“I think good poetry should startle, shatter and, yes, entertain while getting as close to the truth as possible. I can get… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
“When you committed to love me, cherish me, be only with me, protect my heart, I took all that literally. Silly me.” — Melody Lee Copy Share Image
Michel Aflaq - is bad poetry wrapped in the guise of utopian politics, or great poetry wrapped in the guise of horrible… — Elliott Colla Copy Share Image
What makes our poetry so contemptible nowadays is its paucity of ideas. If you want to be read, invent. Who the Devil… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
I'm from this tough, macho football world where you don't talk poetry or open up about yourself. — Jason Taylor Copy Share Image
In the end, for congenial sympathy, for poetry, for work, for original feeling and expression, for perfect companionship with one's friends--give me… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
A theology should be like poetry, which takes us to the end of what words and thoughts can do. — Karen Armstrong Copy Share Image
“To my way of thinking the function of the poet is to make us aware of what we know and don't know… — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
Where the government has got it seriously wrong is to imagine that poetry is about right and wrong answers, that poetry has… — Michael Rosen Copy Share Image
We have only one story. All novels, all poetry, are built on the neverending contest in ourselves of good and evil. And… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“I really don't like art with a message, unless the message is crystal clear. If you have a message that really needs… — Doug Stanhope Copy Share Image
“A night of exhilaration, of boredom and terror, in which the merest of sounds took on other forms - grew large in… — richard skelton Copy Share Image
You know for some strange reason I like to write the verse first. I mean I know the majority of people do… — Big Daddy Kane Copy Share Image
“I remember a verse I once spotted that Julia had highlighted in her Bible: The truth will set you free. I’ve never… — Regina Calcaterra Copy Share Image
IN PERSIA I SAW that poetry is meant to be set to music & chanted or sung--for one reason alone--because it works.A… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We hate poetry that has a palpable design upon us - and if we do not agree, seems to put its hand… — John Keats Copy Share Image
My gut was always that if I taught students poetry, I would give too much of myself to them and have nothing… — Victoria Chang Copy Share Image
From seed to tree I grew so tall, through wind and rain I could not fall. But now my branches suffer and… — The Beach Boys Copy Share Image
In a poem the excitement has to maintain itself. I am governed by the pull of the sentence as the pull of… — Marianne Moore Copy Share Image
The great poet makes us feel our own wealth, and then we think less of his compositions. His best communication to our… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Poetry is a dance music measuring buck-and-wing follies along with the gravest and stateliest dead-marches. — Carl Sandburg Copy Share Image
I started to write my own stories, like small novels, and those novels became poems, and after poems, they became lyrics, and… — Dawn Richard Copy Share Image
Shut up the door: who loves me must not look / Upon the withered world, but haste to bring / His lighted… — Alice Cary Copy Share Image
In my opinion, poets talk through the symptoms of disease. These symptoms of disease are predictions, screams, and songs. — Kim Hyesoon Copy Share Image
The spiritual desire for poetry can be overwhelming, so much do I need it to experience and name my own perilous depths… — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
I treat myself as one of the sources. And, again, I think that’s accurate. One of the poets I read most frequently… — Dan Chiasson Copy Share Image
“The words we construct, the poems we write and the songs we sing, become the love story of a stranger we have… — M.F. Moonzajer Copy Share Image
But Fear and the Muse in turn guard the place Where the banished poet has gone And the night that comes with… — Anna Akhmatova Copy Share Image
“Poetry is like a song without music,” I said loftily. “A song without music is like a body without a soul.” — Patrick Rothfuss- The Name of the Wind Copy Share Image
It is through the intentionality of poetic imagination that the poet's soul discovers the opening of consciousness common to all true poetry. — Gaston Bachelard Copy Share Image
I wanted to be a poet. I wrote from ages 15 to 22, but I left it because I discovered, and fell… — Sebastian Lelio Copy Share Image
A poet is a man who manages, in a lifetime of standing out in thunderstorms, to be struck by lightning five or… — Randall Jarrell Copy Share Image
“Days, hours, minutes, seconds slip by unappreciated, unnoticed. Notice them. Appreciate them. And treat them like they could be your last.” — Amanda Leigh Copy Share Image
A poet's mission is to make others confound fiction and reality in order to render them, for an hour, mysteriously happy. — Isak Dinesen Copy Share Image
“I am often asked what made me the way I am. And my answer is always this: I've always been me. It… — Alfa H Copy Share Image
The true novelist is one who understands the work as a continuous poem, is a myth-maker, and the wonder of the art… — Muriel Spark Copy Share Image
“When a dancer performs, melody transforms into a carriage, expressions turn into fuel and spirit experiences a journey to a world where… — Shah Asad Rizvi Copy Share Image
“[Walt] Whitman would never get in the way of a boy trying to get off with another boy. Bros before prose.” — Lisa Henry Copy Share Image
“You ask how it is possible to be your own father and son. You should seek answers, although it is better to… — Dejan Stojanovic Copy Share Image
“Poetry can have varied and useful functions; and seduction is apparently something worth writing poetry for.” — Shira Wolosky Copy Share Image
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