Prose cannot compete with the economy of poetry, the ability to have a full artistic experience in a short period of time. — Mary Karr Copy Share Image
“After all these years, all I know is, I need not to do anything as a part of remorse. All I need… — Nishikant Copy Share Image
“We remember though all the firelit glow Of a great hearth's gleam and glare, And we looked for a space at each… — Caris Brooke Copy Share Image
Verses devoid of substance, melodious trifles. [Lat., Versus inopes rerum, nugaeque canorae.] — Horace Copy Share Image
“Come close - let our hearts beat like one, we'll be the two that became one. Love is the rhythm of our… — J.WOLF Copy Share Image
“boys don't like smart girls they like push-around-in-a-cart kinda girls target-for-their-dart kinda girls meat-for-their-shark kinda girls” — Casey Renee Kiser Copy Share Image
“I live I fight I bleed I die For love. I am Fey" ~I am Fey, a warrior’s poem by Evanaris vel… — C.L. Wilson Copy Share Image
I have no precise idea of who makes up my readership. I'm surprised when I discover people have read my poems at… — Cate Marvin Copy Share Image
I am so much like my mother. When we're in a room together everybody always comments on how spooky it is. I… — Aldous Harding Copy Share Image
“His head propped on a stack of poetry books he’d brought from the library. Almost all of them had been inscribed on… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
The idea is to make the script out of a political analysis and then to convey that - sometimes in poetry, sometimes… — Jean-Luc Godard Copy Share Image
My life has had a lot of fits and starts: before I studied literature at all I was a musician, and began… — Garth Greenwell Copy Share Image
“I am angry that I starved my brain and that I sat shivering in my bed at night instead of dancing or… — Laurie Halse Anderson Copy Share Image
In order to create it is necessary to destroy; and the agent of destruction in society is the poet. I believe that… — Herbert Read Copy Share Image
When I got back to NY had the opportunity to work with the beginning years of the poetry project which was founded… — Anne Waldman Copy Share Image
“I saw a sadness shivering in his eyes that night. They resemble a heart flat-lining. I wanted to ask him what put… — Alfa H Copy Share Image
Nothing I could ever write, nothing ever written by the greatest of Bard's, Poet's, Dreamers, could ever express, how I feel, when… — Eric Nickel Copy Share Image
Often poets fall into groups that exclude others, and don't pay attention to those who write in different ways. It seems so… — Martha Ronk Copy Share Image
A good poem is not completely a poem until it has received a critical response that grows out of the poem in… — Michael Longley Copy Share Image
In school I was sidelined by Tamil language teachers. But in the film industry, I got interested in Tamil poetry after reading… — Mani Ratnam Copy Share Image
With 'Sierra,' this mean girl had all these kids bullying me - and I wrote the first verse and chorus the night… — Maddie Marlow Copy Share Image
And there are a lot more people reading poetry, but there are not so many people reading an individual poet. — Peter Davison Copy Share Image
I'm a storyteller: the crux of the matter is to reach beauty, poetry; it doesn't matter if that is comedy or tragedy.… — Roberto Benigni Copy Share Image
“WRITTEN IN PENCIL IN THE SEALED RAILWAY-CAR here in this carload i am eve with abel my son if you see my… — Dan Pagis Copy Share Image
A world without poetry and art would be too much like one without birds or flowers: bearable but a lot less enjoyable. — Aberjhani Copy Share Image
To name an object is to deprive a poem of three-fourths of its pleasure, which consists in a little-by-little guessing game; the… — Wallace Stevens Copy Share Image
Hmmm. I think a lot of people can write poems that are howls of anguish. I think I've probably written such things… — John Fuller Copy Share Image
“Maybe those verses in Ezekiel about the dry bones coming back to life were actually a prophecy in reference to caffeine.” — Erynn Mangum Copy Share Image
Despite his dodgy politics, Yeats remains an inspiration for his genius and the simple fact that the older he got, the better… — David Benioff Copy Share Image
“The feeling of being both trapped and free at the same time is the most mind twisting feeling of all.” — Melody Lee Copy Share Image
Like a great poet, Nature produces the greatest results with the simplest means. These are simply a sun, trees, flowers, water and… — Heinrich Heine Copy Share Image
“Filth and vermin though they shock the over-nice are imperfections of the flesh closely related in the just imagination of the poet… — William Carlos Williams Copy Share Image
“Memories are either the greatest poetry, when they are memories of a vital happiness, or a burning pain, when they touch dried… — Ivan Goncharov Copy Share Image
A certain amount of housekeeping also goes on in my poems. I wash doorknobs, do dishes, mop floors, patch carpets, cook. — Jane Hirshfield Copy Share Image
He feared his maturity as it grew upon him with its ripe thought, its skill, its finished art; yet which lacked the… — T. E. Lawrence Copy Share Image
A page with a poem on it is less attractive than a page with a poem on it and some tea stains. — Anne Carson Copy Share Image
I don't write poetry and then strum some chords and then fit the words on top of the chords. — Andrew Bird Copy Share Image
Every country has the writers she requires and deserves, which is why Nicaragua, in two hundred years of literacy, has produced one… — Paul Theroux Copy Share Image
“As we change, our writing changes too. You cannot write the same poem twice. And that's a good thing.” — Katerina Stoykova Klemer Copy Share Image
I enjoy poetry where I can talk as bizarre as I please, but theology or philosophy, I always respect the truth by… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
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