“I lived for so long without you, only dreaming of the concept of you. And, now that I know you, I can't… — Liz Newman Copy Share Image
The romanticised life, where all the great poetry and music and art of the world comes from, is great but it requires… — Laura Marling Copy Share Image
The best poets, after all, exhibit only a tame and civil side of nature. They have not seen the west side of… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“Rain's pouring and it's too cold. All people bored and I even accord What to do but spell a tale told: So… — Ana Claudia Antunes Copy Share Image
When I was 3, I recited a poem at a festival in Passaic, New Jersey. The applause was tremendous, and it hit… — Nina Arianda Copy Share Image
“And so it was that the Poet, through an excess of theological refinement, was unable to satisfy his coarse carnal passion.” — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
I read poetry every day. I look at it as an exercise, a kind of T'ai Chi for writers. It teaches economy… — Roger Zelazny Copy Share Image
A reason to love and a reason to hate, a reason to know a reason to create, a reason to live the… — Senora Roy Copy Share Image
My own journey in becoming a poet began with memory - with the need to record and hold on to what was… — Natasha Trethewey Copy Share Image
“stats say relationships decline when a baby’s in the picture but the truth is, if the camera doesn’t take good pictures now,… — Xayaat Muhummed Copy Share Image
Call me psycho, call me insane, but written across my heart, will ALWAYS be your name. I probably need some help, I'm… — Patience Copy Share Image
We want to be famous as a writer, as a poet, as a painter, as a politician, as a singer, or what… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
The shape that poems make in the mind is an echo of something powerful in the cosmos. I do believe that, and… — Campbell McGrath Copy Share Image
“Dream Song 187 Them lady poets must not marry, pal. Miss Dickinson—fancy in Amherst bedding hér. Fancy a lark with Sappho, a… — John Berryman Copy Share Image
“He's probably out there in the hallway right now, composing bad poetry in his head." Michi cleared her throat, her voice taking… — Jay Kristoff Copy Share Image
A poem I wrote: I was just that little girl, who was in the park on day, I was just that little… — Akila Sultana Copy Share Image
The Soul of a Warrior. Cries out for Battle. The Soul of a Poet, Screams out for Love. I stand between them,… — Eric Nickel Copy Share Image
“When you are lost in the right way, you don't go back to being found in the wrong way.” — Melody Lee Copy Share Image
O heart, be at peace, because Nor knave nor dolt can break What's not for their applause, Being for a woman's sake. — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
“your happiness comes before anyone else's happiness -the real meaning of "self-respect.” — Amanda Lovelace Copy Share Image
As a poet and writer in general I feel very grateful that I can just make a chapbook and that we don't… — Ali Liebegott Copy Share Image
“I do not blame him for not knowing the gentleness of my soul. When I only showed him, how violently I loved.” — Saiber Copy Share Image
You may repeat the most marvelous poems. And that is not worth a cent if you don't live it. — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
“Ô, the wine of a woman from heaven is sent, more perfect than all that a man can invent.” — Roman Payne Copy Share Image
Poetry and Hums aren't things which you get, they're things which get you. And all you can do is go where they… — Winnie The Pooh Copy Share Image
“Everyone's life is a poetry rhymed with sweet and bitter words, rhythmed with moments.” — Robert Ahanes Copy Share Image
Poetry surrounds us everywhere, but putting it on paper is, alas, not so easy as looking at it. — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
“If there is passion, let me feel its heat. I want my heart to beat fast, my breath raspy, my skin to… — Susie Clevenger Copy Share Image
“God has it in for the poets, that's obvious, but the Bombaywallahs hold a special place in his dispensation.” — Jeet Thayil Copy Share Image
“This is the kind of room poets are supposed to work in, the kind of room that threatens to break your spirit… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
As Aristotle said, you have to be an aristocrat or a reactionary to write a good proletarian poem. — Kenneth Rexroth Copy Share Image
“And you know what the worst thing was? The worst thing was that nobody ever believed how hard we tried.” — Jack McCarthy Copy Share Image
I often wonder if I am suffering from some mental dysfunction because of how weird and baffling my poetry seems to so… — John Ashbery Copy Share Image
I understand the phrase "Honor the Women" all too well: the poet has probably a wife of his own, but he prefers… — Franz Grillparzer Copy Share Image
Just as we don't spend a lot of time worrying about how all those poets out there are going to monetize their… — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
I'm not looking for Bible verses to back up a lifestyle of passiveness. I'm looking for Bible verses and life experiences to… — Mike Bickle Copy Share Image
MARRIAGE, Is a book in which the first chapter is written in poetry and the rest of the book is prose; — Nikhil Saluja Copy Share Image
The urge to write poetry is like having an itch. When the itch becomes annoying enough, you scratch it. — Robert Penn Warren Copy Share Image
Poetry cannot block a bullet or still a sjambok, but it can bear witness to brutality-thereby cultivating a flower in a graveyard. — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
I am not just a lesbian. I am not just a poet. I am not just a mother. Honor the complexity of… — Audre Lorde Copy Share Image
