“Death is the easy part, the hard part is living and knowing you could be so much more then you’re willing to… — robert m drake Copy Share Image
There is no life of a man, faithfully recorded, but is a heroic poem of its sort, rhymed or unrhymed. — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
Have you reckon’d a thousand acres much? have you reckon’d the earth much? Have you practis’d so long to learn to read?… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
Sometimes my poetry is an attempt to keep off existential terror; sometimes it is a grappling with philosophical problems; sometimes just fun. — Gwen Harwood Copy Share Image
They say poets write mostly for themselves; if anyone else likes it, well and good, if not, it doesn't matter; certainly, not… — Tom Glazer Copy Share Image
Crisp autumn night moon casts its light down, reassuring us of light in the darkest of nights. This is a gift that… — Caitlin Martin Copy Share Image
“and I can still write a poem (sometimes), don’t forget that, and even if they don’t pay off, it’s better than waiting… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
“When you are composing a verse, let there not be a hair's breadth separating your mind from what you write. Quickly say… — Robert Hass Copy Share Image
“I want you only to dream of you,’ they tell the beloved woman in verses they never send – they who dare… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
“His novel or book of poems, decent, adequate, arises not from an exercise of style or will, as the poor unfortunate believes,… — Roberto Bolaño Copy Share Image
This is what you shall do; Love the earth and sun and the animals, despise riches, give alms to every one that… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
“O Canada I have not forgotten you, as I kneel in my canoe, beholding this vision of a bookcase. You are the… — Billy Collins Copy Share Image
“ A Litany for Survival For those of us who live at the shoreline standing upon the constant edges of decision crucial… — Audre Lorde Copy Share Image
“Every poem is about a brave hero named Kregi," she said. "Every single one. He always has a steed, and we have… — Leigh Bardugo Copy Share Image
“As I said, you have mistaken me for another. London is full of drab little peahens, sir. Now, then, I’m leaving,” she… — Charlotte Featherstone Copy Share Image
When poets write about food it is usually celebratory. Food as the thing-in-itself, but also the thoughtful preparation of meals, the serving… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
“Anything that is worth being written on pretty paper is worth being written on ugly paper.” — Elevetha Houre Copy Share Image
If people connect me with the Romantics in general, they probably connect me most with Keats. But Wordsworth is the poet I… — Andrew Motion Copy Share Image
“Learn to use your third eye and you’ll be able to see beyond the sky. There is no limit, except that which… — Melody Lee Copy Share Image
Well - I started writing - probably in the early 60s and by say '65-'66 I had read most of the poetry… — Robert Adamson Copy Share Image
Tennyson seems to be the patron saint of the wishy washies, which is perhaps why I admire him so much, not only… — A. N. Wilson Copy Share Image
“I hurt in places that you brought back from the dead. Now I have to lay them to rest again.” — Alfa H Copy Share Image
Gertrude Stein's prose-song is a cold, black suet-pudding… Cut it at any point, it is the same thing ... all fat, without nerve. — Wyndham Lewis Copy Share Image
Poetry can be dangerous, especially beautiful poetry, because it gives the illusion of having had the experience without actually going through it. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Dark, dark my light, and darker my desire. My soul, like some heat-maddened summer fly, Keeps buzzing at the sill. Which I… — Theodore Roethke Copy Share Image
“While they all ink their skin, I crave something permanent within. Bare your soul Open your heart Tattoo your love within.” — Melody Lee Copy Share Image
Both the poet and scholar are trying to learn something. The poem for me is a pursuit. Some of the answers are… — Gregory Pardlo Copy Share Image
“The child is father of the man….attributed to Sigmund Freud, but believed to have been coined by a well-known poet years before… — Shirl Solomon Copy Share Image
“The heart's actions are neither the sentence nor its reprieve. Salt hay and thistles, above the cold granite. One bird singing back… — Jane Hirshfield Copy Share Image
“we live in a world full of fear and hatred, where it is our custom to conquer our own fear and hatred” — Samuel Lebea Copy Share Image
I can't understand these chaps who go round American universities explaining how they write poems: It's like going round explaining how you… — Philip Larkin Copy Share Image
If you would hit the mark, you must aim a little above it; every arrow that flies feels the attraction of earth. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
“and in the times of suffering the body neglects the soul the way the rivers neglect the ashes of the dead they… — Arushi Singh Copy Share Image
After my marriage ended, I had an urge to skip that part of my life completely in terms of poetry, not publish… — Denise Duhamel Copy Share Image
Call it not vain: they do not err Who say that when the poet dies Mute Nature mourns her worshipper, And celebrates… — Walter Scott Copy Share Image
“He left her a note in her right slipper that said when I was alone yesterday I was happy, and I wanted… — Mikl Paul Copy Share Image
“Release- For years they told you to sit. Stay. Now they open the door and tell you to get up. Leave. Where… — Keelie Breanna Copy Share Image
Only in dreams, in poetry, in play do we sometimes arrive at what we were before we were this thing that, who… — Julio Cortazar Copy Share Image
Working alone on a poem, a poet is of all artists the most free. The poem can be written with a modicum… — James Fenton Copy Share Image
“Lie beside me, oh my beloved! For thy thorns are more pleasurable than the petals of the world. Hold me in thy… — Faraaz Kazi Copy Share Image
