Obscure Quote by Paul Ruffin

I see woefully obscure poetry as simply a kind of verbal rudeness.

— Billy Collins

Every device there is in language is there to be used, if you will. Poets have got to enjoy themselves sometimes, and the twistings…

— Dylan Thomas

Contemporary poets are skeptical and suspicious even, or perhaps especially, about themselves. They publicly confess to being poets only reluctantly, as if they were…

— Wislawa Szymborska

Love, according to our contemporary poets, is a privilege which two beings confer upon one another, whereby they may mutually cause one another much…

— Honore de Balzac

I know that in some ways I operate from a kind of antiquated interest in imagery, while many contemporary poets are not so interested…

— Martha Ronk

The formal stuff feels old and windy. Not to say you shouldn't know prosody. But it's a wonderful time for exploratory poetics. Contemporary poets…

— Anne Waldman

“My poetry lives in the spaces of time, in between time, in time out. It is not a constant vibe; I catch it like…

— Tonny Brown

“Once a hunter met a lion near the hungry critter's lair, and the way that lion mauled him was decidedly unfair; but the hunter…

— Walt Mason

“-Desiderata- Go placidly amid the noise and haste, and remember what peace there may be in silence. As far as possible without surrender be…

— Max Ehrmann

“Each in His Own Tongue A fire mist and a planet, A crystal and a cell, A jellyfish and a saurian, And caves where…

— William Herbert Carruth

“I yearn to make these scars disappear And to forget about the past. To throw away all of my fears And to be happy…

— Atarah L. Poling

“You exalt me Bati, This is the message to the society, Brightest day demands struggling, suffering and sacrifice, heroic labor would suffice.”

— Ankita Singhal

“The work of great poetry is to aid us to become free artists ourselves...The art of reading poetry is an authentic training in the…

— Harold Bloom

“Good poetry isn't born, When everything makes sense. Good poetry is born, When nothing makes sense.”

— Abhijit Naskar

There's two ways to become a famous Poet, find that one person that knows somebody, that knows somebody, that knows somebody. Or die trying

— Stanley Victor Paskavich