“There are horrible events going on all over the world. Human beings are really fucking up. Poets, we can’t just write poems.… — Jeremiah Walton Copy Share Image
“One hundred copies? Of these poems you do not even like?” asked the Roman. “They’re nasty bits about famous people; everyone will… — Karen Essex Copy Share Image
“Se te empiezan a acumular los tiempos perdidos y no te quedan manos para tapar los agujeros.” — Rosa Yánez Gómez Copy Share Image
It's hard to say who's a greater threat to the world, an ambitious CEO with a big ad budget or a crafty… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
[Fiction and poetry] are medicines, they're doses, and they heal the rupture that reality makes on the imagination. — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
“Springwater grow so thick it gonna clot and the pleasing ladies cease. I figure, yup, you is bad powers.” — John Berryman Copy Share Image
The poem is not only the point of origin for all the language and narrative arts, the poem returns us to the… — Ron Silliman Copy Share Image
Poetry and fiction have grieved for a century now over the loss of some vitality which they think they see in a… — Guy Davenport Copy Share Image
“I walked to Mairangi Bay beach, day after day, seeking companionship in the roar of the ocean, and contemplating the shipwreck of… — B.G. Bowers Copy Share Image
It's a big thing to call yourself a poet. All I can say is that I have always written poems. I don't… — Clive James Copy Share Image
This is a city of absolute enchantment in the literal sense of the word. It loosens all the bonds binding the traveller… — Dervla Murphy Copy Share Image
“In Favor Of One's Time" The spent purpose of a perfectly marvellous life suddenly glimmers and leaps into flame it's more difficult… — Frank O'Hara Copy Share Image
“The fact of the matter is, if you read through the instructions to the New Testament churches you will find few explicit… — Kevin DeYoung Copy Share Image
“If you are looking for verses with which to support slavery, you will find them. If you are looking for verses with… — Rachel Held Evans Copy Share Image
“I try to feel my own edges in the low light. I send my mind to the outer edges of me —… — Jessica Bates Copy Share Image
“Writing is my passion. Words are the way to know ecstasy. Without them life is barren. The poet insists, language is a… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
“There may be losses too great to understand That rove after you and--faint and terrible-- rip unknown through your hand.” — William Stafford Copy Share Image
To me many short poems read and write like beginnings that simply whet my appetite; I want to get over that. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I'm quite a softy, yes. I have a blank spot with respect to visual art, but I have perhaps a compensating hypersensitivity… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
I think no matter how snarky you try to be, poetry will always find a way to make a spiritual goal out… — Mike Young Copy Share Image
One reads thousands of books, of poets, modern and ancient, as one meets thousands of people. What remains of it all is… — Marguerite Yourcenar Copy Share Image
I think of my peace paintings as one long poem, with each painting being a single stanza. — Robert Indiana Copy Share Image
I think we got much better poetry when it was all regarded as sinful or subversive, and you had to hide it… — Philip Larkin Copy Share Image
Regarding R. H. Blyth: Blyth is sometimes perilous, naturally, since he's a high-handed old poem himself, but he's also sublime - and… — Reginald Horace Blyth Copy Share Image
Nostalgia is a sweet place for a poet and writer to be in. But it's an indulgence; a distraction. You can't live… — Gulzar Copy Share Image
Subtract from many modern poets all that may be found in Shakespeare, and trash will remain. — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
And what is the very essence of poetry if it is not this 'metaphorical language'-this marking of the before unapprehended relations of… — Owen Barfield Copy Share Image
“willow trees, willow trees they remind me of Desdemona I'm so damned literary and at the same time the waters rushing past… — Frank O'Hara Copy Share Image
“In the shadow of skyscrapers, half-nude men in dugouts cast nets into the lagoon. The work of arms and shoulders. I think… — Teju Cole Copy Share Image
I thought I was going to be a poet when I was in college, but then I found out I was poor… — Josh Lieb Copy Share Image
To me Art (poetry) is a continuous and continuing process and that when a man fails to write good poetry he fails… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
Prose-it might be speculated-is discourse; poetry ellipsis. Prose is spoken aloud; poetry overheard. — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
“With women poets we look at or into, but not up at, sacred things; we unlearn submission.” — Alicia Ostriker Copy Share Image
I'm afraid I take ... this rather clinical view of love: it's saving you from madness. I'm not so enthusiastic as other… — William Empson Copy Share Image
“What did my fingers do before they held him? What did my heart do, with its love? From " Three Women: A… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
A book of poems doesn't just come out by chance, an editor has to select it, a publisher has to distribute it… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
“I don't know about angels, but humans need unanswered questions so that they have a reason to look.” — Jackie Viramontez Copy Share Image
I'm glad I understand that while language is a gift, listening is a responsibility. (U.S. poet and writer, 1943- ) — Nikki Giovanni Copy Share Image
Some people are suspicious of others who have more than one talent. I've had poets tell me to my face that an… — Grace Zabriskie Copy Share Image
“Depression is like waking up and opening the blinds because your plants need sunlight, but it's 8p.m. It's always 8p.m and you… — Jenim Dibie Copy Share Image
![“[Fiction and poetry] are medicines, they're doses, and they heal the rupture that reality makes on the imagination.” quote by Jeanette Winterson](https://sms4smile.com/q/i/c0f/jeanette-winterson-166_fiction_fiction-and-poetry-are-medicines-they-re_1147854.png)
