A comic matter cannot be expressed in tragic verse. [Lat., Versibus exponi tragicis res comica non vult.] — Horace Copy Share Image
Careless of censure, nor too fond of fame, Still pleased to praise, yet not afraid to blame, Averse alike to flatter or… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
Grunge, man, that was incredible. It was dangerous. It was not verse/chorus. Songs could be short, long, a lark, majestic. You were… — Martin Popoff Copy Share Image
Maybe the example of Southern fiction writing has been so powerful that Southern poets have sort of keyed themselves to that. — Robert Morgan Copy Share Image
I wrote some of the worst poetry west from the Mississippi River, but I wrote. And I finally sometimes got it right. — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
Beginnings are dreary, and endings too hard, spirit of life is always vast, neither do we meet, nor do we part, the… — Senora Roy Copy Share Image
When I write a poem, I do not have to worry about using a higher Urdu vocabulary because I know the reader… — Gulzar Copy Share Image
I can't believe there is a poet who hasn't eagerly put down a word one day, only to erase it the next… — Stephen Dobyns Copy Share Image
“Pie, in a word, is my passion. Since as far back as I can remember, watching my mom and dad make their… — Ken Haedrich Copy Share Image
As a poet I hold the most archaic values on earth . . . the fertility of the soil, the magic of… — Gary Snyder Copy Share Image
“The world was a glorious place this morning. The birds were particularly noisy in their greeting to the day. The sky was… — Karen Ranney Copy Share Image
Whenever I talk about Christ out loud, or I tweet a verse or say something in reference about Christ, a lot of… — Jon Jones Copy Share Image
Poems reveal secrets when they are analyzed. The poet's pleasure in finding ingenious ways to enclose her secrets should be matched by… — Diane Wakoski Copy Share Image
“I wanted to say, with as much sarcasm as I could put into my voice, "Sir, your poem is both original and… — Helon Habila Copy Share Image
“You have never fought for anything in your life. You write poems and articles about slavery and the murder of Indians and… — Matthew Pearl Copy Share Image
I once had a dreams of becoming a beautiful poet, but upon an unfortunate series of events some of those dreams dashed… — Lana Del Rey Copy Share Image
“Time is in essence separation; separation produces pain; pain poesis; and poesis is what constitutes the unending stream of human life in… — Ananya Vajpeyi Copy Share Image
“For if my poems have always been about survival--and I believe they have been--then survival too keeps revealing itself as an art… — Jane Cooper Copy Share Image
“As if you can measure literary excellence with precise instruments; as if there were a science of writing, governed by equations that… — Justine Picardie Copy Share Image
People go on quarrelling and fancying this and that, and thinking that the world is full of romance and poetry. When they… — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
“We ain't got time for a goddamn poetry recital. An' your juices feel like rain on the inferno? What the fuck is… — Garth Ennis Copy Share Image
“Today is Sunday It will be Sunday forever Black birds fly over In this one instance May we never recover From this… — Lourd Ernest H. de Veyra Copy Share Image
I've been influenced by poets as diverse as Dylan Thomas, Lewis Carroll, and Edgar Allan Poe. — Jack Prelutsky Copy Share Image
“... You can't be with God and be neutral. / True contemplation is resistance. And poetry, / gazing at clouds is resistance… — Ernesto Cardenal Copy Share Image
“The one who can draw your widest smile is also the one who can throw you to the farthest exile” — Sam Haidy Copy Share Image
Poetry is partly sympathy, don't you think? If it's any good, it gets people to think about others' points of view. — Edwin Morgan Copy Share Image
Then read from the treasured volume the poem of thy choice, and lend to the rhyme of the poet the beauty of… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
Poetry is most just to its divine origin, when it administers the comforts and breathes the thoughts of religion. — William Wordsworth Copy Share Image
Creamy and leggy, with long azure hair and the eyes of a silent-movie star, she moved like a poem and smiled like… — Laini Taylor Copy Share Image
“I love loving you. I love our silliness. I love our passion. I love our friendship. I love how you and I… — Steve Maraboli Copy Share Image
Sometimes when I'm writing a song I'll get carried away with production when I'm only on the first verse, and that sacrifices… — Nina Nesbitt Copy Share Image
It exhibits the effort of an essentially prosaic mind to lift itself, by a prolonged muscular strain, into poetry. — Henry James Copy Share Image
Yes, I do often write poems from the mind, but I hope I don't ignore feelings and emotions. — Anne Stevenson Copy Share Image
“Danger does not intimidate me. What frightens me most is feeling dead, while having a pulse.” — Melody Lee Copy Share Image
Our earliest poets were shamans. Today, as in the earliest times, true shamans are poets of consciousness who know the power of… — Robert Moss Copy Share Image
I believe in poetry as a way of surviving the emotional chaos, spiritual confusions, and traumatic events that come with being alive. — Gregory Orr Copy Share Image
“My mother is a poem that I could never write for she deserves multitudes; all of praise.” — Sinovuyo Nkonki Copy Share Image
Chicago sounds rough to the maker of verse. One comfort we have - Cincinnati sounds worse. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
At McCormick Theological Seminary I had to take Hebrew, so I began to read prophetic poetry, and suddenly it became the life… — Hershel Shanks Copy Share Image
There have been many most excellent poets that have never versified, and now swarm many versifiers that need never answer to the… — Philip Sidney Copy Share Image
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