The generous Critic fann'd the Poet's fire, And taught the world with reason to admire. — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
“SOME PEOPLE SIMPLY DO NOT EXIST ANYMORE. GET USED TO IT. QUESTION MARK.” — Amy King Copy Share Image
Poetry is an extra hand. It can caress or tickle. It can clench and fight. — Adrian Mitchell Copy Share Image
True art can only spring from the intimate linking of the serious and the playful. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
“Fucking gorgeous man. And the best part? The way he looked at me. Like I was the prettiest girl in the room.… — Alice Clayton Copy Share Image
“When an immigrant speaks of feeling uncomfortable just know, you are in the presence of man who knows what the sting of… — Hannah V. Sawyerr Copy Share Image
The truly astounding thing is the Baathist regime supports poetry like nobody else, probably in the world. — Elliott Colla Copy Share Image
Poetry brings all possible experience to the same degree: a degree in the consciousness beyond which the consciousness itself cannot go. — Laura Riding Copy Share Image
“As I lay like a corpse in this dreamy insomniac dimension, I spit quotes out of thin air and pluck strands from… — Melody Lee Copy Share Image
I like to read a lot of books and poems. Even though poems are short, I enjoy the emotions that come with… — Jeongyeon Copy Share Image
There's a fine line between writing the poem and the poem writing itself. You have to be there and not be there,… — David Meltzer Copy Share Image
“Always open, to risk and danger, to fun and laughter; to let in life and let out love.” — Dave Preston Copy Share Image
Poetry had great powers over me from my childhood, and today the poems live in my memory which I read at the… — Bayard Taylor Copy Share Image
Martin Buber suggested that evil prevailed because of the inability of man to imagine the real. Yet human beings do have that… — Bernard Lown Copy Share Image
“When asked about rewriting, Ernest Hemingway said that he rewrote the ending to A Farewell to Arms thirty-nine times before he was… — Susan M. Tiberghien Copy Share Image
“All ten years of my trepidations, Each and every sleepless night, I placed them all in a quiet word And I voiced… — Anna Akhmatova Copy Share Image
“What people want to read often seems incongruous. A pair of biker-types taking away Thoughts of the Dalai Lama. People without access… — Alan Bennett Copy Share Image
Much can they praise the trees so straight and high, The sailing pine,the cedar proud and tall, The vine-prop elm, the poplar… — Edmund Spenser Copy Share Image
“All of us,' he said, 'have hopes of being poet, artist, discoverer, philospoher, scientist; of possessing the attributes of all these simultaneously.… — Robert Edison Fulton Jr Copy Share Image
“A teacher will be frustrated if she is only motivated to teach what she has learned. Yet, if she is motivated because… — Tanya R. Liverman Copy Share Image
“no poet can know what his poem is going to be like until he has written it.” — W.H. Auden Copy Share Image
If you choose your subject selectively - intuitively - the camera can write poetry. — Harry Callahan Copy Share Image
Truth speaks best in the language of poetry and symbolism, I think. — Grant Morrison Copy Share Image
Being (or feeling as) a poet is also to weep sorrows behind the smile of a pen. — Jean-Paul Malfatti Copy Share Image
“Failures of nerve and energy are not permitted. That's what it means to be an object.” — Mary Kinzie Copy Share Image
“You’re speaking volumes, my friend, and tonight we’re doing short poems only.” — André Aciman Copy Share Image
“The best way to understand the soul of America is read Walt Whitman's poetry” — Dermot McCabe Copy Share Image
In politics, as in poetry, it is sometimes true that it is darkest before dawn. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“my love for you will always be like a mountain stream. quiet. persistent. continuous.” — Sanober Khan Copy Share Image
I ought to warn you that my verse is of no interest to people who can think. — John Betjeman Copy Share Image
And, of all lies (be that one poet's boast) / The lie that flatters I abhor the most. — William Cowper Copy Share Image
