“At least I want to get up early one more morning, before sunrise. Before the birds, even. I want to throw cold… — Raymond Carver Copy Share Image
“Poetry is no more a narcotic than a stimulant; it is a universal bittersweet mixture for all possible household emergencies and its… — Robert Graves Copy Share Image
“Bombs on my backpack lunchbox full of fivestar crackers pockets loaded with rockets im gonna spit fireworks explosive rhymes connected like judas… — Patrick Cruz Copy Share Image
Here! 'Not thread nor glue, not nails nor screws, will ever self and shadow wed.' Helpful, those poet-types. Perhaps this one: 'Seek… — Catherynne M. Valente Copy Share Image
“If you're anything like me, You bite your nails, And laugh when you're nervous. You promise people the world, because that's what… — Taylor Swift Copy Share Image
I love kids that come to shows, little kids coming up to you with braces; like, some kid came up to me… — Jim Carroll Copy Share Image
“ A Faint Music by Robert Hass Maybe you need to write a poem about grace. When everything broken is broken, and… — Robert Hass Copy Share Image
Of pure poetry there are two kinds, that which mirrors the beauty of the world in which our bodies are, and that… — Lord Dunsany Copy Share Image
The applause of his native land is the richest reward to which the patriot ever aspires. It is this for which 'he… — John Tyler Copy Share Image
“Once, on a walk by a river- Eskdale in low reddish sunlight, with a dusting of snow- his daughter quoted to him… — Ian McEwan Copy Share Image
“Speech destroys the functions of love, I think—that’s a hell of a thing for a writer to say, I guess, but I… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Keats's odes are among my favorite poems ever. As are Neruda's. So yes, I think my poems are odes, though I really… — Matthew Zapruder Copy Share Image
“When you are old, at evening candle-lit beside the fire bending to your wool, read out my verse and murmur, "Ronsard writ… — Pierre de Ronsard Copy Share Image
“The Dreamfence kittens wait to jump into my dreams each time I visit heaven they jump over a dreamfence red clouds are… — Akiane Kramarik Copy Share Image
“What is needed is the imagination of the poet and the reasoning power of the mathematician. The thief of "The Purloined Letter"… — Vincent Buranelli Copy Share Image
“ A Slumber Did My Spirit Seal A slumber did my spirit seal; I had no human fears: She seemed a thing… — William Wordsworth Copy Share Image
I was joking earlier when I said that all writers are manic depressives, but it's a joke with a lot of truth… — T.C. Boyle Copy Share Image
I began writing for kids because I wanted to effect a change in American society. I continue in that spirit. By the… — Arnold Adoff Copy Share Image
Concrete poets continue to turn out beautiful things, but to me they're more visual than oral, and they almost really belong on… — James Laughlin Copy Share Image
“Translating this to the spiritual regions as their wont is, the poets sang beautifully how roses fade and petals fall. The moment… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Clarity, clarity, surely clarity is the most beautiful thing in the world, A limited, limiting clarity I have not and never did… — George Oppen Copy Share Image
“It’s true I’m not very well off But I feel richer than Boris Karloff Because I’m a poet, because I know you… — David W. McFadden Copy Share Image
“These Things, whose essential life want to express, first ask you, “Are you free? Are you prepared to devote all your love… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
I worry very much that people won't like it, or will think it's simply silly. But I have a post-it note above… — Theodora Goss Copy Share Image
I always thought that poetry is the verdict that others give to a certain kind of writing. So to call yourself a… — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
It all has to do with art - writing, painting, things I've done for a long time but just never had enough… — Jason Newsted Copy Share Image
“Sometimes by water 'and sometimes by the wind, 'my random lines on sand will be 'erased. What am I now? A ruddy… — Alok Mishra Copy Share Image
“While we haunt ourselves, we become part of others. With all our broken pieces, we are gathered in mosaics— reflecting every careless… — Laura Chouette Copy Share Image
There's a cinema of prose and a cinema of poetry and the cinema of poetry is always involved with politics. That's because… — Alice Rohrwacher Copy Share Image
Poets are the hierophants of an unapprehended inspiration; the mirrors of the gigantic shadows which futurity casts upon the present; the words… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
Why has no one written a November rhapsody with plenty of lilt and swing? The poets who are moved at all by… — Mabel Osgood Wright Copy Share Image
“Pater noster Our Father who art in heaven Stay there And we'll stay here on earth Which is sometimes so pretty With… — Jacques Prévert Copy Share Image
“If you are a monster, stand up. If you are a monster, a trickster, a fiend, If you’ve built a steam-powered wishing… — Catherynne M. Valente Copy Share Image
Poetry is the universal art of the spirit which has become free in itself and which is not tied down for its… — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Copy Share Image
Why are poets so apt to choose their mates, not for any similarity of poetic endowment, but for qualities which might make… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
I like bringing poetry's focus on figurative language and compression into the essay. Of course, the musical properties of language, the cadence… — Alison Hawthorne Deming Copy Share Image
Poetry is the language in which man explores his own amazement . . . says heaven and earth in one word .… — Christopher Fry Copy Share Image
I have made a very rude translation of the Seven against Thebes, and Pindar too I have looked at, and wish he… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The animal encounter poem is now so distinct a genre that it would be possible to create a full-length anthology from deer… — John Burnside Copy Share Image
“Hooper was no romantic. He had not as a child ridden with Rupert's horse or sat among the camp fires at Xanthus-side;… — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
