Poetry is the most subtle of the literary arts, and students grow more ingenious by the year at avoiding it. If they… — Terry Eagleton Copy Share Image
The question does arise if how and why to write poetry in this time. It feels both completely essential and also quite… — Matthew Zapruder Copy Share Image
A poem's essential discovery can happen at a single sitting. The cascade of discoveries in an essay, or even finding a question… — Jane Hirshfield Copy Share Image
“For me the poem and the poetry open mic isn’t about competition and it never will be. Honestly? It's wrong. The open… — R.M. Engelhardt Copy Share Image
What if this young woman, who writes such bad poems, in competition with her husband, whose poems are equally bad, should stretch… — Gilbert Sorrentino Copy Share Image
Just as a new scientific discovery manifests something that was already latent in the order of nature, and at the same time… — Northrop Frye Copy Share Image
“He has given Caspar flowers, has given him soft toys (however ridiculous that might be as a gesture.) Has written real actual… — Alex Ankarr Copy Share Image
I think that concrete poetry seems to have, as far as I can see, come to a kind of a dead end.… — James Laughlin Copy Share Image
“Ars Poetica To gaze at the river made of time and water And recall that time itself is another river, To know… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
Whether they are actual poets or their music exemplifies a poetic sensibility, generally speaking, the Americana artist shuns commercial compromise in favor… — Rodney Crowell Copy Share Image
“And when I say I love you, I mean that you can show me your darkest fire your soul can produce, and… — Belle Townsend Copy Share Image
When a poet mentions the spring, we know that the zephyrs are about to whisper, that the groves are to recover their… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“ The Wedding Ring Although the lamp was out, above its darkness I saw the bright reflection of a flame. My soul… — Zinaida Gippius Copy Share Image
If the United States haven't grown poets, on any scale of grandeur, it is certain that they import, print, and read more… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
“As another year went by And a new year came to greet us I got up in the morning to take my… — Avijeet Das Copy Share Image
“The vastest things are those we may not learn. We are not taught to die, nor to be born, Nor how to… — Mervyn Peake Copy Share Image
“Once on yellow sheet of paper with green lines, he wrote a poem and he called it “Spot” because that was the… — Earl Reum Copy Share Image
I fell into writing, I suppose, being one of those awful children who wrote verses. I went to a convent in New… — Dorothy Parker Copy Share Image
“In the land of poetry commentary, you will encounter those who take poetry too lightly, and those who take poetry too seriously.… — Jasper Sole Copy Share Image
“i think any poem worth its salt, if poems can indeed be salty, should allow the reader to think. this poem is… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A poet sees a flower and can go on and on about how beautiful the colors are. But what the poet doesn't… — George M. Church Copy Share Image
I believe every space and comma is a living part of the poem and has its function, just as every muscle and… — Denise Levertov Copy Share Image
“The things that tempt us do not come from external persuasions…they originate from our very own hearts. They’re conceived there, entertained by… — Jason Versey Copy Share Image
“There is beauty all around us, and the light finds us when we realize, we are all part of that beauty and… — Tom Althouse Copy Share Image
The power of a gun can kill and the power of fire can burn. The power of wind can chill and the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
These Germans seem an odd race, a mixture of clay and spirit - what with their beer-drinking and smoking, and their slow,… — Harriet Beecher Stowe Copy Share Image
In England especially, poetry's woven into the background fabric of society. And in Ireland, it's in the foreground. The place of the… — David Whyte Copy Share Image
I'm moving to Rio permanently with my family. It's one of the places left in the world where people still live with… — Vincent Cassel Copy Share Image
It’s never going to be very mainstream. One reason is that poetry requires concentration, both on the part of the writer and… — Simon Armitage Copy Share Image
“Dr. Urbino replied without looking at her: “I did not know that fellow was a poet.” And then he wiped him from… — Gabriel García Márquez Copy Share Image
It has as much to do with the energy released by linguistic fission and fusion, with the buoyancy generated by cadence and… — Seamus Heaney Copy Share Image
“The idea behind verses about the sealing of hearts appears to be the psychological law that if a person once does a… — Fazlur Rahman Copy Share Image
“All he did was breathe life into my soul. I was a conquest. An easy one, and you don't know how badly… — Alfa H Copy Share Image
Nothing in the world can be compared to the human face. It is a land one can never tire of exploring. There… — Carl Theodor Dreyer Copy Share Image
“One day you meet someone and for some inexplicable reason, you feel more connected to this stranger than anyone else--closer to them… — Lang Leav Copy Share Image
There is a formal poetry perfect only in form?the number of syllables, the designated and required stresses of accent, the rhymes if… — Carl Sandburg Copy Share Image
'Love' is so short of perfect rhymes that convention allows half-rhymes like 'move.' The alternative is a plague of doves, or a… — James Fenton Copy Share Image
“I wanted to shove her away, thinking of my job, of headlines, of how this kind of comfort was outside the behavioral… — BJ Ward Copy Share Image
Imagination is the supreme endowment of the poet and romanticist. It is a kind of second sight, which conveys the owner of… — Marie Corelli Copy Share Image
“What did you think?' I blurted out, heat rushing to my cheeks. 'Of what?' 'My writing.' 'Oh,'Ford said. He looked at me… — Amy Greene Copy Share Image
