The grand stye arises in poetry, when a noble nature, poetically gifted, treats with simplicity or with severity a serious subject. — Matthew Arnold Copy Share Image
One of the ridiculous aspects of being a poet is the huge gulf between how seriously we take ourselves and how generally… — Billy Collins Copy Share Image
A poem is a frozen moment melted by each reader for themselves to flow into the here and now. — Hilde Domin Copy Share Image
I never think of poetry or the poetry scene, only separate poems written by individuals. — Philip Larkin Copy Share Image
“Floribert could neither sing nor recite these poems because they were without words, but he dreamed and felt them sometimes, especially in… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
He drew a circle that shut me out- Heretic , rebel, a thing to flout. But love and I had the wit… — Edwin Markham Copy Share Image
The vain poet is of the opinion that nothing of his can be too much: he sends to you basketful after basketful… — Walter Savage Landor Copy Share Image
“The only time she's come close to being "known" was when she accidentally came out as bisexual during sophomore English class while… — C.B. Lee Copy Share Image
“WHO AM I? I have seven heavenly panels Leading up to a pointed sphere I’m multidimensional like a crystal And my center… — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image
“Great art projects a sense of inexhaustibility. In literature, particularly in poetry, this may be accomplished through ambiguity: Beneath each and every… — William T. Vollmann Copy Share Image
Translation is a kind of transubstantiation; one poem becomes another. You can choose your philosophy of translation just as you choose how… — Anne Michaels Copy Share Image
“Lyric," it said. "Melodic. Suitable for singing. A lyric poem. Of the lyre." That didn't seem to make much sense in regards… — Robert McCammon Copy Share Image
Relate comic things in pompous fashion. Irregularity, in other words the unexpected, the surprising, the astonishing, are essential to and characteristic of… — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
“The shoemaker [Johann Ludwig] W[eidmann, 6th-GGF]. has been having some serious scruples about some verses of Holy Scripture, about which I set… — Johann Martin Boltzius Copy Share Image
“I don’t do it for the money. I’ve got enough, much more than I’ll ever need. I do it to do it.… — Newt Gingrich Copy Share Image
There are still many tribal cultures where poetry and song, there is just one word for them. There are other cultures with… — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
“In this quiet place on a quiet street where no one ever finds us gently, lovingly, freedom gives back our pain. --from… — Author-Poet Aberjhani Copy Share Image
My exposure to Beckett and to late O'Neill was probably important right at the time I gave up poetry and the novel. — Edward Albee Copy Share Image
There is another old poet whose name I do not now remember who said, 'Truth is the daughter of Time.' — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
One had a lovely face, And two or three had charm, But charm and face were in vain. Because the mountain grass… — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
“Look upward to him Look to him for everything Look to him for help Look to him for comfort” — April Nichole Copy Share Image
for a poet is a light and winged thing, and holy, and never able to compose until he has become inspired, and… — Plato Copy Share Image
When Poetry thus keeps its place as the handmaiden of piety, it shall attain not a poor perishable wreath, but a crown… — John Wesley Copy Share Image
In the poem "C," the crows are associated with cancer, because I had suffered a cancer scare. — Shirley Geok-lin Lim Copy Share Image
In the years 1910 and 1911 I had 51 innings with 10 not outs and an average of 19. This I consider… — Siegfried Sassoon Copy Share Image
The lines of poetry, the period of prose, and even the texts of Scripture most frequently recollected and quoted, are those which… — William Shenstone Copy Share Image
Most painters have painted themselves. So have most poets: not so palpably indeed, but more assiduously. Some have done nothing else. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Steven dreamed of you the very second you died (So the poem goes) and you may have visited him But I'm pretty… — Jon Paul Fiorentino Copy Share Image
“She does not love you. Your metaphors thrill her you are her poet. But that's all there's to it. from “She Does… — Mahmoud Darwish Copy Share Image
“My battered heart will always be where the ocean meets the sand, I will break over and over Every day. That is… — Clementine von Radics Copy Share Image
I saw an amazing film when I was 16 called 'Slam'. It's about a spoken-word poet. Saul Williams is in it. — Boyd Holbrook Copy Share Image
People who attack biography choose as their models vulgar and offensive biography. You could equally attack novels or poems by choosing bad… — Claire Tomalin Copy Share Image
I've written poetry since I was a kid. As the years went on, I got into writing stories and screenplays, but I… — Blake Jenner Copy Share Image
Critics write out of intellectual exercise, not poets. Poets write straight from the heart. — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
“In all we do, and hear, and see, Is restless Toil and Vanity. While yet the rolling earth abides, Men come and… — Anne Brontë Copy Share Image
“Lay a golden egg. After you built a nest, You wait for a leg. And you land next. Now you hope and… — Ana Claudia Antunes Copy Share Image
“They are good evidence to prove that poems which seem often to be constructed of arbitrary surreal symbols are really impassioned reorganizations… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
“The house burned in the fire. Her house. Her prison of lies and of denial. Her American dream turned nightmare.”~Unbreakable Heart” — Kimberly Kinrade Copy Share Image
I STILL THINK THE REVOLUTION IS TO MAKE THE WORLD SAFE FOR POETRY, MEANDERING, FOR THE FRAIL AND VULNERABLE, THE RARE AND… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
Painters and poets are obliged to exaggerate the proportions of their figures in order to give true perspective. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
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