When I cannot write a poem, I bake biscuits and feel just as pleased. — Anne Morrow Lindbergh Copy Share Image
“Love speaks to The soul In a language The brain Can’t comprehend.” — Chris Mc Geown Copy Share Image
The grand style is available now only in old poems, museums, and parodies. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
“May the energy of the day always call for celebration." Barbara Botch” — Barbara Botch Copy Share Image
The solitude of the poet is the uniqueness of his experience, and the particulaity of his sensitivity and imagination. — Mieczyslaw Jastrun Copy Share Image
“everybody loves me because i'm good at making people feel good. i'm good at making people feel good because i have had… — Sabrina Benaim Copy Share Image
“Is there life before death? That’s chalked up In Ballymurphy. Competence with pain, Coherent miseries, a bite and a sup, We hug… — Seamus Heaney Copy Share Image
“The Great religions are the Ships, Poets the life Boats. Every sane person I know has jumped Overboard. That is good for… — Daniel Ladinsky Copy Share Image
A poem generated by its own laws may be unrealized and bad in terms of so-called objective principles of taste, judgement, deduction. — A. R. Ammons Copy Share Image
“...always- the sharp, plaintive edge on the rim of the spoon of my giving. (lines 8-13 of the poem 'Confessions')” — Kathleen Sheeder Bonanno Copy Share Image
“Take me when I'm wild. Take me when I'm free. Take me for me and I will take you as you want… — Kamand Kojouri Copy Share Image
“I am deep. therefore you can't wade in the kiddie pool and expect to find me." - Alfa "And I've never wanted… — Alfa H Copy Share Image
But I think for me, writing poetry when I was younger really helped me to condense an idea or a story into… — Arlo Parks Copy Share Image
When I devoted myself to poetry - and poetry is a very serious medium - I don't think the people that knew… — Ana Castillo Copy Share Image
“This observation, understanding, and appreciation, when combined with the excellence of poetic expression, produce the best poetry, steeped in poetic truth and… — Alok Mishra Copy Share Image
“A few cold words on yonder stone, A corpse as cold as they can be - Vain words, and mouldering dust, alone… — Anne Brontë Copy Share Image
“Death was everywhere. Death was everything. Career. Desire. Dream. Poetry. Love. Youth itself. Dying became just another way of living. Graveyards sprang… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
“My friend Debbie from Texas sent me a poem to cheer me up. Her father told her that a friend of his… — Hillary Rodham Clinton Copy Share Image
I think the first time I really heard poetry was in the schoolyard. Just the little limericks that kids say when they're… — Jill Scott Copy Share Image
It is useless to check the vain dunce who has caught the mania of scribbling, whether prose or poetry, canzonets or criticisms,--let… — Sarah Josepha Hale Copy Share Image
I have always thought of poems as stepping stones in one's own sense of oneself. — Seamus Heaney Copy Share Image
The great philosophers are poets who believe in the reality of their poems. — Antonio Machado Copy Share Image
I may turn out an intellectual, but I'll never write anything but mediocre poetry. — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“Poetry is dying first. It'll be absorbed into prose sooner or later.” — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“life is not a poem, nor a paragraph, it is a sentence, i can end it at anytime” — Dani Lambias Copy Share Image
Iambics march from short to long;-- With a leap and a bound the swift Anapaests throng — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
In my opinion, Al Moritz may be the best poet of his generation in Canada. — George Murray Copy Share Image
“I am certain, my love, that poetry was born only after your birth.” — Kamand Kojouri Copy Share Image
“Wisdom is in the insane asylums. The end is in the everyday-pale smiles” — Saif Alsaegh Copy Share Image
Novels seem to me to be richer, broader, deeper, more enjoyable than poems. — Philip Larkin Copy Share Image
