“[Short Talk on the Sensation of Airplane Takeoff] Well you know I wonder, it could be love running toward my life with… — Anne Carson Copy Share Image
While most know the young Stalin was a seminarian, few realize that he was also a Georgian patriot, a published romantic poet. — Simon Sebag Montefiore Copy Share Image
“She fondled, cradled, pacified and hushed the wounded heart to slumber by constantly saying, It’s over. He’s not coming back.” — Ruqayya Shaheed Khan Copy Share Image
Spending warm Summer days indoors, writing frightening verse to a buck-toothed girl in Luxembourg. — The Smiths Copy Share Image
Poetry is a section of river-fog and moving boat-lights, delivered between bridges and whistles, so one says, 'Oh!' and another, 'How?' — Carl Sandburg Copy Share Image
In African-American culture, there's often a family historian, someone who does the genealogy or keeps the family Bible. I became aware that… — Kevin Young Copy Share Image
Most poets in their youth begin in adolescent sadness. I find it more rewarding to end in gladness. — James Broughton Copy Share Image
I'm never quite sure how the poem is going to resolve itself and that I'm always in some way surprised. I make… — Rita Dove Copy Share Image
“Of those few fools, who with ill stars are curst, Sure scribbling fools, called poets, fare the worst: For they're a sort… — William Congreve Copy Share Image
“A camel in distress isn’t a shy creature. It doesn’t hang around in bars, nursing a solitary drink. It doesn’t phone up… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“A writer discovers what he knows as he knows it, i.e., as he makes it. No artist writes in order to objectify… — Gilbert Sorrentino Copy Share Image
“You can never rouse Harris. There is no poetry about Harries - no wild yearning for the unattainable. Harris never "weeps, he… — Jerome K. Jerome Copy Share Image
“Poetry is above all a concentration of the power of language, which is the power of our ultimate relationship to everything in… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
Great lecturers seldom hesitate to use dramatic tricks to enshrine their precepts in the minds of their audiences, and at Yale perhaps… — Louis Auchincloss Copy Share Image
“It was interesting, not stupid or silly or sappy or overly intellectual—not any of those things that I thought poetry was. Some… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The slow maturation of genuine creativity looks like laziness to a committee. Wallace Stevens was forty-three when his first book appeared. Robert… — Dana Gioia Copy Share Image
I’m a poet. And then I put the poetry in the drama. I put it in short stories, and I put it… — Tennessee Williams Copy Share Image
Portsmouth has the honor, I believe, of establishing the first recorded pauper workhouse - though not in connection with her poets, as… — Thomas Bailey Aldrich Copy Share Image
Sharp is your memory, sweet is your name, deep in my heart you'll always remain. Earth wants water, flower wants dew, I… — Azgraybebly Josland Copy Share Image
If anything, hearing another poet is a sacred experience I enter, but I can honestly say this does not influence my own… — Grace Cavalieri Copy Share Image
“Death be not proud, though some have called thee mighty and dreadful, for, thou art not so.” — John Donne Copy Share Image
“Be careful letting those decadent words roll of your tongue. A woman just might take them to heart... and immortalize them.” — Alfa H Copy Share Image
The high-water mark, so to speak, of Socialist literature is W.H. Auden, a sort of gutless Kipling. — George Orwell Copy Share Image
I then carefully searched through the pages until I was able to find the verse that was crystal clear... It read: "Rejoice… — Mary C. Neal Copy Share Image
What's poetry? It's not real but maybe it's more than real. It's dreaming while you're awake. — Caryl Churchill Copy Share Image
Somebody's sent a funny little valentine to me. It's a bunch of baby-roses in a vase of filigree, And hovering above them… — James Whitcomb Riley Copy Share Image
“the princess jumped from the tower & she learned that she could fly all along. she never needed those wings.” — Amanda Lovelace Copy Share Image
“And honestly, there is no better way to explore your emotions than with poetry. Or audiotapes.” — Jay Asher Copy Share Image
The 14th-century poem 'Sir Gawain and the Green Knight' wasn't my top read at university. In fact, I finished it under some… — Cathy Newman Copy Share Image
“We are the poem, his poem says, that emerges from the unity of the body and the mind. That fragile unity--this brief… — Jonah Lehrer Copy Share Image
One must write poetry in such as way that if one threw the poem in a window, the pane would break. — Daniil Kharms Copy Share Image
Don't you think that as a people, Americans have less poetry, real poetry, in their souls than any other nations? — Robert E. Howard Copy Share Image
“eighteenth-century Urdu poet Mir: It’s just your imagining that There’s a feeble body inside my clothes; In fact, there is nothing there… — Shamsur Rahman Faruqi Copy Share Image
Self-editing is the way I write. Ten verses of a song and it's finished. Then we start playing it and if I… — Nick Cave Copy Share Image
Good religious poetry... is likely to be most justly appreciated and most discriminately relished by the undevout. — A. E. Housman Copy Share Image
I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman. — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
I admire the poetic relationship to place as enacted in Wallace Stevens' poems; his poetics strikes me as an argument against the… — Cate Marvin Copy Share Image
Still the question remains of what actually speaks in a poem, if not subjectivity as historically constructed. — Thomas Harrison Copy Share Image
“My ex calls the ochre winter 'autumn' as we queue to hear dock boys play jazz fugues in velvet dark.— Broken Verses” — Kamila Shamsie Copy Share Image
the poets down here don't write nothin' at all, they just stand back and let it all be... — Bruce Springsteen Copy Share Image
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