When you can be this, why are you ever anything else? - Broken Verses — Kamila Shamsie Copy Share Image
I think fiction goes to poetry for the intensity of its use of language. — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
Poetry is the way we help give name to the nameless so it can be thought. — Audre Lorde Copy Share Image
There are distinct duties of a poet laureate. I plan a reading series at the Library of Congress and advise the librarian.… — Rita Dove Copy Share Image
“Maybe I hope too much. Maybe I dream too much or maybe I love too much to just give up on you.” — robert m drake Copy Share Image
I think poets tell better history than historians. Historians lie all the time but the poets can get to truth of it. — John Cusack Copy Share Image
Rap is more of a poetry and a way to express one's feelings, but they're starting to mess it up and I'm… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When I got to Grinnell College, I was part of the black turtleneck sweater and Camel cigarette crowd of poets and writers. — Peter Coyote Copy Share Image
“To be a poet in a destitute time means: to attend, singing, to the trace of the fugitive god. This is why… — Martin Heidegger Copy Share Image
We definitely set out to make a great 'radio' record. We set out to write great hooky choruses-but with verses that said… — LeAnn Rimes Copy Share Image
“Caution not spirit, let it roam wild; for in that natural state dance embraces divine frequency.” — Shah Asad Rizvi Copy Share Image
When I was in graduate school, my thesis included both poetry and essays. Influenced by the personal essays of James Baldwin and… — Stephen Vincent Benet Copy Share Image
“The world deprived of clear-cut outlines, of the up and the down, of good and evil, succumbs to a peculiar nihilization, that… — Czeslaw Milosz Copy Share Image
“Silence is my defense. The protector whom I trust. A sturdy shield, A loyal safe-keeper, A sentinel, impassable. Silence is my refuge.… — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
In the Nordic countries, there are hardly any societal problems, but we writers are bloodthirsty people like anyone else, so we have… — Hallgrimur Helgason Copy Share Image
I see poetry as a path toward new understanding and transformation, and so I've looked at specific poems I love, and at… — Jane Hirshfield Copy Share Image
“What madness, to love a man as something more than human! I lived in a fever, convulsed with tears and sighs that… — St. Augustine Copy Share Image
Do you know, Considering the market, there are more Poems produced than any other thing? No wonder poets sometimes have to seem… — Robert Frost Copy Share Image
“The Sufi way is through knowledge and practice, not through intellect and talk. As Prince Dara Shikoh says, in a Persian poem:… — Idries Shah Copy Share Image
“You can't just add a smattering of verses to a humanistic worldview.” — Joseph Stephen Copy Share Image
A poet cannot be a Party member ... without paying the price. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
Poetry has a way of teaching one what one needs to know ... if one is honest. — May Sarton Copy Share Image
“Straight between them ran the pathway, Never grew the grass upon it” — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
Are democracy and poetry exclusive of one another and, if so, why? — Janet Erskine Stuart Copy Share Image
Every poem, formal or free, has an ideal shape, and the job of the poet is to find it. — Peter Meinke Copy Share Image
Sandra Kasturi's magical poems transform the ordinary into the surreal and exotic. — Phyllis Gotlieb Copy Share Image
Im looking for a guy who makes you want to dance and write poetry all day long. — Angela Sarafyan Copy Share Image
“~ Not every poem is meant for oral stimulation, some are better devoured mentally.” — Kiana Donae Copy Share Image
