At college, I wanted to be a poet. I liked the extremely concentrated language, the atmosphere of otherworldliness. — Walter Kirn Copy Share Image
“Reversed Thunder," as the poet George Herbert put it. "Reversed Thunder" -- the coming of judgement in response to the cry, "How… — Darrell Johnson Copy Share Image
Poetry was the first step, and from the age of 18, there was nothing else I wanted to do. — Christopher Koch Copy Share Image
Being a poet is like having an invisible partner. It isn't easy. But you can't live without it either. Talent is only… — Selima Hill Copy Share Image
My only verse I remember really working on was 'Mixtape,' and I took 45 minutes on that because I wanted it to… — Lil Yachty Copy Share Image
“Registration Day' by Gavin Gunhold (1899— ) Toronto Review of Poetry, 1947 On registration day at taxidermy school I distinctly saw the… — Gordon Korman Copy Share Image
“one doesn't even think of the liver and if the liver doesn't think of us, that's fine.” — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
“These bones I carry were borrowed from women much stronger than I. Know that when you need them, you can borrow mine.” — Nichole McElhaney Copy Share Image
For me personally, I love art and artists of all mediums and we've seen madness is more often than not present in… — Jeff Feuerzeig Copy Share Image
Ancient poets and sages have called the earth the mother of all things. They could hardly have chosen a more attractive name,… — Jonas Hallgrimsson Copy Share Image
“Some 2,600 years ago the ancient Greek poet Pindar wrote, “Become who you are by learning who you are.” What he meant… — Robert Greene Copy Share Image
“Gloria watched the swollen white orb of a hot-air balloon rising over Navy Pier and knew she had to break it off… — Andrea Kayne Kaufman Copy Share Image
“To write is to forget. Literature is the most agreeable way of ignoring life. Music soothes, the visual arts exhilarates, the performing… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
“Your little sister Has tossed her Untied hair forward Like a living veil, Like a fragrant hedge, And peers, with such eyes!… — Hugo von Hoffmannstahl Copy Share Image
And I never thought this life was possible,You're the yellow bird that I've been waiting for. In polaroids you were dressed in… — Conor Oberst Copy Share Image
I was quite happy in Arkhangelsk.Subsequently, I was sent to a village. I liked it in its own way because it sounded… — Joseph Brodsky Copy Share Image
“I'm working on a poem about heartbreak that I've been working on forever (give or take). The problem is that I've never… — Nicola Yoon Copy Share Image
I am pretty interested in hybrid forms. I love graphic novels and I think there should be more graphic poems in the… — Matthea Harvey Copy Share Image
Every dad who loves his daughter is not going to want her to go with the penniless slacker loser poet bum, when… — John Leguizamo Copy Share Image
“I must create a system, or be enslaved by another man's. I will not reason and compare: my business is to create.” — William Blake Copy Share Image
“Dear Hands, I get it. You like writing poetry. But you can’t bring a metaphor to a gunfight.” — Rudy Francisco Copy Share Image
“Poetry is sometimes cryptic because we don’t always want things easily understood. Painful truth is hard enough as it is, but sometimes… — Cody Edward Lee Miller Copy Share Image
“My past self would've hated who I am today And I still feel that hatred in the parts of him that stayed” — Justin Wetch Copy Share Image
Poetry should be written the way adultery is committed: on the run, on the sly, during the time not accounted for. And… — Vera Pavlova Copy Share Image
I remember writing these terrible poems when I was, like, nine and discovered alliteration. — Karen Russell Copy Share Image
“You were the stray cat who wandered into my verses and finally found your way home—dumpster diving deep within yourself.” — Curtis Tyrone Jones Copy Share Image
“To be alive is to be open in some way, to take in and to release. To pass through life and to… — Alyssa Skyes Copy Share Image
As a story teller I have used characters, epic tales, poetry and rasa in my performances. — Shobana Copy Share Image
“Nature, it seems, is the popular name for milliards and milliards and milliards of particles playing their infinite game of billiards and… — Piet Hein Copy Share Image
“brave love, dream not of staunching such strict flame, but come, lean to my wound; burn on, burn on.” — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
Prose is a poor thing, a poor inadequate thing, compared with poetry which says so much more in shorter time. — Vita Sackville-West Copy Share Image
“You hate him for turning you inside of yourself. You are still getting used to looking at your body in the light.” — Kristina Haynes Copy Share Image
“It's very difficult to look at the World and into your heart at the same time. In between, a life has passed.” — Jim Harrison Copy Share Image
I've had trouble with criticism, I guess. It's hard to know what role criticism plays in either encouraging poets or in getting… — Kenneth Koch Copy Share Image
“I clearly understand, first, that the real human being is a poet and, second, that [the tyrant] is the incarnate negation of… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
“What liars poets and everybody were! They made one think one wanted sentiment. When what one supremely wanted was this piercing, consuming,… — D.H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
“[The poet] is no arguer . . . he is judgment. He judges not as the judge judges but as the sun… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
“Practice teaching others the 'unsearchable riches' of Christ. Each week, explain a verse from a section of Scripture to another person.” — Henry Hon Copy Share Image
These capacities for randomness may have been amplified into human creativity through sexual and social selection. — Geoffrey Miller Copy Share Image
“Knowing that you knew everything about us before we were born Lord, your love is amazing” — April Nichole Copy Share Image
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