Money is everywhere, but so is poetry. What we lack are the poets. — Federico Fellini Copy Share Image
Poetry puts starch in your backbone so you can stand, so you can compose your life. — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
The poets are nothing but interpreters of the gods, each one possessed by the divinity to whom he is in bondage. — Plato Copy Share Image
To be born in Wales, not with a silver spoon in your mouth, but, with music in your blood and with poetry… — Brian Harris Copy Share Image
“Oceanic farness treasures tomorrow Mingled tears lost in the sea of sorrow Our immortal love will lead us a way When pale… — Munia Khan Copy Share Image
You will find meaning in life only if you create it.It is a poetry to be composed. It is a song to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“My mind: a thousand hungry daughters, my harlot heritage. Marbles: lost, no rescue search. Your heart: blooming thorns, and a stolen grocery… — Virginia Petrucci Copy Share Image
I always was a rebel...but on the other hand, I wanted to be loved and accepted...and not just be a loudmouth, lunatic,… — John Lennon Copy Share Image
Writhe and sway to music's pain searing with asides, caress death with a lover's touch for it shall be your bride. — Lou Reed Copy Share Image
As a friendly one. I would still like to write concrete poems, but I can only do it sometimes. — Ian Hamilton Finlay Copy Share Image
Poetry, fiction as novels or short stories - these are autonomous as created by their authors. They should stand on their own,… — F. Sionil Jose Copy Share Image
Andy Brown is one of our most interesting and exciting younger poets. With its love of ideas and language, his work demonstrates… — John Burnside Copy Share Image
All Of Me [Verse 1:] What would I do without your smart mouth? Drawing me in, and you kicking me out You've… — Corey JUSTICECR3W Whitmore Copy Share Image
I wish I'd been better able to resist the sense of obligation to write some of the poems I did. It's in… — Andrew Motion Copy Share Image
“I have nothing but duct-taped syntax to offer them-- noise of jury-rigged verse, of entire days burned by the focus of a… — B.J. Ward Copy Share Image
Poetry was my dirty little secret when I was a fiction writer at Iowa, and then fiction became my dirty little secret… — Jenny Zhang Copy Share Image
“And when you are foolish enough to identify yourself as a poet, your interlocutors will often ask: A PUBLISHED Poet? And when… — Ben Lerner Copy Share Image
“From a Berkeley Notebook' ~Denis Johnson One changes so much from moment to moment that when one hugs oneself against the chill… — Denis Johnson Copy Share Image
Stop this day and night with me and you shall possess the origin of all poems — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
Many of the poems weave autobiographical elements with fabular or mythic materials. — Anna Journey Copy Share Image
Still may syllables jar with time, Still may reason war with rhyme, Resting never! — Ben Jonson Copy Share Image
“Find the beauty in everyone and everything, everyday! Roxanne Catherine Mapp” — Roxanne Catherine Mapp Copy Share Image
“Despise me not! And be not queasy To praise somewhat: Verse is not easy.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I've written probably over 200 songs that have a verse and a chorus and that's it. — Hunter Parrish Copy Share Image
Love thou, and if thy love be deep as mine, Thou wilt not laugh at poets. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image