“When there's a moon the shadows in the house grow larger; invisible hands draw back the curtains, a pallid finger writes forgotten… — Yannis Ritsos Copy Share Image
“...when a good poet is confronted with difficult facts that he knows to be true but also are inimical to poetry, he… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
“The words of the true poems give you more than poems, They give you to form for yourself poems, religions, politics, war,… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
I'm not, by nature, a collaborator. My biggest influences were people like painters and poets. These are solitary workers. — Robert Wyatt Copy Share Image
“Words are fossilized butterfly wings, pretty to look at sometimes, but only good for Museums. I want to miserably burn down the… — Jeremiah Walton Copy Share Image
“I don’t trust masters who can’t be down-to-earth. For me they’re like those eccentric poets who can’t write like everybody else. I… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
To be a poet at twenty is to be twenty: to be a poet at forty is to be a poet — Eugene Delacroix Copy Share Image
“Although my road to writing seems like it may have come easily, there were a few bumps in that road. I didn’t… — Nina Jean Slack Copy Share Image
“for we all have our own twilights and mists and abysses to return to.” — Sanober Khan Copy Share Image
“no poet can know what his poem is going to be like until he has written it.” — W.H. Auden Copy Share Image
At this moment, by an undeserved stroke of fortune, I am the direct voice of the poets of my race and the… — Gabriela Mistral Copy Share Image
“A poet is a musician that can't sing. Words have to find a man's mind before they can touch his heart, and… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
“For if it is rash to walk into a lion's den unarmed, rash to navigate the Atlantic in a rowing boat, rash… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“Behold yon rough and flinty road Where youth, now youth no more, Gropes whining, seeking crumbs of loaves He cast away of… — Emma Ghent Curtis Copy Share Image
“The seasonal urge is strong in poets. Milton wrote chiefly in winter. Keats looked for spring to wake him up (as it… — Helen Bevington Copy Share Image
“Young poets are too apt to consider themselves “children of the mist” – they must dwell apart from men and contemn their… — Deborah L. Halliday Copy Share Image
“Criticism should not be querulous and wasting, all knife and root-pulling, but guiding, instructive, and inspirational--a south wind and not an east… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
