“She walked through her life heavy from the mighty wings upon her back.” — Atticus Poetry Copy Share Image
I do not know if all cops are poets, but I know that all cops carry guns with triggers. — Ralph Ellison Copy Share Image
“Burdened no more is soul for whom life flows through dance like breath.” — Shah Asad Rizvi Copy Share Image
A poet should be so crafty with words that he is envied even for his pains. — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
In writing, fidelity to fact leads eventually to the poetry of truth. — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
I am angry that I starved my brain and that I sat shivering in my bed at night instead of dancing or… — Laurie Halse Anderson Copy Share Image
“Tonight Since I'd forgotten for a moment where you are, I search for you with hope in my bones.” — Hester Knibbe Copy Share Image
I think that it's more likely that in my 60s and 70s I will be writing poetry rather than fiction. — Robert Morgan Copy Share Image
The best craftsmanship always leaves holes and gaps... so that something that is not in the poem can creep, crawl, flash or… — Dylan Thomas Copy Share Image
“My life is filled with buckets of tears; thousands of people shouting in my ears; the humming and chirping of hundreds of… — Santosh Kalwar Copy Share Image
Since the dawn of time, primitive humans thought, loved and had poetry. They also pooped on everything. It was horrible. — Dana Gould Copy Share Image
Poets are always the advance guard of literature; the advance guard of life. It is for this reason that their recognition comes… — Amy Lowell Copy Share Image
We all know here that the law is the most powerful of schools for the imagination. No poet ever interpreted nature as… — Jean Giraudoux Copy Share Image
There is poetry even in prose, in all the great prose which is not merely utilitarian or didactic: there exist poets who… — Eugenio Montale Copy Share Image
“Dear Producers, Something is radiating deep within me and it must be transmitted or I will implode and the world will suffer… — Dave Eggers Copy Share Image
“Creative writer has artistic sensibility. He observes the world like any common men. But his vision observes the world quite differently. He… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
“Writers don't write from experience, although many are hesitant to admit that they don't. ...If you wrote from experience, you'd get maybe… — Nikki Giovanni Copy Share Image
And this tenderness was not like That which a certain poet At the beginning of the century called true And, for some… — Anna Akhmatova Copy Share Image
Following the invention of writing, the special form of heightened language, characteristic of the oral tradition and a collective society, gave way… — Harold Innis Copy Share Image
Every work of art reaches man in his inner powers. It reaches him more profoundly and insidiously than any rational proposition, either… — Jacques Maritain Copy Share Image
There is a wonderful place where flowers grow in colors beyond the words of poets... trees sing with the songs of butterflies.… — Laurel Burch Copy Share Image
