If a poet interprets a poem of his own he limits its suggestibility. — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
Prose, poetry, and drawings stand side by side in a very democratic way in my work. — Gunter Grass Copy Share Image
“poetry is the tombstone of experience, nothing i write is my own. ~from "the damned” — D.W.Metz Copy Share Image
“A poet expresses with a few words, what a philosopher means with many.” — Stephen McDonough Copy Share Image
“Everything here is a small offense and not of value as art or confession. It is not a whim. It is an… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
“She's not stumbling, she's not lost. She's simply romancing her inner animal and falling in love with the wild part of her… — Melody Lee Copy Share Image
If we dont enjoy each others poetry, then there is nothing here. you can not sleep with someones body every night and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The shortest verse in the Bible is 'Jesus wept.' The only thing wrong with it is the past tense. — R. K. Milholland Copy Share Image
“Words are gifts that give to us all. Packaged songs and poems waiting to be unwrapped.” — Calvin W. Allison Copy Share Image
“If this is my day of harvest, in what fields have I sowed the seed, and in what unremembered seasons?” — Kahlil Gibran Copy Share Image
Poetry, especially traditional Iranian poetry, is very good at looking at things from a number of different angles simultaneously. — Asghar Farhadi Copy Share Image
Poetry is one of the oldest of all art forms, and one of its powers for shamans and tribal leaders was the… — Felix Dennis Copy Share Image
Wake! For the Sun, who scatter'd into flight The Stars before him from the Field of Night, Drives Night along with them… — Omar Khayyam Copy Share Image
Poetry is a sort of inspired mathematics, which gives us equations, not for abstract figures, triangles, squares, and the like, but for… — Ezra Pound Copy Share Image
When I attended the Berkeley Poetry Conference in 1965, I was very inspired. The collaboration of many poets from these alternative traditions… — Anne Waldman Copy Share Image
To later Romans Ennius was the personification of the spirit of early Rome; by them he was called "The Father of Roman… — Quintus Ennius Copy Share Image
“Sometimes the fresh load of guests would turn up before we had got rid of the previous group, and the chaos was… — Gerald Durrell Copy Share Image
Schoolchildren all over America are told to write to authors-often to authors whom they have never before heard of, whose work they… — Conrad Aiken Copy Share Image
You can't argue with someone who believes, or just passionately suspects, that the poet's function is not to write what he must… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Your house has two colors," she said, while looking up at a corner of my ceiling and walls. "Yes," I replied. "Why… — Jeffrey A. White Copy Share Image
Every healthy man can do without food for two days — but without poetry, never! — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
“When power leads man toward arrogance, poetry reminds him of his limitations.” — John Fitzgerald Kennedy Copy Share Image
Poetry resonates differently in each culture; it doesn't in America. — Campbell McGrath Copy Share Image
This morning came on to me, silver wings silhouetted against the child's sunrise. — Jimi Hendrix Copy Share Image
“Art is not the handmaid of politics. It is its own remedy! And its healing is sacral.” — William Everson Copy Share Image
A poem need not have a meaning and like most things in nature often does not have. — Wallace Stevens Copy Share Image
Could a man live by it, it were not unpleasant employment to be a poet. — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
Who are you, a hundred years from today, reading my poetry with curiosity? — Rabindranath Tagore Copy Share Image
