You'll accidentally find in barrows of books wrought-iron lines of long-buried poems, handle them with the care that respects ancient but terrible… — Bill Vaughan Copy Share Image
All I ask, is the privilege for my masculine part the poet in me… If I must not, because of my sex,… — Aphra Behn Copy Share Image
EMILY: "Does anyone ever realize life while they live it...every, every minute?" STAGE MANAGER: "No. Saints and poets maybe...they do some. — Thornton Wilder Copy Share Image
My favorite artists don't rap about making it rain They're about the stormy clouds, a better tomorrow, with the pain — Raghib Clitso Copy Share Image
I studied English at the College of Wooster in Ohio, and I did an M.F.A. in Poetry at Columbia. — David Means Copy Share Image
“unsignificantly off the coast there was a splash quite unnoticed this was Icarus drowning” — William Carlos Williams Copy Share Image
The poet and the painter are only truly great by the mutual influences of their studies, and the jealousy of glory has… — Isaac D'Israeli Copy Share Image
Sweet I m But Honey is You. Image is Mine But Colours Are You. Poet I am But Poem is You. Flower… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Wasn't it his right to listen to opera, read poetry and adventure novels, go to Europe every couple of months for some… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
[Rhyme is] but the invention of a barbarous age, to set off wretched matter and lame Meter; ... Not without cause therefore… — John Milton Copy Share Image
“ALI He was butterfly and bee. In the ring, he floated and stung. In 1967, Muhammad Ali, born Cassius Clay, refused to… — Eduardo Galeano Copy Share Image
I always was interested in prose. As a teenager, I published short stories. And I always wanted to write the long short… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
“The moose will perhaps one day become extinct; but how naturally then, when it exists only as a fossil relic, and unseen… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I don't know where the shape of a poem comes from. I certainly don't impose it. I write out of a jumble… — Michael Longley Copy Share Image
“Although I had intended to consider the impossibility of returning to those places we’ve come from—not because the places are gone or… — Natasha Trethewey Copy Share Image
I was always interested in French poetry sort of as a sideline to my own work, I was translating contemporary French poets.… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
“In most poetic expressions of patriotism, it is impossible to distinguish what is one of the greatest human virtues from the worst… — W.H. Auden Copy Share Image
Charles Dickens was an avid seeker of names - he read directories and looked for odd names on gravestones. — Jane Smiley Copy Share Image
“And the poets?' 'Lost in dreams of other worlds.'... 'And the wise, who made this world?' The swan lowered its black neck… — Catherine Fisher Copy Share Image
True poetry is truer than science, because it is synthetic, and seizes at once what the combination of all the sciences is… — Henri Frederic Amiel Copy Share Image
If offered a good role, I would like to work in a good Punjabi film. This land has produced great writers, poets… — Pankaj Kapur Copy Share Image
“As children we learned our shadow is a darkness we never totally shake until we lie down, pull the shades, draw the… — BJ Ward Copy Share Image
Poetry privileges music and is aesthetically more challenging. Prose privileges information and is emotionally more challenging. — Mary Karr Copy Share Image
“Covers me, he lowers To whisper in my ear. Tucks me in, I wear This warm blanket of dark paradise, And my… — Bri Miller Copy Share Image
Few rappers realize the genre sprang from West African griots through Delta slave songs to jazz poetry and the comedic trash talk… — Quincy Jones Copy Share Image
“Being there doesn't mean I'm present. I exist only in words. I want to be transmuted fully to white page and ink.” — David Joseph Cribbin Copy Share Image
We poets in our youth begin in gladness; But thereof comes in the end despondency and madness. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When I arrived at Columbia, I gave up acting and became interested in all things French. French poetry, French history, French literature. — Joseph Gordon-Levitt Copy Share Image
What's really funny about being National Youth Poet Laureate is that not everyone even knows it exists. — Amanda Gorman Copy Share Image
There IS a difference between poetry and prose! Poems should be sonically charged and new to the ear. — Cate Marvin Copy Share Image
You must be a poet, a lady of evil luck desiring to be what you are not, longing to be what you… — Anne Sexton Copy Share Image
“Robert Frost’s poem “The Road Not Taken” eloquently captures the inherent paradox in living: every choice for contains within it all of… — Kathleen Adams Copy Share Image
Shall we speak of the inspiration of a poet or a priest, and not of the heart impelled by love and self-devotion… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“Laugh until you cry; never let your eyes look dry This is not a matter of joke; this is all to provoke… — Munia Khan Copy Share Image
“He was young, no older than fifteen, pale and dark-haired, wearing jeans and a soft white T-shirt that had SHAKESPEARE HATES YOUR… — Marjorie M. Liu Copy Share Image
I think that as a poet, I am always concerned about history and baring witness to history. But so often, it's through… — Natasha Trethewey Copy Share Image
“His poems have no capital letters in them, which is, I believe, the essence of modernity. His books are about unpleasant people… — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
I used to get in trouble a lot in school because I would write very naughty stories and poems in class. — Ashnikko Copy Share Image
“Cry out in the wilderness with a voice that's not heard. Speak boldly in Christ though you won't say a word.” — R'chelle Cyrus Copy Share Image
Much contemporary verse reads like failed short-short stories rather than failed poetry. — Alice Fulton Copy Share Image
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