“Remembrance and reflection how allied! What thin partitions Sense from Thought divide!” — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
“We are always parting! It's supposed to be sweet sorrow or something, isn't it? Those poets. They'll say anything.” — Jude Morgan Copy Share Image
I've spent much of my life being attuned to watching for an image or a phrase that can trigger what might be… — Pattiann Rogers Copy Share Image
“ At Night Love said, "Wake still and think of me," Sleep, "Close your eyes till break of day," But Dreams came… — Sara Teasdale Copy Share Image
Poetry demands a man with a special gift for it, or else one with a touch of madness in him. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
“life having its elaborate masterpieces, just as poetry has, or sculpture, or painting.” — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“Choice- Judgement. Black coffee acid on an empty stomach. Perception. Cool, clear water.” — Keelie Breanna Copy Share Image
So I speak to my people on the spirit of chuck d. You behind the glass trust me and cut deep. Then… — Malice (Clipse Copy Share Image
“When the holly’s in the red And the pine is in the green, When the mornings all are frosty, In a brilliant… — Rachel Heffington Copy Share Image
“In this twilight they were more imagined than seen, but I felt surrounded by the practitioners of a sacred mediocrity, an elegant… — Denis Johnson Copy Share Image
Things that I have a hard time being able to fully grasp, sometimes writing the poem helps me work through it. Or… — Sarah Kay Copy Share Image
“Are we like two stars in a constellation Seeming so close And making so much sense Yet in reality We are separated… — Justin Wetch Copy Share Image
Wonder, and its expression in poetry and the arts, are among the most important things which seem to distinguish men from other… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Caxtons are mechanical birds with many wings and some are treasured for their markings-- they cause the eyes to melt or the… — Craig Raine Copy Share Image
My first MFA was in poetry, and it was very much part of a professional trajectory leading to life as a professor.… — Garth Greenwell Copy Share Image
“The oldest written poem was by the Greek, Homer. His poem, The Iliad, tells the story of the siege of Troy, a… — Terry Deary Copy Share Image
“The mind-blowing, ridiculous sex which was the stuff of both poetry and porn - so unlike anything else I had ever experienced… — Emily Giffin Copy Share Image
It had been agreed between them that lighted candles at wayside inns, in strange countries amid mountain scenery, gave the evening meal… — Henry James Copy Share Image
Poems are language turned into art; sound and sense matter; they can be as long or longer than The Odyssey or as… — Campbell McGrath Copy Share Image
The poetry of Walt Whitman. I can return again and again to these magnificent poems and still get pleasure from reading them. — Robert Littell Copy Share Image
The actual world, not some fantastic structure that has nothing to do with reality, must provide the material for modern poetry. — Muriel Rukeyser Copy Share Image
A lot of people are writing poems and don't realize it. They have this limited idea of how the poem should sound… — Matthea Harvey Copy Share Image
“I do think the bars That kept my spirit in are burst - that I Am sailing with thee through the dizzy… — John Keats Copy Share Image
“Then you are a poet?' she asked, fingering the flyer in her pocket. 'No not at all,' he waved his hand. 'I… — Karen Tei Yamashita Copy Share Image
“I think the perfect pen name is Quill McSeagull. Especially for writing flights of fancy—and nothing has more feathers than a love… — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
I write plays and poetry at the same time, and I'm always refining, but I'm not obsessive about it. It's what I… — Derek Walcott Copy Share Image
With respect to ingenious subconsciousness, I think, philosophers might well rival poets. — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Copy Share Image
Jim Longenbach, poet, critic, and my husband, is always passing along life-changing books for me to read. — Joanna Scott Copy Share Image
“Begin with me, barefoot, under the almond tree... —Sam (a character in Mildred's Garden)” — Laura Boggess Copy Share Image
“I have to find a place to hide An island in the sea Surrounded by a racing tide Where I can live… — Laurie Matthew Copy Share Image
If there were no poetry on any day in the world, poetry would be invented that day. For there would be an… — Muriel Rukeyser Copy Share Image
This proves that great lyric poetry can die, be reborn, die again, but will always remain one of the most outstanding creations… — Eugenio Montale Copy Share Image
I'm interested in concrete poems - anything that complicates the line between the written and the visual. — Matthea Harvey Copy Share Image
Poetry leads us to the unstructured sources of our beings, to the unknown, and returns us to our rational, structured selves refreshed. — A. R. Ammons Copy Share Image
Railing in other men may be a crime, But ought to pass for mere instinct in him: Instinct he follows and no… — John Dryden Copy Share Image
Many people become bankrupt through having invested too heavily in the prose of life. To have ruined one's self over poetry is… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Someday, I'm gonna write a poem in a letter; Someday, I'm gonna get that faculty together. — David Bowie Copy Share Image
Poetry is a kind of magic that very few can create and even fewer can truly understand and appreciate in all its… — Dennis Gabor Copy Share Image
A drainless shower Of light is poesy: 'tis the supreme of power; 'Tis might half slumbering on its own right arm. — John Keats Copy Share Image
That's kind of the challenging thing about writing an inaugural poem. You're speaking to everyone, but you don't also want to speak… — Amanda Gorman Copy Share Image
