Well, we all start thinking we're going to be Romantic rock stars, but then reality hits and you realize no one reads… — George Murray Copy Share Image
What happens on the football field matters, not in the way that food matters but as poetry does to some people and… — Arthur Hopcraft Copy Share Image
“Theirs two ways to become a famous Poet, find that one person that knows somebody, that knows somebody, that knows somebody. Or… — Stanley Victor Paskavich Copy Share Image
I started out as a writer. Poetry and prose and also kind of satirical David Sedaris-esque stuff. — Pauley Perrette Copy Share Image
Love is a great poet, its resources are inexhaustible, but if the end it has in view is not obtained, it feels… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Poetry, to me, is a type of shamanistic chant capable of chasing away the darkness within us.” — Leila Samarrai Copy Share Image
And all poets love dust and mist because all the last answers. Go running back to dust and mist. — Carl Sandburg Copy Share Image
“You’re not a bad person, you’re just a little bit different and I’m a sucker for that.” — robert m drake Copy Share Image
Such sights as youthful poets dream On summer eves by haunted stream. Then to the well-trod stage anon, If Jonson's learned sock… — John Milton Copy Share Image
As a sick kid, I always looked out the window. The objects of my observation were the sun, the seasons, the wind,… — Kim Hyesoon Copy Share Image
Perhaps there is a degree of perception at which what is real and what is imagines are one: a state of clairvoyant… — Wallace Stevens Copy Share Image
“SMART My dad gave me one dollar bill 'Cause I'm his smartest son, And I swapped it for two shiny quarters 'Cause… — Shel Silverstein Copy Share Image
“By far, the hardest part regarding a work of art, apart from the start, is knowing precisely when to stop...It's growing up,… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
“Of the Poet’s Youth" When the man behind the counter said, “You pay by the orifice,” what could we do but purchase… — Erin Belieu Copy Share Image
It would be well, perhaps, if we were to spend more of our days and nights without any obstruction between us and… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The environment is becoming so much a central concern, I see environmental concerns just bleeding into poetries all over the place. My… — Alison Hawthorne Deming Copy Share Image
Poetry is the hardest thing that there is. It fascinates me, so I want to write more of it. — Steve Earle Copy Share Image
“...and I laugh and I spin and dance and frolic in ecstasy and I... I hurt no more, while you...you petrified little… — Kellie Elmore Copy Share Image
“So many questions but nothing to say, in this current moment we are still so far from the answers.” — Liz Newman Copy Share Image
I enjoyed writing stories whenever there was call to do it at school, and started writing bad poetry when I was doing… — Tom Fletcher Copy Share Image
Every so often I find some poems that are too good for the readers of The Atlantic because they are a little… — Peter Davison Copy Share Image
When I was 18 years old I went to Shakespeare Company, the school, and I wrote a poem about my leaves -… — Alicia Silverstone Copy Share Image
Whatever your life's pursuit -- art, poetry, sculpture, music, whatever your occupation may be -- you can be as spiritual as clergy,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A poem can have an impact, but you can't expect an audience to understand all the nuances. — Douglas Dunn Copy Share Image
I've sung in Russian, I've done an anecdote in Russian and a poem in Russian. My mother can no longer say I'm… — Tim Key Copy Share Image
“Cada vez que te enamores no expliques a nadie nada, deja que el amor te invada sin entrar en pormenores” — Mario Benedetti Copy Share Image
A poem (surely someone has said this before) is a one-night stand, a short story a love affair, and a novel a… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
Queen Latifah was writing poetry. Maybe Latifah's 'Ladies First' and Angelou's 'Phenomenal Woman' are the same thing, a generation apart. — Jason Reynolds Copy Share Image
And at least in poetry you should feel free to lie. That is, not to lie, but to imagine what you want,… — Mark Strand Copy Share Image
Whatever a poet writes with enthusiasm and a divine inspiration is very fine. Earliest reference to the madness or divine inspiration of… — Democritus Copy Share Image
“They're auras, Davey. I see them, too. The longer you stare at them, the wider the energy field expands until more colors… — Christina Westover Copy Share Image
I began my writing life as a poet, so poetry has always been fundamental. I evolved from poetry to journalism to stories… — Ben Okri Copy Share Image
“I mean you ask me not to fall in love with you and then you go write poems with your tongue and… — Clementine von Radics Copy Share Image
All art emulates the condition of ritual. That is what it comes from and to that it must always return for nourishment. — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
A poem, once it's written, is meant to be read with the inner voice of the person who reads it. — Tony Harrison Copy Share Image
I mainly wanted non-english writing poets, because I loved the idea that I was translating translations. — Simone Muench Copy Share Image
At each moment, a poem might grow into a totally different shape. It is not so much like working in a garden.… — Alice Oswald Copy Share Image
First of all I think that poetry is very noble and I always have with me the sense of the nobility of… — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
Unborn eternity does not die; existence is dying and falls asleep in the eternity beyond existence. — Dejan Stojanovic Copy Share Image
I have committed many sins in my life. This precise sin-the sin against poets-is without absolution. — E. L. Doctorow Copy Share Image
