“Oulipo does not “explain” poetry, Ouilpo tries to find constraints for new kinds of poems. Oulipo is not into theory, it is… — Paul Fournel Copy Share Image
God thinks in the geniusses, he dreams in the poets and slumbers in the rest of humanity. — Peter Altenberg Copy Share Image
I like it when poems are challenging, when they concern matters important and personal to the author. — Cate Marvin Copy Share Image
“The moon beckons me. The wolves call my name. I am made for the night, a creature of the dark where my… — Melody Lee Copy Share Image
Poets are like steam valves, where the ordinary feelings of ordinary people can escape and be shown. — Sharon Olds Copy Share Image
I was very in my own head as a kid. But I liked it there! I was just writing poetry, writing stories,… — Arlo Parks Copy Share Image
Arrogant, I think I have written lines which qualify me to be The Poetess of America (as Ted will be The Poet… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
I want to reiterate that my understanding of the poem is not the poem's core, true meaning. Once a poem goes out… — James Arthur Copy Share Image
I once got a postcard from a French poet who wrote - "you don't know me but I'm always very grumpy when… — Michael Graves Copy Share Image
Rich meanings of the prophet-Spring adorn, Unseen, this colourless sky of folded showers, And folded winds; no blossom in the bowers; A… — Alice Meynell Copy Share Image
“According to folk belief that is reflected in the stories and poems, a being who is petrified man and he can revive.… — Penina Mezei Copy Share Image
“Most of what I know I've learned from falling, from placing the brighter side of my hands against the earth and pressing… — Rudy Francisco Copy Share Image
There's something about the kind of time travel that a poem can provide. It can take you to somewhere else - a… — Kevin Young Copy Share Image
That I am your heart's secret fills me with song. I wish I could sing of you here in my cage. You… — Laura Whitcomb Copy Share Image
I personally believe the role of poets as poets (which is something different from our obligations as citizens, community members, humans) is… — Matthew Zapruder Copy Share Image
I have read that during the process of canonization the Catholic Church demands proof of joy in the candidate, and although I… — Phyllis McGinley Copy Share Image
Although it is true that petros and petra can mean 'stone' and 'rock' respectively in earlier Greek, the distinction is largely confined… — Frank E. Gaebelein Copy Share Image
“Maybe when water yearned for fire / it invented waves / so one day they might become flames” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The drama is complete poetry. The ode and the epic contain it only in germ; it contains both of them in a… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
You can be intuitive when you've got a more expansive role. You can get into the poetry of telling the story rather… — Willem Dafoe Copy Share Image
The first time I ever got up on a stage, I did a comedy poem. I don't know how I got there… — Lesley Nicol Copy Share Image
I come from a short fiction background, and my mom is a poet, so I've always read poetry; I've always had a… — Lorde Copy Share Image
Hasil-e-zindagi hasraton k siwa kuch bhi nahi Ye kiya nahi, wo hua nahi, ye mila nahi, wo raha nahi — Hani Copy Share Image
Love like a phantoms lights but hold in the heart, it builds like the empty smile adorning a statue with sightless eyes. — Dan Fogelberg Copy Share Image
I wanted a perfect ending. Now I've learned, the hard way, that some poems don't rhyme, and some stories don't have a… — Gilda Radner Copy Share Image
Well, probably I was fed up with concrete poetry. There was a lot of bad concrete poetry and besides, it was confused… — Ian Hamilton Finlay Copy Share Image
“I loved you head over handles like my first bicycle accident— before the mouthful of gravel and blood, I swore we were… — Sierra Demulder Copy Share Image
Poetry is the language of intensity. Because we are going to die, an expression of intensity is justified. — C.D. Wright Copy Share Image
So far as I am concerned, poetry and every other art was, is, and forever will be strictly and distinctly a question… — e. e. cummings 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
“Somewhere along the way we all go a bit mad. So burn, let go and dive into the horror, because maybe it’s… — robert m drake Copy Share Image
“I'm going to do something bigger and better, bigger and better and bolder, but first, I'm going to do something smaller and… — JonArno Lawson Copy Share Image
I've always written, all my life, and when I was very young I developed an interest in poetry. — Jeffery Deaver Copy Share Image
“And feeling, in a poet, is the source Of others' feeling; but they are such liars, And take all colours—like the hands… — George Gordon Byron Copy Share Image
“need a poet who can really write. Nowadays it seems like ‘many are gone, and those that live are bad’.12” — Aristophanes Copy Share Image
“O dear Himalaya...why are you so amazing, can I kiss your peak or can I just let your silence speak...O dear Himalaya...” — Santosh Kalwar Copy Share Image
What she did was to open our eyes to details of country life such as teaching us names of wild flowers and… — Laurie Lee Copy Share Image
Whoever would understand the poet Must go into the poet's country. [Ger., Wer den Dichter will verstehen Muss in Dichters Lande gehen.] — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
“A poem is a skeletal shape. When I say it to you, I am dropping the empty shell of a crab into… — Jeffrey L. Hollman Copy Share Image
“Rather a thousand times the county jail than to lie under this marble figure with wings and this granite pedestal bearing the… — Edgar Lee Masters Copy Share Image
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