Nature poets can't walk across the backyard without tripping over an epiphany. — Christian Wiman Copy Share Image
“Prose: words in their best order; poetry: the best words in the best order.” — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
“There is no hope for the hopeless but there is always some love for the loveless.” — Santosh Kalwar Copy Share Image
Every genuine poet is necessarily a Columbus. America existed for centuries before Columbus but it was only Columbus who was able to… — Yevgeny Zamyatin Copy Share Image
“you’ll find the buildings taller, that the halls are full of ghosts but everything still here is what you remember most” — Savannah Brown Copy Share Image
Poets use metaphors and symbolism to construct images. I construct my images in the same way, except that I am using a… — Shirin Neshat Copy Share Image
The poet, as a rule, is a half-man - a sissy, not a real person, and he is in no shape to… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
“We are the kind of Love Story that keeps souls awake at night and causes hearts to have stage fright.” — Alfa H Copy Share Image
“He remembers which sister I like least and asks how she is doing. (lines 9-11 of the poem 'Divorce')” — Carrie Etter Copy Share Image
“Poetry...is full of visions pulled more from our hearts than from our minds. Our greatest poems are written in the dust of… — John H Ritter Copy Share Image
The best poem is that whose worked-upon unmagical passages come closest, in texture and intensity, to those moments of magical accident. — Dylan Thomas Copy Share Image
With me poetry has been not a purpose, but a passion; and the passions should be held in reverence: they must not… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
“To the poet, Every act is poetry; From cutting the grass, To cleaning a headstone. From walking, To breathing... ...No matter the… — Eric Overby Copy Share Image
In HEATHEN, R. Flowers Rivera remixes the classical and the Biblical, the usual and the typical until what we thought we knew… — Terrance Hayes Copy Share Image
“If I were a poet, that’s what I’d write about. People who worked in the middle of the night. Men who loaded… — Janet Fitch Copy Share Image
“You were nothing more than a daydream that a beautiful heart was bound to fall in love with, and daydreams aren't real… — Melody Lee Copy Share Image
Most people read poetry listening for echoes because the echoes are familiar to them. They wade through it the way a boy… — Wallace Stevens Copy Share Image
A verse came to mind, one that has comforted Kari before. It was the shortest verse in the Bible: Jesus wept. If… — Karen Kingsbury Copy Share Image
I judge wisely...as if nothin ever surprise me, Loungin, between two pillars of ivory. I'm lively, my dome piece is like buildin… — Killah Priest Copy Share Image
