“Poetry unlocks that unseen world and that unheard language to the real world.” — Euginia Herlihy Copy Share Image
“New Rome will be destroyed By the attacks of new vandals. God always remains silent.” — Dejan Stojanovic Copy Share Image
“Don't analyze her love. Just turn the green light on and move into her soul.” — Melody Lee Copy Share Image
“Don't confuse me for that other girl, She's a fraud and a fool. Don't confuse me with anyone else, I am not… — Maddy Kobar Copy Share Image
“Bliss is the moments you're with me / when you're gone my life hurts like hell / but I'll do anything to… — Andrea Gibson Copy Share Image
Poetry is that art which selects and arranges the symbols of thought in such a manner as to excite the imagination the… — William C. Bryant Copy Share Image
“I WANT TO BE WITH SOMEONE WHO DREAMS OF DOING EVERYTHING IN LIFE AND NOTHING ON RAINY SUNDAY AFTERNOONS.” — Atticus Poetry Copy Share Image
In the late 60s and early 70s, I did get interested in voices, and in narration and embodying the voice, making the… — Robert Morgan Copy Share Image
“Poem Words from the heart Breaking, teaching, healing The deepest, purest form of art Feeling” — Esther Spurrill Jones Copy Share Image
“Starlight encased in flesh. Fire burning in so much water. Poetry living in hard spaces. oh, how the body loves” — Lady Grey Copy Share Image
[My poetry is] a way of coming to grips with reality . . . a way of discovery and definition. It is… — Robert Hayden Copy Share Image
I believe that every English poet should read the English classics, master the rules of grammar before he attempts to bend or… — Robert Graves Copy Share Image
“The beauty of that poem is that everybody can relate, because we all feel like nobody. We all feel like we are… — Amy Harmon Copy Share Image
When students are first at the Kerouac School we harp on Gertrude Stein's very basic poetic insistence that words are things .… — Anne Waldman Copy Share Image
I teach a lecture course on American poetry to as many as 150 students. For a lot of them, it's their only… — Robert Hass Copy Share Image
“I'm in love with New York. It matches my mood. I'm not overwhelmed. It is the suitable scene for my ever ever… — Anaïs Nin Copy Share Image
Your life is full of shit, No one takes care of you not by a bit. Finally go and open your eyes,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Welcome to America, a Wall Street Corporation Where the stockholders are rich and own this nation Where cubicle preparation masquerades as education… — Justin Wetch Copy Share Image
“i've been reading whitman, you know what he says, cheer up slaves, and horrify foreign despots, he means that's the attitude for… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
“Don't compare her to sunshine and roses when she's clearly orchids and moonlight.” — Melody Lee Copy Share Image
Only poetry can measure the distance between ourselves and the Other. — Charles Simic Copy Share Image
I learn a lot about my poems when I read them by the way people respond to them. — Mary Oliver Copy Share Image
The poetical language of an age should be the current language heightened. — Gerard Manley Hopkins Copy Share Image
A great poem leaves so much room for everybody to have such a different reaction to it. — Spike Jonze Copy Share Image
“The illusion reflected within the mirror whispered a door of returning daydreams...” — Lionel Suggs Copy Share Image
Sappho survives, because we sing her songs; And Eschylus, because we read his plays! — Robert Browning Copy Share Image
“All paths lead to death, our premature sacrifice for future spawn (from Elixir)” — Bryan Murphy Copy Share Image
A poet is a verb that blossoms light in gardens of dawn, or sometimes midnight. — Aberjhani Copy Share Image
I'm always doing poems from a place of not-knowing, a place of ignorance in a way. — Alison Hawthorne Deming Copy Share Image
I prefer my prose evocative rather than simply effective, with a bit of poetry to it. — Gemma Files Copy Share Image
“Maybe what this is. What we have, is something that will save us from ourselves.” — robert m drake Copy Share Image
The poet's place, it seems to me, is with the Mr. Hydes of human nature. — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“I wanna make growing old with you the last poem I ever have to write” — Michael Biondi Copy Share Image
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