A subject for a great poet would be God's boredom after the seventh day of creation. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“Your fate is never determined when your massive imagination is.” — Curtis Tyrone Jones Copy Share Image
“The words of a good book may be profuse, but the words of a good poem are profound.” — Gregory John Copy Share Image
PRISON, n. A place of punishments and rewards. The poet assures us that - stone walls do not a prison make. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
“The hardest thing she ever had to do is swallow the hurt, carry the pain tucked up under her ribcage, and wait...… — Alfa H Copy Share Image
“A tough life needs a tough language—and that is what poetry is. That is what literature offers—a language powerful enough to say… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
Cut quarrels out of literature, and you will have very little history or drama or fiction or epic poetry left. — Robert Staughton Lynd Copy Share Image
I rely on poetry or literature to keep me centered before I go onstage because it reminds me to be present. — Carrie Coon Copy Share Image
What is the point of narrating poetry when the listener can't appreciate and enjoy the meaning? — Brahmanandam Copy Share Image
“During our first date, I wanted to hold your hand so bad I almost cut mine off and threw it at you… — Colin Gilbert Copy Share Image
“Poets don’t run out of material the way novelists do because they don’t depend on material in the same way.” — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
“If I could have one friend, just one in all the world, I know that I would not seek out a boy… — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
I do feel that a poem needs not just space, but, ideally, space around that space - space for meditation, reverie, subliminal… — Michael Longley Copy Share Image
“I look up upon a sparsely starred abyss Having wandered to this street corner In the middle of the night Watching the… — Justin Wetch Copy Share Image
“We must not be frightened nor cajoled into accepting evil as deliverance from evil. We must go on struggling to be human,… — Robert Hayden Copy Share Image
“Living in this skin is hard and painful, most of the times, because I never volunteered to take this on. The daily… — Charlotte Eriksson Copy Share Image
I don't think that you can say by any stretch of the imagination that all Wisconsin or Brooklyn-based poets write in a… — Matthea Harvey Copy Share Image
“A poem was a box for your soul. That was the point. It was the place where you could save bits of… — Andrea Ashworth Copy Share Image
Don't assume a parable narrates something that actually happened. Recognize that apocalyptic is filled with symbols. Expect a lot of metaphors in… — Craig Blomberg Copy Share Image
“The Essential Haiku: Versions of Bashō, Buson, & Issa, edited by Robert Hass.” — Michael Wallace Copy Share Image
Try making a poem as if it were a table, clear and solid, standing there outside you. — May Sarton Copy Share Image
Pure draughtsmen are philosophers and dialecticians. Colourists are epic poets. — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
I have always written poetry but I have never applied it to songwriting. — Janine Turner Copy Share Image
“No more can this Angel teach her, Yet, this guiding wing shall not forsake ...” — E.A. Bucchianeri Copy Share Image
“There will always a glimmer in those who have been through the dark.” — Atticus Poetry Copy Share Image
I want to be remembered as a poet, a peacemaker, and a philosopher who played. — Mattie Stepanek Copy Share Image
“Love is dead And we are each to blame When we took lighters over wild flame.” — Justin Wetch Copy Share Image
