“I is for immortality, which for some poets is a necessary compensation. Presumably miserable in this life, they will be remembered when… — Mark Strand Copy Share Image
“How sweetly she looks! O, but there's a wrinkle in her brow as deep as philosophy. - Anacreon, drink to my mistress'… — Thomas Middleton Copy Share Image
I like Wallace Stevens, Robert Frost, but some of the older ones it's hard for me to sit down with - when… — Samuel Ervin Beam Copy Share Image
I'm a big fan of the poet Mary Jo Salter, and although she doesn't need to be discovered at all - she's… — J. R. Moehringer Copy Share Image
You ever hear guys with small cocks talk about sex? Can't talk about it enough. They even got poems. They'll say, 'It's… — Norm MacDonald Copy Share Image
“Pain, too, comes from depths that cannot be revealed. We do not know whether those depths are in ourselves or elsewhere, in… — Tahar Ben Jelloun Copy Share Image
nothing which we are to perceive in this world equals the power of your intense fragility:whose texture compels me with the colour… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“After two or three stanzas and several images by which he was himself astonished, his work took possession of him and he… — Boris Pasternak Copy Share Image
I think a good story can do as much as a novel; not the exact same thing, of course, but just as… — David Means Copy Share Image
A muse is something that serves a poet well early in his or her career. In later years one writers out of… — Clarence Major Copy Share Image
It must be added that from his first words the foreigner made a repellent impression on the poet, but Berlioz rather liked… — Mikhail Bulgakov Copy Share Image
R-e-m-o-r-s-e! Those dry Martinis did the work for me; Last night at twelve I felt immense, Today I feel like thirty cents.… — George Ade Copy Share Image
Fax me a fact and I'll telegram a hologram or telephone the son of man and tell him he is done. Leave… — Saul Williams Copy Share Image
“The Amorous Shepherd is a fruitless interlude, but those few poems are among the world’s greatest love poems, because they’re love poems… — Álvaro de Campos Copy Share Image
Love is everlasting and seeks expression. Love is deep and incomprehensible. True love has eternal, unfailing depth and worth. Love with and… — Bianca Pandit Copy Share Image
“...Feel no fear before the multitude of men, do not run in panic, but let each man bear his shield straight toward… — Tyrtaeus Copy Share Image
Drive my dead thoughts over the universe Like withered leaves to quicken a new birth! And, by the incantation of this verse,… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
“The best words in the best order...one always go the same shock of recognition and delight when someone's words swam up to… — Mary Stewart Copy Share Image
“I had sent [the magazine] a batch of poems which they turned down flat. I was furious. Floss [my wife] said, 'If… — William Carlos Williams Copy Share Image
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“I sometimes hold it half a sin To put in words the grief I feel; For words, like Nature, half reveal And… — Alfred Tennyson Copy Share Image
I was a very creative child. I played the saxophone and piano, and I was always writing poetry and stories, or drawing… — Kali Uchis Copy Share Image
“When you're sixteen or seventeen meaning can be anywhere. A drop of rain running down the window is a symbol, a song… — Jane Alison Copy Share Image
The Earth is our mother just turning around, with her trees in the forest and roots underground. Our father above us whose… — John Denver Copy Share Image
“Good artists exist simply in what they make, and consequently are perfectly uninteresting in what they are. A great poet, a really… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Lives there the man with soul so dead as to disown the wish to merit the people's applause, and having uttered words… — Aulus Persius Flaccus Copy Share Image
“The best kind of rain, of course, is a cozy rain. This is the kind the anonymous medieval poet makes me remember,… — Susan Allen Toth Copy Share Image
Go back to The October Palace, which came out in 1994, and there are poems with windows, doors, the rooms of the… — Jane Hirshfield Copy Share Image
“I can write the saddest poem of all tonight. Write, for instance: "The night is full of stars, and the stars, blue,… — Pablo Neruda Copy Share Image
Poem (Lana Turner has collapsed!) Lana Turner has collapsed! I was trotting along and suddenly it started raining and snowing and you… — Frank O'Hara Copy Share Image
I always loved singing and writing poetry. I always loved music, and I've loved writing my whole life. When I put them… — Lisa Marie Presley Copy Share Image
It is funny, and also a bit sad, that poets are so often asked to justify our vocation. There seems to be… — Matthew Zapruder Copy Share Image
“This is the nature of love,” Vashet said. “To attempt to describe it will drive a woman mad. That is what keeps… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
“The danger of restorative nostalgia lies in its belief that the mutilated 'wholeness' of the body politic can be repaired. But the… — Simon Reynolds Copy Share Image
I like to know that when I'm 90 years old, I'm going to be able to look at a song or poem… — Camila Cabello Copy Share Image
I have seen too many men wilt and go silly under a little light, and then they continue to write and get… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
“Falling in love was easy-when romantic attraction was combined with hungry, unsated desire, they formed a glamorous, glittering bauble as fragile as… — Robyn Donald Copy Share Image
“I was mistaken when I said you live in my heart. How absurd I was when you live in my fingertips so… — Kamand Kojouri Copy Share Image
Poetry is the inner life of a culture, its nervous system, its deepest way of imagining the world. A culture that ignores… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
The relation between a poet and audience is really insignificant. What matters is the poet is hearing something that he is broadcasting.… — Peter Davison Copy Share Image
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