“A stranger lies behind my eyes, I know not what he wants; sells me dreams, tells me tales, and with the truth,… — Akash Mandal Copy Share Image
A landscape painting in which composition is ignored is like a line taken from a poem at random: it lacks context, and… — Walter J. Phillips Copy Share Image
Well, 'The Wellspring' was written from 1983 to 1986. And it had a section in the beginning that was poems that began… — Sharon Olds Copy Share Image
“Now and then I am asked as to ‘what books a statesman should read,’ and my answer is, poetry and novels –… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Go home and write / a page tonight. / And let that page come out of you - / Then, it will be true. — Langston Hughes Copy Share Image
“I dislike a great deal of contemporary poetry — all of the past you read is usually quite great — but it… — Frank O'Hara Copy Share Image
A poet's pleasure is to withhold a little of his meaning, to intensify by mystification. He unzips the veil from beauty, but… — E. B. White Copy Share Image
There's a good deal in Pound's and Eliot's poetry that stood up even though their politics were deplorable. Or Pound's very deplorable,… — Robert Hass Copy Share Image
“Nothing is quite beautiful alone: nothing but is beautiful in the whole. A single object is only so far beautiful as it… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Poet, forger of ideals, dreamer among the possibilities of life, prophet of the millenium, do you get impatient with the prosaic life… — J. G. Holland Copy Share Image
My sense of the poet is classical - the poet is one who makes poems. In each book, I develop and repeat… — Lawrence Joseph Copy Share Image
“A real patriot wont pretend everything is fine Sit back in an arm chair and blissfully recline While the streets burn I’ll… — Justin Wetch Copy Share Image
I did not know that 'poetess' was an insult, and that I myself would some day be called one. I did not… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
If I felt, in the event of a royal wedding, inspired to write about people coming together in marriage or civil partnership,… — Carol Ann Duffy Copy Share Image
When you work in form, be it a sonnet or villanelle or whatever, the form is there and you have to fill… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“Paradoxically, our imperial global Anglo-American language is dull with the glitter of its own decay. In response, the new meta- physical poet… — Peter Abbs Copy Share Image
One who writes a poem writes it because the language prompts, or simply dictates, the next line. — Joseph Brodsky Copy Share Image
Does a poet create, originate, initiate the thing called a poem, or is his behavior merely the product of his genetic and… — B. F. Skinner Copy Share Image
Poets and novelists and playwrights make themselves, against terrible resistances, give over what the rest of us keep safely locked within our… — Janet Malcolm Copy Share Image
“i have to believe the day will come where i don't flinch whenever i hear his name. - some names will always… — Amanda Lovelace Copy Share Image
Many other cultures value poetry more than we do. In Ireland, poetry is a top cultural pursuit, the art to end all… — Campbell McGrath Copy Share Image
The experimental poetry thing is not my thing. It's a programme of the avant-garde: basically a refusal of the kind of poetry… — Seamus Heaney Copy Share Image
“There is freedom waiting for you, On the breezes of the sky, And you ask "What if I fall?" Oh but my… — Erin Hanson Copy Share Image
Writers, particularly poets, always feel exiled in some way - people who don't exactly feel at home, so they try to find… — Natasha Trethewey Copy Share Image
Mathematicians and equations, Couldn't find a simple solution. Poems and quotes, Not even Shakespeare can express the emotions of love. — BuddhaChild Copy Share Image
Poetry is like making a joke. If you get one word wrong at the end of a joke, you've lost the whole… — W. S. Merwin Copy Share Image
The brotherhood of man is not a mere poet’s dream: it is a most depressing and humiliating reality. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Sylvia Plath. Interesting poetess whose tragic suicide was misinterpreted as romantic by the college-girl mentality. — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
“... and all the hurts and scars / Of everyday were healed, and I would sleep / Safe with the good-night memory of stars.” — Jane Merchant Copy Share Image
A phrase may come to me as I am walking, and, once I write it down in my journal, the rest of… — Stephen Vincent Benet Copy Share Image
“We have to hand it to the little tyrants who devise the picturesque abuses of authority that give the moral populace the… — John Popielaski Copy Share Image
You are not your poetry. Your self-esteem shouldn't depend on whether you publish, or whether some editor or writer you admire thinks… — Dorianne Laux Copy Share Image
“She's fire. But she won't burn you... she knows all too well, how it feel to live with ashes.” — Alfa H Copy Share Image
The [book of the bible] Song Of Songs is an amazing erotic love poem that the church has tried very hard not… — Alan Green Copy Share Image
“Her happiness floated like waves of ocean along the coast of her life. She found lyrics of her life in his arms… — Santosh Kalwar Copy Share Image
“Did the hospital specialize in poets and singers, or was it that poets and singers specialized in madness?” — Susanna Kaysen Copy Share Image
A life is not sufficiently elevated for poetry, unless, of course, the life has been made into an art. — Mark Strand Copy Share Image
“It [Bach's cello suites] is like a great diamond," said [Mischa] Maisky in a thick Russian accent, "with so many different cuts… — Eric Siblin Copy Share Image
Poetry is a slipknot tightened around a time-beat of one thought, two thoughts, and a last interweaving thought there is not yet… — Carl Sandburg Copy Share Image
“From this the poem springs: that we live in a place That is not our own and, much more, not ourselves And… — Wallace Stevens Copy Share Image
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