A book of verses underneath the bough, A jug of wine, a loaf of bread-and thou. — Edward Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“This world is not enough, but it will have to do. You can either hold on or let go.” — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
Nature composes some of her loveliest poems for the microscope and the telescope. — Theodore Roszak Copy Share Image
Fact is not truth, but a poet who willfully defies fact cannot achieve truth. — Robert Graves Copy Share Image
Colloquial poetry is to the real art as the barber's wax dummy is to sculpture. — Ezra Pound Copy Share Image
“Don’t forget to collect the memories on your journey. Remember, if you only focus on your destination, you will miss out on… — Tanya R. Liverman Copy Share Image
“For the blind poor, Rx: bleed. For yourself; Rx: love nothing. Sow rows of onions only. Plant turnips in the dark of… — T.R. Hummer Copy Share Image
I used to try and concentrate the poem so much that there wasn't a word that wasn't essential. This leads to becoming… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Go on down to the local palm reader, she'll spit out exactly what you feed her because honey, you already knew your… — Casey Renee Kiser Copy Share Image
Francis Webb is easily our greatest poet and one of the greatest poets in the world but he's hardly ever mentioned. — Robert Adamson Copy Share Image
They see poetry in what I have done. No. I apply my methods, and that is all there is to it. — Georges Seurat Copy Share Image
a person hoping to become a poet must have the capacity of thinking of several things at a time. — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
“A writer, an author or a poet does not write because of a public or herself. She lives by a great youth.” — Petra Hermans Copy Share Image
Lately, I've been thinking about the difference between poetry and prose, and as I've experienced it, poetry is insistent. It allows for… — Tracy K. Smith Copy Share Image
There's that older poem of John Ashbery's-"America"-with the pun "I'm a wrecker," so wreckage and building out of the ashes of that.… — Anne Waldman Copy Share Image
“And when you write a poem within the accepted poem-form, making it sound like a poem because a poem is a poem… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
“History is a hermaphrodite with many distinguished lovers. We are neither mysteries nor strangers but the living breath of revelation made flesh… — Aberjhani Copy Share Image
“Poems are surmountable. They have rhymes and rhythms to help you make meaning. They're short enough. . . to read and reread… — Laurie Frankel Copy Share Image
Poetry, in the entire course of its development, has always been trying to capture meanings and problems which are still obscure and… — Mieczyslaw Jastrun Copy Share Image
“irony. I know nothing greater, nor more worthy of the truly great man, than the patient and expressive analysis of the ways… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
“On a trip to Paris one day, little Sophie Met a giant lady lighting up the night sky "What's your name, you… — Emmanuel Macron Copy Share Image
The dark night was the first book of poetry and the constellations were the poems. — Chet Raymo Copy Share Image
“I live my life in growing orbits which move out over the things of the world.” — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
The poet marries the language, and out of this marriage the poem is born. — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
“A dream of Her whom the vision of divine love revealed to my wounded heart.” — Raz Mihal Copy Share Image
Poetry uses language to create a music borne inside human experiences and emotions. — Pattiann Rogers Copy Share Image
A poem's life and death dependeth still Not on the poet's wits, but reader's will. — Alexander Brome Copy Share Image
