“Suddenly she wants to fall to her knees and pray for the poets. She imagines them with immaculate ravaged faces, with necklaces… — Kate Braverman Copy Share Image
'Storm Warnings' is a poem about powerlessness - about a force so much greater than our human powers that while it can… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
There are so many tender and holy emotions, flying about in out inward world, which, like angels, can never assume the body… — Jean Paul Richter Copy Share Image
Durable, memorable poetry is usually alert to complexity. A really good poem gives you a reason to read it 20 times, because… — Stephen Burt Copy Share Image
“Where did this come from?” I bristle at the question. “I wrote it right in front of you. I didn’t cheat.” “I’m… — Brigid Kemmerer Copy Share Image
I hope any poem I've ever written could stand on its own and not need to be a part of biography, critical… — Albert Goldbarth Copy Share Image
Do not worry about the incarnation of ideas. If you are a poet, your works will contain them without your knowledge -… — Vissarion Belinsky Copy Share Image
“Poetry can unleash a terrible fear. I suppose it is the fear of possibilities, too many possibilities, each with its own endless… — Jim Carroll Copy Share Image
In Eden I "saw" that Adam or Eve probably spoke each word FOR THE FIRST TIME and that seemed wild and seemed… — Gregory Orr Copy Share Image
“Storm Ending Thunder blossoms gorgeously above our heads, Great, hollow, bell-like flowers, Rumbling in the wind, Stretching clappers to strike our ears… — Jean Toomer Copy Share Image
“The wind smelled of humus, lichen, the musky odor of pecan husks broken under the shoe, a sunshower on the fields across… — James Lee Burke Copy Share Image
I tried to explain to her the significance of the great poet, but without much success, The Waste Land not figuring very… — Alan Bennett Copy Share Image
“A Caution to Everybody consider the Auk. Becoming extinct before because he forgot out to fly and could only walk. Consider Man,… — Ogden Nash Copy Share Image
“I arrived, I saw humans and I saw through their faces. Nothing ever changes but the light in their eyes. For I… — robert m drake Copy Share Image
Contemporary poets are skeptical and suspicious even, or perhaps especially, about themselves. They publicly confess to being poets only reluctantly, as if… — Wislawa Szymborska Copy Share Image
“must be wrestled: this is no account of inspiration; it figures instead strenuous poetic labor.66 Proteus sponsors a sense of poetic form… — Robert Von Hallberg Copy Share Image
The modern sensibility attempts to drain the contents of experience; these Greek poets strive to state the fact so poignantly that it… — Kenneth Rexroth Copy Share Image
“I like the lady horses best, how they make it all look easy, like running 40 miles per hour is as fun… — Ada Limon Copy Share Image
“It may be that those who care for poetry lost little by his death. Fluent in prose, he never wrote verse for… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
I stay up on current events. I read 'The New Yorker' and 'The Economist.' I go to community meetings to see what… — Caterina Fake Copy Share Image
“THE SILENT PEOPLE Some people are so rude, Living their lives with no concern for others, Or possibly just intent on pissing… — Giorge Leedy Copy Share Image
“Tomorrow I shall write something beautiful, something so serene that storms will rise suddenly and protest with ferocious screams. I shall write… — Tonny K. Brown Copy Share Image
“Happy Easter to you, my friend! This day’s light shall have no end. For Christ did rise In the golden morn And… — Paul Kortepeter Copy Share Image
“ The Arden Shakespeare is intended both as a student text and as a revision of traditional scholarship. If it is to… — Peter Porter Copy Share Image
It's ironic that while I was a worker in Detroit, which I left when I was twenty six, my sense was that… — Philip Levine Copy Share Image
“Sylvia Plath's greatest poetry was sometimes conceived while she was baking bread, she was such a perfectionist and ultimately such a fool.… — Germaine Greer Copy Share Image
Whatever is genuine in social relations endures, despite of time, error, absence, and destiny; and that which has no inherent vitality had… — Henry Theodore Tuckerman Copy Share Image
“At any time, and under any circumstances of human interest, is it not strange to see how little real hold the objects… — Wilkie Collins Copy Share Image
“In you the earth… Little rose, roselet, at times, tiny and naked, it seems as though you would fit in one of… — Pablo Neruda Copy Share Image
“I’m a picture without a frame. A poem without a rhyme. A car with three wheels. A sun without fire. I am… — pleasefindthis Copy Share Image
I cannot understand why the poets of our day wax indignant at the vulgarity of their age and complain of having come… — Gabriele d'Annunzio Copy Share Image
At eight, I made a commitment to poetry. Until then, I thought I'd be a policeman. But I went a whole night… — Alice Oswald Copy Share Image
“Pain Fuels My Pen (Sonnet) When I started writing, I had a partner, I had plans to settle in Sofia with her.… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“If for a moment you are inclined to regard these taluses as mere draggled, chaotic dumps, climb to the top of one… — John Muir Copy Share Image
While poetry was less professionalized than it is now, I still had this urge to win prizes and see my work in… — Denise Duhamel Copy Share Image
The idea of a poem as a message in a bottle means that it's sent out towards some future reader, and the… — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
Anybody is qualified, according to everybody, for giving opinions upon poetry. It is not so in chemistry and mathematics. Nor is it… — Elizabeth Barrett Browning Copy Share Image
“Once, in Thessaly, there was a poet called Simonides. He was commissioned to appear at a banquet, given by a man called… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
I wrote a lot of poetry in the last two years of high school, all about the same girl I was in… — Hari Kondabolu Copy Share Image
More often than not in poetry I find difficulty to be gratuitous and show-offy and camouflaging, experimental to a kind of insane… — Billy Collins Copy Share Image
