“Intoxicate me with the beauty and breath of your soul. Leave such imprints on my heart that you come to me in… — Melody Lee Copy Share Image
“You know the parlor trick. wrap your arms around your own body and from the back it looks like someone is embracing… — Billy Collins Copy Share Image
“Poetry, like remonstration, could be a form of protest; and since poets were products of the Confucian education system, extravagant military adventures… — John Keay Copy Share Image
It isn't so unusual for poems to situate themselves out of doors - though they may, at the same time, be set… — Robert Bringhurst Copy Share Image
Do not ever read books about versification: no poet ever learnt it that way. If you are going to be a poet,… — A. E. Housman Copy Share Image
“You have that faraway look in your eyes that makes me want to pull you into my dreams, bring you to your… — Melody Lee Copy Share Image
“To plunge one thing into the shape or nature of another is a fundamental gesture of creative insight, part of how we… — Jane Hirshfield Copy Share Image
“. . . Don't live in the world as if you were renting or here only for the summer, but act as… — Nahid Rachlin Copy Share Image
“I want you only to dream of you,’ they tell the beloved woman in verses they never send – they who dare… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
“His novel or book of poems, decent, adequate, arises not from an exercise of style or will, as the poor unfortunate believes,… — Roberto Bolaño Copy Share Image
This is what you shall do; Love the earth and sun and the animals, despise riches, give alms to every one that… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
“O Canada I have not forgotten you, as I kneel in my canoe, beholding this vision of a bookcase. You are the… — Billy Collins Copy Share Image
“Wondering When the Strings Will Snap” poem: “The marigolds herald autumn’s colors already In their sun-shrine faces, iconographic Floral worship of their… — Elizabeth Barrette Copy Share Image
“ A Litany for Survival For those of us who live at the shoreline standing upon the constant edges of decision crucial… — Audre Lorde Copy Share Image
“Every poem is about a brave hero named Kregi," she said. "Every single one. He always has a steed, and we have… — Leigh Bardugo Copy Share Image
“As I said, you have mistaken me for another. London is full of drab little peahens, sir. Now, then, I’m leaving,” she… — Charlotte Featherstone Copy Share Image
When poets write about food it is usually celebratory. Food as the thing-in-itself, but also the thoughtful preparation of meals, the serving… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
When the poet Paul Valery once asked Albert Einstein if he kept a notebook to record his ideas, Einstein looked at him… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
The interpretations of science do not give us this intimate sense of objects as the interpretations of poetry give it; they appeal… — Matthew Arnold Copy Share Image
And there's wordplay and there's rhythms and you have to be able to get the poetry out of it. You have to… — Quentin Tarantino Copy Share Image
“Post-structuralism is a reaction to structuralism and works against seeing language as a stable, closed system. It is a shift from seeing… — E. Smith Sleigh Copy Share Image
Poets, come out of your closets, Open your windows, open your doors, You have been holed up too long in your closed… — Lawrence Ferlinghetti Copy Share Image
The poet's body even is not fed like other men's, but he sometimes tastes the genuine nectar and ambrosia of the gods,… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I like connecting the abstract to the concrete. There's a tension in that. I believe the reader or listener should be able… — Yusef Komunyakaa Copy Share Image
The poet wants to ‘say’ something. Why, then, doesn’t he say it directly and fortrightly? Why is he willing to say it… — Cleanth Brooks Copy Share Image
Hyesims poems: transformative as walking high granite mountains by moonlight, with fragrant herbs underfoot and a thermos of clear tea in the… — Jane Hirshfield Copy Share Image
“The words I speak to these chairs must be silencing. It has stunned them into a profound emptiness. No creaking from the… — B.J. Ward Copy Share Image
That's what I love about poetry. The more abstract, the better. The stuff where you're not sure what the poet's talking about.… — Jay Asher Copy Share Image
“ Жираф Сегодня, я вижу, особенно грустен твой взгляд, И руки особенно тонки, колени обняв. Послушай: далёко, далёко на озере Чад Изысканный… — Nikolai Gumilev Copy Share Image
“A crowd of men stood in front of them. Of all ages, with expressions of sex-wonder in their eyes, gazing curiously as… — Jim Tully Copy Share Image
I have taught the long poem off and on for years. The more book-length poems I read and studied and taught the… — C.D. Wright Copy Share Image
Poetry is a second translation of the soul's feeling; it must be rendered into thought, and thought must change its nebulous robe… — Frances Ridley Havergal Copy Share Image
“It was the period in Germany of Goethe’s highest fame. Notwithstanding his rather condescending attitude towards patriotism he had been adopted as… — William Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
“The intelligible forms of ancient poets, The fair humanities of old religion, The Power, the Beauty, and the Majesty That had their… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
When are we going to be together? Will you love me now or will it take forever? I Love you always with… — Archie Copy Share Image
“I was satisfied with haiku until I met you, jar of octopus, cuckoo's cry, 5-7-5, but now I want a russian novel,… — Dean Young Copy Share Image
“LADY LAZARUS I have done it again. One year in every ten I manage it-- A sort of walking miracle, my skin… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
“I told you in the course of this paper that Shakespeare had a sister; but do not look for her in Sir… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“This is how I recognize an authentic poet: by frequenting him, living a long time in the intimacy of his work, something… — emil cioran Copy Share Image
Ring around the rosie. A pocket full of posie. Ashes ashes, we all fall down. Some people say that this poem is… — Scott Westerfeld Copy Share Image
