A sentimental aphorism is even more a surprise than a hard- boiled sonnet. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
Be yourself. Don't imitate other poets. You are as important as they are. — Gwendolyn Brooks Copy Share Image
Poetry forces a writer to condense and crystallise his thoughts and often represents a short cut to truths unsuspected by the author… — Felix Dennis Copy Share Image
Journalism is concerned with events, poetry with feelings. Journalism is concerned with the look of the world, poetry with the feel of… — Archibald MacLeish Copy Share Image
“A poet is a person who manages, in a lifetime of standing out in thunderstorms, to be struck by lightening five or… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I was born with the devil in me,' [Holmes] wrote. 'I could not help the fact that I was a murderer, no… — Erik Larson Copy Share Image
We have the words in our pockets, obscure directions. The old ones have taken away the light of their presence. — Denise Levertov Copy Share Image
Poetry is a lyrical insinuation. Often, its melodic subtlety kisses the subconscious mind. — Masiela Lusha Copy Share Image
If any of you are secret poets, the best way to break into print is to run for the presidency, — Eugene McCarthy Copy Share Image
“The best anthology is the one each reader compiles, personally, according to his or her judgment, pleasure and awe." ~ Robert Pinsky,… — Robert Pinsky Copy Share Image
It could be that all awful dictators are frustrated artists - Mao with his poetry and Mussolini with his monuments. Stalin was… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
“Is this what I am doing now? Watching the currents, passages of life around me. I am not looking for books to… — Robert Trabold Copy Share Image
I started writing as a child. But I didn't think of myself actually writing until I was in college. And I had… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
“Sultan bahu none as hazrat sultan bahu born in Punjab Pakistan was sufi sent and sufi poet his poetry is very famous… — sultan bahu Copy Share Image
“Dressed to Live Today is my newest garment. Let me put it on with ceremony. Let me step into the day as… — Nancy Boutilier Copy Share Image
“Into the nothingness of scorn and noise, Into the living sea of waking dreams, Where there is neither sense of life or… — John Clare Copy Share Image
When I taught at the University of Houston in the Creative Writing program we required the poets to take workshops in fiction… — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
“But in the end, the hackers were misunderstood figures. They wanted nothing more than to belong, to subsume their brilliant selves in… — Franklin Foer Copy Share Image
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