There's always some reason not to be writing and I regret the times I give in to that, because then writing feels… — Joan Larkin Copy Share Image
Why do we smile? Why do we laugh? Why do we feel alone? Why are we sad and confused? Why do we… — Benjamin Alire Saenz Copy Share Image
“Besides, Fi was convinced that instinct could determine a body's literary needs, just as physical cravings pointed to dietary shortfalls. She'd experienced… — Masha Hamilton Copy Share Image
“It is (according to one’s point of view) either a wonderful piece of luck or a wise provision of God’s, that poetry… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“ I Like For You To Be Still I like for you to be still It is as though you are absent… — Pablo Neruda Copy Share Image
Love--what a volume in a word, an ocean in a tear, A seventh heaven in a glance, a whirlwind in a sigh,… — Martin Farquhar Tupper Copy Share Image
“In uncertainty I am certain that underneath their topmost layers of frailty men want to be good and want to be loved.… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“Oh there once was a woman and she kept a shop selling trinkets to tourists not far from a dock who came… — John Ashbery Copy Share Image
A life lived in chaos is an impossibility for the artist. No matter how unstructured may seem the painter's garret in Paris… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
"Poetry" refers to the quite challenging and quite resistant sets of words put together to be admired and interpreted by people who… — Stephen Burt Copy Share Image
Poets, if they're genuine, must keep repeating "I don't know." Each poem marks an effort to answer this statement, but as soon… — Wislawa Szymborska Copy Share Image
“In numele si sub teroarea ei (plictiselii, n.m.) parasesc oamenii caminul si moartea agreabila legata de el si se avanta in lume,… — Emil Cioran Copy Share Image
“I’ve been dating for over a decade, Libby, and I have never had a man look as hopeful and adorably desperate over… — Lili Valente Copy Share Image
“Audience of angels descend in the ambiance reciting praises in your glory, when you wear your dance shoes, when you arrive at… — Shah Asad Rizvi Copy Share Image
“Iniquity it is; but pass the can. My lad, no pair of kings our mothers bore; Our only portion is the estate… — A.E. Housman Copy Share Image
“When the man touches through to the exact center of the woman, he lies motionless, in equilibrium, in absolute desire, at the… — Galway Kinnell Copy Share Image
Fear never wrote a symphony or poem, negotiated a peace treaty, or cured a disease. Fear never pulled a family out of… — Max Lucado Copy Share Image
Corruption is subtle, just like the Bible said. Many young poets have come to me and asked, How am I gonna make… — Philip Levine Copy Share Image
I am a poet, bard, scop, minnesinger, trobairitz who is driven by sound and the possibilities for vocal expression, the mouthing of… — Anne Waldman Copy Share Image
Even though I am the daughter of a poet, and my stepmother is also a poet, growing up, I didn't think I… — Natasha Trethewey Copy Share Image
Everybody has their own idea of what's a poet. Robert Frost, President Johnson, T.S.Eliot, Rudolf Valentino - they're all poets. I like… — Bob Dylan Copy Share Image
“Then Jip went up to the front of the ship and smelt the wind; and he started muttering to himself, "Tar; Spanish… — Hugh Lofting Copy Share Image
“We love men because they can never fake orgasms, even if they wanted to. Because they write poems, songs, and books in… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
“The Psalms are not only poetry in themselves; they are to be the cause of poetry in those who sing them, together… — N.T. Wright Copy Share Image
Anna Journey, in her new book of poems, Vulgar Remedies, creates an alchemical self whose shimmering limbic / alembic lyrics distill the… — Carol Muske-Dukes Copy Share Image
One of the best gifts you can give a poet is to present them with field guides - to rocks, to stars,… — Marge Piercy Copy Share Image
“A Very Short Song Once, when I was young and true, Someone left me sad- Broke my brittle heart in two; And… — Dorothy Parker Copy Share Image
June Jordan once said something which is just wonderful. I'm paraphrasing her-that her function as a poet was to make revolution irresistible.… — Audre Lorde Copy Share Image
We aren't suggesting that mental instability or unhappiness makes one a better poet, or a poet at all; and contrary to the… — Dorianne Laux Copy Share Image
Walt Whitman and Emerson are the poets who have given the world more than anyone else. Perhaps Whitman is not so widely… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“Hill tops like hot iron glitter bright in the sun, And the rivers we're eying burn to gold as they run; Burning… — John Clare Copy Share Image
“Little world, full of scars and gashes, ripened with another's pain, Your flowers feed on carrion--so do your birds; Men feed on… — James Kavanaugh Copy Share Image
The lyrics seem to follow the music, and that's usually how I write. I write more about what comes out of my… — Gary Louris Copy Share Image
The day after the president Trump election, I remember feeling like it was 1984 again. It was in the air somehow. That… — Adrian Matejka Copy Share Image
I did not have any role model. I could not learn anything from the female voice that male poets used, a voice… — Kim Hyesoon Copy Share Image
I'm sorry, man, but I've got magic. I've got poetry in my fingertips. Most of the time - and this includes naps… — Charlie Sheen Copy Share Image
There's no artist in this world that doesn't enjoy the dream that if they have bad reviews now, the story of Keats… — Jane Campion Copy Share Image
Who among us has not, in moments of ambition, dreamt of the miracle of a form of poetic prose, musical but without… — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
“We know from accounts of Rilke's life that his stay in Rodin's workshops taught him how modern sculpture had advanced to the… — Peter Sloterdijk Copy Share Image
“The world is as it used to be: “All nations striving strong to make Red war yet redder. Mad as hatters They… — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
