“There's no money in poetry, but there's no poetry in money, either.” — Robert Graves Copy Share Image
“You brought me your darkness & I loved you with the radiant tears of a thousand suns.” — Curtis Tyrone Jones Copy Share Image
“Our lives may not have fit together, but ohhh did our souls know how to dance...” — K. Towne Jr Copy Share Image
As to London we must console ourselves with the thought that if life outside is less poetic than it was in the… — Goldwin Smith Copy Share Image
“What was she left with but ashes and darkness once the light of the flame went out? The smell of smoke lingered… — Eric Overby Copy Share Image
“I've almost seen him. And Poet," she says, and I want tot say, You have seen him and you didn't want him.” — Cath Crowley Copy Share Image
Anticipating that most poetry will be worse than carrying heavy luggage through O'Hare Airport, the public, to its loss, reads very little… — Russell Baker Copy Share Image
The pilgrim is a poetic traveler, one who believes that there is poetry on the road, at the heart of everything. — Phil Cousineau Copy Share Image
In poetry, you must love the words, the ideas and the images and rhythms with all your capacity to love anything at… — Wallace Stevens Copy Share Image
I have never been in a band. But in my grand day of cabaret at Les Deux Cafes, I was doing this… — Michele Lamy Copy Share Image
You're always believing ahead of your evidence. What was the evidence I could write a poem? I just believed it. The most… — Robert Frost Copy Share Image
“Damn it," he mumbled apologetically, "things like this never happened to Vorthalia the Bold." She raised a thoughtful eyebrow. "How do you… — Lois McMaster Bujold Copy Share Image
“For [W. B.] Yeats magic was not so much a kind of poetry as poetry a kind of magic, and the object… — Kathleen Raine Copy Share Image
I started playing guitar when I was 13. I'd written a few songs on the guitar over some time. I'd written a… — Lewis Hamilton Copy Share Image
“What am I to do? What is my destiny? I have no idea, not a clue Feeling lost and empty. What is… — Atarah L. Poling Copy Share Image
I've been reading poetry publicly for 20 years, and this is what you do - you express, you sometimes dig a bit… — Jill Scott Copy Share Image
Every true poet, I thought, must be original and originality a condition of poetic genius; so that each poet is like a… — Gerard Manley Hopkins Copy Share Image
“Well, of course one must have concentration. Courage. Self-control. That goes without saying. But more important than these, one must have... I… — Trevanian Copy Share Image
We write to understand our deepest secrets to ourselves, to understand. We write in an outpouring of love. We write in secret,… — Sophy Burnham Copy Share Image