I place solitude in a frame on my desk and call it, the one I love. — Kelli Russell Agodon Copy Share Image
The poet will not be satisfied with recording, the poet will have to transform. — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
It is clear that we do not exactly choose our poems; our poems choose us. — May Sarton Copy Share Image
There is a wonderful Hungarian literature, especially in lyric poetry. — Gyorgy Ligeti Copy Share Image
“Like I said, no Indian I’ve ever heard of has ever been or seen an angel.” — Natalie Díaz Copy Share Image
An unromantic poem I mean to make, of one who only lives for duty's sake. — Henrik Ibsen Copy Share Image
“Don’t let the bad times get you down, You have some of those moments where life tells you, it’s time to cry.… — Tiffany McDaniel, On the Savage Side Copy Share Image
“A fragment for my friend-- If your soul left this earth I would follow and find you Silent, my starship suspended in… — Emily St. John Mandel Copy Share Image
“Training is an active, dynamic process lived out daily in all areas of life- not a rote exercise in memorizing verses and… — Craig Groeschel Copy Share Image
I have thought many times since that if poets when they get discouraged would blow their brains out, they could write very… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Signs of a maddening system of writing and counting that calibrates the values of something the poet does not yet know. Praxis… — Shirley Geok-lin Lim Copy Share Image
Poetry is also the physical self of the poet, and it is impossible to separate the poet from his poetry. — Salvatore Quasimodo Copy Share Image
I had a funny feeling as I saw the house disappear, as though I had written a poem and it was very… — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
“All words, then, belonging to the inner world of the mind, are of the imagination, are originally poetic words.” — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
“I cannot pretend that I understood my mother at the end of her life. I was trying to follow the goals she… — Liza Dalby Copy Share Image
Language can also be play and music and beauty and desire and grief and rage and truth without always having to be… — Ada Limon Copy Share Image
Where is Philosophy sleeping this saturday afternoon? Are the philosophers already dead? Are the poets gone from the planet? I look through… — Mariana Fulger Copy Share Image
“And what they find is when they bring their pain or their doubt or their uncomfortable truth to church, someone immediately grabs… — Rachel Held Evans Copy Share Image
“They're not. That's partly what's so awful. I mean they're not real poets. They're just people that write poems that get published… — J.D. Salinger Copy Share Image
“Poems 1959-2009_ I turn into the man they photograph. I think I'll ask him for his autograph. He's older than I am… — Frederick Seidel Copy Share Image
What does that represent? There was never any question in plastic art, in poetry, in music, of representing anything. It is a… — Fernand Leger Copy Share Image
Traditional paintings have few figures in them and value negative space. Japanese calligraphy and brush paintings are in black and white. Haiku… — Fumio Sasaki Copy Share Image
Leo Connellan has retained his soul and voice in Provincetown and Other Poems. — Karl Shapiro Copy Share Image
“Within my reflection I see tears, for what I see is the truth, are my greatest fears.” — Atarah L. Poling Copy Share Image
I believed that I wanted to be a poet, but deep down I wanted to be a poem. — Jaime Gil de Biedma Copy Share Image
“Poets and intellectuals...are the ones the tyrants go after first.” — Frederick Smock Copy Share Image
The present is never poetic as it serves necessity, necessity, however, is prosaic. — Franz Grillparzer Copy Share Image
“Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends. --Bernard, The Waves” — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
The true spirit of delight...is to be found in mathematics as surely as in poetry. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“I believe that poems die the moment they are outwardly expressed.” — Maurice Maeterlinck Copy Share Image
A poet is one who can call forth the good latent in the human beast. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Poetry has never brought me in enough money to buy shoestrings. — William Wordsworth Copy Share Image
I am not less poet; I am more conscious of all that I am, am not, and might become. — Jean Toomer Copy Share Image
