I would say there are different kinds of poems. There are things that poets in the history of poetry hit upon when… — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
So we start with an oversignifying reader. Those texts that appear to reward this reader for this additional investment - text that… — Don Paterson Copy Share Image
I got a head full of headaches, a heart that's full of woes. I'm constantly singin' them down home blues, and not… — Aceyalone Copy Share Image
The idea of hereditary legislators is as inconsistent as that of hereditary judges, or hereditary juries; and as absurd as an hereditary… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
I think that the dark side of MFA programs is that they're generating more poets than the culture can absorb and there… — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
The light beyond my eyes flashflashflashes with a hundred futures for me. Doctor. Ship's captain. Forest ranger. Librarian. Beloved of that man… — Laurie Halse Anderson Copy Share Image
My poems are certainly in the lyric tradition, but perhaps a reader can tell me more precisely who I am as a… — Connie Wanek Copy Share Image
I agree that comedy does a good job - and is often about - stepping over the line - Lenny Bruce, etc.… — Rachel Zucker Copy Share Image
The "truth" is the poem itself. Just because someone writes a poem about a feeling she has does not mean that the… — Denise Duhamel Copy Share Image
Has the painter not always gone to an art school, or at least to an established master, for instruction? And the composer,… — Paul Engle Copy Share Image
The dreamer whose dreams are non-utilitarian has no place in this world. In this world the poet is anathema, the thinker a… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
And in a way, that's been a help to me, because I take great passions for a particular poet - sometimes it… — Norman MacCaig Copy Share Image
Writers, especially poets, are particularly prone to madness. There exists a striking association between creativity and manic depression. Why are more creative… — Nick Flynn Copy Share Image
It is true that the poet does not directly address his neighbors; but he does address a great congress of persons who… — Richard Wilbur Copy Share Image
The poet's eye, in a fine frenzy rolling, doth glance from heaven to Earth, from Earth to heaven; and as imagination bodies… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
[Shahrazad] had perused the books, annals and legends of preceding Kings, and the stories, examples and instances of by gone men and… — Richard Francis Burton Copy Share Image
I am a black man dedicated to expression; expression of the joy and pride of blackness. I consider myself neither poet, composer,… — Gil Scott-Heron Copy Share Image
Walking companions, like heroes, are difficult to pluck out of the crowd of acquaintances. Good dispositions, ready wit, friendly conversation serve well… — Brooks Atkinson Copy Share Image
Of all the arts, abstract painting is the most difficult. It demands that you know how to draw well, that you have… — Wassily Kandinsky Copy Share Image
Some men are one thing on the surface and another underneath. The true poet shows not just the exterior of his subject,… — Steven Saylor Copy Share Image
He was the man who of all modern, and perhaps ancient poets, had the largest and most comprehensive soul. . . .… — John Dryden Copy Share Image
I wonder what it means about American literary culture and its transmission when I consider the number of American poets who earn… — Marilyn Hacker Copy Share Image
Poets will never be the highest-paid writers in the world. Instead, poetry will go on cutting a hand-made path through the mass-market… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
I walk out into a nature such as the old prophets and poets Menu, Moses, Homer, Chaucer, walked in. You may name… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
God is nothing but creativity. So wherever there is a sign of creativity, God has a signature there. He has already been… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Robert Frost had a house in Bennington, Vermont, and I had a friend, the poet Mary Ruefle, who was the caretaker of… — Doug Stanton Copy Share Image
“O friend unseen, unborn, unknown, Student of our sweet English tongue, Read out my words at night, alone: I was a poet,… — James Elroy Flecker Copy Share Image
It's difficult to put your own bare ass out on the limb every time you sit down to write a poem. But… — Sam Hamill Copy Share Image
I was well acquainted with the Calcutta literary circle since I was 17, when I lived in Bangladesh and published and edited… — Taslima Nasrin Copy Share Image
What is the explanation of the seemingly insane drive of man to be painter and poet if it is not an act… — Barnett Newman Copy Share Image
“I liked to call myself a poet and had affected a habit of reading classical texts (in translation, of course – I… — Mary Karr Copy Share Image
I wore a cloak for many years, I had long hair, I may have had a drop earring for a week and… — Derren Brown Copy Share Image
The greatest poets are those with memories so great that they extend beyond their strongest experiences to their minutest observations of people… — Stephen Spender Copy Share Image
Why should all virtue work in one and the same way? Why should all give dollars? It is very inconvenient to us… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Capturing the beauty of the conversion of the water into wine, the poet Alexander Pope said, "The conscious water saw its Master… — Ravi Zacharias Copy Share Image
Past and future monopolize the poet’s sensory and intellectual faculties, detached from the immediate spectacle. These two philtres become utterly clear the… — Andre Breton Copy Share Image
You always have regime-friendly poets like Muhammad Mahdi al-Jawahiri, whose career basically spans the twentieth century. He's an anti-imperialist, friendly with the… — Elliott Colla Copy Share Image
The three states of the caterpillar, larva, and butterfly have, since the time of the Greek poets, been applied to typify the… — Humphry Davy Copy Share Image
“And this is what being an artist means, being a poet? To sacrifice yourself for your art, sacrifice your heart for your… — Charlotte Eriksson Copy Share Image
One of my favorite poets, Neruda, writes close to the bone. Though I know only a little Spanish, I like to compare… — Anita Diament Copy Share Image
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