A poem is an invocation, rebellious return to the blessedness of beginning again, wandering free in pure process of forgetting and finding. — Susan Howe Copy Share Image
It is the essence of poetry to spring, like the rainbow daughter of Wonder, from the invisible, to abolish the past, and… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“If we all die and become stars then I must believe that our souls live in the stars. Now I know why… — Nicola An Copy Share Image
“How they had dreamed together, he and she... how they had planned, and laughed, and loved. They had lived for a while… — Elizabeth von Arnim Copy Share Image
I used to buy scented poetry books on tour and read aloud to the band. Not what you'd expect, huh? — Suzi Quatro Copy Share Image
“There is no human society, however isolated, that has not developed and employed poetry as a cultural practice.” — Dana Gioia Copy Share Image
For poetry, more than any other art, except music, has a compelling hold upon the spiritual side of life. — Lizette Woodworth Reese Copy Share Image
I am what libraries and librarians have made me, with little assistance from a professor of Greek and poets — Heraclitus Copy Share Image
That was my way of putting it-not very satisfactory: A periphrastic study in a worn-out poetical fashion, Leaving one still with the… — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
We re-make nature by the act of discovery, in the poem or in the theorem. And the great poem and the deep… — Jacob Bronowski Copy Share Image
“I am your shower curtain and I am watching you. I surround you, I shield you, and I like you. I like… — Dave Eggers Copy Share Image
“SPRING POEM It is spring, my decision, the earth ferments like rising bread or refuse, we are burning last year's weeds, the… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
Poetry is concerned with using with abusing, with losing with wanting, with denying with avoiding with adoring with replacing the noun. It… — Gertrude Stein Copy Share Image
“Some of you say, 'Joy is greater thar sorrow,' and others say, 'Nay, sorrow is the greater.' But I say unto you,… — Kahlil Gibran Copy Share Image
Unfortunately, poetry is not born in noise, in crowds, or on a bus. There have to be four walls and the certainty… — Wislawa Szymborska Copy Share Image
“Milton argued, in 1649, after the execution of Charles I, that a people 'free by nature' had a right to overthrow a… — Ronald Carter Copy Share Image
What a writer can do, what a fiction writer or a poet or an essay writer can do is re-engage people with… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
“She bid him farewell, And scrutinized his silhouette, That slowly faded in the shadows. She whispered, "Au-revoir" To the nocturnal mist.” — Ruqayya Shaheed Khan Copy Share Image
“We survive. We're Irish. We have the souls of poets. We love our misery, we delight in the beauty of strange places… — Eilis Flynn Copy Share Image
Poetry is of so subtle a spirit, that in the pouring out of one language into another it will evaporate. — John Denham Copy Share Image
“Poetry is a distinct faculty, - it won't come when called, - you may as well whistle for a wind.” — George Gordon Byron Copy Share Image
A true poet does not bother to be poetical. Nor does a nursery gardener scent his roses. — Jean Cocteau Copy Share Image
And Robert Lowell, of course - in his poems, we're not located in his actual life. We're located more in the externals,… — Mark Strand Copy Share Image
I spent years of being a ghost / Unsure of where home is anymore / I tell them I feel nothing /… — Needa Muy Copy Share Image
Poetry is certainly something more than good sense, but it must be good sense, at all events, just as a palace is… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
Respect the language in which you write. Be kind, develop good vocabulary, and be creative in writing beautiful sentences. Your prose should… — Ruskin Bond Copy Share Image
The greatest poem ever known Is one all poets have outgrown: The poetry, innate, untold, Of being only four years old. — Christopher Morley Copy Share Image
I don't like a kind of workshop that is about editing--I don't want to sit there and be an editor. I don't… — Natasha Trethewey Copy Share Image
I was around in 1970, and now I am around in 2015 ... there is no poetry and very little romance in… — Don McLean Copy Share Image
“Seseorang memberiku gaun puisi. "Pakailah,"katanya."Kau tak kan jenuh lagi." Tetiba cuaca mesra, matari biru, aku menapak di atas laut.” — Helvy Tiana Rosa Copy Share Image
There is no peace to be taken With poets who are young, For they worry about the wars to be fought and… — Joyce Kilmer Copy Share Image
Because I was writing verse, my instructor suggested I study Shakespeare. The Shakespeare teacher insisted you couldn't understand the text without seeing… — Jamey Sheridan Copy Share Image
“Poetry is simple when you write what you see and feel, searching for the words only makes it difficult” — Rayvon L. Browne Copy Share Image
As an actor, I come to set, and I have already broken the character down by writing a poem about the character.… — Omari Hardwick Copy Share Image
His writer's words poured over her like poetry, and she couldn't find a single wisecrack to put up between them. — Susan Elizabeth Phillips Copy Share Image
one reason why I like writing poetry - you can say so many things in it that are true in poetry but… — Lucy Maud Montgomery Copy Share Image
But I am not political in the current events sense, and I have never wanted anyone to read my poetry that way. — Diane Wakoski Copy Share Image
I'd say people do need some help with poetry because I think poetry just helps takes us to places that Americans aren't… — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
Baudelaire's L'Héautontimorouménos was long seen to be a sexual sadomasochistic poem, it is now generally accepted that the poem is about writing… — Stephen Dobyns Copy Share Image
I don't think the nature of my poetry is satirical or even ironic, I think it's essentially lyrical but again I don't… — Kenneth Koch Copy Share Image
