Literature Quote by Roberto Bolaño

For every half, there is a whole. For every hand, there's one to hold. For every poem, there is a meaning. And every chance…

— Murali Iyengar

Surrealism is not a school of poetry but a movement of liberation... A way of rediscovering the language of innocence, a renewal of the…

— Octavio Paz

“Still In the fall, I believe again in poetry if nothing else it is a movement of the mind. Summers ball together into sticky…

— Jaakko A. Ahokas

“be the kiss in my hair that no one sees move, when i move sigh, when i sigh... be that line from a poem…

— Sanober Khan

Words are what sticks to the real. We use them to push the real, to drag the real into the poem. They are what…

— Jack Spicer

“Because at night when others are sleeping, I drown myself in poetry.”

— Kamand Kojouri

A day which passed without a poem from my pen I considered lost and misused.

— Ella Wheeler Wilcox

“Good God, 'the elusive thing'. She had reached a turning point. She no longer believed that a situation could be made better by writing…

— David Nicholls

“I cannot go to school today" Said little Peggy Ann McKay. "I have the measles and the mumps, A gash, a rash and purple…

— Shel Silverstein

“Sentinels of trees breathe life into bodies of earthly flesh As their mighty arms reach to the stars we join in their quest for…

— Ramon Ravenswood

Memory revises me. Even now a letter comes from a place I don’t know, from someone with my name and postmarked years ago, while…

— Li-Young Lee

“The name does not deserve the poem, but the poem deserves the name.”

— Dejan Stojanovic

“sometimes when everything seems at its worst when all conspires and gnaws and the hours, days, weeks years seem wasted – stretched there upon…

— Charles Bukowski

“Whatever you want," he said. "Will you please come here now?" I slipped a piece of protective tissue over my drawing and flipped the…

— Melissa Jensen

You don’t read or overhear the voice in the poem, you are the voice in the poem.

— Helen Vendler