“I sink into it completely, letting everything else fall away so all that's left is this. A moment like a poem.” — Jessi Kirby Copy Share Image
“Where have all the poets gone? Rhyme with passion left unsung, Even now my heart it yearns, Until my poet prince returns.’ ” — Heather Burch Copy Share Image
“My anxiety house a house and a fence and a deer in the yard. A zip code. A plague of starlings.” — Kristy Bowen Copy Share Image
“a poetry express dreamer man of action, his every line thinking about. thinking about a woman.” — Tom Phillips Copy Share Image
Nine-tenths of English poetic literature is the result either of vulgar careerism or of a poet trying to keep his hand in.… — Robert Graves Copy Share Image
She had reached a turning point. She no longer believed that a situation could be made better by writing a poem about… — David Nicholls Copy Share Image
What other people may find in poetry or art museums, I find in the flight of a good drive. — Arnold Palmer Copy Share Image
Never discuss the poem you contemplate writing. It's like turning on the outside spigot. It takes all the pressure off the upstairs… — Robert Frost Copy Share Image
I like connecting the abstract to the concrete. There's a tension in that. I believe the reader or listener should be able… — Yusef Komunyakaa Copy Share Image
The poet wants to ‘say’ something. Why, then, doesn’t he say it directly and fortrightly? Why is he willing to say it… — Cleanth Brooks Copy Share Image
Hyesims poems: transformative as walking high granite mountains by moonlight, with fragrant herbs underfoot and a thermos of clear tea in the… — Jane Hirshfield Copy Share Image
I have taught the long poem off and on for years. The more book-length poems I read and studied and taught the… — C.D. Wright Copy Share Image
Poetry is a second translation of the soul's feeling; it must be rendered into thought, and thought must change its nebulous robe… — Frances Ridley Havergal Copy Share Image
“It was the period in Germany of Goethe’s highest fame. Notwithstanding his rather condescending attitude towards patriotism he had been adopted as… — William Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
“The intelligible forms of ancient poets, The fair humanities of old religion, The Power, the Beauty, and the Majesty That had their… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
“Wondering When the Strings Will Snap” poem: “The marigolds herald autumn’s colors already In their sun-shrine faces, iconographic Floral worship of their… — Elizabeth Barrette Copy Share Image
Cancel me not - for what then shall remain? Abscissas, some mantissas, modules, modes, A root or two, a torus and a… — Stanislaw Lem Copy Share Image
As poets, our lamentations are glorious, filled with the virtues angles would learn to envy. — Masiela Lusha Copy Share Image
“A person who wants a pure and simple life can start a war within themselves and with society” — Lisa C. Miller Copy Share Image
What is it that escapes the observation of poets? What is that act women are incapable of doing? What will drunken people… — Chanakya Copy Share Image
The works of great poets have never been read by mankind, for only great poets can read them. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“Tall buildings have always intimidated me, but I somehow feel comforted, by an even taller tree.” — Akash Mandal Copy Share Image
I think poetry is as old as language, and both come out of the same thing - an effort to try to… — W. S. Merwin Copy Share Image
Do you know the legend about cicadas? They say they are the souls of poets who cannot keep quiet because, when they… — John Berger Copy Share Image
Tyranny, like fog in the well known poem, often creeps in silently 'on little cat feet.' — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
For me, poetry is the colour of Elizabeth Taylor's eyes, or the pauses in Pinter's plays - only the pauses, not the… — Roger Lewis Copy Share Image
Drawing is the poet's written line, set down to see if there be a story worth telling, a truth worth revealing. — Irving Stone Copy Share Image
“Emotional pain was the price I paid on the path to becoming a woman. So excuse me if I’m not clueless like… — J.A. ANUM Copy Share Image
Prose pretends to be straightforward in its application to the truth, but truth itself is a dissembler. Poetry, much more honest, knows… — Laurence Overmire Copy Share Image
“He viewed us, as we passed him by, With calm and yet with questioning eye, But moveless still, as though the stone… — Edward Robeson Taylor Copy Share Image
“And we who loved the world must learn the language of absence: days foreshortened, empty rooms, the irrevocable distance between the goodbye… — Joe Bolton Copy Share Image
It is strange, how quickly people want to obligate their poets, as it were, on the exile. — Peter Bichsel Copy Share Image
“Somehow, when a person you like reads your poem and says they like it, the poem seems all fresh and new afterwards.… — Matthew Lipman Copy Share Image
Talk of poems and prayers and promises, and things that we believe in. How sweet it is to love someone, how right… — John Denver Copy Share Image
“The abyss and the light of the world, Time's need and the craving for eternity, Vision, event, and poetry: Was and is… — Martin Buber Copy Share Image
One of the greatest, most noble, and most sublime poems which either this age or nation has produced. — John Dryden Copy Share Image
“Dance resides within us all. Some find it when joy conquers sorrow, others express it through celebration of movements; and then there… — Shah Asad Rizvi Copy Share Image
Truth is hard-hearted and unrelenting, too clear, precise; a lie is much more imaginative. — Dejan Stojanovic Copy Share Image
“It must be a little love, - a baby, sort of, It shies away when the cars honk and hiss, But adores… — Vladimir Mayakovsky Copy Share Image
“What you’re feeling now, and the person you may reach with your words five years from now-that's why you write poetry.” — Colleen Hoover Copy Share Image
