I'm working on a poetry collection for Papaveria Press . It fills me with trepidation - poetry is something I'm much more… — Theodora Goss Copy Share Image
“Seated at table - no need for the fracture of the room's silence; noiselessly they conversed.” — R.S. Thomas Copy Share Image
“In The Land of Poetry and Fighting, Efficiency rules the throne. I try to live here, so I shave my head because… — Cameron Conaway Copy Share Image
It took some time to gather the research and develop it into the storyline, and to finally finish an origin myth poem… — Jean M. Auel Copy Share Image
“Poetry comes to me like breathing. I inhale and breathe in the fragrances, flavors, emotions, sentiments, and feelings of people and places… — Avijeet Das Copy Share Image
“Professor Sung-bae Park taught Buddhism to primarily Judeo-Christian kids who needed one course in a world religion and could fit him in… — John Popielaski Copy Share Image
there is a poetry in making preserves; the housewife has caught duration in the snare of sugar, she has enclosed life in… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
How can the poem and the stink and the grating noise - the quality of light, the tone, the habit and the… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“one day, when tenderness has become the single rule of the morning,/ I will wake in your arms. perhaps your skin will… — José Luís Peixoto Copy Share Image
We got quiet. The garden was combing her hair and putting on earrings. The house was full of dancing creatures, not male… — Francesca Lia Block Copy Share Image
“Old McDonald had a restaurant, E, I, E, I, O, And in that restaurant was some beef, E, I, E, I, O,… — Harry Whitewolf Copy Share Image
“The world is too much with us; late and soon, Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers; Little we see in… — William Wordsworth Copy Share Image
“Some thirty inches from my nose The frontier of my Person goes, And all the untilled air between Is private pagus or… — W.H. Auden Copy Share Image
“She adored fairy tales, yet derived great reward rewriting them to the melody of her own warrior soul. Her fairytales weren’t made… — Melody Lee Copy Share Image
“dan brown\The televangelist began quoting verses from the Bible describing hierarchy of angels, demons, and spirits that ruled in heaven and hell.… — Dan Brown Copy Share Image
“One weekend it rained for 48 hours without stopping. The rain beat like bony fingers against the window panes. Tap. Tap. Tap.… — Alice Jamieson Copy Share Image
In a meadow full of flowers, you cannot walk through and breathe those smells and see all those colors and remain angry.… — Jonas Mekas Copy Share Image
Poetry comes with anger, hunger and dismay; it does not often visit groups of citizens sitting down to be literary together, and… — Christopher Morley Copy Share Image
As a poet Maria Terrone lives, like the rest of us, in a world of questions marks-but what shines through them is… — Eamon Grennan Copy Share Image
Time is, after all, the greatest of poets; and the sons of Memory stand a better chance of being the heirs of… — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
Teach your children poetry; it opens the mind, lends grace to wisdom and makes the heroic virtues hereditary. — Walter Scott Copy Share Image
“[On Jason Mashak's “I Was Trained to See Shadows”, in his poetry book SALTY AS A LIP:] A nice bit of smooth,… — John Bennett Copy Share Image
There comes a period of the imagination to each--a later youth--the power of beauty, the power of looks, of poetry. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“That poem is so damned long. You'd think old Walt could have taken a line or two to tell us how to… — John Green Copy Share Image
The painter puts brush to canvas, and the poet puts pen to paper. The poet has the easier task, for his pen… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A beautiful woman is a practical poet, taming her savage mate, planting tenderness, hope and eloquence in all whom she approaches. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
For poetry there exists neither large countries nor small. Its domain is in the heart of all men. — Giorgos Seferis Copy Share Image
Art is its own excuse, and it's either Art or it's something else. It's either a poem or a piece of cheese. — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
“There is chaos in everyone's heart. Some just grow flowers on it while others tear it apart.” — Fiphie Copy Share Image
“ink marks the page/where you execute your will like a doe announcing an/ox-stern mate with a single, bleary blink.” — Melissa Lee-Houghton Copy Share Image
I'mma thank you for it all, the blessings and the curses. And I hope you listening, there's a lesson in the verses. — Dmx Copy Share Image
“Poetry has a mysterious way of illustrating the landscapes of life. One can't help but love its audacity to record the journey.” — L.v. Jones Copy Share Image
Sometimes I write quickly, sometimes I spend several weeks on a single poem. I would really love for readers not to be… — Wislawa Szymborska Copy Share Image
Poetry is fascinating. As soon as it begins the poetry has changed the thing into something extra, and somehow prose can go… — Michael Tippett Copy Share Image
“Poetry can bridge that gap between what is solid and what is suggested; poetry can pull cogent meaning from the veiled truths… — Bryant McGill Copy Share Image
I do want to do the entire alphabet. There's in [Walker's Alphabet] a poem called "A Life" in that grouping. I was… — Shirley Geok-lin Lim Copy Share Image
“These hands will never go away they will scoop you up at anytime anytime that you want to be loved” — April Nichole Copy Share Image
“Poetry excites innate emotions and perceptions that let you create a new world where you have never visited and no one else… — Debasish Mridha Copy Share Image
I started with poetry because it was direct, immediate, and short. It was the ecstasy of striking matches in the dark. — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
“Must always try to be out there Getting everything out there Take what is inside yourself And place it out there.” — Initially NO Copy Share Image
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