I consider poetry very subordinate to moral and political science. — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
The poetry I grew up on is really an intense form of poetry; it's so pure and powerful. — K'naan Copy Share Image
I prefer the absurdity of writing poems to the absurdity of not writing poems. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We don't get groupies.We get teenagers who want to read us their poetry. — Michael Stipe Copy Share Image
The poem is a capsule where we wrap up our punishable secrets. — William Carlos Williams Copy Share Image
“In a real poem a sound does not swallow a letter, but a letter swallows a sound.” — Dejan Stojanovic Copy Share Image
Who you are contributes to your poetry in a number of important ways, but you shouldn't identify with your poems so closely… — Dorianne Laux Copy Share Image
Perfect love has a breath of poetry which can exalt the relations of the least-instructed human beings. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Fairy tales are experienced by their hearers and readers, not as realistic, but as symbolic poetry. — Max Luthi Copy Share Image
Some of my favorite poets had a tremendous sense of whimsy, so it's a writing style I guess I admire. — Jewel Copy Share Image
I like to mix it up, because the kind of comments you can get from a fiction writer about your poetry are… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
Written poetry is worth reading once, and then should be destroyed. Let the dead poets make way for others. — Antonin Artaud Copy Share Image
“Read it to me.” “Seriously?” he said quietly. “You want me to read you poetry? Like saving your life ten times wasn’t… — Brynn Kelly Copy Share Image
All think what other people think; All know the man their neighbor knows. Lord, what would they say Did their Catullus walk… — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
All those authors there, most of whom of course I've never met. That's the poetry side, that's the prose side, that's the… — Norman MacCaig Copy Share Image
I haven't seen any poet in this country behave nearly as rudely as Newt Gingrich or Bill O'Reilly. I'm not asking these… — Sam Hamill Copy Share Image
“WHAT KIND OF TIMES ARE THESE There’s a place between two stands of trees where the grass grows uphill and the old… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
“No,” Jason said. “No ban.” The idea that Vale might write poems about him was deliriously wonderful. His heart squeezed and jolted.… — Leta Blake Copy Share Image
I wish to suggest that a man may be very industrious, and yet not spend his time well. There is no more… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“In most cases the name is unpoetical, although the fact is poetical. In the case of Smith, the name is so poetical… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Without touching my subject I want to come to the moment when, through pure concentration of seeing, the composed picture becomes more… — Ernst Haas Copy Share Image
When you set about your composing, it may be necessary for your ease, and better distillation of wit, to put on your… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
If a poem hasn't ripped apart your soul; you haven't experienced poetry. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Dance, Live, Sing, Cry, Love, Travel and Love again, until the day you have to stop” — Vanessa Vanney Thompson Copy Share Image
At bottom, no real object is unpoetical, if the poet knows how to use it properly. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Be aroused by poetry; structure yourself with propriety, refine yourself with music. — Confucius Copy Share Image
But most commonly, it's one poem that I work on with a lot of intensity. — Philip Levine Copy Share Image
“There's poetry in everything, everything is music; just listen and you will hear it.” — Noam Shpancer Copy Share Image
“A Poet = A willingness to be vulnerable & to trust the inner voice.” — Morgan Dragonwillow Copy Share Image
A lot of poems are boring and impenetrable. Mine are not. They're really simple. — Tim Key Copy Share Image
“i want to stay curled and cosied and chocolated…forever in my mother’s arms.” — Sanober Khan Copy Share Image
