Tis a question whether adversity or prosperity makes the most poets. — George Farquhar Copy Share Image
There's no money in poetry, but then there's no poetry in money, either. — Robert Graves Copy Share Image
“I'm made of poetry and other things that people don't really care about at all.” — Karishma Magavani Copy Share Image
“Society will always be too fragile to accept us for all that makes us beautiful.” — robert m drake Copy Share Image
A poet is not an apostle; he drives out devils only by the power of the devil. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“There's a book of poetry in the lines of my hands that no one wants to read” — Holly Schindler Copy Share Image
“Love does not claim materialistic possession of any kind, it yields complete freedom.” — Santosh Kalwar Copy Share Image
The scripture that God used to save me was Isaiah 7.14, which today is still my favourite verse in the Bible. — Gloria Gaynor Copy Share Image
“You bothered yourself and changed the season. I was left behind with your awful sounds.” — Cat Alonso Copy Share Image
I feel that the task of criticizing my poetry is best left to others (i.e. critics) and would much rather have it… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
Prince or commoner, tenor or bass, Painter or plumber or never-do-well, Do me a favor and shut your face - Poets alone… — Dorothy Parker Copy Share Image
Poetry isn't a profession, it's a way of life. It's an empty basket; you put your life into it and make something… — Mary Oliver Copy Share Image
Mathematics is, as it were, a sensuous logic, and relates to philosophy as do the arts, music, and plastic art to poetry. — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Copy Share Image
For Liberal Democrats, the political choice between the hard Brexit menus offered by Boris Johnson and Jeremy Hunt might seem about as… — Ed Davey Copy Share Image
“Gluttony and sloth, as worldly goals, were quietly usurped by avarice and lust, which, together with poetry (yes, poetry), consumed all my… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
In a way, America's the shadow of everything I do, everywhere I go, everything I carry, no matter if I travel to… — Anne Waldman Copy Share Image
“ If I Must Go If I must go to heaven's end Climbing the ages like a stair, Be near me and… — Sara Teasdale Copy Share Image
“He’s been a bit grumpy since Potato Day.’ She heard Gethin choke back a laugh. ‘He set up an all-day workshop on… — Christine Stovell Copy Share Image
“I have a confession to make. When I was a kid in junior secondary school I was a closet poet, getting high… — Rotimi Ogunjobi Copy Share Image
Poets need be in no degree jealous of the geologists. The stony science, with buried creations for its domains, and half an… — Hugh Miller Copy Share Image
“There was a girl named Claire. For her, life was lonely, it was so unfair. She longed for happiness, but found it… — Shon Mehta Copy Share Image
“Lovers and madmen have such seething brains, Such shaping fantasies, that apprehend More than cool reason ever comprehends. The lunatic, the lover… — Shakespeare William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
“Moonless nights haunt me. They evoke my once carefree life when I dreamed without doubt to what my future could be. I… — H.S. Crow Copy Share Image
“It's ironic, isn't it? How hope keeps us breathing just to kill us in the end.” — Nicole Lyons Copy Share Image
“Love left us long back, we just got better. You at pretending, Me at hiding.” — Anjum Choudhary Copy Share Image
The BFI exists to celebrate all poets of world cinema, of the past and present. — Anthony Minghella Copy Share Image
And ever against eating cares Lap me in soft Lydian airs, Married to immortal verse — John Milton Copy Share Image
For it is not metres, but a metre-making argument that makes a poem. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
