Multitude, solitude: equal and interchangeable terms for the active and prolific poet. — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
Poetry is a succession of questions which the poet constantly poses. — Vicente Aleixandre Copy Share Image
“I choose solitude over cold kisses. If it isn't love, it is poison.” — Anita Krizzan Copy Share Image
Poetry is a naked woman, a naked man, and the distance between them. — Lawrence Ferlinghetti Copy Share Image
All the poet can do today is warn. That is why true Poets must be truthful. — Wilfred Owen Copy Share Image
Somebody's sent a funny little valentine to me. It's a bunch of baby-roses in a vase of filigree, And hovering above them… — James Whitcomb Riley Copy Share Image
Good religious poetry... is likely to be most justly appreciated and most discriminately relished by the undevout. — A. E. Housman Copy Share Image
Self-editing is the way I write. Ten verses of a song and it's finished. Then we start playing it and if I… — Nick Cave Copy Share Image
“eighteenth-century Urdu poet Mir: It’s just your imagining that There’s a feeble body inside my clothes; In fact, there is nothing there… — Shamsur Rahman Faruqi Copy Share Image
Don't you think that as a people, Americans have less poetry, real poetry, in their souls than any other nations? — Robert E. Howard Copy Share Image
One must write poetry in such as way that if one threw the poem in a window, the pane would break. — Daniil Kharms Copy Share Image
The 14th-century poem 'Sir Gawain and the Green Knight' wasn't my top read at university. In fact, I finished it under some… — Cathy Newman Copy Share Image
“We are the poem, his poem says, that emerges from the unity of the body and the mind. That fragile unity--this brief… — Jonah Lehrer Copy Share Image
“I am the slave of the Master of Prophets And my fealty to him has no beginning. I am a slave of… — Yusuf Nabhani Copy Share Image
“ 'We're not... we haven't been writing poetry and sprinkling rose petals and tripping hand in hand under rainbows, Kay.' 'Just because… — Kim Fielding Copy Share Image
Comedy was something I picked up trying to perfect my art through spoken word. I got on YouTube just to show off… — Spoken Reasons Copy Share Image
Sadly, as with so much about history's heroes, it's the spotting of potential fame that's the difficulty, whether it's publishing their poems,… — Alan Coren Copy Share Image
“he woman Caeiro fell in love with. I have no idea who she was, and I intend to never find out, not… — Álvaro de Campos Copy Share Image
When I became a poet, the Korean literary world expected women poets to sing passively of love. Naturally, this was not written… — Kim Hyesoon Copy Share Image
“...for poets, at least, experiencing something inexpressible does not mean silence. It's precisely the inexpressible something that poetry is meant to help… — John Piper Copy Share Image
In other words the pictures are in a kind of relationship with each other which is touching only at points rather than… — Peter Porter Copy Share Image
“We are the reflections for the stars to gaze upon, upon a sea of glass.” — Tom Althouse Copy Share Image
“See with what heat these Dogs of Hell advance To waste and havoc yonder World.” — John Milton Copy Share Image
To approach a poem as if it is a puzzle to be understood is to miss the point. — John Cooper Clarke Copy Share Image
“You’ve always been a storm Your lightning mouth Electrifies my heart” — Holly Ducarte Copy Share Image
“My poetry is the highest valuable thing I have to make you smile...” — Luis Alexandre Ribeiro Branco Copy Share Image
