He that works and does some Poem, not he that merely says one, is worthy of the name of Poet. — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
If Rumi is the most-read poet in America today, Coleman Barks is in good part responsible. His ear for the truly divine… — Huston Smith Copy Share Image
The poetry of heroism appeals irresitably to those who don't go to a war, and even more so to those whom the… — Louis Ferdinand Celine Copy Share Image
I was 14 or 15 when I discovered poetry, and I pretty much stopped writing prose until Master of Reality. — John Darnielle Copy Share Image
“Adorn ritual; decorate shrines of love, hope, tranquility. Be significant. Arrive deliberate. . .” — Cathleen Margaret Copy Share Image
The only nice poets I've ever met were bad poets, and a bad poet is not a poet at all - ergo,… — Richard Burton Copy Share Image
“also, the oldest notion still in vogue is that if you can’t understand a poem then it almost certainly is a good… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
This creature of the poem may assemble itself into a being with its own centrifugal force. — Sharon Olds Copy Share Image
“He sits, silent, no longer mistaking the cable news for company— and when he talks, he talks of childhood, remembering some slight… — Anthony Walton Copy Share Image
It's a bit of the very last verse from Paradiso- Dante's Paradise. 'My will and my desire were turned by love, the… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
Solitude delighteth well to feed on many thoughts; There as thou sittest peaceful, communing with fancy, The precious poetry of life shall… — Martin Farquhar Tupper Copy Share Image
I am a romantic, in a literary way, by which I mean the Romantic poets, who thought just because a sensation is… — Sebastian Faulks Copy Share Image
Titian, Tintoretto, and Paul Veronese absolutely enchanted me, for they took away all sense of subject... It was the poetry of color… — Washington Allston Copy Share Image
I walk with Federico Garcia Lorca around the Upper West Side in Manhattan because that was a neighborhood he lived in and… — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
“I'll never let you brood over my numbness As long as your onion love I peel and cry I'll never let you… — Munia Khan Copy Share Image
I started out in graduate school to be a fiction writer. I thought I wanted to write short stories. I started writing… — Natasha Trethewey Copy Share Image
“Mirror, mirror on the wall, I have placed you in my hall Where I wander every day. Echo beauty, and you’ll stay.” — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
“In poetry magic & science must co-exist. They must creatively interact to create a new poetry of artistic transformation.” — the mag man Copy Share Image
The idea of a detached art, of poetry as a charm which exists only to distract our leisure, is a decadent idea… — Antonin Artaud Copy Share Image
Terror itself, when once grown transcendental, becomes a kind of courage; as frost sufficiently intense, according to the poet Milton, will burn. — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
“There's no poetry in me, Reginleit. No fine words." He stared down at her, his gaze seeming to consume her. "I come… — Kresley Cole Copy Share Image
“We are the daily bread of forlorn lovers, of all who want to believe in love; they cannot live without a taste.” — Rob Bignell Copy Share Image
In America, the term younger poet is applied with chivalric liberality. It can be used to describe anyone not yet collecting a… — Dana Gioia Copy Share Image
As the poet says, all happy couples are alike, it's the unhappy ones who create the stories. I'm no longer a story.… — Charles Baxter Copy Share Image
Poems are taught as though the poet has put a secret key in his words and it is the reader's job to… — Natalie Goldberg Copy Share Image
“Was it beautiful? My world? The kids on my block played T-ball and Tetris one accidentally shot a boy in the desert.… — Kim Young Copy Share Image
The Church has lost a great religious poet in me; but I have lost an infinity of fun in the church, so… — Sylvia Townsend Warner Copy Share Image
Poetry offers a way of understanding and expressing existence that is fundamentally different from conceptual thought. — Dana Gioia Copy Share Image
The biggest problem is people are afraid of poetry, think they can't understand it or that it will be boring. — Caroline Kennedy Copy Share Image
Roses are red, violates are blue, hes for me not for you, if by chance you take my place, I'll take my… — Anna Copy Share Image
He who writes prose builds his temple to Fame in rubble; he who writes verses builds it in granite. - Edward George… — Bill Vaughan Copy Share Image
I call what I do 'modal structures.' Sometimes they're songs, sometimes they're longer, sometimes they're this mantra - I've never called myself… — Anne Waldman Copy Share Image
Everyone wants to be open and inclusive, but nobody wants to pay for it. It's the biggest roadblock to translating living writers,… — Andre Naffis-Sahely Copy Share Image
I don't believe a good poet is very often deliberately obscure. A poet writes in a way necessary to him or her;… — Lydia Davis Copy Share Image
I seem to keep returning to my father in poems because his personality was so extreme, so driven. He did everything to… — Robert Morgan Copy Share Image
“forsan et haec olim meminisse iuvabit. and perhaps it will be pleasing to have remembered these things one day” — Virgil Copy Share Image
For what made that in glory shine so long But poets' Pens, pluckt from Archangels' wings? — Sir John Davies Copy Share Image
Do not flatter yourselves with the belief that a mere recital of that celebrated verse in St. John makes a man a… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
ð¶ð¤ðð¬ Life's A Bitch And Then Ya DIE Thats Why I Get High, Cause Ya Never Know When Your Gonna Go! — Michael Copy Share Image
The Irish believed that gods, druids, poets, and others in touch with the magical world could be literal shape-shifters — Thomas Cahill Copy Share Image
