Dylan Thomas is now as much a case history as a chapter in the history of poetry. — Seamus Heaney Copy Share Image
“But is this not what poetry must do? To say the nothing that cannot be said?” — John Crowley Copy Share Image
Poets are soldiers that liberate words from the steadfast possession of definition. — Eli Khamarov Copy Share Image
“...in my dream the shadings of your soul are the dark tincture of rain...” — John Geddes Copy Share Image
It took me 14 years to write poems about Vietnam. I had never thought about writing about it, and in a way… — Yusef Komunyakaa Copy Share Image
I started writing poetry because language was how I understood the world. It was a paradigm that made everything matter and in… — Grace Cavalieri Copy Share Image
If I were to have a dream job, it would probably be a poet. Then again, I don't think I'm a very… — Jack Gleeson Copy Share Image
“In this way the insurrection began. Death was everywhere. Death was everything. Career. Desire. Dream. Poetry. Love. Youth itself. Dying became just… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
I've always been the high harmony singer. It's never my job to know the verses! But I know the chorus of every… — Vince Gill Copy Share Image
“Because anyone who has ever sat in lotus for more than a few seconds knows it takes a hell of a lot… — Andrea Gibson Copy Share Image
In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that no one ever… — Paul Dirac Copy Share Image
By writing... in the language of his society, a poet takes a large step toward it. It is society's job to meet… — Joseph Brodsky Copy Share Image
I think rap music is rap music. I mean, are there heavy writing aspects of it? Absolutely. In a sense, is it… — Earl Sweatshirt Copy Share Image
“These ears aren't to be trusted. The keening in the night, didn't you hear? Once I believed all the stories didn’t have… — Jeannine Hall Gailey Copy Share Image
You pick up loads of baggage with your first record with reaction to it from fans and critics. So I went to… — Ellie Goulding Copy Share Image
“For if in careless summer days In groves of Ashtaroth we whored, Repentant now, when winds blow cold, We kneel before our… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“Poetry is a life-cherishing force. For poems are not words, after all, but fires for the cold, ropes let down to the… — Mary Oliver Copy Share Image
Somehow, the words don't have any vitality, any life to them, unless I can feel it marking on a paper. That's how… — Simon Schama Copy Share Image
“sweet spring is your time is my time is our time for springtime is lovetime and viva sweet love (all the merry… — E. e. cummings Copy Share Image
It's two A.M. To sleep or to write that is the question? Whether it tis nobler to suffer the slings and arrows… — Stanley Victor Paskavich Copy Share Image
Beauty makes one lose one's head. Poetry is born of this decapitation — Jean Cocteau Copy Share Image
Poetry is the music of the soul, and, above all, of great and feeling souls. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
“You don’t have to glow to be seen. You don’t have to be whole to be worthy.” — Rita Kay Copy Share Image
Poets are shameless with their experiences: they exploit them. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“I'll tattoo your heart with words from my soul, and ink from my pen.” — Renee Dixon Copy Share Image
Yet do I marvel at this curious thing:/ To make a poet black, and bid him sing! — Countee Cullen Copy Share Image
“Writing is the light of imagination playing over shadow of thoughts.” — khaled Talib Copy Share Image
One has only as much morality as one has philosophy and poetry. — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Copy Share Image
I believe the poet shouldn't be in the poem at all except as a lens or as ears. — Alice Oswald Copy Share Image
“Not once or twice in our fair island-story, The path of duty was the way to glory.” — Alfred Lord Tennyson Copy Share Image
Poetry is eternal graffiti written in the heart of everyone. — Lawrence Ferlinghetti Copy Share Image
“The miscellaneous poetry of this age is nothing like the last; it is very poor.” — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
