“some see things as they are: others as they are” (p.82) ~CXCI” — Manav Sachdeva Maasoom Copy Share Image
I would enjoy having dinner with the poet/playwright Derek Walcott. — Walter Dean Myers Copy Share Image
Poetry is a response to the daily necessity of getting the world right. — Wallace Stevens Copy Share Image
“...words are so strong and I am so timid - my soul ignores warnings and I end up covered with your paint ...” — John Geddes Copy Share Image
“They are not long, the days of wine and roses: Out of a misty dream Our path emerges for awhile, then closes… — Ernest Dowson Copy Share Image
Neither poetry, nor ambition, nor love have any alertness of countenance as they pass by me. — John Keats Copy Share Image
I'm not a historian. I know historians. I've worked with them. They have a really powerful way of looking at the world,… — Kevin Young Copy Share Image
I'm living in a world where the sky is foreign and everything seems so strange. I need two things in all the… — Needa Muy Copy Share Image
“Sometimes it ain’t the drunk or the sinner who needs a shovel across the rear, it’s the ones who could quote you… — Lisa Wingate Copy Share Image
“I am not collarbones or drunken letters never sent. I am not the way I leave or left or didn’t know how… — Charlotte Eriksson Copy Share Image
The field of action of a photograph should be that chessboard of the heart and mind upon which poetry and art have… — Frederick Sommer Copy Share Image
Poetic experience is distinct in nature from mystical experience. Because poetry emanates from the free creativity of the spirit,it is from the… — Jacques Maritain Copy Share Image
A poem may be an instance of morality, of social conditions, of psychological history; it may instance all its qualities, but never… — Allen Tate Copy Share Image
“He hoped and feared,' continued Solon, in a low. mournful voice; 'but at times he was very miserable, because he did not… — Fitz James O'Brien Copy Share Image
James Patterson is my favorite author. Very talented. I picked up reading from jail... I realized how powerful reading was in jail.… — Rich Homie Quan Copy Share Image
I really enjoy English and poetry and writing classes. You do get writer's block when you're writing music, and having inspiration from… — Taylor Momsen Copy Share Image
“Zhenyi knew she was awesome, too. In one of her well-regarded poems, she writes that her ambition was “to a kind even… — Sam Maggs Copy Share Image
The medium of poetry is a human body: the column of air inside the chest, shaped into signifying sounds in the larynx… — Robert Pinsky Copy Share Image
“You could use a moth like that as a symbol in a novel, but it was trite, wasn’t it? The old moth-to-the-flame… — L.L. Barkat Copy Share Image
All the lousy little poets coming around trying to sound like Charles Manson. — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
Catch the blast of a hype verse, my glock burst, leavin a hearse I did worse. — Wu Tang Copy Share Image
It's just me and my guitar, and the rhythm's from there, and the poetry of life. — Terrence Howard Copy Share Image
It is certain that at certain times talent entirely overcomes thought or poetry. — John Singer Sargent Copy Share Image
The light that never was, on sea or land; The consecration, and the Poet's dream. — William Wordsworth Copy Share Image
Southern poets are still writing narrative poems, poems in forms, dramatic poems. — Robert Morgan Copy Share Image
Being an artist is nothing, or at least, not enough; what you want is to be a poet. — Luc Delahaye Copy Share Image
Twentieth-century American poetry has been one of the glories of modern literature. — Helen Vendler Copy Share Image
“He was the one that healed her, that made her scars feel beautiful.” — Atticus Poetry Copy Share Image
Rarest of the real poets are born poets. They are the oddballs, not the professors. — James Broughton Copy Share Image
