You have made me a better person by loving me for who I am. Happy anniversary, An Anniversary message by poem, Your… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Galway Kinnell came out with that wonderful big, breathy, hollow voice of his and read, for the first time in public, "The… — Sam Hamill Copy Share Image
“Love is a fiction, a fable, an ode spun by poets and drunks, a fantastical tale told across one thousand and one… — Lauren Blakely Copy Share Image
“The white woman across the aisle from me says 'Look, look at all the history, that house on the hill there is… — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
I think you can have the greatest lyrics in the world and if it doesn't have the best tune in the world… — Julian Cope Copy Share Image
“ Invitation to Eternity Say, wilt thou go with me, sweet maid, Say, maiden, wilt thou go with me Through the valley-depths… — John Clare Copy Share Image
[The publication of his first poem] was wonderful ... but it taught me early on that the only thing that really matters… — Dan Beachy-Quick Copy Share Image
“I do not sit down at my desk to put into verse something that is already clear in my mind. If it… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Do you wanna be a poet and write? Do you wanna be an actor up in lights? Do you wanna be soldier,… — Jo Dee Messina Copy Share Image
There is this tendency to think that if you could only find the magic way, then you could become a poet. "Tell… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
When I am writing poetry, I try to make my mind go a little lazy, to not think too much, as a… — Dawn Lundy Martin Copy Share Image
“These words are my mother’s, my father’s, my brother’s, my lender’s, my garbage man’s—the poem runs like oil on fire beneath this… — BJ Ward Copy Share Image
“Mallarmé described this agony as a battle that took place on God's "boney wing". "I struggled with that creature of ancient and… — Maggie Nelson Copy Share Image
“KINGDOM OF THE WOMB From her thighs, she gives you life And how you treat she who gives you life Shows how… — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image
“Here the children have a custom. After the celebration of evil they take those vacant heads that shone once with such anguish… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“And the truth is that I'm not , Ed, is what I wanted to tell you. I'm not arty like everyone says… — Daniel Handler Copy Share Image
“The day before yesterday, in the woods of Touques, in a charming spot beside a spring, I found old cigar butts and… — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
It is certain that satirical poems were common at Rome from a very early period. The rustics, who lived at a distance… — Thomas B. Macaulay Copy Share Image
I can cite a chapter and verse of literature at the times saying Italians don't speak our language, these folks coming from… — Chris Hayes Copy Share Image
Works of art are not so much finished as abandoned. Perhaps poems can be perfect. A short-short story might even be perfectible,… — Bruce Holland Rogers Copy Share Image
My life all-around is really different than a lot of other poets. Not poets that are parents, too, but just that I… — Victoria Chang Copy Share Image
Like hungry guests, a sitting audience looks / Plays are like suppers; poets are the cooks / The founder's you; the table… — George Farquhar Copy Share Image
“back in the middle ages they burned unruly women at the stake and out of the ashes of their bones and flesh… — Leah Harris Copy Share Image
The idea of how to read a poem is based on the idea that poetry needs you as a reader. That the… — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
“where does creativity come from? Creativity comes from the Universe itself. “There is music and poetry in the Universe itself — surely… — Matthew Fox Copy Share Image
There are places in the world where it's easier than in the US to be a person who produces theory and not… — Joshua Clover Copy Share Image
I'm thinking like the character in order to be as authentic as I can. But after a while, how would I be… — Masiela Lusha Copy Share Image
“The greatest poet hardly knows pettiness or triviality. If he breathes into any thing that was before thought small it dilates with… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
My father was an amateur oil painter, so some of his oil paintings were on our walls. There was one above the… — Edward Burtynsky Copy Share Image
“The Trifler Death's the lover that I'd be taking; Wild and fickle and fierce is he. Small's his care if my heart… — Dorothy Parker Copy Share Image
There is no separate art of life. If you know how to allow poetry, if you know how to allow dance, if… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The unconscious mind: I don't need no pain. I'm just gonna have another drink. Closed eyes see darkness, patterns of thoughts in… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“As human beings we’ve certainly suffered the loss of awe, the loss of sacredness, and the loss of the fact that we’re… — Derek Walcott Copy Share Image
“The chaos of the mind cannot constitute a reply to the providence of the universe. All it can be is an awakening… — Georges Bataille Copy Share Image
“I'll say I love you, Which will lead, of course, to disappointment, but those words unsaid poison every next moment. I will… — Stephen Dunn Copy Share Image
“Poets loved the full moon; they wrote thousands of poems about it, but it was the new moon that Veronika loved best… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
“To open the wound To write in its blood―with its blood means your realisation through her― the feel of her absence, like… — Al-Saddiq Al-Raddi Copy Share Image
What is beautiful enchants me. I mean not just physical beauty but a wider concept of beauty. There is beauty in poetry… — Andrea Bocelli Copy Share Image
“The poetry of motion is a phrase much in use, and to enjoy the epic form of that gratification it is necessary… — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
“Mental life consists, according to the textbooks, of thought and feeling, according to the poets, of addressing an inner voice (or voices),… — Miroslav Holub Copy Share Image