“There are days when my imagination in my enemy. It likes to keep me company in my darkest of times and romanticizes… — Alfa H Copy Share Image
Living in a state of psychic unrest, in a Borderland, is what makes poets write and artists create. — Gloria E. Anzaldúa Copy Share Image
Poetry is not only a set of words which are chosen to relate to each other; it is something which goes much… — Tahar Ben Jelloun Copy Share Image
Sometimes a poem should just be about a girl jumping rope. It doesn't have to be something that is imbued with more… — Clint Smith Copy Share Image
“There is a time when the soul closes its eyes and kneels before its own divinity; and a time when it rises… — Heather K. O'Hara Copy Share Image
When the theater gates open, a mob pours inside, and it is the poet's task to turn it into an audience. — Franz Grillparzer Copy Share Image
“I'm always crazy around you Rose. Here, I'm going to write an impromptu poem for you. 'Rose is in red But never… — Adrian Ivashkov Copy Share Image
The man is either mad or his is making verses. [Lat., Aut insanit homo, aut versus facit.] — Horace Copy Share Image
Sometimes my boyfriend would write the lyrics and I would write the melody, and other times I would start from scratch. Or… — Carly Simon Copy Share Image
“I notice you have the assault proof vest - So it's my fault I guess. So apparently I didn't say 'no' as… — Steve Connell Copy Share Image
I work on words quite separately to music. They're both ongoing, and I don't ever feel like I'm working in a cycle… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I think of the poetry of René Char and all he must have seen and suffered that has brought him to speak… — William Carlos Williams Copy Share Image
“ Lines for Winter" Tell yourself as it gets cold and gray falls from the air that you will go on walking,… — Mark Strand Copy Share Image
“Poetry is cathartic only for the unserious, for in front of the rush of expressive need stands the barrier of form, and… — William H. Gass Copy Share Image
“And there are plays – and books and songs and poems and dances – that are perhaps upsetting or intricate or unusual,… — David Mamet Copy Share Image
“And thither, ere sweet night had slain sweet day, Iseult and Tristram took their wandering way, And rested, and refreshed their hearts… — Algernon Charles Swinburne Copy Share Image
“Silver hidden in the gold, Young man hidden in the old, Laughing lord with weeping eyes, Bring king and ring before sunrise!… — Margaret Lovett Copy Share Image
Law, business, engineering, these are noble pursuits and necessary to sustain life. But poetry, beauty, romance, love, these are what we stay… — Tom Schulman Copy Share Image
Of what violences, murders, depredations, have not the epic poets, from all antiquity, been the occasion, by propagating false honor, false glory,… — Samuel Richardson Copy Share Image
The poet uses the results of science and philosophy, and generalizes their widest deductions. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Arthur Rimbaud was a disreputable, mean, ruthless, perverse, hateful wretch. He was also one of the greatest poets who ever lived. — Raymond Sokolov Copy Share Image
Take time for good books; time to absorb the thoughts of poets and philosophers, seers and prophets. — Wilferd Peterson Copy Share Image
“The poet William Butler Yeats said, “We taste and feel and see the truth. We do not reason ourselves into it.” — Dawson Church Copy Share Image
I was apprehensive. I feared every time I talked about poetry, it would be filtered through the lens of race, sex, and… — Rita Dove Copy Share Image
“Every particle of dust on a patch of earth Was a sun-cheek or brow of the morning star; Shake the dust off… — Omar Khayyam Copy Share Image
“Poetry ought to be a by-product of living, and you can't have a by-product unless you've got a product first .” — Wallace Stegner Copy Share Image
The aim of the poet, or other artist, is first to make something; and it's impossible to make something out of words… — James Schuyler Copy Share Image
As for political poetry, as it's usually defined, it seems there's very little good political poetry. — Kenneth Koch Copy Share Image
There are three good things in this world. One is to read poetry, another is to write poetry, and the best of… — Rupert Brooke Copy Share Image
“I have found that sitting in a place where you have never sat before can be inspiring - I wrote my very… — Dodie Smith Copy Share Image
I am a guest of the French language. My poems in French are born of my interaction with the French language, which… — Tahar Ben Jelloun Copy Share Image
We are, always, poets, exploring possibilities of meaning in a world which is also all the time exploring possibilities. — Margaret J. Wheatley Copy Share Image
“Poetry is the icon-stasis on which a desire for aesthetic ecstasy illustrates itself endlessly.” — the mag man Copy Share Image
Being an art form, verse cannot be "free" in the sense of having no limitations or guiding principle. — William Carlos Williams Copy Share Image
He who would not be frustrate of his hope to write well hereafter in laudable things ought himself to be a true… — John Milton Copy Share Image
For as fire is kindled by fire, so is a poet's mind kindled by contact with a brother poet. — John Keble Copy Share Image
Through all permutations and youthful poetry, I came to believe that the film actor was the great "literateur" of his time. — Jack Nicholson Copy Share Image
Shakespeare, who is probably the greatest writer and poet of the English language, lived in a time that was politically very conservative… — Alex Cox Copy Share Image
. . . it is through poetry that we give name to those ideas which are-until the poem-nameless and formless, about to… — Audre Lorde Copy Share Image
She was the amoureuse of all the novels, the heroine of all the plays, the vague “she” of all the poetry books. — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
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