Poetry is a plan for a slit in the face of a bronze fountain goat and the path of fresh drinking water. — Carl Sandburg Copy Share Image
Quart of whiskey a day for months working hard on a long poem. Wife hiding bottles, myself hiding bottles. Murderous and suicidal.… — James Taylor Copy Share Image
“We returned to our palaces, these Kingdoms, but no longer at ease here in the old dispensation, with an alien people clutching… — T.S. Eliot Copy Share Image
I've got to have something. I want to stop it all, the whole monumental grotesque joke, before it's too late. But writing… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
“I loved them all equally, from the short story, to the poem, to the play, for nothing could touch me so deeply… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Well, I had this little notion - I started writing when I was eleven, writing poetry. I was passionately addicted to it;… — Harry Mathews Copy Share Image
“The beauty of poetry is that it can mean different things to different people at different times.” — Wendy Higgins Copy Share Image
“The world and the friends that lived in it are shadows: you alone remain real in this drowsing room.” — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“Desmonde looked over to where Delilah had gone, his gaze focused on it. He smiled wryly and said softly, "You'd be surprised… — Jennifer Megan Varnadore Copy Share Image
The poets, therefore, however much they adorned the gods in their poems, and amplified their exploits with the highest praises, yet very… — Lactantius Copy Share Image
I was born in the era of the novel. I've written many, as well as collections of poetry, and essays for mouthing… — Julianna Baggott Copy Share Image
“He wishes he were a skilled poet, it would fit his chosen image perfectly; the poor, tragic, tortured artiste. But he has… — Curtis Ackie Copy Share Image
“Some of the worst items in math suffer from forcing students to overanalyze process verses simply perform. In sports, are gymnasts rated… — Terry Marselle Copy Share Image
“Under the summer roses When the flagrant crimson Lurks in the dusk Of the wild red leaves, Love, with little hands, Comes… — Carl Sandburg Copy Share Image
“Five minutes ago escapes him as he chases 1934, unaware of the present beauty out the window, the banks of windswept snow—… — Anthony Walton Copy Share Image
“The purpose of poetry is to remind us how difficult it is to remain just one person, for our house is open,… — Czesław Miłosz Copy Share Image
“Your vision will become clear only when you look into your heart. Who looks outside, wishes. Who looks inside, finds infinite wisdom.” — Sereda Aleta Dailey Copy Share Image
“But... that's absurd!' he cried, flushing. 'Your poem is in praise of Jesus, not in blame of Him- as you meant it… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“There is always the poet, the lunatic, the lover; there is always the religious man who is a queer mixture of the… — Frederick Buechner Copy Share Image
First, a poem must be magical, then musical as a sea-gull and it must hold fire as well. — Jose Garcia Villa Copy Share Image
“Listen. Outside this frame I can see light, heavy as pardon, reliable as granite. Help me. Help me drag it into the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The philosopher's soul dwells in his head, the poet's soul is in his heart; the singer's soul lingers about his throat, but… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
For Emily Dickinson every philosophical idea was a potential lover. Metaphysics is the realm of eternal seduction of the spirit by ideas. — Charles Simic Copy Share Image
“If you write a phrase and think, 'Wow, that's really poetic, that's really pretty, I really nailed it,' you get rid of… — David Sedaris Copy Share Image
Trees are poems the earth writes upon the sky, We fell them down and turn them into paper, That we may record… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“this chair where i sit and write my poems is beat up and scratched, held together with wire, tape and hope. you… — John Yamrus Copy Share Image
There are a lot of poems where I am questing for God. I don't think there is any finding of God. — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
“No more sleepovers, no more writing poetry, no more wasting time. Time to tidy up your life. Time to start again.” — David Nicholls Copy Share Image
To walk quietly until the miracle in everything speaks is poetry, whether we write it down or not. — Mark Nepo Copy Share Image
Thinking in its lower grades, is comparable to paper money, and in its higher forms it is a kind of poetry. — Havelock Ellis Copy Share Image
The point of an experiment is not to arrive at a predetermined end point, to prove or disprove anything, but to deliver… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Constantly risking absurdity and death whenever he performs above the heads of his audience, the poet, like an acrobat, climbs on rhyme… — Lawrence Ferlinghetti Copy Share Image
I've written poems about gifts. Life is inspirational; sometimes it comes from the most unlikely places. — Ama Ata Aidoo Copy Share Image
And here in my isolation I can grow stronger. Poetry seems to come of itself, without effort, and I need only let… — Paul Gauguin Copy Share Image
Poetry asks people to have values, form opinions, care about some other part of experience besides making money and being successful on… — Toi Derricotte Copy Share Image
It seems to me that readers sometimes make the genesis of a poem more mysterious than it is (by that I perhaps… — James Schuyler Copy Share Image
We aren't trying to make poetry or anything beautiful. It's just a rock show. We just want to enjoy playing loud. That's… — David Pajo Copy Share Image
He passes from lyric to epic poetry in order to speak about the world and the torment in the world through man,… — Salvatore Quasimodo Copy Share Image
Indeed, as any one who has ever worked among the poor knows only too well, the brotherhood of man is no mere… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
The purpose of the poetry is not to dazzle us with an astonishing thought, but to make one moment of existence unforgettable… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
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