“Some of us cover to protect our bodies some of us cover to protect our souls in both cases, respect their choices.” — Anjum Choudhary Copy Share Image
Take what the old-church found in Mithra's tomb, candle and script and bell, take what the new-church spat upon and broke and… — Hilda Doolittle Copy Share Image
Women are the simple, and poets the superior, artisans of language... the intervention of grammarians is almost always bad. — Remy de Gourmont Copy Share Image
“I believe the night I’ve never met hides one elusive star I need to divide me between darkness and light” — Munia Khan Copy Share Image
Do I dare Disturb the universe? In a minute there is time For decisions and revisions which a minute will reverse. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A writer is not different from a reader, in that the common ragbag of orthodoxies and assumptions is what a poet has… — Seamus Heaney Copy Share Image
“You bitch,' he said. 'You rich bitch. That's poetry. I'm full of poetry now. Rot and poetry. Rotten poetry.” — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
The only gift is a portion of thyself . . . the poet brings his poem; the shepherd his lamb. . . . — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I mean the most important thing you can have as an actor, writer, director, or whatever you are, poet or whatever it… — Billy Bob Thornton Copy Share Image
To me, poetry is a recreation, a renewal of language... The subtlety of what words mean and the fact that you write… — Mary Ann Hoberman Copy Share Image
“My heart in the East But the rest of me far in the West— How can I savor this life, even taste… — Yehuda Halevi Copy Share Image
“here’s a toast to Alan Turing born in harsher, darker times who thought outside the container and loved outside the lines and… — Matt Harvey Copy Share Image
The impulse to create begins - often terribly and fearfully - in a tunnel of silence. Every real poem is the breaking… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
The musician of disordered sound, the poet of decomposed language, the painter and sculptor of the fragmented visual and tactile world: they… — Heinz Kohut Copy Share Image
He carried Paul inside and up the stairs. He gave him a drink of water and the orange chewable aspirin he like… — Kim Edwards Copy Share Image
The heft of a life in the hands grows both lighter and weightier. Over time, my life has become more saturated with… — Jane Hirshfield Copy Share Image
The blues is nothing but a story... The verses which are sung in the blues is a true story, what people are… — David Edwards Copy Share Image
“So I don’t think I’ll make Poet Laureate, but I swear I’m not twisted and bitter, If finely-wrought talents don’t weigh in… — Rosy Cole Copy Share Image
I hardly remember how I started to write poetry. It's hard to imagine what I thought poetry could do. — David Antin Copy Share Image
“I have worked locked psych wards and had patients give me stories they wrote or poems and this reminded me of that...… — Montzalee Wittmann Copy Share Image
That is what I did with Jack, and that's why he liked to do the readings with me because he knew I… — David Amram Copy Share Image
I'm trying to stay open to the idea that the Internet is not the evil foe of publishing but the handmaiden that… — Joan Larkin Copy Share Image
It hardly seems worthwhile to point out the shortsightedness of those practitioners who would have us believe that the form of the… — Mark Strand Copy Share Image
Poetry is a street fighter. It has sharp elbows. It can look after itself. Poetry can't be used for manipulation; it's why… — David Whyte Copy Share Image
There are two ways of disliking poetry; one way is to dislike it, the other is to read Pope — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
It takes most men five years to recover from a college education, and to learn that poetry is as vital to thinking… — Brooks Atkinson Copy Share Image
I've always considered myself a poet in everything that I do, whether it's photography or movie-making. — Gerard Malanga Copy Share Image
There is a property in the horizon which no man has, but he whose eyes can integrate all the parts,--that is, the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“Most poems I’ve seen are about love or sex or the stars. You poets are obsessed with stars. Falling stars. Shooting stars.… — Nicola Yoon Copy Share Image
“This must be what feelings are. This is why people write poems! I get it now. I get it, and I want… — Laini Taylor Copy Share Image
I had the title poet, and maybe I was one for a while. Also, the title singer was kindly accorded me, even… — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
I write poetry anyway and have for years and years. For me, putting fiction and poetry together is like the best of… — Ellen Hopkins Copy Share Image
[Abbas Kiarostami] is a great artist and a poet. I sometimes think that if Samuel Beckett made films, he'd make them like… — Anthony Minghella Copy Share Image
Your beauty took my breath away, and your kiss then stole my heart, as well. God help me, for I have fallen… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I do think that given my background as a poet, and also I work in a different field, you're sort of neither… — Victoria Chang Copy Share Image
Nas' longevity comes from him having strong lyrical value in his songs, him being more like a poet and improving over time. — No I.D Copy Share Image
Why should not we have a poetry and philosophy of insight and not of tradition, and a religion by revelation to us,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
When I used to listen to the poets in other languages and the kind of appreciation they received, I wanted to be… — Gulzar Copy Share Image
Why should it happen that among the great many women whom I see and am fond of, suddenly somebody I meet for… — May Sarton Copy Share Image
I can write a poem in 10 minutes. I like writing songs; I can write songs in 5 or 10 minutes. My… — Shel Silverstein Copy Share Image
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