The finest poems of the world have been expedients to get bread. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I look for poetry in English because it's the only language I read. — Jack Prelutsky Copy Share Image
A translation in verse . . . seems to me something absurd, impossible. — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
When I first started to write poetry, I used to feel as if my tongue would go numb. — Kim Hyesoon Copy Share Image
In the case of the second world war the distorting factor is not poetry but our seemingly insatiable need to view the… — David Olusoga Copy Share Image
It is not usually possible in a poem or a story to make the relationship between particular and universal fully explicit. Those… — John Berger Copy Share Image
“With Cosette’s garter, Homer would make the Iliad. He would put into his poem an old babbler like me, and he would… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“My ex calls the ochre winter 'autumn' as we queue to hear dock boys play jazz fugues in velvet dark.— Broken Verses” — Kamila Shamsie Copy Share Image
the poets down here don't write nothin' at all, they just stand back and let it all be... — Bruce Springsteen Copy Share Image
Still the question remains of what actually speaks in a poem, if not subjectivity as historically constructed. — Thomas Harrison Copy Share Image
I admire the poetic relationship to place as enacted in Wallace Stevens' poems; his poetics strikes me as an argument against the… — Cate Marvin Copy Share Image
I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman. — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“You think it's easy to forget someone who made you look forward to tomorrow... And I hope you never experience convincing a… — Alfa H Copy Share Image
Whereas story is processed in the mind in a straightforward manner, poetry bypasses rational thought and goes straight to the limbic system… — Jasper Fforde Copy Share Image
The poem is not, as someone put it, deflective of entry. But the real question is, 'What happens to the reader once… — Billy Collins Copy Share Image
“If a man has everything money can buy, yet woos you—with the complexity of a rose, the subtlety of poetry and prose… — Reena Doss Copy Share Image
“As long as there are young people, and old people, too, who can imagine realities beyond seeing and touching, and as long… — Jack Smith Copy Share Image
“Poetry leads to the same place as all forms of eroticism — to the blending and fusion of separate objects. It leads… — Georges Bataille Copy Share Image
“In each human heart are a tiger, a pig, an ass, and a nightingale. Diversity of character is due to their unequal… — J.M. Smith Copy Share Image
“I wouldn't be surprised if poetry - poetry in the broadest sense, in the sense of a world filled with metaphor, rhyme,… — David Byrne Copy Share Image
Saints and martyrs had never interested Maggie so much as sages and poets. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
The poem is not a thing we see; it is, rather, a light by which we may see. — Robert Penn Warren Copy Share Image
Lyrics is commissioned work, it is my profession. But poetry is my statement to life. — Gulzar Copy Share Image
Refine your senses through the great masters of music, painting, and poetry. — Ernst Haas Copy Share Image
“The words of the bards come down the centuries to us, warm with living breath.” — Pádraig Pearse Copy Share Image
“Jet gave the blessing from the book of poems she had given her aunt.” — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
A poem is an invitation to a voyage. As in life, we travel to see fresh sights. — Charles Simic Copy Share Image
Singing has nothing to do with poetry, except as twins separated at birth. — Shirley Geok-lin Lim Copy Share Image
I like to borrow forms and quotes and use a lot of allusions, in both poetry and music. — Jamila Woods Copy Share Image
My teaching was animated by what I was reading and being excited by as a poet. — Seamus Heaney Copy Share Image
