“Till the time you realize your conquest you already reach that stage when you start losing the grip.” — Neel Preet Copy Share Image
My passion is bringing storylines around and constructing a full body of work rather than just a 16-bar verse. — Kendrick Lamar Copy Share Image
Each genre exerts a considerable spell, as a kind of "form" to be filled, as a Shakespearean sonnet is filled. — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
“Like the bioluminescent creatures of the deep sea produce their own light I also have the ability to create my own light… — Rhys Blanco Copy Share Image
Solitude gives birth to the original in us, to beauty unfamiliar and perilous - to poetry. But also, it gives birth to… — Thomas Mann Copy Share Image
“Change, change, change it all Fuck the egg, it'll crack And they point and condemn Those these and them Digiting a shower… — Kat Clark Copy Share Image
There is no peace to be taken With poets who are young, For they worry about the wars to be fought and… — Joyce Kilmer Copy Share Image
“Seseorang memberiku gaun puisi. "Pakailah,"katanya."Kau tak kan jenuh lagi." Tetiba cuaca mesra, matari biru, aku menapak di atas laut.” — Helvy Tiana Rosa Copy Share Image
“I am—yet what I am none cares or knows; My friends forsake me like a memory lost: I am the self-consumer of… — John Clare Copy Share Image
I never even considered writing a career option. I just liked the play of words. I was certainly interested in story, but… — Charles de Lint Copy Share Image
I did go through a phase of reading a lot of poetry and getting heavily into philosophy and ended up writing things… — Katie Melua Copy Share Image
“Rhyme is bullshit. Rhyme says that everything works out in the end. All harmony and order. When I see a rhyme in… — Tobias Wolff Copy Share Image
“These Things I've Done (Part 1) I have emptied the cup that overflowes, From the garden clipped the finest rose... Interrupted the… — Woody Johnson Copy Share Image
“Reading The Waste Land, then, is in part reading about reading in the early twentieth century. The crisis in epistemology brought on… — Jewel Spears Brooker Copy Share Image
“I Dwelt alone In a world of moan, And my soul was a stagnant tide, Till the fair and gentle Eulalie became… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
“She told me her father taught her to live life way beyond the cusp of it, way out in the outer reaches… — Marisha Pessl Copy Share Image
I was around in 1970, and now I am around in 2015 ... there is no poetry and very little romance in… — Don McLean Copy Share Image
I don't like a kind of workshop that is about editing--I don't want to sit there and be an editor. I don't… — Natasha Trethewey Copy Share Image
But I am not political in the current events sense, and I have never wanted anyone to read my poetry that way. — Diane Wakoski Copy Share Image
I'd say people do need some help with poetry because I think poetry just helps takes us to places that Americans aren't… — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
Baudelaire's L'Héautontimorouménos was long seen to be a sexual sadomasochistic poem, it is now generally accepted that the poem is about writing… — Stephen Dobyns Copy Share Image
one reason why I like writing poetry - you can say so many things in it that are true in poetry but… — Lucy Maud Montgomery Copy Share Image
His writer's words poured over her like poetry, and she couldn't find a single wisecrack to put up between them. — Susan Elizabeth Phillips Copy Share Image
“Poetry is simple when you write what you see and feel, searching for the words only makes it difficult” — Rayvon L. Browne Copy Share Image
As an actor, I come to set, and I have already broken the character down by writing a poem about the character.… — Omari Hardwick Copy Share Image
Because I was writing verse, my instructor suggested I study Shakespeare. The Shakespeare teacher insisted you couldn't understand the text without seeing… — Jamey Sheridan Copy Share Image
“Poetry, to me, is a type of shamanistic chant capable of chasing away the darkness within us.” — Leila Samarrai Copy Share Image
I started out as a writer. Poetry and prose and also kind of satirical David Sedaris-esque stuff. — Pauley Perrette Copy Share Image
Love is a great poet, its resources are inexhaustible, but if the end it has in view is not obtained, it feels… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
What happens on the football field matters, not in the way that food matters but as poetry does to some people and… — Arthur Hopcraft Copy Share Image
“Theirs two ways to become a famous Poet, find that one person that knows somebody, that knows somebody, that knows somebody. Or… — Stanley Victor Paskavich Copy Share Image
Well, we all start thinking we're going to be Romantic rock stars, but then reality hits and you realize no one reads… — George Murray Copy Share Image
So now I have a collection of poetry by Aaron Neville and I give it to people I want to share it… — Aaron Neville Copy Share Image
I write a book of poems and then the characters won't go away so I write a play from that. — Grace Cavalieri Copy Share Image
“...and I laugh and I spin and dance and frolic in ecstasy and I... I hurt no more, while you...you petrified little… — Kellie Elmore Copy Share Image
“So many questions but nothing to say, in this current moment we are still so far from the answers.” — Liz Newman Copy Share Image
Poetry is the hardest thing that there is. It fascinates me, so I want to write more of it. — Steve Earle Copy Share Image
“You’re not a bad person, you’re just a little bit different and I’m a sucker for that.” — robert m drake Copy Share Image
And all poets love dust and mist because all the last answers. Go running back to dust and mist. — Carl Sandburg Copy Share Image
Poetry is the silence and speech between a wet struggling root of a flower and a sunlit blossom of that flower. — Carl Sandburg Copy Share Image
