on the passionate and measured pages. Let not what should be… — Cotton Mather Copy Share Image
“Happy the man...with a natural gift for practising the right one [art] from the start-- poetry, say, or fishing; whose nights are… — Seamus Heaney Copy Share Image
“Cannery Row in Monterey in California is a poem, a stink, a grating noise, a quality of light, a tone, a habit,… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“Every mother should be a true artist, who knows how to weave into her child's life images of grace and beauty, the… — Frances Ellen Watkins Harper Copy Share Image
I know there's some poetry that sort of sounds like daisies, but most of the good poetry is also [political], you can… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
Ultimately you're trying to reach across and find some other person, some other human warmth. But it is, especially in written poetry,… — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
If you have so earth-creeping a mind that it cannot lift itself up to look to the sky of poetry... thus much… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“In an old family album Ever again you return, Melancholy, O meekness of the solitary soul. A golden day glows and expires.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Poetry colors beings, objects, landscapes and sensations with a kind of new and particular light, which is in fact that of the… — Anne Hebert Copy Share Image
“A poet writes what they see every day, what they know, what they’ve lived or barely lived through.” — Jason E. Hodges Copy Share Image
“I will tell you what is poetry... It is a remote electronic claw picking up a stuffed bunny rabbit...” — Chelsey Minnis Copy Share Image
The poet's habit of living should be set on a key so low that the common influences should delight him. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“To become the love of a poet is to become both a muse and an immortal all at the same time.” — Jennifer Megan Varnadore Copy Share Image
'The Duino Elegies' are notoriously cryptic, and part of the reason why I have always loved them is because they invite multiple… — Dinaw Mengestu Copy Share Image
I always wrote poetry as a teenager and it was always so dark, but it made me feel good to get it… — Pink Copy Share Image
Poetry, and the principle of Self, of which money is the visible incarnation, are the God and the Mammon of the world. — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley Copy Share Image
As a reader you have a task to do, you have something to do. You bring your experience to it. It's not… — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
I'm truly an outsider in the poetry world. When I started writing, I was trying to move my poems away from modernist… — Richard Grossman Copy Share Image
Lapped in poetry, wrapped in the picturesque, armed with logical sentences and inalienable words. — Anatole Broyard Copy Share Image
“He dormido contigo y al despertar tu boca salida de tu sueño me dio el sabor de tierra, de agua” — Pablo Neruda Copy Share Image
“Blake said Milton was a true poet and of the Devil's party without knowing it. I am of the Devil's party and… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
“My mind is like a sea You will only drown, If you think you can swim There are things that devours me,… — J. Limbu Copy Share Image
“Bad bananas are like push-up bras--a promise of tenderness can deliver tasteless mush, and we're not supposed to complain.” — Kate Lebo Copy Share Image
“Darkling I listen; and, for many a time I have been half in love with easeful Death, Call'd him soft names in… — John Keats Copy Share Image
“Reading about the response of people in stories, plays, poems, helps us to respond more courageously and openly at our own moments… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
Don't write poems to make girls like you, because it will not make them like you but it will give them something… — Nick Earls Copy Share Image
The beautiful feeling after writing a poem is on the whole better even than after sex, and that's saying a lot. — Anne Sexton Copy Share Image
Not philosophy, after all, not humanity, just sheer joyous power of song, is the primal thing in poetry. — Max Beerbohm Copy Share Image
I would especially like to re-court the Muse of poetry, who ran off with the mailman four years ago, and drops me… — John Updike Copy Share Image
For now, poetry has the capacity - in its own ways and by its own means - to remind us of something… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
“I am a writer because I write, an author because I create, a poet because the words are in my soul.” — Wesley D. Gray Copy Share Image
If I wouldn't of spent so much time shooting spit wads at my English teacher I'd know how to punctuate good thing… — Stanley Victor Paskavich Copy Share Image
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![“I know there's some poetry that sort of sounds like daisies, but most of the good poetry is also [political], you can feel the heartbeat; it's about some situation that concerns human beings under duress. It's suggesting a solution, or just acknowledging that [the situation] exists. Art does that.” quote by Toni Morrison](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/540/toni-morrison-271_art_i-know-there-s-some-poetry-that-sort-of_2786675.jpg)
