“. . .criticism is to poetry as air is to a noise: it allows it to be heard; and even if we… — Annie Finch Copy Share Image
“Because who hasn't tried to pull their arms from the sleeves of gravity's lead coat? Who doesn't have at least one pair… — Lucia Perillo Copy Share Image
When men and woman die, as poets sung, his heart's the last part moves, her last, the tongue. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
“this is where the poets will interject / they will say: show, dont tell / but that assumes most people can see” — Marwa Helal Copy Share Image
“in the end it is words poetry. sunsets someone’s deep blue silk voice. mountain scents. someone’s smile. eyes. that we have no… — Sanober Khan Copy Share Image
“Some of the most passionately erotic poets have been the most self-contained in their daily lives.” — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
“I recall that now and I recall everything for what do we have but the past to parent us?” — Kathleen Driskell Copy Share Image
“Morning and evening Maids heard the goblins cry: 'Come buy our orchard fruits, Come buy, come buy” — Christina Rossetti Copy Share Image
“Names sound nice because no one peeks behind the cover to see the sad face of a poem crying for meaning, while… — Dejan Stojanovic Copy Share Image
There were so many Pittsburgh poets in my hallway that if, at that instant, a meteorite had come smashing through my roof,… — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
Mourn not for the vanished ages with their grand, heroic men, who dwell in history's pages and live in the poets pen… — Ella Wheeler Wilcox Copy Share Image
In our period, they say there is free speech. They say there is no penalty for poets, There is no penalty for… — Muriel Rukeyser Copy Share Image
We all fear loneliness, madness, dying. Shakespeare and Walt Whitman, Leopardi and Hart Crane will not cure those fears. And yet these… — Harold Bloom Copy Share Image
My advice to aspiring poets is to find a community of other poets who are willing to read one another's work. And… — Lucia Perillo Copy Share Image
I've always been a fan of poetry. I grew up with Lawrence Ferlinghetti and the Beat poets. I really followed that stuff… — Ric Ocasek Copy Share Image
When we come down into the distant village, visible from the mountain-top, the nobler inhabitants with whom we peopled it have departed,… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
All poets pretend to write for immortality, but the whole tribe have no objection to present pay and present praise. — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
“A writer will divine a metaphor from a pattern on a dress, or a gesture, because sunsets have been done before.” — Brandi L. Bates Copy Share Image
“That is what all poets do: they talk to themselves out loud; and the world overhears them” — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
While I don't satisfy my curiosity about the way I work, I'm terribly curious about the way other poets work. But I… — Thom Gunn Copy Share Image
“Shakespeare, the greatest of poets, was the greatest reader of Nature and life.” — Kaiten Nukariya Copy Share Image
“With dark raven paper and twinkling white ink, I wrote my heart in the night’s sky.” — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
Secretly, deep down, everybody on Earth believes they can write poetry, apart from the members of the Poets' Guild, who know they… — K.J. Parker Copy Share Image
“Blessed are the weird people: poets, misfits, writers mystics, painters, troubadours for they teach us to see the world through different eyes.” — Jacob Nordby Copy Share Image
Jim Jarmusch: Poets are always ahead of things in a certain way, their sense of language and their vision. — Jim Jarmusch Copy Share Image
Being in the Sahitya Akademi, I did know quite a few poets - Jayanta Mahapatra, Sitakant Mahapatra, Sunil Gangopadhyay, to name a… — Gulzar Copy Share Image
One way or another, all the poets of the thirties and forties reacted to Auden, either by rejecting him or trying to… — Clive James Copy Share Image
I think all the poets and artists have always written for peace and love, and it hasn’t changed much in the last… — Maximilian Schell Copy Share Image
There are two types of poets: People who write poetically about their lives, and poets that live poetically and write about it. — Daniel Radcliffe Copy Share Image
Many poets write as if they had been decerebrated, and not simply lobotomized, as a cure for their melancholia. — Randall Jarrell Copy Share Image
“can't even sleep through the night without you and those sun-dried ginger ale complected limbs crocheted into my thighs...” — Brandi L. Bates Copy Share Image
Poets are always taking the weather so personally. They're always sticking their emotions in things that have no emotions. — J. D. Salinger Copy Share Image
The bitterest satires and noblest eulogies on married life have come from poets. — Edwin Percy Whipple Copy Share Image
A poet is seldom hard up for advice. The worst part of it all is that sometimes the advice is coming from… — Richard Hugo Copy Share Image
Poets don't draw. They unravel their handwriting andthen tie it up again, but differently. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“We poets have no need for drugs to attain the borderline between life and death.” — Louis Malle Copy Share Image
I believe philosophy must go to school with the poets; it's not either/or, it's not over or against. — Cornel West Copy Share Image
It seems that God took away the minds of poets that they might better express His. — Socrates Copy Share Image
Terrible times in which priests no longer merit the praise of poets and in which poets have not yet begun to be… — Jose Marti Copy Share Image
“If a nation does not care for its past it does not care for its future; and it if does not care… — Jeet Thayil Copy Share Image
