Poetry is a way to express yourself, you can give one word a thousand meanings — Kendyl Smith Copy Share Image
“If on thoughts of death we are fed, Thus, a coffin, became my bed.” — E.A. Bucchianeri Copy Share Image
“Silver hidden in the gold, Young man hidden in the old, Laughing lord with weeping eyes, Bring king and ring before sunrise!… — Margaret Lovett Copy Share Image
Of what violences, murders, depredations, have not the epic poets, from all antiquity, been the occasion, by propagating false honor, false glory,… — Samuel Richardson Copy Share Image
Arthur Rimbaud was a disreputable, mean, ruthless, perverse, hateful wretch. He was also one of the greatest poets who ever lived. — Raymond Sokolov Copy Share Image
The poet uses the results of science and philosophy, and generalizes their widest deductions. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“Loneliness is a disease spread by people who try to use other people to cure their loneliness.” — Vironika Wilde Copy Share Image
“Reversed Thunder," as the poet George Herbert put it. "Reversed Thunder" -- the coming of judgement in response to the cry, "How… — Darrell Johnson Copy Share Image
At college, I wanted to be a poet. I liked the extremely concentrated language, the atmosphere of otherworldliness. — Walter Kirn Copy Share Image
Poetry was the first step, and from the age of 18, there was nothing else I wanted to do. — Christopher Koch Copy Share Image
“And if you were to come across her unexpectedly on the road, your heart would not beat faster like a trapped bird… — Victoria Alexander Copy Share Image
“Fuck You Poem #45 Fuck you in slang and conventional English. Fuck you in lost and neglected lingoes. Fuck you hungry and… — Amy Gerstler Copy Share Image
Once you have learned to trust your own voice and allowed that creative force inside you to come out, you can direct… — Natalie Goldberg Copy Share Image
Above all, the listener should be able to understand the poem or the song, not be forced to unravel a complicated, self-indulgent… — Lucinda Williams Copy Share Image
In its truest manifestation, where it gives judgments, poetry is super-luxury. It would be interesting to see what would happen to a… — Patrick Kavanagh Copy Share Image
The pleasure that I take in writing gets me interested in writing a poem. It's not a statement about what I think… — Marilyn Hacker Copy Share Image
Malachi 3 verse 10 Bring the whole tithe into the storehouse, that there may be food in my house. Test me in… — Magdalyn Copy Share Image
The perfect life, the perfect lie, I realised after Christmas, is one which prevents you from doing that which you would ideally… — Geoff Dyer Copy Share Image
“Memories of past. Heartaches of old. Courage of brass. Lessons of gold.” — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
You don't really gotta rap no more; you can just say the verse with a swag now. — Fetty Wap Copy Share Image
A verse may find him whom a sermon flies, And turn delight into a sacrifice... — George Herbert Copy Share Image
“But poetry, romance, love, beauty? These are what we stay alive for!” — N.H. Kleinbaum Copy Share Image
“for once in our lives / Everything became a You and nothing was an It.” — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
Poetry is an art, the easiest to dabble in, but the hardest to reach true excellence. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Pictures painted with water. Poetry breathed between kisses. Too beautiful to last.” — Ally Condie Copy Share Image
If I could get that girl [Courtney Love] to publish her poetry, the world would change. — Kurt Cobain Copy Share Image
The poets get a quizzical ahem. They reflect time, I am the very ticking. — Roy Fuller Copy Share Image
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