I read a lot of prose poetry and get inspired by more-so just a state of mind. — William Beckett Copy Share Image
“Let us remember to always rediscover one another because we are forever changing.” — Kamand Kojouri Copy Share Image
“something genuine like a mark in a toilet, graced with guts and gutted with grace” — E.E. Cummings Copy Share Image
I started writing poetry when I was in the fifth grade, just rhyming in class. — Jay Rock Copy Share Image
Now, the process of writing poetry is very messy. Not systematic, never quite the same — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
Poetry looking in the mirror sees art, and art looking in a mirror sings poetry. — Aberjhani Copy Share Image
My poems are more my silence than my speech. Just as music is a kind of quiet. Sounds are needed only to… — Anna Kamienska Copy Share Image
It's possible to like other poetry and still like mine. It's also possible to be not that into poetry and still quite… — Tim Key Copy Share Image
For Aliki Barnstone, poetry seems a natural medium. The vision and cadences of these poems suggest a sensibility for which poetry is… — Robert Pinsky Copy Share Image
Solitude produces originality, bold and astonishing beauty, poetry. But solitude also produces perverseness, the disproportianate, the absurd and the forbidden. — Thomas Mann Copy Share Image
“If this world is a poem, it is not because we see the meaning of it at first but on the strength… — Maurice Merleau-Ponty Copy Share Image
Do not Christians and Heathens, Jews and Gentiles, poets and philosophers, unite in allowing the starry influences? — Walter Scott Copy Share Image
Poems are a dance of language that comes out when my body taps into the rhythm of language. Rhythm gets us naked… — Kim Hyesoon Copy Share Image
What dance achieves, what play and sex achieve are the same thing that poetry achieves. They transform the ordinary into the extraordinary. — Jamake Highwater Copy Share Image
“You think it's time for a new beginning. You long to start from scratch, so you seek new things - trying like… — Alfa H Copy Share Image
“Blackadder was fifty-four and had come to editing Ash out of pique. He was the son and grandson of Scottish schoolmasters. His… — A.S. Byatt Copy Share Image
When I edit the poems - and I do edit, which some people don't mean when they use the term "stream of… — Rachel Zucker Copy Share Image
“You’re not a secretary; you’re a poet. What makes you think your life is going to be uncomplicated? What makes you think… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
Every day, a piece of music, a short story, or a poem dies because its existence is no longer justified in our… — Elfriede Jelinek Copy Share Image
“But the thing is that I can hear Sam and Craig having sex, and for the first time in my life, I… — Stephen Chbosky Copy Share Image
Souls of poets dead and gone, What Elysium have ye known, Happy field or mossy cavern, Choicer than the Mermaid Tavern? Have… — John Keats Copy Share Image
Every other year or so I go to one of those great generous places, the artist retreats. Some of the poems in… — Jane Hirshfield Copy Share Image
