“Like wind and fire, water and soil, we used one another, to grow and blossom. Love was a dream, elusive as were… — Iva Hotko Copy Share Image
What believer sees a disturbing omission or infelicity? The text, whether of prophet or of poet, expands for whatever we can put… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“motives are like little flies flying around in my room. I believe I've killed most of them” — Dmitry Dyatlov Copy Share Image
“Poems should be like pins which prick the skin of boredom and leave a glow equal in its pride to the gate… — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
All poets, all writers are political. They either maintain the status quo, or they say, 'Something's wrong, let's change it for the… — Sonia Sanchez Copy Share Image
“If war is the test of reality, then all poetry is unreal; but in that case unreality is a virtue.” — Louis MacNeice Copy Share Image
Theodore Roethke was a poet I was raised with so he has a lot of sentimental value for me. — Krist Novoselic Copy Share Image
“The fun and fame do not last, while the memory of a real helper is kept green long after poetry is forgotten… — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
“When there is fear,he will have his pen clasp it high,whence for him,the wonders of night give light,where he lies behind his… — Nithin Purple Copy Share Image
For me music is central, so when one's talking about poetry, for the most part Plato's talking primarily about words, where I… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
“…It is a blank wall, an old wall― a heart burdened by drought and clay: write your name here, but don’t pierce… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“In fact he was as lovesick as a high schooler of an especially sensitive sort who wonders if he dare share a… — Jim Harrison Copy Share Image
The waving of a pine tree on the top of a mountain - a magic wand in Nature's hand - every devout… — John Muir Copy Share Image
Like contemporary poetry, philosophy is one of those things, especially at the beginning stages, most people would rather do than study -… — Samuel R. Delany Copy Share Image
Who is that blond child laughing as he runs after his colored marbles? [my marbles] It's me And who is the poet… — Pierre Albert-Birot Copy Share Image
I'm about fifty years behind as far as my preferences go and I must say that the poets who excite me most… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
“It is as vital to know where you no longer belong as it is to know where you do belong.” — Gin Love Thompsonson Copy Share Image
I'm not the kind of poet who arranges treasure-hunts to please the academics and keep them busy. Poetry should be surprising in… — Michael Longley Copy Share Image
“Sun shines above making diamonds of light Tink-tinkling, tap dancing and bright. from Atlantic Ocean, My Old Friend by Mommy Moo Moo” — Mommy Moo Moo Copy Share Image
You can't read to yourself. It's your inner ear that hears a poem. If you hear a poet read his own work,… — Derek Walcott Copy Share Image
A poem is good if it contains a new analogy and startles the reader out of the habit of treating words as… — T. E. Hulme Copy Share Image
“This man has talent, that man genius And here's the strange and cruel difference: Talent gives pence and his reward is gold,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Every word on every page, represents a love that captured this heart... fully, and never set it free.” — Alfa H Copy Share Image
Paul Valery speaks of the 'une ligne donnee' of a poem. One line is given to the poet by God or by… — Stephen Spender Copy Share Image
“. . . On a sandbar sunlight stretches out its limbs, or is it a sycamore, so brazen, so clean and bold?” — William Stafford Copy Share Image
I take pictures, and they are there for the taking. I'll tell you a quote that I have always thought about. Arthur… — Jay Maisel 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
“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
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
“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
“[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
“Poetry can have varied and useful functions; and seduction is apparently something worth writing poetry for.” — Shira Wolosky Copy Share Image
“Bí ann nó as táimse ag triall Ort agus má tá cuirim geasa Ort mé a shábháil ón dream a deir gur… — Caitlín Maude 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
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
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
One who writes a poem writes it because the language prompts, or simply dictates, the next line. — Joseph Brodsky 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
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
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