“What has praise and fame to do with poetry? Was not writing poetry a secret transaction, a voice answering a voice?” — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Part of the strength of Pollock and Rothko's art, in fact, is this doubt as to whether art may be there at… — John Ashbery Copy Share Image
If you only write when inspired, you may be a fairly decent poet, but you'll never be a novelist. — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
A poem employs both the sound and the sense of language, it treats words not just as signifiers but as a plastic… — Campbell McGrath Copy Share Image
If i write a book it will probably be a book about how not to use the internet or a book of… — Misha Collins Copy Share Image
Poetry is simply the most beautiful, impressive, and widely effective mode of saying things. — Matthew Arnold Copy Share Image
I think that all my books are political, I think that I have a political body of work. I am essentially a… — Maria Teresa Horta Copy Share Image
I see architecture not as Gropius did, as a moral venture, as truth, but as invention, in the same way that poetry… — Michael Graves Copy Share Image
If you have no love, do what you will - go after all the gods on earth, do all the social activities,… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
“I’ve only written one decent poem in my life called “Lizard up My Leg”: A lizard up my leg gave me a… — Danny Rubin Copy Share Image
“At the round earth's imagined corners blow Your trumpets, angels, and arise, arise From death, you numberless infinities Of souls, and to… — John Donne Copy Share Image
Another power I don't have," said Lissa ruefully. I grinned. "Hey, I have yet to meet any spirit user who can throw… — Richelle Mead Copy Share Image
Slowly I would get to pen and paper, Make my poems for others unseen and unborn. In the day I would be… — Muriel Rukeyser Copy Share Image
“There are three lessons I would write- Three words, as with a burning pen, In tracings of eternal light, Upon the heart… — Friedrich Von Schiller Copy Share Image
In the past I have declined to comment on my own work: because, it seems to me, a poem is what it… — James Schuyler Copy Share Image
Reading Ngo Tu Lap's poems, terrible nostalgia wells up in me- nostalgia for a lost time and a far-gone country, nostalgia for… — Maxine Hong Kingston Copy Share Image
For nothing keeps a poet In his high singing mood Like unappeasable hunger For unattainable food. — Joyce Kilmer Copy Share Image
“To a versifier, sounds are the means and the aim; a poet travels toward the aim using sounds.” — Dejan Stojanovic Copy Share Image
The professionalization of poetry, or the balkanization, has come out of the fact that when you apply to most creative writing programs,… — Robert Hass Copy Share Image
Poetry contains love and holds it in high esteem, even though love always humiliates it by using it merely as a soothing… — Kiki Dimoula Copy Share Image
“Man is no star, but a quick coal Of mortal fire: Who blows it not, nor doth control A faint desire,” — George Herbert Copy Share Image
The poet only asks to get his head into the heavens. It is the logician who seeks to get the heavens into… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Poets don't draw. They unravel their handwriting and then tie it up again, but differently. — Jean Cocteau Copy Share Image
“The cover is alluring. The beginning may be enthralling. But there’s no culmination and no happy ending. So I sagely advise you… — S. Anne Cole Copy Share Image
“All in tune with love and the slow world moving" from the poem - STAY from the book - RidingTheEscalator” — Jay Woodman Copy Share Image
“The mystic poet William Blake once wrote, “The man who never alters his opinion is like standing water and breeds reptiles of… — Anthony Robbins Copy Share Image
Into the paradise of euphony, the good poet must introduce hell. Broken paradises are the only kind worth reading. — Mark Doty Copy Share Image
“Talent is a faucet. When it is on, one must write. Inspiration is a farce that poets have invented to give themselves… — Jean Anouilh Copy Share Image
A poem conveys not a message so much as the provenance of a message, an advent of sense. — Thomas Harrison Copy Share Image
“Up, lad: thews that lie and cumber Sunlit pallets never thrive; Morns abed and daylight slumber Were not meant for man alive.” — A.E. Housman Copy Share Image
I think that as long as you have other poets before you and that you can learn from them, then it's always… — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
For me, the short story is the depth of a novel, the breadth of a poem, and, as you come to the… — Amy Bloom Copy Share Image
I do not usually revise much, though I often cut, particularly the end or toward the end of a poem — James Schuyler Copy Share Image
I cry at everything now. If I read a poem that moves me, I'm sobbing. It's like this dam's burst. I feel… — Aimee Lou Wood Copy Share Image
These days, if you happen to be a poet you have to sing your words to get your ideas out. — Sara Genn Copy Share Image
I go to a lot of museums, I read a ton of poetry - anything that's a creative expression of oneself, I… — Rachelle Lefevre Copy Share Image
Painting is poetry that is seen rather than felt, and poetry is painting that is felt rather than seen. — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
My father had wanted to name me for Dylan Thomas. He had seen him speak on one of those drunken poetry tours… — Dylan Walsh Copy Share Image
“Who would one rather be? The one who desires, or the object of desire? One's answer to this question might determine if… — Lan Samantha Chang Copy Share Image
It can't be a film on Kashmir and suddenly you are rolling down a mountain, singing poetry to a pretty babe. I… — Kunal Kapoor Copy Share Image
![“At the round earth's imagined corners blow Your trumpets, angels, and arise, arise From death, you numberless infinities Of souls, and to your scattered bodies go ; All whom the flood did, and fire shall o'erthrow, All whom war, dea[r]th, age, agues, tyrannies, Despair, law, chance hath slain, and…” quote by John Donne](https://sms4smile.com/q/i/51d/john-donne-933_apocalypse_at-the-round-earth-s-imagined-corners-bl_2567860.jpg)
