“A versifier’s poem is born by the sound; a poet’s sound is born by the poem.” — Dejan Stojanovic Copy Share Image
“Give contemporary POET more SPACE & a long-last MAGIC will surround you all again.” — sir kristian goldmund aumann Copy Share Image
Treat your audience like poets and geniuses and they’ll have the chance to become them. — Del Close Copy Share Image
You'll accidentally find in barrows of books wrought-iron lines of long-buried poems, handle them with the care that respects ancient but terrible… — Bill Vaughan Copy Share Image
“She's the kind of girl who brings you to the moon without you even being aware. The kind of girl you trip… — Melody Lee Copy Share Image
'Swan,' by Mary Oliver. Poems and prose. Reading from this book is as if visiting a very wise friend. There is wisdom… — Jessye Norman Copy Share Image
All I ask, is the privilege for my masculine part the poet in me… If I must not, because of my sex,… — Aphra Behn Copy Share Image
EMILY: "Does anyone ever realize life while they live it...every, every minute?" STAGE MANAGER: "No. Saints and poets maybe...they do some. — Thornton Wilder Copy Share Image
But Racine's extraordinary powers as a writer become still more obvious when we consider that besides being a great poet he is… — Lytton Strachey Copy Share Image
“The poet is a light and winged and holy thing, and there is no invention in him until he has been inspired… — Plato Copy Share Image
“Poems are not for explaining," she said, her tone as bored and faintly scornful as his. "They are for pretty girls to… — Emily Horner Copy Share Image
“He read the verses backwards but then they were not poetry. Then he read the flyleaf from the bottom to the top… — James Joyce Copy Share Image
“Dante's poem, Langdon was now reminded, was not so much about the misery of hell as it was about the power of… — Dan Brown Copy Share Image
Poetry, my dear friends, is a sacred incarnation of a smile. Poetry is a sigh that dries the tears. Poetry is a… — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
“When our eyes met, I felt your intake of breath. I knew then I wasn't alone in my feelings. You were trying… — Alfa H Copy Share Image
I've always felt alone and isolated, and living on the West Coast, there's no poetry community out here, and if there is,… — Victoria Chang Copy Share Image
The second was some rather bad poetry, but it was short, and I forced my way through by gritting my teeth and… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
when ... I've thought of madness, it seems most easily explained to me as poetry in action. A life of symbol rather… — Helen Eustis Copy Share Image
The majority of American writers today have chosen passive non-resistance to things as they are, producing sloughs of poetry about their personal… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
“Poetry is man’s rebellion against being what he is. (1879-1958)” — James Branch Cabell Copy Share Image
Great Poets discover themselves. Little Poets have to be 'discovered' by somebody else. — Marie Corelli Copy Share Image
“I want to throw a party for the heartbreak that turned you into a poet.” — Mindy Nettifee Copy Share Image
To share poetry is one of the most intimate acts of friendship possible. — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
I'm terrified of switching the computer on because there are so many poems — Roger McGough Copy Share Image
Black Poets should live--not leap From steel bridges, like the white boys do. — Etheridge Knight Copy Share Image
He says his aim is poetry. One does not aim at poetry with pistols. At poets, perhaps. — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
For many years, I thought a poem was a whisper overheard, not an aria heard. — Rita Dove Copy Share Image
