“Straight between them ran the pathway, Never grew the grass upon it” — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
Sandra Kasturi's magical poems transform the ordinary into the surreal and exotic. — Phyllis Gotlieb Copy Share Image
Every poem, formal or free, has an ideal shape, and the job of the poet is to find it. — Peter Meinke Copy Share Image
“if I finally do catch you and put my mouth to yours you will taste that summer.” — Sina Queyras Copy Share Image
“the poem is a dice throw on a patch of darkness that may or may not glow” — Mahmoud Darwish Copy Share Image
I would rather write poems than prose, any day, any place. Yet each has its own force. — Mary Oliver Copy Share Image
The mind that finds its way to wild places is the poet's; but the mind that never finds its way back is… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
To the poet as a basement quilt, but perhaps To some reader a latticework of regrets ... — John Ashbery Copy Share Image
Why has our poetry eschewed The rapture and response of food? What hymns are sung, what praises said For home-made miracles of… — Louis Untermeyer Copy Share Image
“You don't even like poetry," Tessa said, her voice catching on a half laugh of relief. "No. But you make me want… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
Poetry depends on being simultaneously opaque and transparent. It can't be only one or the other. The pebble and the pool. — Peter J. Daniels Copy Share Image
“Be generous with your smile and try not to frown. And you will see my children; your smile will never let you… — Benny Bellamacina Copy Share Image
Pretty conceptions, fine metaphors, glittering expressions, and something of a neat cast of verse are properly the dress, gems, or loose ornaments… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
“When I’m with you, The gravity of our moments, The weight of our smiles Makes time nearly stop.” — L. Austen Johnson Copy Share Image
“Poetry Is a Destructive Force" That's what misery is, Nothing to have at heart. It is to have or nothing. It is… — Wallace Stevens Copy Share Image
“Adversity forced awareness on us, and it works, it bites us when we go too near the fire, when we love too… — Ian McEwan Copy Share Image
“The young must grow old Whilst old ones grow older. And cowards will shrink As the bold grow bolder. Courage may blossom… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“There are faces which charge with a meaning and pathos not belonging to the single human soul that flutters beneath them, but… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Documentary is, therefore, an approach, which makes use of the artistic faculties to give vivification to fact - to use Walt Whitman's… — Beaumont Newhall Copy Share Image
“Ja sam gazio u krvi do kolena, i nemam više snova. Sestra mi se prodala i majci su mi posekli sede kose.… — Dušan Vasilijev Copy Share Image
Poetry Love's Philosophy The fountains mingle with the river And the rivers with the ocean, The winds of heaven mix for ever… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
“Colliding with the bright light Of my true self, My illusions scream loudly, Themselves illusions Created by other illusions, Finally knowing that… — Ilchi Lee Copy Share Image
