Drawing is a way of coming upon the connection between things, just like metaphor in poetry reconnects what has become separated. — John Berger Copy Share Image
I've forgotten lines all the time. Sometimes I switch verses in a song. It's just hard not to when you're doing the… — Josh Young Copy Share Image
The few bad poems which occasionally are created during abstinence are of no great interest. — Wilhelm Reich Copy Share Image
Epic poetry exhibits life in some great symbolic attitude. It cannot strictly be said to symbolize life itself, but always some manner… — Lascelles Abercrombie Copy Share Image
Poets can't worry about popularity since loving life and humanity involves saying what some people don't want to hear. — Vanna Bonta Copy Share Image
“She, however, stood and said nothing. / Small, unnoticed, she stood in the crowd, listened, and said / nothing.” — Gertrud Kolmar Copy Share Image
I didn't really like confessional poetry or things. They seemed sort of dated to me, or just corny. — Stephen Malkmus Copy Share Image
Death most resembles a prophet who is without honor in his own land or a poet who is a stranger among his… — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
“Medieval Persia also produced a long and beautiful poem satirizing the claims and practices of religion. Though Omar Khayyám (1048-1131) is best… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“Love is prayerfulness groping toward godliness. Love is poetry born out of the sheer joy of being. Love is song, dance, celebration:… — Osho Copy Share Image
“I am obnoxious to each carping tongue Who says my hand a needle better fits; A Poets pen all scorn I should… — Susan L. Rattiner Copy Share Image
In the early days, Porter Wagoner would not exactly scold me, but he's say, 'You're writing too many damn verses. You're makin'… — Dolly Parton Copy Share Image
in a sense, all poetry is positional: to try to express one's position in regard to the universe embraced by consciousness, is… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
For 8,000 years, we've had lyric poetry; for 400 years we've had the novel: theatre hands its meaning down in text. Let's… — Peter Greenaway Copy Share Image
“Then there is another I will in John, sixth chapter, verse forty; it occurs four times in the chapter: “I will raise… — D.L. Moody Copy Share Image
“In his comfortable coffin, face veiled in dark silk, eyes open or closed, Pan Loudermilk lies waiting, a player from a tribe… — Kathe Koja Copy Share Image
My poetry had the same functional origin and the same formal configuration as teenage acne. — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
“Time is the real emperor and there is no space for any pride since time flies and blows away anything.” — Neel Preet Copy Share Image
A writer's work often reflects what he or she has been exposed to in life; experiences which are the groundwork of a… — Eyvind Johnson Copy Share Image
Poetry demands a different material than prose. It uses another facet of the same fact … the spontaneous conformation of language as… — William Carlos Williams Copy Share Image
I wouldn't be very happy if a poet read what I had written and said, 'What a peculiar thing to say about… — Helen Vendler Copy Share Image
“I am sorry this became, a poem I beg you, please do not think as blame Trust me as you trust god… — Santosh Kalwar Copy Share Image
I testify to rainbow feathers, to the span of heaven and walls of colour, the colonnades of jasper. — Hilda Doolittle Copy Share Image
“An artist must be passionately in love with her art. Obsessed or possessed ― go mad for what you believe in.” — Charlotte Eriksson Copy Share Image
Only truthful hands write true poems. I cannot see any basic difference between a handshake and a poem. — Paul Celan Copy Share Image
You can even express movies and poetry using video games. For those reasons, I've decided to create stories through video games. — Yoko Taro Copy Share Image
My biggest influence is Tupac. He was a poet, and listening to Tupac is what inspired me to start rapping. — Chanel West Coast Copy Share Image
We like to think we live in daylight, but half the world is always dark, and fantasy, like poetry, speaks the language… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The monsters were never under my bed. Because the monsters were inside my head. I fear no monsters, for no monsters I… — Nikita Gill Copy Share Image
When I get depressed, I try to get something for the terrible sadness that comes over me and create something in terms… — Spike Milligan Copy Share Image
Poetry is ordinary language raised to the Nth power. Poetry is boned with ideas, nerved and blooded with emotions, all held together… — Paul Engle Copy Share Image
“The Daughter of Babylon verses prophesy a destroyed nation with an impotent military (Jeremiah 50:23; 30; 36; 51:3), unable to act after its massive national destruction.” — John Price Copy Share Image
A lot of people, when you ask if they want to read your epic poem, start bolting for the door. — Toby Barlow Copy Share Image
I am still interested in the long or serial poem, but have written a few smaller things. I may start sending to… — George Murray Copy Share Image
“...The verses of Byron, Keats or Poe are real whether they are in bootleg form or not. You can still read them… — Jasper Fforde Copy Share Image
“Energy manipulation took place completely in mind,same way believing in telepathy caused telepathic abilities to grow STRONGER.” — Christina Westover Copy Share Image
What I like about prose poems is that they seem to make people uncomfortable - people want to define them, justify them,… — Matthea Harvey Copy Share Image
It's easy to understand why the most beautiful poems about England in the spring were written by poets living in Italy at… — Philip Dunne Copy Share Image
A book can teach you, a conversation can assure you, a poem can seduce you, a genius can inspire you but only… — Anthony Anaxagorou Copy Share Image
The bad poet is usually unconscious where he ought to be conscious, and conscious where he ought to be unconscious. — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
