Obviously one of the things that poets from Northern Ireland and beyond - had to try to make sense of was what… — Paul Muldoon Copy Share Image
I do think poetry needs to invite the reader, especially when there are so many other distractions while reading. — David Starkey Copy Share Image
“The stars are putting on their glittering belts, They throw around their shoulders cloaks that flash Like a great shadow's last embellishment” — wallace stevens Copy Share Image
Poetry is not the most important thing in life... I'd much rather lie in a hot bath reading Agatha Christie and sucking… — Dylan Thomas Copy Share Image
“I understood the ominous sky because it was so much like you, and I was the sun always willing to burn for… — Melody Lee Copy Share Image
There is such a thing as the poetry of a mistake, and when you say, "Mistakes were made," you deprive an action… — Charles Baxter Copy Share Image
[I]n every part of this eastern world, from Pekin to Damascus, the popular teachers of moral wisdom have immemorially been poets. — William Jones Copy Share Image
“I scratch down happiness, I want my ink to do happy dances, to careen across the pages staggering like a drunken fellow,… — Bryana Johnson Copy Share Image
“This is the first principle of democracy: that the essential things in men are the things they hold in common, not the… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“I would not tell this court that I do not hope that some time, when life and age have changed their bodies,… — Clarence Darrow Copy Share Image
Lay down these words Before your mind like rocks. placed solid, by hands In choice of place, set Before the body of… — Gary Snyder Copy Share Image
There's little question that short stories, like poetry, don't get the respect they deserve in the culture - but what can you… — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
I knew a gentleman who was so good a manager of his time that he would not even lose that small portion… — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
“A poet writing poetry, an artist creating calligraphy. An author scripting mastery with an encyclopedia intellect. From from a derelict's viewpoint, that… — Jr. Lily Copy Share Image
A poet dares to be just so clear and no clearer; he approaches lucid ground warily, like a mariner who is determined… — E. B. White Copy Share Image
“I don't know anything that mars a good literature so completely as too much truth. Facts contain a great deal of poetry,… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Nonfiction speaks to the head. Fiction speaks to the heart. Poetry speaks to the soul. It's the essence of beauty. The essence… — Ellen Hopkins Copy Share Image
“Long have I dwelt forgotten here In pining woe and dull despair; This place of solitude and gloom Must be my dungeon… — Anne Brontë Copy Share Image
“unless you're the lead dog the view never changes... mercy out does justice every time: always find your way back home/” — Bob Mitchley Copy Share Image
Poetry, the genre of purest beauty, was born of a truncated woman: her head severed from her body with a sword, a… — Andrea Dworkin Copy Share Image
“There are a handful of poems, which perhaps might need their own warning for the people who are frightened, disturbed, or terminally… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“...you fantasize about me reading my poems to you - it doesn't work that way - I write down everything later -… — John Geddes Copy Share Image
“You are the remedy of intensity i need in my life, to spin me out of the miserable monotony of working on… — Curtis Tyrone Jones Copy Share Image
That's the main business of the poem!-to see if you can't make up a language that sets all your selves talking at… — Richard Wilbur Copy Share Image
“…A bird enters spring like a lance Your eyes flash their secrets A kiss grazes the rainbow The rain rains…” — Al-Saddiq Al-Raddi Copy Share Image
The simple Wordsworth . . . / Who, both by precept and example, shows / That prose is verse, and verse is merely prose. — Lord Byron Copy Share Image
...after a night spent writing poetry, one is almost happy to hear the milkman at the door. — Wallace Stevens Copy Share Image
If a poet would work politically, he must give himself up to a party; and so soon as he does that, he… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
“Dance is that delicacy of life radiating every particle of our existence with happiness.” — Shah Asad Rizvi Copy Share Image
I've always written pop songs. I tend to take inspiration from more experimental genres, like ambient music, but at the root of… — Washed Out Copy Share Image
Periods' are largely an invention of the historians. The poets themselves are not conscious of living in any period and refuse to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The poet may say or sing, not as things were, but as they ought to have been; but the historian must pen… — Miguel de Cervantes Copy Share Image
“These pastoral-poet guys with their bleating goats and oaten pipes can stuff their phalaecean hendecasyllabics where the sun don't shine.” — David Wishart Copy Share Image
“No man can reveal to you aught but that which already lies half asleep in the dawning of your knowledge.” — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
“Poems were too close to prayer, rousing regrettable passions. Waiting for God to rescue you when it was up to you.” — Colson Whitehead Copy Share Image
“At the end of the day, we are with ourselves — and this can either be the most beautiful thing or the… — Laura Chouette Copy Share Image
“Quick now, here, now, always-- A condition of complete simplicity (Costing not less than everything)” — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
“One cannot live any longer on refrigerators, on politics, on balance-sheets and cross-word puzzles. One cannot live any longer without poetry, colour… — Antoine de Saint-Exupéry Copy Share Image
Why does one always ask a writer why they stopped? I am sure everyone finds in any drawer a few dear poems. — Peter Bichsel Copy Share Image
“Christ is the Word of God, the answer of God. All the words of the prophets, philosophers, and poets are echoes of… — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
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