In my opinion, the trombone is the true head of the family of wind instruments, which I have named the 'epic' one.… — Hector Berlioz Copy Share Image
“I’ve come down from the sky like some damned ghost, delayed too long…To the abandoned fields the trees returned and grew. They… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
“If I ever see an alien fishing in Scotland, and witness it catching the Loch Ness Monster, I’d probably assume the world… — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
“The first inkling of this notion had come to him the Christmas before, at his daughter's place in Vermont. On Christmas Eve,… — John Crowley Copy Share Image
“The day will come When my body no longer exists But in the lines of this poem I will never let you… — Sapardi Djoko Damono Copy Share Image
“They spent a summer talking beneath the redwoods. There was a curiosity to the way they knew. She would take his hips… — Mikl Paul Copy Share Image
“Pariah Luggage by Stewart Stafford I am the last piece of luggage, On the baggage carousel, If there's a suitcase deity, It… — Stewart Stafford Copy Share Image
“A man walks into a bar and says: Take my wife–please. So you do. You take her out into the rain and… — Richard Siken Copy Share Image
“Raise from your bed of languor Raise from your bed of dismay Your friends will not come tomorrow As they did not… — Stevie Smith Copy Share Image
“Cairn Stone This is the rock he lifted to lay upon a cairn in a high place. This rock, warmed by the… — Claudia Putnam Copy Share Image
The ideal audience the poet imagines consists of the beautiful who go to bed with him, the powerful who invite him to… — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
Homosexuals are delicate and bad poetry is delicate and [Allen] Ginsberg turned the tables by making homosexual poetry strong poetry, almost manly… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
“I dreamed that you bewitched me into bed And sung me moon-struck, kissed me quite insane. (I think I made you up… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
I take as metaphysical poetry that in which what is ordinarily apprehensible only by thought is brought within the grasp of feeling,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“If I could sum up my poetry in a few well-chosen words, the result might be a poem. Several years ago, when… — Anthony Thwaite Copy Share Image
“What do they mean when they say: “I do not like your poems; you have no faith whatever. You seem neither to… — William Carlos Williams Copy Share Image
Everybody has ideas. The vital question is, what do you do with them? My rock musician sons shape their ideas into music.… — Avi Copy Share Image
“Gamache watched the old poet. He knew what was looming behind the Mountain. What crushed all before it. The thing the Hermit… — Louise Penny Copy Share Image
The revelatory or visionary is the province of the 'private' artist, who in order to render his personal world comprehensible or even… — Kenneth Coutts-Smith Copy Share Image
“[ On Love After Love by Derek Walcott ] I read this poem often, once a month at least. In the madness… — Tom Hiddleston Copy Share Image
The capacity for imaginative reflex, for moral risk in any human being is not limitless; on the contrary, it can be rapidly… — George Steiner Copy Share Image
“I could not have climbed any mountains while looking from the ground... I would not have flown... or dived... or surfed... or… — Kem Copy Share Image
“Robert Frost liked to distinguish between grievances (complaints) and griefs (sorrows). He even suggested that grievances, which are propagandistic, should be restricted… — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
The best verse hasn't been rhymed yet, The best house hasn't been planned, The highest peak hasn't been climbed yet, The mightiest… — Berton Braley Copy Share Image
“Shakespeare acquired more essential history from Plutarch than most men could from the whole British Museum. What is to be insisted upon… — T.S. Eliot Copy Share Image
Even when the poet seems most himself . . . he is never the bundle of accident and incoherence that sits down… — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
“You wrote in a poem, “I love your body,” as if love was for you embodied in the senses, and yet more… — David Plante Copy Share Image
Poetry relishes ripe fruit - but ripe is one thing and overripe quite another. That's something poetry doesn't like, so it couldn't… — Kiki Dimoula Copy Share Image
Verse is a mechanism by which we can create interpretative illusions suggesting profoundities of response and understanding which far exceed the engagement… — John Constable Copy Share Image
“Gargoyles sat on the battlements- lean they were and the same hideous damp grey as the stone. They looked at her with… — Meredith Ann Pierce Copy Share Image
“This fifth and final sun will die, Like every sun before— But for a moment we laughed in its light, Like wind-blown… — David Bowles Copy Share Image
“Well it’s good to have a car like that, once in a while somebody’ll say, ‘why don’t you come over for dinner?’… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
I write poems about relationships, love relationships, and I'm not able to do that all the time. I could go two years… — May Sarton Copy Share Image
“By the way, is there any difference between 'grey' and 'gray'? I believe there is, but I don't know what it is.… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“We were fair game but we have kept out of the cesspool. We are strong. We are the good ones. Do not… — Anne Sexton Copy Share Image
I have a little tiny Emily Dickinson so big that I carry in my pocket everywhere. And you just read three poems… — Maurice Sendak Copy Share Image
“Katie, I want you. I can’t make it poetry. I can’t make it sound anything other than crude, because it is. I… — Tessa Dare Copy Share Image
“Thoughtful for Winter’s future sorrow, Its gloom and scarcity; Prescient to-day, of want to-morrow, Toiled quiet Memory. ’Tis she that from each… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
“...when a good poet is confronted with difficult facts that he knows to be true but also are inimical to poetry, he… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
“Well-wrought poems and works of imaginative literature can do for us what stone-cold prose can never do. They can help us grasp… — James W. Sire Copy Share Image
![“Homosexuals are delicate and bad poetry is delicate and [Allen] Ginsberg turned the tables by making homosexual poetry strong poetry, almost manly poetry; but in the long run, the homo will remain the homo and not the poet.” quote by Charles Bukowski](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/0f1/charles-bukowski-73_delicate_homosexuals-are-delicate-and-bad-poetry_2952094.jpg)
![“[ On Love After Love by Derek Walcott ] I read this poem often, once a month at least. In the madness and mayhem of modern life, where every man seems committed to an endless search for the approval and esteem of his fellows and peers, no matter what the cost, this poem reminds me of a basic…” quote by Tom Hiddleston](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/91f/tom-hiddleston-1633_calm-and-peace_on-love-after-love-by-derek-walcott-i-re_1921633.png)
