“Monsieur, you must be mad! Box Five can never be had For money, love or the world ...” — E.A. Bucchianeri Copy Share Image
They (the poets) are to us in a manner the fathers and authors of the wisdom. — Plato Copy Share Image
“You put butterflies back into my soul and painted their wings with passion and poetry.” — Melody Lee Copy Share Image
I was excited by what my painter friends were doing, and they seemed to be interested in our poetry too, and that… — Kenneth Koch Copy Share Image
Like a French poem is life; being only perfect in structure when with the masculine rhymes mingled the feminine are. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
We have the ability to be the Athens of modern times as opposed to the militaristic Sparta. I remind you that the… — Rita Mae Brown Copy Share Image
Mostly the thought and the verse come inseparably. In my poem Poetics, it's as close as I come to telling how I… — Howard Nemerov Copy Share Image
“There are dewdrops on the nightingale's wings, bright beads of moon distilled by hope. On the marble fountain is the kiss of… — Federico García Lorca Copy Share Image
“Forge your iron; shape it by force, not into a flower you already know but into what can also be a flower… — João Cabral de Melo Neto Copy Share Image
“There are days when my imagination in my enemy. It likes to keep me company in my darkest of times and romanticizes… — Alfa H Copy Share Image
I think we've come to a kind of splinter period in poetry. These tiny little bright fragments of observation - and not… — Conrad Aiken Copy Share Image
The poet or storyteller who feels that he is competing with a superb double play in the World Series is a lost… — John Cheever Copy Share Image
My path to poetry was slow and meandering. When I eventually found my way to graduate school at 29, making a life… — Robin Beth Schaer Copy Share Image
“The poet he was escorting into Wales was a Horus-headed dud of some personal magnetism. The hair was feathered gell, the nose… — Iain Sinclair Copy Share Image
The American doctrinaire is the converse of the American demagogue, and, in this way, is scarcely less injurious to the public. The… — James F. Cooper Copy Share Image
“We join spokes together in a wheel, but it is the center hole that makes the wagon move. We shape clay into… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It was really hard coming to terms with the Nazi history. Then in my twenties I was traveling to Germany. There was… — Anne Waldman Copy Share Image
These are crystalline - oftentimes incandescent - translations of Juarroz's powerful metaphysical poems where eternity and silence jut up against a world… — Jorie Graham Copy Share Image
Poetry is something in-between the dream and its interpretation. — Lou Andreas-Salomé Copy Share Image
A poem is really a kind of machine for producing the poetic state by means of words. — Paul Verlaine Copy Share Image
There is no competition of sounds between a nightingale and a violin. — Dejan Stojanovic Copy Share Image
Poetry remembers that it was an oral art before it was a written art. — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
“... nothing is a blow to the sanity like truly execrable verse.” — Douglas Anthony Cooper Copy Share Image
“Let me remember you, soon will the winter be on us, Snow-hushed and heartless.” — Sara Teasdale Copy Share Image
Poems have their own fates, like children. You have only to give birth to them. — Andrei Voznesensky Copy Share Image
It is Homer who has chiefly taught other poets the art of telling lies skillfully. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Poets and heroes are of the same race, the latter do what the former conceive. — Alphonse de Lamartine Copy Share Image
