“Are you sure about this? It’s a bit short.” “So? It’s poetry, not dick size.” — J.L. Merrow Copy Share Image
It is part of my creed that the only poetry is history, could we tell it right. — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
I'm tired of being this solemn poet of the masses, the enigma shrouded in a mystery. — Michael Stipe Copy Share Image
I want a poem which is made of compression, passion, precision, symmetry, & disruption. — Lucie Brock-Broido Copy Share Image
I don't think you can read poetry while you're watching television very well. — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
Poetry, is the insulation that lies between the inner walls of the mind. — Robert M. Hensel Copy Share Image
True love ennobles and dignifies the material labors of life; and homely services rendered for love's sake have in them a poetry… — Harriet Beecher Stowe Copy Share Image
I think there's one thing which distinguishes our art - we don't consider. We don't think. We write a little verse because… — Howard Nemerov Copy Share Image
“Be generous with your smile and try not to frown. And you will see my children; your smile will never let you… — Benny Bellamacina Copy Share Image
Poetry depends on being simultaneously opaque and transparent. It can't be only one or the other. The pebble and the pool. — Peter J. Daniels Copy Share Image
“You don't even like poetry," Tessa said, her voice catching on a half laugh of relief. "No. But you make me want… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
Why has our poetry eschewed The rapture and response of food? What hymns are sung, what praises said For home-made miracles of… — Louis Untermeyer Copy Share Image
To the poet as a basement quilt, but perhaps To some reader a latticework of regrets ... — John Ashbery Copy Share Image
The mind that finds its way to wild places is the poet's; but the mind that never finds its way back is… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
As a sick kid, I always looked out the window. The objects of my observation were the sun, the seasons, the wind,… — Kim Hyesoon Copy Share Image
“In translation of poetry; there exists a possibility of components like imagination, art of wordplay, skill of constructing internal rhythm and expand… — Suman Pokhrel Copy Share Image
“You and I are from two different worlds." "Nonsense. We have much in common. We both like books, dogs, poems, Sir Walter… — Karen Hawkins Copy Share Image
“I thought leaving you would be easy, just walking out the door but I keep getting pinned against it with my legs… — Clementine von Radics Copy Share Image
Rene Char wrote somewhere, apropos poetry, that there are those who create and those who discover; they are too completely different worlds.… — Henri Cartier-Bresson Copy Share Image
“I me memorize a lot of poetry, too, so I'l have something to be saying to myself on long walks. A poem… — Louise Rich Dickinson Copy Share Image
I prefer formal techniques, and use sonnets and rhyme, any manner of scheme to give a shape and order-of feeling as well… — J. D. McClatchy Copy Share Image
“Now, I can tell you about some women writers who truly are fantastic. One is Anna Kavan. She writes stories like I… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
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