In writing poetry, all of one's attention is focused on some inner voice. — Li-Young Lee Copy Share Image
“Poetry and beauty are born out of pain. This is their glory, this is our gain.” — S. Tarr Copy Share Image
“...I wish I could tell the tale of your beauty as my rough hands caress your face...” — John Geddes Copy Share Image
A mighty good sausage stuffer was spoiled when the man became a poet. — Eugene Field Copy Share Image
Verses which do not teach men new and moving truths do not deserve to be read. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
“With Cosette’s garter, Homer would make the Iliad. He would put into his poem an old babbler like me, and he would… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
the poets down here don't write nothin' at all, they just stand back and let it all be... — Bruce Springsteen Copy Share Image
“My ex calls the ochre winter 'autumn' as we queue to hear dock boys play jazz fugues in velvet dark.— Broken Verses” — Kamila Shamsie Copy Share Image
Again like Williams, with the emphasis now regrettable, when a man makes a poem, makes it mind you, he takes the words… — Robert Creeley Copy Share Image
It is not usually possible in a poem or a story to make the relationship between particular and universal fully explicit. Those… — John Berger Copy Share Image
In the case of the second world war the distorting factor is not poetry but our seemingly insatiable need to view the… — David Olusoga Copy Share Image
“Words in a poem are like petals on a flower, only together, in the right position, at the right time are they… — David McDonald Copy Share Image
“Really, for all the poetry in the world on the subject, when you get right down to it, it's mostly just boom!… — Martin Leicht Copy Share Image
I try not to think in terms of what poems or poets should do. Most of us appreciate a wide diversity in… — James Arthur Copy Share Image
“Why has not England a great mythology? Our folklore has never advanced beyond daintiness, and the greater melodies about our country-side have… — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
Take a commonplace, clean it and polish it, light it so that it produces the same effect of youth and freshness and… — Jean Cocteau Copy Share Image
“Sundays too my father got up early and put his clothes on in the blueblack cold, then with cracked hands that ached… — Robert Hayden Copy Share Image
“They didn't have much trouble teaching the ape to write poems: first they strapped him into a chair, then tied the pencil… — James Tate Copy Share Image
Every poet depends upon generations who wrote in his native tongue; he inherits styles and forms elaborated by those who lived before… — Czeslaw Milosz Copy Share Image
I loved them all the way one loves at any age -- if it's real at all -- obsessively, painfully, with wild… — May Sarton Copy Share Image
“Beauty means this to one person, perhaps, and that to another. And yet when any one of us has seen or heard… — John Galsworthy Copy Share Image
