“I tell you hopeless grief is passionless, That only men incredulous of despair, Half-taught in anguish, through the midnight air Beat upward… — Elizabeth Barrett Browning Copy Share Image
I've always wanted to be a poet at the beginning. I would look at my grandparents' books and my parents' books. And… — Mark Leyner Copy Share Image
“A life lived outside of one's giftedness is a complete and utter travesty. It deprives the world of the beauty we each… — Shirley Houston Copy Share Image
Once considered an art form that called for talent, or at least a craft that called for practice, a poem now needs… — Barbara Holland Copy Share Image
The first glimpse that we have of the notions which the Greeks possessed of the shape and the inhabitants of the earth… — Joseph Jacobs Copy Share Image
Now, in our opinion no author should be blamed for obscurity, nor should any pains be grudged in the effort to understand… — Alice Meynell Copy Share Image
So far as love or affection is concerned, psychologists have failed in their mission. The little we know about love does not… — Harry Harlow Copy Share Image
“She was, in short, melted by his distress, as so often happens with the female sex. Poets have frequently commented on this.… — P.G. Wodehouse Copy Share Image
So, I've never been politically correct, even before that term was available to us, and I have really identified with other people… — Diane Wakoski Copy Share Image
“Publishing a book, Watching its ways Force me to look At a screen for days "Be still, be still", My heart screams… — Eric Overby Copy Share Image
It is possible that Mount Olympus may have supplied the poets with the hint for saying that Jupiter obtained the kingdom of… — Lactantius Copy Share Image
“There has fallen a splendid tear From the passion-flower at the gate. She is coming, my dove, my dear; She is coming,… — Alfred Tennyson Copy Share Image
“The Dieter's Daughter Mom's got this taco guy's poem taped to the fridge, some ode to celery, which she is always eating.… — Anita Endrezze Copy Share Image
You never forget the books you loved as a kid. You never forget the poems you memorized, the first book you read… — Meg Medina Copy Share Image
As poets, we're writing into the void, and we're not writing to be bestsellers. Whatever individual responses we get, whether at a… — Mary Jo Salter Copy Share Image
“It doesn’t say these signs will accompany only “the apostles.” It says these signs will accompany “those who BELIEVE.” Are you a… — Elliana Olivia Copy Share Image
But in Hiroshima, some people were wiped clean away, leaving only a wristwatch or a diary page. So no matter that I… — Sarah Kay Copy Share Image
Backlock, a poet blind from his birth, could describe visual objects with accuracy; Professor Sanderson, who was also blind, gave excellent lectures… — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
“I love the way David put it in Psalm 23, verse 5: “You prepare a table before me in the presence of… — Joel Osteen Copy Share Image
In reggae I have a model of artistic excellence and possibility that is challenging and inspiring. The poem remains a demanding thing… — Kwame Dawes Copy Share Image
When I was a kid, I suppose I got more praise for being able to draw things and paint things than I… — Ted Kooser Copy Share Image
“They are constantly colonists and emigrants ; they have the name of being at home in every country. But they are in… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“I did it the hard way Many of the big dreams I dreamt, I dreamt, when I met a failed attempt. Life… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
“Strategy for a Marathon I will start when the gun goes off. I will run for five miles. Feeling good, I will… — Marnie Mueller Copy Share Image
I keep feeling that there isn't one poem being written by any one of us - or a book or anything like… — Anne Sexton Copy Share Image
If that voice that you created that is most alive in the poem isn't carried throughout the whole poem, then I destroy… — Philip Levine Copy Share Image
“pissing on photos, we wake parched in parallel realities i still end up drowning in visions he settles for the horror; hostage… — Casey Renee Kiser Copy Share Image
Here the frailest leaves of me and yet my strongest lasting, Here I shade and hide my thoughts, I myself do not… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
“There is no time, only I am. There is no society, only I am. There is no law, only I am. There… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
I've often entertained paranoid suspicions about my fridge and what it's been doing to my poetry when I'm not looking, but I… — George Murray Copy Share Image
For me, the writing life doesn't just happen when I sit at the writing desk. It is a life lived with a… — Julia Alvarez Copy Share Image
“Christopher loved her with the passion of youth, of imagination, of poetry, of all the fresh beginnings of wonder and worship that… — Elizabeth von Arnim Copy Share Image
“...The old bottles lay dreaming of new wine. I picked up my breast, which had gone out. By other lights I go… — W.S. Merwin Copy Share Image
An aphorism is a mental exercise, psychical, logical, linguistic, spiritual, ritual, emotional and rational, it is a major conceptual and literary activity,… — William C. Brown Copy Share Image
“Poetry that tames language into tight structures and yet manages to move us comes off as a feat, paralleling ballet or athletic… — John McWhorter Copy Share Image
Lily Brown writes with and against things in poems that are coiled up tight as springs (or snakes). A believer in the… — Rae Armantrout Copy Share Image
The harmony of the world is made manifest in Form and Number, and the heart and soul and all the poetry of… — D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson Copy Share Image
Best believe that needle hurt you Best to see these true colors Than follow one of your false virtues A little secret… — Eddie Van Halen Copy Share Image
I'm a line-maker. I think that's what makes poets different from prose-writers. That's the main way. We think, not just in sentences… — Billy Collins Copy Share Image
The real question should be: what makes a good political poem? The possible answers to that question are both obvious and yet… — Andre Naffis-Sahely Copy Share Image
