“Its snaky acids kiss. It petrifies the will. These are the isolate, slow faults That kill, that kill, that kill.” — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
“Nothing in all those "O swan" poems had ever mentioned that they hissed. Or resented being mistaken for felines. Or bit.” — Connie Willis Copy Share Image
“Green and living jewels drip into my eyes" from the poem "All Green and Living Things" in the book "Terra Affirmative” — Jay Woodman Copy Share Image
Poetry is a mystic, sensuous mathematics of fire, smoke-stacks, waffles, pansies, people, and purple sunsets. — Carl Sandburg Copy Share Image
The more I read my poems, the more I find out about them. I still read them with the same passion I… — Linton Kwesi Johnson Copy Share Image
[On Dutch flat poetry]: It is too smooth and blubbery; it reads like butter-milk gurgling from a jug. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Pretty much every artist in Scotland - musician, writer, poet, actor - they're all part of a thing called the National Collective. — Roddy Woomble Copy Share Image
There's poetry in being the band that can sell out Wembley but also makes a record in a garage. I don't like… — Dave Grohl Copy Share Image
“Ah! poetry makes life what light and music do the stage—strip the one of the false embellishments, and the other of its… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“[an encounter in space] "Some celestial event. No--no words--no words to describe it. Poetry! They should have sent a poet. So beautiful.… — Carl Sagan as Ellie Arroway Copy Share Image
Mythology is not a lie, mythology is poetry, it is metaphorical. It has been well said that mythology is the penultimate truth--penultimate… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
When you write, it's just a much more crystalline, compressed version of the voice you think with - though not the one… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
“Anyway, my point is that guys like Flec have a weakness, almost a kind of addiction, for the mystical, as opposed to… — Neal Stephenson Copy Share Image
“When the poets call the directions or 'rulings' of Jahweh 'true' they are expressing the assurance that these, and not those others,… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
I love communicating with people, and sometimes language is not enough. I think that's what poetry is, where you can mess with… — Justin Adams Copy Share Image
I dropped my hoe and ran into the house and started to write this poem, 'End of Summer.’ It began as a… — Stanley Kunitz Copy Share Image
Fogs are like dreams that feed the soul, and without their mysterious embrace, childhood, courtship, poetry and the composition of music become… — Michael Leunig Copy Share Image
I have always disliked the idea of an arts ghetto in which poetry is kept on a life-support system. — Tony Harrison Copy Share Image
He repeated until his dying day that there was no one with more common sense, no stone cutter more obstinate, no manager… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share Image
I owe everything to a system that made me learn by heart till I wept. As a result I have thousands of… — George Steiner Copy Share Image
No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem. — Booker T. Washington Copy Share Image
“I'll let no man in, unless of course, he knocks. Walk right in to my heart with a thousand locks.” — Casey Renee Kiser Copy Share Image
“I lose faith in mathematics, logical and rigid. What with those that even zero doesn’t accept?” — Dejan Stojanovic Copy Share Image
By the general process of epic poetry, I mean the way this form of art has constantly responded to the profound needs… — Lascelles Abercrombie Copy Share Image
“I have written in my life many critical poems, but viewed in retrospect, they were merely a human harmless reflection, and not… — sir kristian goldmund aumann Copy Share Image
Poetry is like standing on the edge of a lake on a moonlit night and the light of the moon is always… — Billy Collins Copy Share Image
“One with compassion is kind even when angry; one without compassion will kill even as he smiles. SHABKAR, TIBETAN POET” — Barbara Ann Kipfer Copy Share Image
In The Doors we have both musicians and poets, and both know of each other's art, so we can effect a synthesis. — Robby Krieger Copy Share Image
Walt Whitman's a hell of a lot more revolutionary than any Russian poet I've ever heard of. — John Dos Passos Copy Share Image
Black actors on the road, flying around the country working as poets. Those people are inspirations for millions of kids who write. — Russell Simmons Copy Share Image
I'm reading a lot of poetry because it's a lot easier to dip in and dip out when you've got 10 minutes… — Hozier Copy Share Image
The great poet is a great artist. He is painter and sculptor. The greatest pictures and statues have been painted and chiseled… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Nobody has to tell nobody nothing,” I say, taking another step forward. “You never were a poet, were you, Todd?” he says. — Patrick Ness Copy Share Image
“What is a woman that you forsake her And the hearth fire and the home acre To go with that old grey… — Rudyard Kipling Copy Share Image
There is some humour in 'Family Values.' I don't want everyone to think it's not going to make them laugh. But there… — Wendy Cope Copy Share Image
“Don’t let the bad times get you down, You have some of those moments where life tells you, it’s time to cry.… — Tiffany McDaniel, On the Savage Side Copy Share Image
“If you can change the way you think in time you will notice a change in your heart and also a change… — The Prolific Penman Copy Share Image
"You're next, after the feather dancers." And you had to get their attention, because otherwise people would go, "Oh, a poet." You… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
What is poetry? The suggestion, by the imagination, of noble grounds for the noble emotions. — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
The idea that myth is the opposite of knowledge, or the opposite of truth, is simply to disallow it. It is like… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
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