Love is a boy, by poets styled, Then spare the rod, and spoil the child — Samuel Butler Copy Share Image
Poetry begins where language starts: in the shadows and accidents of one person’s life. — Eavan Boland Copy Share Image
“We inspire each other. Poets and Artists are best friends and muses for each other.” — Avijeet Das Copy Share Image
I find in my own writing that only fiction - and rarely, a poem - fully tests me to the kind of… — John Updike Copy Share Image
“Life is just a slide. Back and forth between loving and leaving, remembering and forgetting, holding on and letting go.” — Nicole Lyons Copy Share Image
Poetry is not a matter of feelings, it is a matter of language. It is language which creates feelings. — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
All I do and say and think 'as a poet' is much truer and more intimate than anything I say face to… — Selima Hill Copy Share Image
We fit the universe through our brains and it comes out in the form of nothing less than poetry. We have a… — Jason Silva Copy Share Image
Shall Life renew these bodies? Of a truth All death will he annul, all tears assuage? Or fill these void veins full… — Wilfred Owen Copy Share Image
“When I’m with you, The gravity of our moments, The weight of our smiles Makes time nearly stop.” — L. Austen Johnson Copy Share Image
Pretty conceptions, fine metaphors, glittering expressions, and something of a neat cast of verse are properly the dress, gems, or loose ornaments… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
when a great war has cut off the young men of a nation it never can be told thereafter what losses of… — James Vila Blake Copy Share Image
When I was in fourth grade, I started writing a lot of poetry, and eventually, someone in the church was like, 'You… — Cupcakke Copy Share Image
The winter moon becomes a companion, the heart of the priest, sunk in meditation upon religion and philosophy, there in the mountain… — Yasunari Kawabata Copy Share Image
When Ulysses hears his own story sung by an epic poet and then he reveals his identity and the poet wants to… — Raymond Queneau Copy Share Image
No, I think that a person writes a poem because they have an inner urge of something that they want to express,… — Leo Ornstein Copy Share Image
“And you know you are not the first, To bite into her dimples, And sleep in her eyes, Whisper in her ears… — Piyush Rohankar Copy Share Image
We are befouling and destroying our own home, we are committing a slow but accelerating race suicide and life murder - planetary… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
AND NOW FOR MY POEM!!!!!!!!!! *ahem* roses are red violets are blue sugar is sweet and so are you….. but the roses… — Amy Dang Copy Share Image
It is impossible to be a mathematician without being a poet in soul. — Sofia Kovalevskaya Copy Share Image
“Sun shines above making diamonds of light Tink-tinkling, tap dancing, and bright.” — Mommy Moo Moo Copy Share Image
“May, and after a rainy spring We walk streets gallant with rhododendrons.” — Alicia Suskin Ostriker Copy Share Image
One merit of poetry few persons will deny: it says more and in fewer words than prose. — Voltaire Copy Share Image