One of the most intuitive nature writers of our recently past century, Peter Matthiessen, lends a poets voice to the desperate effort… — Ron Franscell Copy Share Image
“The lives and deaths of characters in stories and poems, however tragic, help us to learn about the world and - if… — Nicola Morgan Copy Share Image
Even though poetry was written for the 'minds ear' as well as the physical ear, the minds ear can be trained only… — Yvor Winters Copy Share Image
“Being a star is depressing. It twinkles but is distant and cold. I'd rather be the moon, Shine in your glory and… — Avinash Matta Copy Share Image
Solitude gives birth to the original in us, to beauty unfamiliar and perilous - to poetry. But also, it gives birth to… — Thomas Mann Copy Share Image
“Change, change, change it all Fuck the egg, it'll crack And they point and condemn Those these and them Digiting a shower… — Kat Clark Copy Share Image
Each genre exerts a considerable spell, as a kind of "form" to be filled, as a Shakespearean sonnet is filled. — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
“Like the bioluminescent creatures of the deep sea produce their own light I also have the ability to create my own light… — Rhys Blanco Copy Share Image
“It is said that once upon a time St. Kevin was kneeling with his arms stretched out in the form of a… — Seamus Heaney Copy Share Image
“Who among us has not suddenly looked into his child's face, in the midst of the toils and troubles of everyday life,… — Josef Pieper Copy Share Image
“This obsession with death and suffering revealed itself in literature, poetry, art, and particularly in sculpture, with the appearance of cadaver tombs… — Alison Weir Copy Share Image
There are many possible interpretations of what it means to create dangerously, and Albert Camus, like the poet Osip Mandelstam, suggests that… — Edwidge Danticat Copy Share Image
Already nature is serving all those uses which science slowly derives on a much higher and grander scale to him that will… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I don't decide. My secret self decides. I just go with my subconscious. If it wants to do a poem, I do… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
The life and vigor of poetry consists of the fact that it steps out of itself, tears out a section of religion,… — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Copy Share Image
He is to the great poet, what an excellent mimic is to a great actor. There is no determinate impression left on… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
My passion is bringing storylines around and constructing a full body of work rather than just a 16-bar verse. — Kendrick Lamar Copy Share Image
Literary poetry in a painter is something special, and is neither illustration nor the translation of writing by form. — Paul Gauguin Copy Share Image
Poets know how useful passion is for publication. Nowadays a broken heart will run to many editions. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“Till the time you realize your conquest you already reach that stage when you start losing the grip.” — Neel Preet Copy Share Image
“I didn't dare look at Conrad. I was afraid my love for him and my need for him to say yes would… — Jenny Han Copy Share Image
“I do not know which to prefer,/ The beauty of inflections/ Or the beauty of innuendos, / The blackbird whistling/Or jus after.” — John Green Copy Share Image
“Our ignorance often accelerates us. So much of what we know of motion propelled by what we don’t know about impact.” — Michael Schmeltzer Copy Share Image
“Every move, every sigh, every moan; everything you do for me is poetry from your soul to mine. You are my favorite… — Kirk Diedrich Copy Share Image
I have always believed that poems beg to be read aloud, even if the reader is in a world all her own. — J. Patrick Lewis Copy Share Image
Once every five hundred years or so, a summary statement about poetry comes along that we can't imagine ourselves living without — A. R. Ammons Copy Share Image
“The human spirit is poetry enough and I understand that, but I write to make it transparent to a world in love… — Christopher Poindexter Copy Share Image
“The head's a cloud anchor that the feet must follow. Travel light, he said, or don't travel at all.” — Jim Harrison Copy Share Image
I write some country music. There's a song called 'I Hope You Dance.' Incredible. I was going to write that poem; somebody… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
That young man with the long, auburn hair and the impudent face - that young man was not really a poet; but… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
But you, oh gardener, poet that you be / Though unaware, now use your seeds like words / And make them lilt… — Vita Sackville-West Copy Share Image
Wanderer, there is no road, the road is made by walking. The poem tells me it’s no big deal that I’m not… — Helen Oyeyemi Copy Share Image
“...that imperial guard which poets and humanists mount in relay around any great memory.” — Marguerite Yourcenar Copy Share Image
Poetry is the silence and speech between a wet struggling root of a flower and a sunlit blossom of that flower. — Carl Sandburg Copy Share Image
“You who are sitting before me have the power to change my consciousness into painting, poem, melody or anything else!” — Suman Pokhrel Copy Share Image
“There’s no money in poetry, but then there’s no poetry in money either.” - Robert Graves” — Robert Graves Copy Share Image
Reading poetry is an adventure in renewal, a creative act, a perpetual beginning, a rebirth of wonder. — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
I've been most happy to be an advocate for the kinds of grassroots things that people are doing who care about poetry. — Natasha Trethewey Copy Share Image
So now I have a collection of poetry by Aaron Neville and I give it to people I want to share it… — Aaron Neville Copy Share Image
I write a book of poems and then the characters won't go away so I write a play from that. — Grace Cavalieri Copy Share Image
