“(1)BEING A POET is like opening a car door & exposing yourself. (2)BEING A GOOD POET is like opening the door &… — Chocolate Waters Copy Share Image
I'm very proud of the fact that I'm one of Britain's biggest selling poets. That gives me a huge amount of pleasure. — Felix Dennis Copy Share Image
Learn poetry by heart. If you know a poem by heart, no one can take it away from you, and you can… — Raymond Aubrac Copy Share Image
As a kid, I loved Godot because of the poetry and the humor and the strangeness, but then as you get older,… — Nathan Lane Copy Share Image
“Teasing tongues Twisted Sheets Tangled in love Those are about the only things tidy and proper this morning.” — Melody Lee Copy Share Image
...and then, I have nature and art and poetry, and if that is not enough, what is enough? — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Of necessity, we made the discovery that it is easier to turn poets into business journalists than to turn bookkeepers into writers. — Henry R. Luce Copy Share Image
Scientist alone is true poet he gives us the moon he promises the stars he'll make us a new universe if it… — Allen Ginsberg Copy Share Image
“Nothing higher can be accomplished by the epic poet thus interpreting his own time in order to serve the future. (Foreword by… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
You know, there's an economy in lyric-writing that doesn't afford you, or at least me - I usually start off with nine… — J Tillman Copy Share Image
“That night I didn’t say anything. I just watched you leave and in the end, I just stayed sleeping awake. Somewhere between… — robert m drake Copy Share Image
If you are in passionate love and want to celebrate your passion, read poetry. If your ardor has calmed and you want… — Jonathan Haidt Copy Share Image
A play is basically a long, formalistic polemic. You can write it without the poetry, and if you do, you may have… — David Mamet Copy Share Image
A poet is wounded into speech, and he examines these wounds, meticulously, to discover how to heal them. The bad poet harangues… — Samuel R. Delany Copy Share Image
“At times poetry is the vertigo of bodies and the vertigo of speech and the vertigo of death; the walk with eyes… — Octavio Paz Copy Share Image
I have indeed lived and worked to my taste either in art or science. What more could a man desire? Knowledge has… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
As a poet I would say everything should be able to come into a poem but I can't put toothbrushes in a… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
Test of the poet is knowledge of love, For Eros is older than Saturn or Jove; Never was poet, of late or… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Because a poem is not written while running or while answering the phone. It's written in whatever minutes one has. Sometimes you… — Sharon Olds Copy Share Image
“Erudition is the crude residue of wilted harvests; wit: the meddlesome weed that wilts them.” — Ashim Shanker Copy Share Image
In terms of smaller changes over time, I think good plays are like poems. Every syllable counts. So I wrestle with word… — Stephen Karam Copy Share Image
If I had a girlfriend I'd sing to her & read her poetry, take her on dates, make her feel special. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Our digestions, going sacredly and silently right, that is the foundation of all poetry. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“You are the bloom of a spring, a poet's imagination so true... It's amazing how much more beautiful you look, each time… — Rohit Sharma Copy Share Image
“Hesitate once, hesitate twice, hesitate a hundred times before employing political standards as a device for the analysis and appreciation of poetry.” — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Poetry is designed to inspire love, and islam is about falling in love with the creator of the universe. — Shelina Zahra Janmohamed Copy Share Image
For a poet to depict a poet in poetry is a hazardous experiment; in regarding one's own trade a sense of humour… — Edward Dowden Copy Share Image
I don't know if you actually get something out of writing poetry. I think poetry is an autonomous muse that decides to… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
There have always been huge musicians and poets in Uruguay, but Uruguay is a well-kept secret. — Steven Sater Copy Share Image
When I began writing, I didn't read any other children's poets... I didn't want to be influenced until I'd found my own… — Jack Prelutsky Copy Share Image
The fact of the matter is that the most unexpected and miraculous thing in my life was the arrival in it of… — Seamus Heaney Copy Share Image
“People have declaimed against luxury for two thousand years, in verse and prose, and people have always delighted in it.” — Voltaire Copy Share Image
To be poet laureate is to try to spread the love and the accessibility of poetry to young people. — Jacqueline Woodson Copy Share Image
“The difference between the poet and the mathematician is that the poet tries to get his head into the heavens while the… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“A teapot is a book carrying liquid poetry, and each serving brings new solace to the thirsty reader.” — Akash Mandal Copy Share Image
My definition of poetry (if I were forced to give one) would be this: words that have become deeds. — Robert Frost Copy Share Image
A poem is a spider web Spun with words of wonder, Woven lace held in place By whispers made of thunder. — Charles Ghigna Copy Share Image
[Thanatopsis] was written in 1817, when Bryant was 23. Had he died then, the world would have thought it had lost a… — William C. Bryant Copy Share Image
“Meet everyone with utmost respect and heartfelt love. Sir Kristian Goldmund Aumann, POET 2013 – Sir Kristian Goldmund Aumann” — Sir Kristian Goldmund Aumann Copy Share Image
“…Grant me, sad renewal, the odour of childhood, that welcomed meagre joy, already sick with a secret love of telling stories to… — Salvatore Quasimodo Copy Share Image
![“You know, there's an economy in lyric-writing that doesn't afford you, or at least me - I usually start off with nine or 10 verses and then boil it down to two or three that are half the length of the original verses. I think for me it's about what you leave out [rather] than what you put in. I'm…” quote by J Tillman](https://sms4smile.com/q/i/b33/j-tillman-40960_distillation_you-know-there-s-an-economy-in-lyric-wri_2068675.jpg)
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