“She wanted him. Not in the sweet way of poetry, though there was that music in the symmetry of his body, in… — Barbara Samuel Copy Share Image
“I wonder-Did I peek through the veil impatiently, while you slowly forged the bonds that brought me to mortality? And do you… — Carol Lynn Pearson Copy Share Image
“Don’t bring confusion to my table. Bring flowers. Bring books. Bring cakes. But leave your indecisiveness behind. My heart is not up… — Melody Lee Copy Share Image
We dance, we dance. You hold the thread of my soul. You spin, you spin. And you unravel the part from the… — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
“STAY AN ORIGINAL WORK OF ART In this short lifetime, Why not be -- True to your own voice, Your own story,… — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image
“…The truth: dreaming is lonely the further away the closer to this one time No one has held me for so long… — Angkarn Chanthathip Copy Share Image
“There is this pain of love. You experience it some moments. It begins like a strange gnawing in your heart. It then… — Avijeet Das Copy Share Image
The Pronce loved The Lady, The Lady loved The Pronce. They were together forever, life and death, reality or fantasy. They stomped… — Jasmine Laura Copy Share Image
Pure mathematics is, in its way, the poetry of logical ideas. ... [By seeking] logical beauty spiritual formulas are discovered necessary for… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
I think poetry workshops get a bad rap. I'm sure some aren't good, but in general, I like the format. I try… — Elaine Equi Copy Share Image
“There was a library and it is ashes. Let its long length assemble. Than its stone walls its paper walls are thicker;… — Mervyn Peake Copy Share Image
Rhymes, meters, stanza forms, etc., are like servants. If the master is fair enough to win their affection and firm enough to… — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
“Here dwell together still two men of note Who never lived and so can never die: How very near they seem, yet… — Vincent Starrett Copy Share Image
“The grandeur of the poem is that Job pleads his cause with God against all the remonstrance of religious authority, recognizing no… — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
“Coleridge wrote a poem called ‘The Eolian Harp,’ in which he explored the notion of music slumbering on its instrument. It's a… — Amal El-Mohtar Copy Share Image
I think poets are supposed to be writing for television and film. I grew up in the day of early TV that… — Eileen Myles Copy Share Image
“A grieving son was given the opportunity to write parting words on a card at his mother's funeral. He quoted the verse,… — Megan McKenna Copy Share Image
The one man who should never attempt an explanation of a poem is its author. If the poem can be improved by… — Archibald MacLeish Copy Share Image
Besides the actual reading in class of many poems, I would suggest you do two things: first, while teaching everything you can… — A. R. Ammons Copy Share Image
Remember picture books are the closest form of writing to a poem. Even though they don't have to rhyme, they must be… — Kirby Larson Copy Share Image
If the grain were separated from the chaff, which fills the works of our national poets, what is truly valuable would be… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
“Harvest Do not let a woman with a sexy rump deceive you with wheedling and coaxing words; she is after your barn.… — Nancy Boutilier Copy Share Image
And the poets will tell you to do things with passion, do everything with passion-mediocre is your enemy...but what they forget to… — Kiki Copy Share Image
“The element of craftsmanship in poetry is obscured by the fact that all men are taught to speak and most to read… — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
“Composer, sculptor, painter, poet, prophet, sage, these are the makers of the after-world, the architects of heaven. The world is beautiful because… — James Allen Copy Share Image
I ain't much for words nor I'm a poetic ,but to show you my feelings. I will make a thousand of poems… — Michael Country Copy Share Image
And I think that it is certainly possible that the objective universe can be affected by the poet. I mean, you recall… — Jack Spicer Copy Share Image
I don't like to have a calm, orderly, quiet place to work. I often compose while driving, compose in my head. It… — Robert Pinsky Copy Share Image
“...our imagination, like stars, Hint at something in the distance. I don't know where we will be But we will light up… — Eric Overby Copy Share Image
If you've ever been to a poetry slam, you know that the highest scoring emotion is self-righteous indignation: how dare you judge… — Taylor Mali Copy Share Image
“The dead do not need aspirin or sorrow, I suppose. but they might need rain. not shoes but a place to walk.… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
“Lionhearted woman carrying silver swords beneath your skin. Your heart is huge, copious courage you hold within. You fight and never give… — Melody Lee Copy Share Image
I'm saying that the domain of poetry includes both oral & written forms, that poetry goes back to a pre-literate situation &… — Jerome Rothenberg Copy Share Image
There was nothing to do but wait. It is always like this for naturalists, and for poets--the long hours of travel and… — Diane Ackerman Copy Share Image
“I am a lantern, I glow bright I break for day, and wait for night Without me you’d be blind You take… — Carlos Hutchinson Copy Share Image
A man of my acquaintance once wrote a poem called "The Road Less Traveled", describing a journey he took through the woods… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Ordinary life was laced with miracles, I knew that, had read enough poetry to understand that we are elevated with the knowing,… — Jane Hamilton Copy Share Image
When you're going through something, whether it's a wonderful thing like having a child or a sad thing like losing somebody, you… — Caroline Kennedy Copy Share Image
“Love. Because of you, in gardens of blossoming Flowers I ache from the perfumes of spring. I have forgotten your face, I… — Pablo Neruda Copy Share Image
I knew what book we had to write, it was clear in my head; it was journals and poetry. So I passed… — Kenny Loggins Copy Share Image