A poem is a private story, after all, no matter how apparently public. The reader is always overhearing a confession. — Jorie Graham Copy Share Image
“The historian is an indissoluble part of his history, as the poet is of his poem, as the shadowy biographer is of… — A.S. Byatt Copy Share Image
I can't quite see the point of poems like "Wittgenstein Goes for a Walk with A Hawk in Sherwood Forest." I know… — Andre Naffis-Sahely Copy Share Image
“You're too sane for a lunatic girl like me. You live in reality, while I tango in the jungle of my imagination… — Melody Lee Copy Share Image
Living is the original art. As a young man I wanted to be a poet and I learned along the way that… — Mark Nepo Copy Share Image
Religion is no more possible without prayer than poetry without language, or music without atmosphere. — James Martineau Copy Share Image
All the modern verse plays, they're terrible; they're mostly about the poetry. It's more important that the play is first. — Denis Johnson Copy Share Image
“It may have been just another night to all the people I saw rushing past my left and my right... but my… — Alfa H Copy Share Image
“to do list (after the breakup) 1. take refuge in your bed 2. cry. till the tears stop (this will take a… — Rupi Kaur Copy Share Image
Some people ask, 'How do you attract the young and so many different people when your poetry is complicated and different?' I… — Mahmoud Darwish Copy Share Image
“Alba, it's okay,' Clare says softly. She looks at me. 'Say the poem about lovers on the carpet.' I blank, and then… — Audrey Niffenegger Copy Share Image
To write poetry, like sincere poetry, it is like performing heart surgery on yourself without anesthesia...in public...You are peeling back layers. You… — Amir Sulaiman Copy Share Image
Give me a kiss, give me the world, give me your heart, I'll be your girl, give me your smile, give me… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The children walk away from me, flick flickety off at a tangent between thin blotched beech trunks, then turn like yo-yos at… — Jay Woodman Copy Share Image
Then I found another one, grandpa's poem. It turned out it had been written by Emily Brontë and it wasn't my grandfather's… — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
I definitely notice the absence of character in most poetry, which is not so say that I'm an innovator in that regard.… — Shane McCrae Copy Share Image
I love men. I've always been drawn to poets, artists, and madmen. Sometimes all three in one — Jessica Lange Copy Share Image
“That is what all the poets do: they talk to themselves outloud and the world overhears them. But it's horribly lonely not… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Poetry should begin with emotion in the poet, and end with the same emotion in the reader. The poem is simply the… — Philip Larkin Copy Share Image
Solitude never hurt anyone. Emily Dickinson lived alone, and she wrote some of the most beautiful poetry the world has ever known...… — Matt Groening Copy Share Image
“Nigerian poet Ijeoma Umebinyuo says, “You must let the pain visit. You must allow it to teach you. You must not allow… — Sarah M. Nannen Copy Share Image
“...you are a river rock and belong in a stream - not here in this upper room sinking in my bed...” — John Geddes Copy Share Image
The success of the poem is determined not by how much the poet felt in writing it, but by how much the… — John Ciardi Copy Share Image
In most of the world, poetry has such a different reputation than it does in Western culture. — Eliza Griswold Copy Share Image
If every individual starts listening to poetry, watch plays, and see paintings, they'll become a better human. — Pankaj Tripathi Copy Share Image
Poetry for Broken Hearts Walking alone is not difficult... But after having walked a mile with someone Coming back alone is more… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I think what we lack isn't science, but poetry that reveals what the heart is ready to recognize — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
“The most successful scientist thinks like a poet—wide-ranging, sometimes fantastical—and works like a bookkeeper. It is the latter role that the world… — Edward O. Wilson Copy Share Image
You have to understand a bit about the poetry of the blues to know where the references are coming from. — Van Morrison Copy Share Image
I write almost everything, actually. Songs, poems, stories. And stories out of every genre, too. — Jackie Evancho Copy Share Image
“If they succeed, you will not be packed off to some idyllic farm, where you can write bad poetry, we will both… — A. H. Septimius Copy Share Image
Im not, by nature, a collaborator. My biggest influences were people like painters and poets. These are solitary workers. — Robert Wyatt Copy Share Image
“Pagi menyelinap di jemarimu sebagai sepi yang selalu ditangkap puisi, mengabadikan sepasang jejak yang sembunyi” — Helvy Tiana Rosa Copy Share Image
Every artist is a cannibal/every poet is a thief/all kill for inspiration/and then sing about the grief. — Bono Copy Share Image
There are two classes of men called poets. The one cultivates life, the other art,... one satisfies hunger, the other gratifies the… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Tom Sleigh's poetry is hard-earned and well founded. I great admire the way it refuses to cut emotional corners and yet achieves… — Seamus Heaney Copy Share Image
But the lover's power is the poet's power. He can make love from all the common strings with which this world is… — Amelia Barr Copy Share Image
The central fact of my life has been the existence of words and the possibility of weaving those words into poetry. — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
“Without play at many levels of language, from phonemes to logical structures, a poem is merely prose with linebreaks added.” — Helen Vendler Copy Share Image
“Only in Russia poetry is respected – it gets people killed. Is there anywhere else where poetry is so common a motive… — Osip Mandelstam Copy Share Image
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