All poets' wives have rotten lives Their husbands look at them like knives. — Delmore Schwartz Copy Share Image
“I love the echoes of a home filled to the rim with poetry, books and art.” — Melody Lee Copy Share Image
“Who was a queen and loved a poet once Humpbacked, a dwarf? ah, women can do that!” — Robert Browning Copy Share Image
The high-water mark, so to speak, of Socialist literature is W.H. Auden, a sort of gutless Kipling. — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“Death be not proud, though some have called thee mighty and dreadful, for, thou art not so.” — John Donne Copy Share Image
If anything, hearing another poet is a sacred experience I enter, but I can honestly say this does not influence my own… — Grace Cavalieri Copy Share Image
Sharp is your memory, sweet is your name, deep in my heart you'll always remain. Earth wants water, flower wants dew, I… — Azgraybebly Josland Copy Share Image
“And honestly, there is no better way to explore your emotions than with poetry. Or audiotapes.” — Jay Asher Copy Share Image
“the princess jumped from the tower & she learned that she could fly all along. she never needed those wings.” — Amanda Lovelace Copy Share Image
I then carefully searched through the pages until I was able to find the verse that was crystal clear... It read: "Rejoice… — Mary C. Neal Copy Share Image
What's poetry? It's not real but maybe it's more than real. It's dreaming while you're awake. — Caryl Churchill Copy Share Image
But all art is sensual and poetry particularly so. It is directly, that is, of the senses, and since the senses do… — William Carlos Williams Copy Share Image
Television excites me because it seems to be the last stamping ground of poetry, the last place where I hear women's hair… — Ben Hecht Copy Share Image
The sole literary presence from my childhood was my grandfather, a Jewish immigrant from Latvia, who eccentrically copied poems into the backs… — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
As poets, we don't accept oppression; we are about a freedom of spirit, or whatever you want to call it. I think… — Alison Hawthorne Deming Copy Share Image
This isnt a quote more or less a poem... My legs are too heavy to run tonight We both know were lonely… — Jose Ruiz Copy Share Image
If there would be a recipe for a poem, these would be the ingredients: word sounds, rhythm, description, feeling, memory, rhyme, and… — Karla Kuskin Copy Share Image
Too many poets act like a middle-aged mother trying to get her kids to eat too much cooked meat, and potatoes with… — Frank O'Hara Copy Share Image
“ Death Be Not Proud Death, be not proud, though some have called thee Mighty and dreadful, for thou art not so;… — John Donne Copy Share Image
The human creature is alone in his carapace. Poetry is a strong way out. — Stevie Smith Copy Share Image
Poetry is a mirror which makes beautiful that which is distorted. — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
“For poetry and I are one To separate is to decapitate For my poetry is forever.” — Kerry D. Brackett Copy Share Image
I guess the quality that makes one write poetry keeps one from selling it. — Louise Closser Hale Copy Share Image
the poet like an acrobat climbs on rime to a high wire of his own making. — Lawrence Ferlinghetti Copy Share Image
“Your love is poetry in perpetual motion capturing my heart with centrifugal force.” — Truth Devour Copy Share Image
I know I should be leaving this climate, I've got a verse, but can't rhyme it. — Jimmy Buffett Copy Share Image
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