Careers don't interest me. The only thing that interests me is continuing to be a poet on one level or another, whether… — Sam Shepard Copy Share Image
“Poetry, like sanctity, is the orchestration of multiple attributes into vast, compelling wholes.” — William Everson Copy Share Image
A nation's poets are its true owners; and by the stroke of the pen they convey the title-deeds of its real possessions… — George Edward Woodberry Copy Share Image
Let my muse Fail of thy former helps, and only use Her inadulterate strength. What's done by me Hereafter shall smell of… — Robert Herrick Copy Share Image
“We have no quarrel with the German nation, One would not quarrel with a flock of sheep. But, generation after generation, They… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
... to write well it is entirely necessary to read widely and deeply. Good poems are the best teachers. — Mary Oliver Copy Share Image
Fiction and poetry are doses, medicines. What they heal is the rupture reality makes on the imagination — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
Place is extremely important to my work because I am always pulling landscape imagery into my poems. — Cate Marvin Copy Share Image
“Have you suffered, starved and triumphed, grovelled down, yet grasped at glory, Grown bigger in the bigness of the whole? 'Done things'… — Robert W. (Robert William) Service Copy Share Image
Poesy must not be drawn by the ears: it must be gently led, or rather, it must lead, which was partly the… — Philip Sidney Copy Share Image
All things can tempt me from this craft of verse: One time it was a woman's face, or worse-- The seeming needs… — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
One is seduced and battered in turn. The result is presumably wisdom. Wisdom! We are clinging to life like lizards. Why is… — James Salter Copy Share Image
“I promise to respect and protect your aloneness, knowing that everything created must have its period of darkness: child and bulb, poem… — anne morrow lindbergh Copy Share Image
There was a verse that said if you are lukewarm rather than hot or cold, God will spit you out of his… — Maggie Rowe Copy Share Image
Yet half the beast is the great god Pan, To laugh, as he sits by the river, Making a poet out of… — Elizabeth Barrett Browning Copy Share Image
“After about half an hour I give up, thinking he must have stumbled home, when I find him. I'm in the girls'… — Cath Crowley Copy Share Image
For a creative person there's just as much pleasure in writing an eight-line poem as there is in writing a blockbuster play… — Tennessee Williams Copy Share Image
I used to write stories and poetry, but for some reason I have it in my head that if I'm going to… — Melanie Lynskey Copy Share Image
Poetry has historically been allied with religion and morals; it has served the purpose of penetrating the mysterious depths of things. — John Dewey Copy Share Image
The power of verse stems from an indefinable harmony between when it says and what it is. — Paul Valery Copy Share Image
A public expectation, it has to be said, not of poetry as such but of political positions variously approvable by mutually disapproving… — Seamus Heaney Copy Share Image
Listen to presences inside poems, Let them take you where they will. Follow those private hints, and never leave the premises. — Rumi Copy Share Image
Married or unmarried, young or old, poet or worker, you are still a dreamer, and will one time know, and feel, that… — Donald G. Mitchell Copy Share Image
As long as I can remember, I've been writing - first poems, then stories, and by my early teenage years I was… — Nathaniel Philbrick Copy Share Image
“Just about everyone has the heart of a poet inside them, yet sometimes you need to break through the rib cage to… — Cody Edward Lee Miller Copy Share Image
A novel is what you call something that won't sell if you call it poems or short stories. — Walker Percy Copy Share Image
“it was the kind of moon that I would want to send back to my ancestors and gift to my descendants so… — Sanober Khan Copy Share Image
“She's right. We would compose poems about love and tell stories that have been heard in some form before. But it would… — Ally Condie Copy Share Image
What actually makes poetry poetry is of course impossible to define. We recognize it when we hear it, when we see it,… — Robert Morgan Copy Share Image
I've been building a fiction in part around the Marfa poem since my brief residency there, which has kept it from receding… — Ben Lerner Copy Share Image
He who has religion will speak poetry. But philosophy is the tool with which to seek and discover religion. — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Copy Share Image
O innocent victims of Cupid, Remember this terse little verse: To let a fool kiss you is stupid, To let a kiss… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I got to thinking that poems were like people. Some people you got right off the bat. Some people you just didn't… — Benjamin Alire Saenz Copy Share Image
I lived in the world of poetry and ideas. I thought life was all about art and philosophy. In the military, I… — Shahin Najafi Copy Share Image
“Scientists can talk about human nature,but only poets can free those feelings we keep in the pent heart” — Jeffrey Moore Copy Share Image
“She’s like poetry. Like prose and love letters and lyrics, cascading down the center of a page.” — Colleen Hoover Copy Share Image
“The poem is furious ascension; poetry, the game of arid riverbanks. I am a man of riverbanks – excavation and inflammation –… — René Char Copy Share Image
In the concordance of Nicola Six's kisses there were many subheads and subsections, many genres and phyla - chapter and verse, cross-references,… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
“You became moon dust in my soul, I couldn't quite brush you away because somehow you always returned to haunt my heart.” — Melody Lee Copy Share Image
The kind of poet who founds and reconstitutes values is somebody like Yeats or Whitman - these are public value-founders. — Seamus Heaney Copy Share Image
