The poet's perfect expression is the token of a perfect experience; what he says in the best possible way he has felt… — John Drinkwater Copy Share Image
Let me slow it down 'fore I get a ticket. Nigga want a verse from me, it's gon' cost a chicken. — 2 Chainz Copy Share Image
Shakespeare was a man who wrote poetry. I'm a man who writes poetry. Why not compare yourself to the best? — Jay-Z Copy Share Image
“Streets paved with opal sadness, Lead me counterclockwise, to pockets of joy, And jazz.” — Bob Kaufman Copy Share Image
“Had we but World enough, and Time, This coyness Lady were no crime. We would sit down, and think which way To… — Andrew Marvell Copy Share Image
Readers have to be sought out and won to the light of the page, poem by poem, one by one by one. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The language of poetry is the exact opposite of the language of mass media,” I said, meaninglessly.” — Ben Lerner Copy Share Image
I used the word 'prose' in the Trans-Siberian in the early Latin sense of prosa dictu. Poem seemed to me too pretentious,… — Blaise Cendrars Copy Share Image
I was always worried about the dishonesty and meretriciousness that often accompanies ego. So I tried to make the memoir as factual… — Dan Burt Copy Share Image
I'm old enough, by a long shot, to remember going to the library and spending days researching. If I was looking for… — Charlie Kaufman Copy Share Image
I hardly know what I'm going to write - an article, a story, a poem in free verse - or in some… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
“We hurtled through the sky like things that hurtle through the sky. The wind whipped my face. The snow blinded me. The… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
In rap music, even though the element of poetry is very strong, so is the element of the drum, the implication of… — Archie Shepp Copy Share Image
If you would get money as a writer or lecturer, you must be popular, which is to go down perpendicularly… You are… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
There's a phrase that art is something created by the few and admired by the many. Now it's not created by the… — Eddie Rabbitt Copy Share Image
“Jesus had four brothers (see Matthew 13:55) who couldn’t bring themselves to believe in Him throughout His ministry. It wasn’t until after… — Bob Sorge Copy Share Image
The collective love for music and poetry and just the brotherhood of sound. And it's still kind of flowing through me and… — Anthony Kiedis Copy Share Image
“in a slapfight with Jesus my face bleeds because no one cut their fingernails back then” — Daniel Bailey Copy Share Image
Poetry is worship...Stretching my soul, opening my heart and touching every part of my being. Poetry is worship to me! — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I've written many extra verses to songs that I learned to sing - an extra verse about a friend, or just add… — Jackson Browne Copy Share Image
Let's be honest - Bill Murray was onto something when he laughed at Andie MacDowell's degree in 19th century French poetry in… — Marco Rubio Copy Share Image
The idea is to take the most ordinary things and make them extraordinary, as Gerard Manley Hopkins does in his poems. — Alfonso A. Ossorio Copy Share Image
Poetry; a criticism of life under the conditions fixed for such a criticism by the laws of poetic truth and poetic beauty. — Matthew Arnold Copy Share Image
While pensive poets painful vigils keep, Sleepless themselves, to give their readers sleep. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
What is a modern poet's fate? / To write his thoughts upon a slate; / The critic spits on what is done,… — Thomas Hood Copy Share Image
“She found herself over a long and treacherous road and the more treacherous the road became, the more of herself she found.” — Atticus Poetry Copy Share Image
One can translate an editorial but not a poem. For one can go across the border naked but not without one's skin;… — Karl Kraus Copy Share Image
Good style in prose is always hostage to the precision, speed, and laconic intensity of poetic diction. — Joseph Brodsky Copy Share Image
I started with poetry because it was direct, immediate, and short. It was the ecstasy of striking matches in the dark. — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
“Must always try to be out there Getting everything out there Take what is inside yourself And place it out there.” — Initially NO Copy Share Image
It seems just possible that a poem might happen to a very young man: but a poem is not poetry -That is… — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
“As the river that flows freely, your mind drives me to look at the cages that I have built around me.” — J.WOLF Copy Share Image
I've given offense by saying I'd as soon write free verse as play tennis with the net down. — Robert Frost Copy Share Image
Art is its own excuse, and it's either Art or it's something else. It's either a poem or a piece of cheese. — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
I'mma thank you for it all, the blessings and the curses. And I hope you listening, there's a lesson in the verses. — Dmx Copy Share Image
“There is chaos in everyone's heart. Some just grow flowers on it while others tear it apart.” — Fiphie Copy Share Image
“ink marks the page/where you execute your will like a doe announcing an/ox-stern mate with a single, bleary blink.” — Melissa Lee-Houghton Copy Share Image
“Poetry can bridge that gap between what is solid and what is suggested; poetry can pull cogent meaning from the veiled truths… — Bryant McGill Copy Share Image
Poetry is fascinating. As soon as it begins the poetry has changed the thing into something extra, and somehow prose can go… — Michael Tippett Copy Share Image
I do want to do the entire alphabet. There's in [Walker's Alphabet] a poem called "A Life" in that grouping. I was… — Shirley Geok-lin Lim Copy Share Image
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