Sometimes the beauty is easy. Sometimes you don't have to try at all. Sometimes you can hear the wind blow in a handshake. Sometimes there's... →
Ani DiFranco
Like most lit nerds, I'm a voracious reader. I never got enough poetry under my belt growing up but I do read it - some of my favorites, Gina... →
Junot Diaz
Personally I always feel like I could use a little more of poetry apothegmatic power in my own work but we're always lacking something.
I want a fever, in poetry: a fever, and tranquillity.
James Dickey
She was the Judy Garland of American poetry.
I think Ginsberg has done more harm to the craft that I honor and live by than anybody else by reducing it to a kind of mean that enables the most... →
The mystical poetry of William Blake's artwork also forms the basis for the album cover.
Bruce Dickinson
If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can ever warm me, I know that is poetry.
Emily Dickinson
There is no Frigate like a book to take us lands away nor any coursers like a page of prancing Poetry.
If I feel physically as if the top of my head were taken off, I know that is poetry.