“I am permitted to travel in the corridor between sky and heather" from the poem "Beyond the Beacon" in TerraAffirmative” — Jay Woodman Copy Share Image
The best books of our times have included the three mature volumes of Philip Larkin. They're very short books of poems, and… — Robert Morgan Copy Share Image
“Me too thy nobleness has taught To master my despair; The fountains of my hidden life Are through thy friendship fair.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I think I've been writing black poems all along, wearing my white mask. I'm always the victim ... but no longer! — Anne Sexton Copy Share Image
True poets don't write their thoughts with a pen. They release the ink that flows from within their heart. — Ritu Ghatourey Copy Share Image
I have long admired Ron Whitehead. He is crazy as nine loons, and his poetry is a dazzling mix of folk wisdom… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
It is still true that it is easier to compose a poem in the form of a manual for adjusting a VCR… — Brian Ferneyhough Copy Share Image
I started writing poems on a Xanga page. I always loved writing. I also had a Deviant Art page, actually, because my… — Jamila Woods Copy Share Image
Well, we're still in the middle of it. And it doesn't show any sign of going away. And these attacks that were… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
“[Eroticism is] the poetry of the body, the testimony of the senses. Like a poem, it is not linear, it meanders and… — Octavio Paz Copy Share Image
In Islam, the word of the Prophet is final. No true Muslim can disown these verses or say that they would rewrite… — Subramanian Swamy Copy Share Image
It's difficult to talk about [W.S.] Merwin's poems, as it's hard to talk about a feeling or a smell. It is what… — Dorianne Laux Copy Share Image
“Language is the element of definition, the defining and descriptive incantation. It puts the coin between our teeth. It whistles the boat… — Charles Wright Copy Share Image
“Because the road is rough and long, Shall we despise the skylark’s song, That cheers the wanderer’s way? Or trample down, with… — Anne Brontë Copy Share Image
'Blue Velvet' changed my life forever. It was like I'd always read Chaucer and suddenly discovered Charles Bukowski. It made me understand… — Joe Wright Copy Share Image
“My dying tutor told me that he would like to live till I had been a poet, but Death was much of… — Emily Dickinson Copy Share Image
Poetry is its own medium; it's very different than writing prose. Poetry can talk in an imagistic sense, it has particular ways… — Story Musgrave Copy Share Image
“He loves me, he loves me not. How many flowers must I kill before he loves me?” ~He Loves Me, He Loves… — Kimberly Kinrade Copy Share Image
These impossible women! How they do get around us! The poet was right: can't live with them, or without them! — Aristophanes Copy Share Image
The poem that became the song 'Gold All Over the Ground' was written during 1967, when my dad was really falling in… — John Carter Cash Copy Share Image
“No poet, no artist of any art has his complete meaning alone. His significance, his appreciation is the appreciation of his relation… — T S Eliot Copy Share Image
“I’d reconstruct Heaven, or usurp Hell— write till I swing open like a door hinge. I arrive—a rogue who’d refurbish town. I… — BJ Ward Copy Share Image
Becoming interested in poetics got me interested in theater. Theater is supposed to be poetry, you know, before it's anything else. It… — Steve Earle Copy Share Image
The one man in the room who was as big as his poems, huge, with hulk and dynamic chunks of words. — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
“By working faithfully eight hours a day, you may eventually get to be a boss and work twelve hours a day. —ROBERT… — Timothy Ferriss Copy Share Image
When Robert Frost was alive, I was known as the other new England poet, which is to be barely known at all. — Howard Nemerov Copy Share Image
Everything on this record is what I really wanted to say, and I'm back to being the poet I always thought I… — Stevie Nicks Copy Share Image
“Little deer, I've stuffed all the world's diseases inside you. / Your veins are thorns // and the good cells are lost… — Pascale Petit Copy Share Image
Our poetry now is the realization that we possess nothing. Anything therefore is a delight (since we do not posses it) and… — John Cage Copy Share Image
“Being a poet one confronts the limitation of language, how can the spirit be revealed under any restrictions.” — Mohit.K.Misra Copy Share Image
I have been writing poetry ever since I was in high school. My poetry mainly concerned the theme of love. And that,… — Robert Indiana Copy Share Image
The deviant that does not observe the trivial uses of the language is a poet, a deviant who violates the banal customs… — William C. Brown Copy Share Image
“Each loved one went silently down; bubbles bursting leaving behind images they held to stick on the glass of memory.” — Dr. Prathap Kamath Elegy Copy Share Image
If the poem can be improved by the author's explanations, it never should have been published. — Archibald MacLeish Copy Share Image
“I paid, got up, walked to the door, opened it. I heard the man say, "that guy's nuts." out on the street… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
I'm sort of annoyed that some very basic things about poetic forms were not conveyed to me in the various poetry courses… — Juliana Spahr Copy Share Image
Ordering is very important with essays, even if a reader doesn't read the essays or the poems in order through the book... — Pattiann Rogers Copy Share Image
A contemporary poet has characterized this sense of the personality of art and of the impersonality of science in these words,-'Art is… — Claude Bernard Copy Share Image
Poetry should... should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost a remembrance. — John Keats Copy Share Image
I didn't have a dream of being a press secretary, I had a dream of being a playwright; I had a dream… — Pearl Cleage Copy Share Image
![“[Eroticism is] the poetry of the body, the testimony of the senses. Like a poem, it is not linear, it meanders and twists back on itself, shows us what we do not see with our eyes, but in the eyes of our spirit. Eroticism reveals to us another world, inside this world. The senses become servants…” quote by Octavio Paz](https://sms4smile.com/q/i/9ea/octavio-paz-1790_another-world_eroticism-is-the-poetry-of-the-body-the_2728799.jpg)
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