I think that when you reveal things that are going to cause pain, you have rhetorical resources in poetry. — Vijay Seshadri Copy Share Image
I do not think [poetry] is more, or less, necessary than food, shelter, health, education, decent working conditions. It is as necessary. — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
I got the writing bug in the fourth grade when a poem of mine was published in the school newspaper. Music criticism… — Ann Powers Copy Share Image
Frankly, writing poetry for children is plain old fun, and I consider myself blessed to have such a delightful career. — Jack Prelutsky Copy Share Image
The poem might come to you as you're preparing to teach a lecture, right? And when you say, "no" to that occasion,… — Shirley Geok-lin Lim Copy Share Image
“Literature, especially poetry, and lyric poetry most of all, is a kind of family joke, with little or no value outside its… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
I've written some poetry, but...songs have to be more poetic, and I've really gotten to this non-poetic sort of writing. — Mike Gordon Copy Share Image
“In daylight we pick up our tinned rations and hike off, every artery and nerve of us, into the rest of our… — Tess Gallagher Copy Share Image
“Brother,you who have the light, tell me mine. I am like a blind man. I go without direction and fumble along. I… — Rubén Darío Copy Share Image
“Poem - I meet your eyes. You don't even see me. You hardly respond when I whisper hello. Could be my soul… — Jay Asher Copy Share Image
We're all just animals. That's all we are, and everything else is just an elaborate justification of our instincts. That's where music… — Elvis Costello Copy Share Image
“I want you to tell me about every person you’ve ever been in love with. Tell me why you loved them, then… — Andrea Gibson Copy Share Image
Part of writing is discovering the rules of the game and then deciding whether to follow the rules or to break them.… — Billy Collins Copy Share Image
The question, O me! so sad, recurring - What good amid these, O me, O life? That you are here - that… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
“Birth, coupling, death. The more she thinks about it, the more it seems that that is all there is: a wheel turning… — Sarah Dunant Copy Share Image
“The Tull-Toks claim that everything in the universe can be read. Each star is a living text, where the massive convection currents… — Ken Liu Copy Share Image
When I start writing a poem, I don't think about models or about what anybody else in the world has done. — Gwendolyn Brooks Copy Share Image
For me, musicians are poets. Beethoven describes himself as a poet of tones, just like Coltrane's a poet of tempo. — Cornel West Copy Share Image
In poetry, I didn't have to provide resolution. I could ask hard questions without feeling responsible for the answers. — Vivek Shraya Copy Share Image
I see a poem as a multi-coloured strip behind peeling plaster, in separate, shining fragments. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Tell me a story,” says the poem by Robert Penn Warren. “In this century, and moment, of mania . . . Tell… — Sarah Arthur Copy Share Image
“Infectious smile has infected tears The laughter strikes with spears I am not dear and they are not sincere Feeling fear I… — Louis Cecile Copy Share Image
I don't think there's anything wrong with someone having to read a poem twice. Or even a book. — George Murray Copy Share Image
All that I've done in my life thus far, all the poems and all the pictures, are not so much an intermingling… — Gerard Malanga Copy Share Image
Most of us have been subjected to terrible political poetry at least once or twice in our lifetimes, and so we tend… — Andre Naffis-Sahely Copy Share Image
It sounds old-fashioned to say, but we have some kind of purpose for being here, not poets or writers, but all of… — Pattiann Rogers Copy Share Image
“You’re coming with me, poor thing. You don’t know how to listen. You don’t know how to speak. You don’t know how… — Joy Harjo Copy Share Image
I love the simple poetry of theater, where you can stand in a spotlight on a stage and wrap a coat around… — Gary Oldman Copy Share Image
A sentence only expressing one's emotions towards an individual is not a quote but a lack of poetry — Juju Copy Share Image
“If happiness left scars on our bodies, we would never forget about all the glorious moments we’ve been blessed with.” — J.A. ANUM Copy Share Image
Remember technology does not make good work. You can still write a poem on a brown paper bag, and haiku is just… — James Turrell Copy Share Image
I have found myself writing poetry shortly after I retired. Which I hadn't done in forty years. — Frederick Busch Copy Share Image
Anyone can escape into sleep, we are all geniuses when we dream, the butcher's the poet's equal there. — Emile M. Cioran Copy Share Image
Ye are better than all the ballads That ever were sung or said; For ye are living poems, And all the rest… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
“Superior poets say what they really feel. Mediocre poets say what they decide to feel. Inferior poets say what they think they… — Álvaro de Campos Copy Share Image
In Xanadu did Kubla Khan A stately pleasure-dome decree: Where Alph, the sacred river, ran Through caverns measureless to man Down to… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
I think when kids just see well-crafted poetry, it's just obtuse to them. It's hard to relate to. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I didn't write anything at all except book reports until I was in seventh grade, and then I wrote mostly poetry for… — Cynthia Voigt Copy Share Image
“...The dog (the poet) is on top of a locomotive,”… “He’s got a box full of track, and he’s frenetically laying down… — Billy Collins Copy Share Image
“Yes, love can be wondrously complicated, it can be confusing, and it can be terrifying. But if it wasn’t all those things,… — N.R.Hart Copy Share Image
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