I've read some of your modern free verse and wonder who set it free. — John Barrymore Copy Share Image
“I came to pen another poem for you, but even every unwritten poem is you.” — Kamand Kojouri Copy Share Image
The poet can only write the poems; it takes the reader to complete the meaning. — Nikki Giovanni Copy Share Image
“And the poem, I think, is only your voice speaking. ― Virginia Woolf, The Waves” — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Poetry is a deliberate attempt to make language suggestive and imprecise. — Kenneth Koch Copy Share Image
“The night has a thousand eyes and I'm a gypsy dancer still hungry for more.” — Bob Miller Copy Share Image
I couldn't believe verse was supposed to be hard. It was a snap for me. I loved Shakespeare. — Ted Lange Copy Share Image
“We are metered only by our own machines, while the book is a clock that forgets her machanics.” — Amy King Copy Share Image
People were usually much better in their letters than in reality. They were much like poets in this way. — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
“Alive. This music rocks me. I drive the interstate, watch faces come and go on either side. I am free to be… — Joy Harjo Copy Share Image
There is a majesty and mystery in nature, take her as you will. The essence of poetry comes breathing to a mind… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
There are people who think it's easier to write books in verse, and it's definitely not. — Ellen Hopkins Copy Share Image
I have decided, it is fruitless. For I am no longer sure of anything concerning my existance. A philosopher is a dead… — Roger Zelazny Copy Share Image
In the poetry of immigrants, nostalgia is as common as confetti at parades or platitudes at political conventions. — Amitava Kumar Copy Share Image
It is true that short forms of poetry have been cultivated in the Far East more than in modern Europe; but in… — Lafcadio Hearn Copy Share Image
Poetry criticism at its worst today is mean in spirit and spiteful in intent, as if determined to inflict the wound that… — David Lehman Copy Share Image
Howard Altmann has found a way to make language transform itself. If the elusive moment between I and Thou could speak, it… — Dennis Nurkse Copy Share Image
But, that was the beginning, though I didn't start writing until I was in high school and when I was in high… — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
“...some have asked me what understanding of Nature one shapes from so strange a year? I would answer that one's first appreciation… — Henry Beston Copy Share Image
“I said ”I love you so much it’s killing me” and you kept saying sorry so I stopped explaining for it never… — Charlotte Eriksson Copy Share Image
“I don’t think that I’ve been in love as such Although I liked a few folk pretty well Love must be vaster… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“I was born into the century in which novels lost their stories, poems their rhymes, paintings their form, and music its beauty,… — Pat Conroy Copy Share Image
