“True beauty lies not upon gilded veneers, But found in the soul within.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The bicycle, the bicycle surely, should always be the vehicle of novelists and poets. — Christopher Morley Copy Share Image
To declaim freedom verses seems like a poem within a poem; freedom requires guns, it requires arms, but no feet. — Franz Grillparzer Copy Share Image
“The real is the poem. Hence, for the poet—our figure for the writer as artist—to write is to get real.” — Gémino H. Abad Copy Share Image
I don't think poetry is something that can be taught. We can encourage young writers, but what you can't teach them is… — Robert Morgan Copy Share Image
“Baudelaire was far more than a great poet. He established the keyboard of a sensibility that still lives within us, if we… — Roberto Calasso Copy Share Image
“One does not become a poet by uttering beautiful words. One becomes a poet by pouring their soul as wine into the… — Subhan Zein Copy Share Image
I don't work on poems and essays at once. They walk on different legs, speak with different tongues, draw from different parts… — Jane Hirshfield Copy Share Image
It would be impossible to learn the lessons the scriptures contain by reading them only one time through or studying selected verses… — Julie B. Beck Copy Share Image
I could do with a bit more excess. From now on I'm going to be immoderate--and volatile--I shall enjoy loud music and… — Joanne Harris Copy Share Image
These days, most of my interactions with young people are centered on the poetry or theater classes I teach, so the students… — Renee Watson Copy Share Image
We are ordinarily so indifferent to people that when we have invested one of them with the possibility of giving us joy,… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
It were as wise to cast a violet into a crucible that you might discover the formal principle of its color and… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
“For there was now a wall of trees blocking any progress- -and Inigo would not stop bleeding- -and Westley would not start… — William Goldman Copy Share Image
It is perfectly legitimate to write novels which are essentially prose poems, but in the end, I think, a novel is like… — Robert Harris Copy Share Image
I love form, but I'm not interested in forms. I've never written a sonnet or villanelle or sestina or any of that.… — Robert Pinsky Copy Share Image
You get early inoculation against the idea of success if you're a poet. When I published my first collection of sonnets, I… — Tony Harrison Copy Share Image
Unlike music or poetry or painting, food rouses no response in passionate and emotional youth. Only when the surge of the blood… — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
“...a passing face together with his grief turned you into a weeping Madonna...” — John Geddes Copy Share Image
“The secret to life is to live as though you know the secret." Barbara Botch” — Barbara Botch Copy Share Image
I was only sitting here in my white study with the awful black words pushing me around. — Anne Sexton Copy Share Image
“I guess we'll become an archeological find, funded by some alien at some distant time” — P.J. Bayliss Copy Share Image
“Some can't handle the fiery poet, how she rips into souls burning words into prose.” — Melody Lee Copy Share Image
If I feel physically as if the top of my head were taken off, I know that is poetry. — Emily Dickinson Copy Share Image
“The Writer and Poet is excusable only if he is Successful. Makes Money.” Within” — Linda Wagner-Martin Copy Share Image
“There was a sound you could smell / like you were inhaling tomorrow.” — Cameron Conaway Copy Share Image
“May be its mine bad-luck Or yours not to get me But I still have hope Of being yours” — Hasil Paudyal Copy Share Image
