The joy of poetry is that it will wait for you. Novels don't wait for you. Characters change. But poetry will wait.… — Sonia Sanchez Copy Share Image
Better than a thousand hollow words Is one word that brings peace. Better than a thousand hollow verses Is one verse that… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Show me a man who feels bitterly toward John Brown, and let me hear what noble verse he can repeat. He'll be… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Jim Jarmusch: Poets are always ahead of things in a certain way, their sense of language and their vision. — Jim Jarmusch Copy Share Image
I love designers sketches, they're like poetry. A vision of an idea intended to make someone feel wonderful. — Dawn O'Porter Copy Share Image
“Protesters are still on the fringes like satellites, revolving around the system. But prophets and poets lead us into a new world,… — Shane Claiborne Copy Share Image
“Had I not known that I was dead already I would have mourned my loss of life. —last words of Ota Dokan,… — Barry Eisler Copy Share Image
My veins do not end in me but in the unanimous blood of those who struggle for life, love, things, landscape and… — Roque Dalton Copy Share Image
“Ko hodiš, pojdi zmeraj do konca. Spomladi do rožne cvetice, poleti do zrele pšenice, jeseni do polne police, pozimi do snežne kraljice,… — Tone Pavček Copy Share Image
“This is how I desire God on this island With you today: basic and blue As the sea that softens our feet… — Marjorie M. Evasco Copy Share Image
I began to write in an enclosed, self-confident literary culture. The poet's life stood in a burnished light in the Ireland of… — Eavan Boland Copy Share Image
“I was satisfied with haiku until I met you, jar of octopus, cuckoo's cry, 5-7-5, but now I want a russian novel,… — Dean Young Copy Share Image
“LADY LAZARUS I have done it again. One year in every ten I manage it-- A sort of walking miracle, my skin… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
“I told you in the course of this paper that Shakespeare had a sister; but do not look for her in Sir… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
When are we going to be together? Will you love me now or will it take forever? I Love you always with… — Archie Copy Share Image
When I was a boy, I choked on a piece of candy outside the kitchen window for a few minutes while watching… — Zachary Schomburg Copy Share Image
“For it is through humility, he knew, that holiness--and poetry--find entrance to the human soul.” — Lan Samantha Chang Copy Share Image
“Blessed are the weird people: poets, misfits, writers mystics, painters, troubadours for they teach us to see the world through different eyes.” — Jacob Nordby Copy Share Image
'Make a remark,' said the Red Queen; 'it's ridiculous to leave all the conversation to the pudding!' — Lewis Carroll Copy Share Image
“Vandals listen only when others are stronger. If vandals are equal or stronger Their word is the last word.” — Dejan Stojanovic Copy Share Image
I would say Gary Snyder, who is from my part of the world as a poet and environmental thinker, will be read… — Robert Hass Copy Share Image
Through the mad mystic hammering of the wild ripping hail The sky cracked its poems in naked wonder — Bob Dylan Copy Share Image
My father read poetry to me, encouraged me to memorize poems. But the writing of it was quite a different thing. — C. K. Williams Copy Share Image
It's a common notion that if you like Tagore, then he must have had an influence on your life. While I like… — Gulzar Copy Share Image
A fine poem combines the elements of meaning, music, and a form like a living frame that holds it together. — Arnold Adoff Copy Share Image
“Yet I understood the poetry of such mind games one day when, attempting to ask for my glasses (lunettes), I was asked… — Jean-Dominique Bauby Copy Share Image
I would not say I chose to write long poems on a conscious level. The long poem has been a relative constant. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Philip Larkin has a tough honesty and sense of humor that I find irresistible, as a contemporary poet. — Robert Morgan Copy Share Image
The more that accrues, the more depth, weight, and breadth we can bring to the poems, which we then need to throw… — Dorianne Laux Copy Share Image
Secretly, deep down, everybody on Earth believes they can write poetry, apart from the members of the Poets' Guild, who know they… — K.J. Parker Copy Share Image
“Of the many forms that silence takes, the most memorable is the dry husk of the cicada.” — Jon Davis Copy Share Image
“There is only one way to achieve happiness on this terrestrial ball, and that is to have either a clear conscience or… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
'Aurat' is an iconic poem which is relevant 70 years later and informs me in the work I do with women. — Shabana Azmi Copy Share Image
The Lord's Prayer is the most perfect piece of poetry. I always feel at peace and moved when I recite it. — Mary Quant Copy Share Image
“Love is the poetry of the stars The wind is the breath of the earth To never become who you are Or… — Justin Wetch Copy Share Image
Robert Frost had always said you mustn't think of the last line first, or it's only a fake poem, not a real… — Howard Nemerov Copy Share Image
In a lot of ways, the task at hand for any poem is to approach something that defies exactness or definition with… — Kevin Powers Copy Share Image
A blend of fact and fiction has been used in various forms since the dawn of creative writing, starting with sagas and… — Antony Beevor Copy Share Image
The tougher the form the easier it is for me to handle the poem, because the form gives permission to be very… — Maxine Kumin Copy Share Image
“I often wonder and imagine What lies just beyond the fringe Of the human experience; What is it that we do not… — Justin Wetch Copy Share Image
