Poetry is a sort of truancy, a dream within the dream of life, a wild flower planted among our wheat. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It seems more than likely that the translating of poetry is going to rub off on the translator if he or she… — Ron Padgett Copy Share Image
Verse hath a middle nature: heaven keeps souls, The grave keeps bodies, verse the fame enrols. — John Donne Copy Share Image
The poem has to bear the weight with image, language... the screenplay with dialogue, plot. — Julianna Baggott Copy Share Image
I am gonna write poems til i die and when i have gotten outta this body i am gonna hang round in… — Ntozake Shange Copy Share Image
The title of the poems was The Only Bar in Dixon. We sent it out to The New Yorker on a fluke,… — James Welch Copy Share Image
“To have opinions is to sell out to yourself. To have no opinion is to exist. To have every opinion is to… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
Some people swear by writing courses, but whether it really helps American poetry, I have doubts. — Robert Morgan Copy Share Image
Love is sacred. Beauty is sacred. Flowers are sacred. Birds are sacred. And sacredness brings the perfume of love and compassion. Therefore… — Vasant Lad Copy Share Image
“The extremity of her sensitivity impressed a richly idle princely family, of her discomfort, bothered as she had to be by the… — Joseph Stanton Copy Share Image
LSD, yeah, the big parade – everybody's doin' it now. Take LSD, then you are a poet, an intellectual. What a sick… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
To sing a song is quite different than to write a poem. I'm not and never will be a novelist, but to… — Sam Shepard Copy Share Image
“By means of poetry all this suffering and effort could be transformed into dream; no matter how much of the ephemeral existed,… — Nikos Kazantzakis Copy Share Image
“The beauty of a mathematical theorem depends a great deal on its seriousness, as even in poetry the beauty of a line… — G.H. Hardy Copy Share Image
“The mother of the heating contractor does not Have the same problem as the mother of the poet. When the mother of… — Matt Cook Copy Share Image
“Gen 22:11–16a The story of the near-sacrifice of Isaac is traced to E. It refers to the deity as Elohim in vv.… — Richard Elliott Friedman Copy Share Image
I don't think there's any law where you have to read a poem and immediately understand it. — Nick Laird Copy Share Image
The poet is he who fights on the passionate Side and whoever loses he wins; when he Is defeated it is hard… — Allen Tate Copy Share Image
In law school they teach you that everything is a contract; well, in poetry everything is a narrative. — Nikki Giovanni Copy Share Image
Often when I write poetry I don't quite know what I'm saying myself. I mean, I can't restate the poem. The meaning… — Pattiann Rogers Copy Share Image
I often use official documents or bureaucratic forms within my work. I find their structure and language style leaves a lot of… — Jill Magid Copy Share Image
Nor sequent centuries could hit Orbit and sum of SHAKSPEARE's wit. The men who lived with him became Poets, for the air… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“Learning to be a lady / is like learning / to live within a shell, / to be a crustacean encased /… — Stephanie Hemphill Copy Share Image
But one does not make living writing poetry unless you're a professor, and one frankly doesn't get a lot of girls as… — Jeffery Deaver Copy Share Image
If you are a man of learning, read something classic, a history of the human struggle and don't settle for mediocre verse. — Rumi Copy Share Image
“The voice you hear when you read to yourself is the clearest voice: you speak it speaking to you.” — Thomas Lux Copy Share Image
“The neurologist had dismissed her case after a single visit, handing out an easy nostrum by telling her father that if she… — Flora Rheta Schreiber Copy Share Image
“A revolution in the eyes of man carries purpose. A revolution in the eyes of the awakened carries bliss.” — Sal Martinez Copy Share Image
And how can poetry stand up against its new conditions? Its position is perfectly precarious. — John Crowe Ransom Copy Share Image
I took my vow to poetry; this is where I'm going to be. These are my people; this is my tribe. This… — Anne Waldman Copy Share Image
“The narrator commands the Muse, “Tell me”: enn-epe. An epic poem is, at its root, simply a tale that is told.” — Homer Copy Share Image
“As artists, poets, healers, teachers, keepers of the sacred law, philosophers, astrologers, etc., their influence was extensive. A” — Sophie Cornish Copy Share Image
The tradition of Russian literature is also an eastern tradition of learning poetry and prose by heart. — Ryszard Kapuscinski Copy Share Image
“I want my life to be the greatest story. My very existence will be the greatest poem. Watch me burn. Love always,… — Charlotte Eriksson Copy Share Image
It is essential not only to the souls of painters and poets, who thrive in solitude, but to the rest of us,… — Sue Halpern Copy Share Image
“…And my heart opened like a flower under sky, its petals of desire, its stamens of dreams…” — Federico García Lorca Copy Share Image
The most exhilarating for the writer and the reader, are gift-things-poems which arrive on their own energy, poems that in William Shakespeare's… — Seamus Heaney Copy Share Image
One characteristic of modern poetry is that arrangement of parts which strikes many people as being violent or obscure. — Muriel Rukeyser Copy Share Image
From the night, his solitude, the poet finds day and starts a diary that is lethal to the inert. The dark landscape… — Salvatore Quasimodo Copy Share Image
Even though we've written epic poems and made incredible films about love, I still don't think anyone can understand what it is,… — Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor Copy Share Image
![“The extremity of her sensitivity impressed a richly idle princely family, of her discomfort, bothered as she had to be by the absurd softness of the ample beddings, not to mention the pillow piles aggravating her much lamented acrophobic dis-ease. [from the poem, Princess and the Pea ]” quote by Joseph Stanton](https://sms4smile.com/q/i/b63/joseph-stanton-250502_fairy-tales_the-extremity-of-her-sensitivity-impress_1015868.jpg)
