Everyone should be able to do one card trick, tell two jokes, and recite three poems, in case they are ever trapped… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“There is always the question why And there is always life, Which doesn't need an answer.” — Dejan Stojanovic Copy Share Image
I'm exhausted from the nonexistent bullshit my mind makes up. To suffer from imagination rather than from reality has got to be… — Needa Muy Copy Share Image
I think all the poets and artists have always written for peace and love, and it hasn’t changed much in the last… — Maximilian Schell Copy Share Image
Poetry is a tracing of the trajectories of a finite sound to the infinite points of its echoes. — Carl Sandburg Copy Share Image
Now, to read poetry at all is to have an ideal anthology of one's own, and in that possession to be incapable… — William Ernest Henley Copy Share Image
The decision to write in prose instead of poetry is made more by the readers than by writers. Almost no one is… — Robert Morgan Copy Share Image
“Rather than words comes the thought of high windows: The sun-comprehending glass, And beyond it, the deep blue air, that shows Nothing,… — Philip Larkin Copy Share Image
I started writing little short stories and poems as soon as I learned to read and write. I think I was six… — Lucinda Williams Copy Share Image
“And so ended his affection," said Elizabeth impatiently. "There has been many a one, I fancy, overcome in the same way. I… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“The prompt didn’t help me much, since all poems were difficult for me to write. They were like mirrors you held up… — Brittany Cavallaro Copy Share Image
“This is how I recognize an authentic poet: by frequenting him, living a long time in the intimacy of his work, something… — emil cioran Copy Share Image
Ring around the rosie. A pocket full of posie. Ashes ashes, we all fall down. Some people say that this poem is… — Scott Westerfeld Copy Share Image
What writing a poem really does - and what figuring how to perform effectively really does - is forces people to listen… — Daveed Diggs Copy Share Image
“The words I speak to these chairs must be silencing. It has stunned them into a profound emptiness. No creaking from the… — B.J. Ward Copy Share Image
That's what I love about poetry. The more abstract, the better. The stuff where you're not sure what the poet's talking about.… — Jay Asher Copy Share Image
“It is humor's job to laugh at the futility oft engendered by the improbable; but it is poetry's job to dream of… — D.E. Navarro Copy Share Image
At twilight, nature is not without loveliness, though perhaps its chief use is to illustrate quotations from the poets. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“A little bunny or some kind of ferret was probably there too, and bore witness as only rodents can.” — John Ashbery Copy Share Image
“I contemplate the impossible and achieve madness. This is my blessing. This is my curse. My heaven, my hell.” — Melody Lee Copy Share Image
There is no such thing as a dumb poet or a handless painter. The essence of an artist is that he should… — Algernon Charles Swinburne Copy Share Image
what primitive tastes the ancients must have had if their poets were inspired by those absurd, untidy clumps of mist, idiotically jostling… — Yevgeny Zamyatin Copy Share Image
Everything is complicated; if that were not so, life and poetry and everything else would be a bore. — Wallace Stevens Copy Share Image
Poetry, it is often said and loudly so, is life's true mirror. But a monkey looking into a work of literature looks… — Franz Grillparzer Copy Share Image
“Make me, dear Lord, polite and kind, To everyone, I pray. And may I ask you how you find Yourself, dear Lord,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Poetry is a painting of the imaginations of the human mind, but the reader needs to feel it and touch it.” — Adewale Joel Copy Share Image
I never became a writer for the money. I am a poet first. Even getting published is a miracle for poets. — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
I wanted to be a poet and/or an artist, but I was very lazy (frightened of failure, I guess) and drank too… — Peter Blegvad Copy Share Image
“I’m hanging on to your words like you’re my favorite book. And, I’m completely engrossed in every page of who you are.” — Liz Newman Copy Share Image
“Always learn poems by heart. They have to become the marrow in your bones. Like Fluoride in the water, they'll make your… — Janet Finch Copy Share Image
The materials of true poetry are always humble, absolutely idiosyncratic, the autobiographical tatters that, in gifted hands, are made into the memoir… — Patricia Hampl Copy Share Image
“Struggle is not about fighting. struggle is something which will convert your bad days into your better days.” — seerat Copy Share Image
“I let her go because I knew she could do better and now she's gone I wonder if I should've just been… — Atticus Poetry Copy Share Image
“I think maybe today a poem I hope after breakfast I start trying pulling it out of my own gut mostly by… — John Thomas Idlet (John Thomas Copy Share Image
“if i ever have a daughter, the first thing i will teach her to love will be the word "no" & i… — Amanda Lovelace Copy Share Image
Poetry is above all a concentration of the power of language, which is the power of our ultimate relationship to everything in… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
And a lot of times in slam poetry I feel like people are so worried about the performance that the words might… — Amber Tamblyn Copy Share Image
Frequently, as so many poets and psalmists and songwriters have said, the invisible shift happens through the broken places. — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
She had blue skin, And so did he. He kept it hid And so did she. They searched for blue Their whole… — Shel Silverstein Copy Share Image
“Just as you say, sir. There is a letter on the tray, sir." "By Jove, Jeeves, that was practically potry. Rhymed, did… — P.G. Wodehouse Copy Share Image
