I have piles of poetry books in the bathroom, on the stairs, everywhere. The only way to write poetry is to read… — Carol Ann Duffy Copy Share Image
“If you yourself paint or write poetry perhaps, you'll know how it feels to want to produce something ad be frustrated; your… — Kenneth Lillington Copy Share Image
I said that I loved the wise proverb, Brief, simple and deep; For it I'd exchange the great poem That sends us… — Bryan Procter Copy Share Image
The gap between verse and poetry is enormous. Between good poetry and good prose the gap is much narrower — Michael Longley Copy Share Image
“I'm pretty lost in becoming all this frost. Bitter, like Winter. Strung-out like a string of pearls.” — Ashly Lorenzana Copy Share Image
As a university student, I tried hard to write poems in Korean. It was at that time that I foresaw my death… — Kim Hyesoon Copy Share Image
PRESENTIMENT is that long shadow on the lawn Indicative that suns go down; The notice to the startled grass That darkness is… — Emily Dickinson Copy Share Image
“I'll enjoy today while it's here, using the time wisely. Each day is a gift that soon becomes a memory.” — Lina Rehal Copy Share Image
To separate journalism and poetry, therefore-history and poetry-to set them up at opposite ends of the world of discourse, is to separate… — Archibald MacLeish Copy Share Image
“A shoe's material - leather - is calculable and finite. work of art's material (not sound, not word, not stone, not canvas,… — Marina Tsvetaeva Copy Share Image
I can't think of any poet-recluses outside of one dead Jeffers. [Robinson Jeffers] The rest of them want to slobber over each… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
The Greeks, those originators of the intellectual life, fixed for us the idea of the poet. He was a divine man; more… — George Edward Woodberry Copy Share Image
When I was done reading the poem, everyone was quiet. A very sad quiet. But the amazing thing was that it wasn’t… — Stephen Chbosky Copy Share Image
“I’m not trying to impress you,” he replied, glancing up at the front of the room. “Gads,” he said, blinking in surprise.… — Julia Quinn Copy Share Image
A poet or prose narrator usually looks back on what he has achieved against a backdrop of the years that have passed,… — Eyvind Johnson Copy Share Image
My first song was called 'Portrait.' It would just be poetry, and I really never understood how to write the structure of… — Ro James Copy Share Image
Every dude in your high school wasn't striving to be the best poet because then he'd get all the girls, right? But… — Chad Harbach Copy Share Image
“We especially need imagination in science. It is not all logic, nor all mathematics, but is somewhat beauty and poetry.” — Maria Mitchell Copy Share Image
Poetry is at the centre of my life, too, emotionally speaking, and intellectually speaking - it's just that I'm one of those… — Andrew Motion Copy Share Image
“I’ll give you one chance to run, but may your shoulder always whisper in your ear… “It’s best to watch out for… — Ryan Goodrich Copy Share Image
I never met anybody in my life who says, I want to be a critic. People want to be a fireman, poet,… — Leslie Fiedler Copy Share Image
Poetry has its own laws speaking for the life of the planet. It is a language that wants to bring back together… — Linda Hogan Copy Share Image
Although I cannot see your face As you flip these poems awhile, Somewhere from some far-off place I hear you laughing--and I… — Shel Silverstein Copy Share Image
I love chapbooks. They're in some ways the ideal form in which to publish and read poems. You can read 19 poems… — Robert Morgan Copy Share Image
To clothe the fiery thought In simple words succeeds, For still the craft of genius is To mask a king in weeds. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Nothing is so improving to the temper as the study of the beauties either of poetry, eloquence, music, or painting. — David Hume Copy Share Image
The Language Poets are writing only about language itself. The Ashbery poets are writing only about poetry itself. That seems to me… — Robert Morgan Copy Share Image
People think they're gonna make a living off poetry. Ten years ago, maybe a couple of people did. Right now, no one,… — Nick Tosches Copy Share Image
You can never hope to recapture the first fine careless rapture as the poet put it, but it stays with you like… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
There'll always be working people in my poems because I grew up with them, and I am a poet of memory. — Philip Levine Copy Share Image
The beauty of reality-based art - art underwritten by reality hunger - is that it's perfectly situated between life itself and (unattainable)… — David Shields Copy Share Image
Take my verses too serious ya hate me, cause I'm the one to paint a vivid picture, no HD. — Drake Copy Share Image
Poetry and painting are done in the same way you make love; it's an exchange of blood, a total embrace - without… — Joan Miro Copy Share Image
“We plant seeds in the ground And dreams in the sky, Hoping that, someday, the roots of one Will meet the upstretched… — Alberto Ríos Copy Share Image
“...childlike wonder and awe have died. The scenery and poetry and music of the majesty of God have dried up like a… — John Piper Copy Share Image
No barrier stands between the material world of science and the sensibilities of the hunter and the poet, — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
“If everyone only gave a fraction of the compassion their hearts are capable of giving... how much suffering could we alleviate in… — Alfa H Copy Share Image
A moment for the poet's play. Until there's nothing left to say. I wish for this night-time... — Nightwish Copy Share Image
My self-confidence can be measured out in teaspoons mixed into my poetry, and it still always tastes funny in my mouth. — Sarah Kay Copy Share Image
I love being on the road with others, with a camera, but also being alone writing poetry. — Tony Harrison Copy Share Image
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