I enjoyed writing stories whenever there was call to do it at school, and started writing bad poetry when I was doing… — Tom Fletcher Copy Share Image
Every so often I find some poems that are too good for the readers of The Atlantic because they are a little… — Peter Davison Copy Share Image
All art emulates the condition of ritual. That is what it comes from and to that it must always return for nourishment. — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
“I mean you ask me not to fall in love with you and then you go write poems with your tongue and… — Clementine von Radics Copy Share Image
I began my writing life as a poet, so poetry has always been fundamental. I evolved from poetry to journalism to stories… — Ben Okri Copy Share Image
“They're auras, Davey. I see them, too. The longer you stare at them, the wider the energy field expands until more colors… — Christina Westover Copy Share Image
Whatever a poet writes with enthusiasm and a divine inspiration is very fine. Earliest reference to the madness or divine inspiration of… — Democritus Copy Share Image
Queen Latifah was writing poetry. Maybe Latifah's 'Ladies First' and Angelou's 'Phenomenal Woman' are the same thing, a generation apart. — Jason Reynolds Copy Share Image
I would tell a young Jadakiss, learn the game as much as you learn how to rap, as seriously you take a… — Jadakiss Copy Share Image
“ Early Morning in Your Room It's morning. The brown scoops of coffee, the wasp-like Coffee grinder, the neighbors still asleep. The… — Robert Bly Copy Share Image
Every poet I know - although there may be some I don't know who lead very different lives, who maybe live in… — Sharon Olds Copy Share Image
“The Old Poets Of China Wherever I am, the world comes after me. It offers me its busyness. It does not believe… — Mary Oliver Copy Share Image
I ended up becoming a playwright because you can be grammatically incorrect: people speaking in bad poetry or people attempting to speak… — Annie Baker Copy Share Image
There are many poets that use as my models. In my first book of poems, I had several for the "Sleepwalkers," I… — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
... Who alive can say 'Thou art no Poet - mayst not tell thy dreams'? Since every man whose soul is not… — John Keats Copy Share Image
Carol Guess's poems are sexy, intuitive, angry, and hopeful. These lyrical narratives measure the impossibly small distance between love and fear. They… — Zachary Schomburg Copy Share Image
And at least in poetry you should feel free to lie. That is, not to lie, but to imagine what you want,… — Mark Strand Copy Share Image
“When words lose their meaning, physical force takes over. from an essay for Writers by Nancy Crampton ” — W.H. Auden Copy Share Image
I like to give and get basically anything (I love to read) but especially fiction and poetry. — Suzan-Lori Parks Copy Share Image
“The still waters Wrap my lips, Eyes, nose and ears, A clear Cellophane I cannot crack.” — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
The origins of poetry are clearly rooted in obscurity, in secretiveness, in incantation, in spells that must at once invoke and protect,… — Mary Ruefle Copy Share Image
A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with… — Abraham Maslow Copy Share Image
“His fangs sank deep into my heart. He made me his. He possessed me like a demon and loved me like his… — Melody Lee Copy Share Image
“Suicide is career gold for the poet. Sadly, the poet isn’t around to reap any benefits from it.” — Jim Behrle Copy Share Image
“Evil is not good's absence but gravity's everlasting bedrock and its fatal chains inert, violent, the suffrage of our days.” — Geoffrey Hill Copy Share Image
“It is untrue that bravery can be measured by a lack of fear. It takes guts to tremble. It takes tremble to… — Andrea Gibson Copy Share Image
Poetry doesn't function by saying things straightforwardly because the language is too imprecise, too limited often, to address the underlying subject of… — Pattiann Rogers Copy Share Image
I think poetry has lost an awful lot of its muscle because nobody knows any. Nobody has to memorize poetry. — Peter Davison Copy Share Image
“But I'm a woman, and as the great poet so cleverly wrote, hell hath no fury as a woman scorned. Consider me… — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
I don't understand the whole thrilling verse, but I love the way poetry turns ordinary words into winged things that rise up… — Margarita Engle Copy Share Image
Tree limbs rise and fall like the ecstatic arms of those who have submitted to the mystical life. Leaf sounds talk together… — Rumi Copy Share Image
Visual media is the dominant art form in our present day culture, whereas poetry is, at best, a proxy. Yet poetry and… — Denise Duhamel Copy Share Image
We are pantheists as natural scientists, polytheists as poets, and monotheists as moral beings. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
You should check out William Shatner's album The Transformed Man. It will alter the way you hear poetry forever. And not in… — Adrian Matejka Copy Share Image
“this lightness is something created in the writing, using the linguistic tools of the poet, independent of whatever philosophical doctrine the poet… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
Poetry and beauty are always making peace. When you read something beautiful you find coexistence; it breaks walls down. — Mahmoud Darwish Copy Share Image
“Poetry affords us a respite in which we may gather renewed strength for the old struggle to adapt ourselves to reality. —ROBERT… — Sarah Ban Breathnach Copy Share Image
“the great fortunes of our day have rarely been accumulated through the sale of the most meaningful items and services, such as… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
Poetry, I'm often told, is something made of words. I think it really goes the other way around: words are made of… — Robert Bringhurst Copy Share Image
I've had it with these cheap sons of bitches who claim they love poetry but never buy a book. — Kenneth Rexroth Copy Share Image
