My mom is Irish. She is a poet and a humanitarian who believed in ensuring that people around her had a better… — Amala Akkineni Copy Share Image
“ Smile. Steel it. Keep steeling it. Laugh. Trill it. Keep trilling it. Love. Feel it. Keep feeling it.” — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
“The truth is, we die a little every day. Yet somewhere between the ashes and the dawn, We must learn the quiet… — Jack Jizmejian Copy Share Image
“A philosopher and a social revolutionist, a painter, a singer, a poet, a writer, and a country gentleman, all engaged in sipping… — Elizabeth Breuer Copy Share Image
Every poem I write falls short in some important way. But I go on trying to write the one that won’t. — Dorianne Laux Copy Share Image
“Names sound nice because no one peeks behind the cover to see the sad face of a poem crying for meaning, while… — Dejan Stojanovic Copy Share Image
For instance, it's a little better now than it was two or three years ago, but something like 70% of the poems… — Peter Davison Copy Share Image
We ask the poet: 'What subject have you chosen?' instead of: 'What subject has chosen you? — Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach Copy Share Image
Did the gods once mingle with humankind, or is Homer a visionary madman, or, what is worse, a mere poet, a maker-up… — Eva Brann Copy Share Image
“Your skin reminds me of everything beautiful I've ever loved... how the moon gets jealous at how you mock her crescent figure… — Brandi L. Bates Copy Share Image
I don't want to wrong anybody, so I won't go so far as to say that she actually wrote poetry, but her… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Sentinels of trees breathe life into bodies of earthly flesh As their mighty arms reach to the stars we join in their… — Ramon Ravenswood Copy Share Image
I'm more than a little suspicious of humor in poems, because I think it can at times be a way of getting… — Matthew Zapruder Copy Share Image
Experience has taught me, when I am shaving of a morning, to keep watch over my thoughts, because, if a line of… — A. E. Housman Copy Share Image
The monotony of a long heroic poem may often be pleasantly relieved by judicious interruptions in the perfect succession of rhymes, just… — H. P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
“Pretty Words" Poets make pets of pretty, docile words: I love smooth words, like gold-enamelled fish Which circle slowly with a silken… — Elinor Wylie Copy Share Image
Listen, real poetry doesn't say anything; it just ticks off the possibilities. Opens all doors. You can walk through anyone that suits… — Jim Morrison Copy Share Image
Against barbarity, poetry can resist only by confirming its attachment to human fragility like a blade of grass growing on a wall… — Mahmoud Darwish Copy Share Image
Poetry is the honey of all flowers, the quintessence of all sciences, the marrow of wit, and the very phrase of angels. — Thomas Nashe Copy Share Image
“Judaism takes the verse in Genesis, 'Be fruitful and multiply,' as part of its statutory law. Because it is the first law… — Herman Wouk Copy Share Image
I have some weak poems in that new collection, which is why I'm not ready to send the collection out yet. — Shirley Geok-lin Lim Copy Share Image
Poetry is itself a thing of God; He made his prophets poets; and the more We feel of poesie do we become… — Philip James Bailey Copy Share Image
There is no better way of exercising the imagination than the study of law. No poet ever interpreted nature as freely as… — Jean Giraudoux Copy Share Image
The record of poetry in the 20th century isn't all that great anyway. Most of the poets who weren't fascists were Stalinists. — Robert Hass Copy Share Image
I was learning 'Changes' at the time that my mom was sick and she was leaving me. And those last verses in… — Charles Bradley Copy Share Image
A poet, to whom no one cruel or imposing listens, Disdained by senates, whispers to your dust. — Carolyn Kizer Copy Share Image
I will have my voice: Indian, Spanish, white. I will have my serpent's tongue - my woman's voice, my sexual voice, my… — Gloria E. Anzaldúa Copy Share Image
I get to a point when I've collected together enough words that seem like they want to be songs rather than poems,… — PJ Harvey Copy Share Image
A poet is the creator of the nation around him, he gives them a world to see and has their souls in… — Johann Gottfried Herder Copy Share Image
The poets began drifting away from churches as the jurists grew louder and more insistent. — Barbara Brown Taylor Copy Share Image
Sometimes poetry--words--give us a small, lovely look at ourselves. And sometimes that is enough. — Patricia MacLachlan Copy Share Image
To a poet the mere making of a poem can seem to solve the problem of truth…but only a problem of art… — Laura Riding Copy Share Image
One can speak poetry just by arranging colors well, just as one can say comforting things in music. — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
“We didn't just bump into each other or randomly meet. It was more like a soul collision, meant to be.” — Melody Lee Copy Share Image
“Our friends through cables and computer screens are as real as the light and sound waves we alter through thought.” — Belinda Subraman Copy Share Image
“I too was pinched off from a piece of clay, I too modeled by omnipotence and flanked by things too wonderful for… — Bryana Johnson Copy Share Image
“What is it about those unresolved endings that cause you to question every decision when you're trying to move forward?” — Alfa H Copy Share Image
Living here in Cambridge, you had to have an identity. It was not enough to be a wife. So I did a… — Jane Hawking Copy Share Image
“While war for love is inspiring in legends and epic poems, we must be governed by cynical pragmatism.” — James Cambias Copy Share Image
I actually remember celebrating National Poetry Day at school; I remember having to write and read a load. — Tinie Tempah Copy Share Image
