I'm not trying to be a poet on Twitter; I'm trying to be aware of the fact that a very simple sentence,… — Teju Cole Copy Share Image
All poets and story tellers alive today make a single brotherhood; they are engaged in a single work, picturing our human life.… — Haniel Long Copy Share Image
The poet must be free to love or hate as the spirit moves him, free to change, free to be a chameleon,… — May Sarton Copy Share Image
Géza Röhrig is just incredible because he's not an actor, he's a Hungarian poet. He also happens to be a brilliant actor.… — Alessandro Nivola Copy Share Image
Lehman uses many conveyances—including the prose poem, the sestina, and curt rhymes—to travel across the writing life of a poet whose instinctive… — Ken Tucker Copy Share Image
The poet alone knows astronomy, chemistry, vegetation, and animation, for he does not stop at these facts, but employs them as signs.… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
At present, I am a poet trying to be a soldier. To tell the truth, I am not interested in writing nowadays,… — Joyce Kilmer Copy Share Image
Poetry is a bad medium for philosophy. Everything in the philosophical poem has to satisfy irreconcilable requirements: for instance, the last demand… — Randall Jarrell Copy Share Image
I've been trying to come to terms with what I am and what I do and what I believe in. And I… — Gerald Stern Copy Share Image
The Rising was mainly a piece of streat theatre designed by poets for dramatic effect. For better or worse, it became part… — Maurice Hayes Copy Share Image
When you're a female poet, would you, therefore, invoke a male muse? When nuns get consecrated into their vocations, they become brides… — Shirley Geok-lin Lim Copy Share Image
I just think that the world of workshops - I've written a poem that is a parody of workshop talk, I've written… — Billy Collins Copy Share Image
Because there are hundreds of different ways to say one thing, I, being a writer, songwriter, and poet, speak childishly and incoherently.… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
What I propose for the "life of a poet" goes against the grain of the fossil fuel monoculture. Maybe the most revolutionary… — Anne Waldman Copy Share Image
I have sought love, first, because it brings ecstasy – ecstasy so great that I would often have sacrificed all the rest… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
The prose poem Walk The Red Road is great stuff and deserves to be read aloud. It compares quite favorably to The… — Brian Aldiss Copy Share Image
Mere poets are sottish as mere drunkards are, who live in a continual mist, without seeing or judging anything clearly. A man… — John Dryden Copy Share Image
There's this pet phrase about writing that is bandied around particularly in workshops about "finding your own voice as a poet", which… — Billy Collins Copy Share Image
The novel is a formidable mass, and it is so amorphous - no mountain in it to climb, no Parnassus or Helicon,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
To a Mistress Dying Lover. YOUR beauty, ripe and calm and fresh As eastern summers are, Must now, forsaking time and flesh,… — William Davenant Copy Share Image
For suppose that every tool we had could perform its task, either at our bidding or itself perceiving the need, and if-like… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Why is the feeling of insecurity so prevalent in this field? Because the actor is such a dependent person on other people.… — Akshaye Khanna Copy Share Image
I think a lot about the poems I wasn't able to write...I masturbrated...Solitude is essentially a matter of pride; you bury yourself… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
When it comes to atoms, language can be used only as in poetry. The poet, too, is not nearly so concerned with… — Niels Bohr Copy Share Image
I was a victim of a stereotype. There were only two of us Negro kids in the whole class, and our English… — Langston Hughes Copy Share Image
[On Elizabeth Barrett Browning:] ... for finish, and melody of versification, there is nothing approaching to Miss Barrett in this day, or… — Mary Russell Mitford Copy Share Image
Everyone is born a poet - a person discovering the way words sound and work, caring and delighting in words. I just… — William Stafford Copy Share Image
The art of writing is mysterious; the opinions we hold are ephemeral , and I prefer the Platonic idea of the Muse… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
One of the appeals of William Carlos Williams to me is that he was many different kinds of poet. He tried out… — W. S. Di Piero Copy Share Image
Poet, never chase the dream. Laugh yourself and turn away. Mask your hunger, let it seem Small matter if he come or… — Robert Graves Copy Share Image
Musings The little poets sing of little things: Hope, cheer, and faith, small queens and puppet kings; Lovers who kissed and then… — Robert E. Howard Copy Share Image
It will be hard James but you come from sturdy peasant stock men who picked cotton and dammed rivers and built railroads… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Poetry is not a silent art. The poem must perform, unaided, in its reader's head. Educated readers give themselves a good performance.… — Christopher Logue Copy Share Image
I consider books to be good for our health, and also our spirits, and they help us to become poets or scientists,… — Jose Saramago Copy Share Image
I think right now is when we need to hear different voices coming out of all parts of the world. You can't… — Michael Franti Copy Share Image
We are chained hand and foot by protocol, enslaved to a static, empty world where men and women can’t read, where the… — Catherine Fisher Copy Share Image
My mother actually left American in 1929 to be part of an alternative community of bohemians around her then father-in-law who was… — Anne Waldman Copy Share Image
“What the poet has to say to the torso of the supposed Apollo, however, is more than a note on an excursion… — Peter Sloterdijk Copy Share Image
Well, you could almost say, I suppose, that the scientist seeks what is similar between any two days, or bluebirds, or glaciers.… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
The modern poet has no essential alliance with regular schemes of any sorts.He reserves the right to adapt his rhythm to his… — Herbert Read Copy Share Image
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