Existential philosophy, poetry and art - just like sadness - were all unavoidable to a tender young man in the meat works. — Michael Leunig Copy Share Image
“In a world that has no heaven the earth becomes an abyss. And the poem is one of its consolation prizes. One… — Mahmoud Darwish Copy Share Image
“Were it not, such short tresses so great a treasure, That you teach me a sweetness, quite other, Soft through the kiss… — Stéphane Mallarmé Copy Share Image
“...at dawn, the grains of sleep turn to floating black spots, then out of focus the world tilts, and the cat scratches… — John Geddes Copy Share Image
I want to write poems which are very emotional, but I would have some hesitation in saying I want to write poems… — Andrew Motion Copy Share Image
Poetry is emotion, passion, love, grief - everything that is human. It is not for zombies by zombies. — F. Sionil Jose Copy Share Image
“I Don't Write Because God Gives Me A Fresh Word Everyday, I write Because of The Words He Has Already Spoken Yesterday… — The Prolific Penman Copy Share Image
According To Twitter Everyone Is A CEO, Rapper, Model, Club Promoter, DJ, Poet, Singer, Actress/Actor… Y'all Ain't Shit — Kiana J Wilson Copy Share Image
“When, however, one reads of a witch being ducked, of a woman possessed by devils, of a wise woman selling herbs, or… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“Now, lying on my back in bed, I imagined Buddy saying, ‘Do you know what a poem is, Esther?’ ‘No, what?’ I… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
She had never realized any love save love as passion. Such love, though it expends itself in generosity and thoughtfulness, though it… — Thornton Wilder Copy Share Image
“About novel Imperfect Birds by Anne Lamott. Q: What does the title "Imperfect Birds" mean? It's a line from a poem by… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
“The young man left his uncle's office, eyes filled with tears; yet he braced himself against dispair. 'I have no more than… — Jules Verne Copy Share Image
The poetic impulse is distinct from ideas about things or feelings about things, though it may use these. It's more like a… — Philip Larkin Copy Share Image
Poetry at large in America is naturally a reflection of the American system and culture. That's my possibly narrow view of it,… — Fady Joudah Copy Share Image
So, the process of revision, it's not systematic. But for me, I mean, I know a lot of poets who write out… — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
The artist looks for a subject. You know, a lot of new poets don't seem to have a subject. I don't totally… — Gerald Stern Copy Share Image
“Nothing can be done but by inches. I write out my life hour by hour, word by word . . . imagining… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
At this moment, by an undeserved stroke of fortune, I am the direct voice of the poets of my race and the… — Gabriela Mistral Copy Share Image
I used to write a lot of songs. I was an English major in college. I was a deluded poet for a… — Paul Dano Copy Share Image
Poetry is the most intimate of all writing. I want to speak first from me to myself and then from me to… — Ellen Bass Copy Share Image
I'm inspired by the poets, so I'm always going to give in that direction, rather than in any other. It's the making… — Roy Harper Copy Share Image
Heaven deliver us, what's a poet? Something that can't go to bed without making a song about it. — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
“You put butterflies back into my soul and painted their wings with passion and poetry.” — Melody Lee Copy Share Image
Making films is about having absolute and foolish confidence; the challenge for all of us is to have the heart of a… — Mira Nair Copy Share Image
I was excited by what my painter friends were doing, and they seemed to be interested in our poetry too, and that… — Kenneth Koch Copy Share Image
Like a French poem is life; being only perfect in structure when with the masculine rhymes mingled the feminine are. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
We have the ability to be the Athens of modern times as opposed to the militaristic Sparta. I remind you that the… — Rita Mae Brown Copy Share Image
Mostly the thought and the verse come inseparably. In my poem Poetics, it's as close as I come to telling how I… — Howard Nemerov Copy Share Image
I wish I had the gift of making rhymes, for methinks there is poetry in my head and heart since I have… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
“I am the poet of the body and I am the poet of the Soul, The pleasures of heaven are with me… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
There are certain things in which mediocrity is not to be endured, such as poetry, music, painting, public speaking. — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
Mephostopheles is the name of a male gigolo I knew. When he's reaching up to grab me, I suppose it's an erotic… — Thom Yorke Copy Share Image
“Poetry is like...first all you have is... A line weaving through your mind Like the tail of a child's kite Unfettered by… — Vaddey Ratner Copy Share Image
“Why can’t I quiet the thoughts running through my head? Put down the pen and climb snugly into bed?” — Amanda Leigh Copy Share Image
Most poets are elitist dregs more concerned with proving their skill with a dictionary than communicating ideas with impact. — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
“Forge your iron; shape it by force, not into a flower you already know but into what can also be a flower… — João Cabral de Melo Neto Copy Share Image
“There are dewdrops on the nightingale's wings, bright beads of moon distilled by hope. On the marble fountain is the kiss of… — Federico García Lorca Copy Share Image
'The Narrow Road to the Deep North' is one of the most famous books of all Japanese literature, written by the great… — Richard Flanagan Copy Share Image
I may as well tell you, here and now, that if you are going about the place thinking things pretty, you will… — P. G. Wodehouse Copy Share Image
