“71. Rare Things -- A son-in-law who's praised by his wife's father. Likewise, a wife who's loved by her mother-in-law. A pair… — Sei Shōnagon Copy Share Image
“Adam and Eve didn't know what they would win or what they would lose until they'd both won and lost it. It's… — Tiffany Reisz Copy Share Image
“You're asking yourself if you will ever get over it. - I don't believe we ever do. Getting over something implies you… — Alfa H Copy Share Image
“But all this was beside the point. What scared Amy was the mere fact of what looked inescapably like recreational malevolence. The… — Jincy Willett Copy Share Image
“We are all born with genius. It's like our fairy godmother. But what happens in life is that we stop listening to… — Milton Glaser Copy Share Image
“ Words Be careful of words, even the miraculous ones. For the miraculous we do our best, sometimes they swarm like insects… — Anne Sexton Copy Share Image
I know that in some ways I operate from a kind of antiquated interest in imagery, while many contemporary poets are not… — Martha Ronk Copy Share Image
“She told her journal about me passing by her in the parking lot, about how on that night I had touched her-literally,… — Alice Sebold Copy Share Image
“And even if she were, even if we had our answer, whatever it was, what would we do with it? How would… — Amy Boesky Copy Share Image
“The twenty-four-hour diner, the station waiting room and the motel are sanctuaries for those who have, for noble reasons, failed to find… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
One of the qualities essential to being good at reading poetry is also one of the qualities essential to being good at… — Christian Wiman Copy Share Image
In the Western tradition, the first writers were teachers and historians, vastly traveled, who spiced their reports with fantasies. They were also… — F. Sionil Jose Copy Share Image
“My turn now. The story of one of my insanities. For a long time I boasted that I was master of all… — Arthur Rimbaud Copy Share Image
“Nineteenth-century preacher Henry Ward Beecher's last words were "Now comes the mystery." The poet Dylan Thomas, who liked a good drink at… — John Green Copy Share Image
“On 9 Jan 2024 at 16:30 Wajid Shaikh wrote this poem on the same maze Where they had met- Milenge tujhse hum… — Wajid Shaikh Copy Share Image
“He loved three things in this life: Vespers, white peacocks, And old maps of America, Didn't love children crying, Raspberries with tea,… — Anna Akhmatova Copy Share Image
“the next time you hear someone in a workshop remarking on how good a particular free-verse line or passage sounds, scan it.… — Annie Finch Copy Share Image
I want to be remembered as an artist that gave you a piece of me, as opposed to some surface bullshit. I… — Drake Copy Share Image
“As to her rank, she should be at the very least a princess, seeing that she is my lady and my queen.… — Miguel de Cervantes Copy Share Image
Robert Frost really started this whole thing rolling. He was, I believe, the first poet who started going to colleges. Before that,… — Billy Collins Copy Share Image
“perhaps you know that Ingeborg Bachmann poem from the last years of her life that begins "I lose my screams" dear Antigone,… — Anne Carson Copy Share Image
“I believe in being a poet in all moments of life. Being a poet means being human. I know some poets whose… — Forough Farrokhzad Copy Share Image
“Falling in love is easy. Staying in love is the challenge. The pursuit of loving another person is a selfless one. Sacrifice… — Jason Versey Copy Share Image
“When you are incapable of speaking, Then words are searching for you. When you are incapable of smiling, Then happiness is searching… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I wanted to be a poet when I was 20; I had no interest in fiction or biography and precious little interest… — Peter Ackroyd Copy Share Image
“When I have fears that I may cease to be Before my pen has glean’d my teeming brain, Before high piled books,… — John Keats Copy Share Image
“when you're young a pair of female high-heeled shoes just sitting alone in the closet can fire your bones; when you're old… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
“The nature of poems Is a matter of words and deeds An intimate encounter of voice In the ache of the heart… — Kendall Dana Lockerman Copy Share Image
“Sometimes the thought of his mother working so hard while he did nothing would come suddenly upon his and he would rush… — E. Nesbitt Copy Share Image
Verses are not, as people think, feelings (those one has early enough) -- they are experiences. For the sake of a verse… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“A Kite is a Victim A kite is a victim you are sure of. You love it because it pulls gentle enough… — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
“Laiva on lastattu kuulla meri on lastattu laivoilla maa on lastattu merellä ja keulaan kiinnitetty. Kuu laskee unien metsät kuu valaa rantojen… — Hannu Kankaanpää Copy Share Image
“Haleine contre haleine, échauffe-moi la vie, Mille et mille baisers donne-moi je te prie, Amour veut tout sans nombre, amour n’a point… — Pierre de Ronsard Copy Share Image
Those ancients who in poetry presented the golden age, who sang its happy state, perhaps, in their Parnassus, dreamt this place. Here,… — Dante Alighieri Copy Share Image
Wildness we might consider as the root of the authentic spontaneities of any being. It is that wellspring of creativity whence comes… — Thomas Berry Copy Share Image
I have no connections here; only gusty collisions, rootless seedlings forced into bloom, that collapse. ... I am the Visiting Poet: a… — Marge Piercy Copy Share Image
“Sometimes the universe works in a really weird way. You hate the people who love you, and you love the people who… — Altruistic Copy Share Image
I like to borrow a metaphor from the great poet and mystic Rumi who talks about living like a drawing compass. One… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Once I dated a woman I only liked 43%. So I only listened to 43% of what she said. Only told the… — jeffrey mcdaniel Copy Share Image
The way I mainly use the Internet is keeping in touch with poets that live far away. My main interest is contemporary… — John Burnside Copy Share Image
