“... paint in blue and black...sometimes gray - the colors of night - occasionally I surprise you with a mustard yellow, but… — John Geddes Copy Share Image
“2 - Listen In Eavesdropping, Seriously? Acting like you’re the main character, You have nothing to go on, Grow the fuck up.” — Apollo Blake Copy Share Image
“I now know how your anger came from skeletons that rattled in your heart and you couldn't escape them.” — Susie Clevenger Copy Share Image
To carry language from two dimensions into three is the task of the poets, and the rebels in the 20th Century. — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
If there's no money in poetry, neither is there poetry in money. In love as in sport, the amateur status must be… — Robert Graves Copy Share Image
“Subtle salvation in poems and prose, Hiding our heads in some shadow of home I wasn't looking for wreaths or for bells,… — Toad The Wet Sprocket Copy Share Image
I used to think all poets were Byronic Mad, bad and dangerous to know. And then I met a few. See Lamb 486:25. — Wendy Cope Copy Share Image
The poet knows himself only on the condition that things resound in him, and that in him, at a single awakening, they… — Jacques Maritain Copy Share Image
“PLEASE TELL ME YOU KNOW OF SYLVIA PLATH Conventions bleed my soul squeeze me old wear me grey like a headstone in… — Chila Woychik Copy Share Image
I think it's often assumed that the role of poetry is to comfort, but for me, poetry is the great unsettler. It… — Alice Oswald Copy Share Image
I think there was a revolution in poetry, associated chiefly with Eliot and Pound; but maybe it is of the nature of… — Howard Nemerov Copy Share Image
“There was a distinct class of these gentlemen tramps, young men no longer young, who wouldn't settle down, who disliked polite society… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
One can say that the disaffection is still a lingering naiveté about, not the place of poetry in the world, but -… — Fady Joudah Copy Share Image
“Borderline means you’re one of those girls… …who walk around wearing long sleeves in the summer because you’ve carved up your forearms… — Stacy Pershall Copy Share Image
I tried to explain to her the significance of the great poet, but without much success, The Waste Land not figuring very… — Alan Bennett Copy Share Image
“The wind smelled of humus, lichen, the musky odor of pecan husks broken under the shoe, a sunshower on the fields across… — James Lee Burke Copy Share Image
He's never going to sit at my feet and write me poems, which is good because I hate poetry, except dirty ones… — Ann Aguirre Copy Share Image
I think 'Dead Poets' was probably my favorite, just to get started with the idea of doing a movie that people treated… — Robin Williams Copy Share Image
The true poet is all the time a visionary and whether with friends or not, as much alone as a man on… — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
I see the shape of the poem before I start writing, and the writing is just the process of arriving at the… — Carol Ann Duffy Copy Share Image
The poets are almost always wrong about the facts... That's because they are not really interested in facts: only in truth... — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
Poetry begins as the divine speech of the bicameral mind. Then, as the bicameral mind breaks down, there remain prophets. — Julian Jaynes Copy Share Image
Poetic effect is the peculiar effect of an utterance which achieves most of its relevance through a wide array of weak implicatures. — Dan Sperber Copy Share Image
“There are days when I wonder how you could possibly stay. But, you told me there’s no way you could ever stay… — Liz Newman Copy Share Image
Yeats, protected to some extent by the Nationalistic movement, wrote out of a somewhat protected world, and so his work does not… — Patrick Kavanagh Copy Share Image
I feel often very close to the ecstasy and anguish which lie at the very heart of poetry - I am writing… — May Sarton Copy Share Image
The good poet sticks to his real loves, to see within the realm of possibility. He never tries to hold hands with… — Karl Shapiro Copy Share Image
my poems covered the bare places in my childhood like the fine, new skin under a scab that hasn't yet fallen off… — Tove Ditlevsen Copy Share Image
We need a safe place, a reserve of truth, a place where words kindle ideas and set ideas sparking off in others,… — Allison Mackie Copy Share Image
“Poetry, at the best, does us a kind of violence that prose fiction rarely attempts or accomplishes.” — Harold Bloom Copy Share Image
Writing a poem is always a process of subtracting: you start with all of language available to you, and you choose a… — Matthea Harvey Copy Share Image
No song or poem will bear my mother's name. Yet so many of the stories that I write, that we all write,… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
“With the need for the self in the time of another / I left my seaport grim and dear / knowing good… — Roman Payne Copy Share Image
Then I grasped the meaning of the greatest secret that human poetry and human thought and belief have to impart: The salvation… — Viktor E. Frankl Copy Share Image
“It was never the way she looked always the way she was I would have fallen in love with her with my… — Atticus Poetry Copy Share Image
I seem to be always returning to photography in my poetry. I guess you could say that I'm documenting the personal history… — Gerard Malanga Copy Share Image
“My nerves were wrapped so tight I could explode at any second. Some jaguar reciting poetry was not helping. “Just tell me… — Lisa Kessler Copy Share Image
Form is any aspect of a poem that encourages it to stay whole and not drift off into chaos. — Billy Collins Copy Share Image
My favourite poem is the one that starts 'Thirty days hath September' because it actually tells you something. — Groucho Marx Copy Share Image
“The first time I saw your face, my lips said, "hello" and my heart said, "that's your wife.” — J.A. ANUM Copy Share Image
