It is more dangerous to be a great prophet or poet than to promote twenty companies for swindling simple folk out of… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
“How dull it is to pause, to make an end, To rust unburnish’d, not to shine in use! As tho’ to breathe… — Alfred Lord Tennyson Copy Share Image
I could never begin a poem: 'When I am dead' In case it tempted Fate, and Fate gave way. — Roger McGough Copy Share Image
“Poetry, in its own way, is a carrier of the sparks, because it too comes out of silence, seeking connection with unseen… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
“Maybe that's what writers do- Maybe they exaggerate pain just so that you feel okay about what you're feeling.” — Sanhita Baruah Copy Share Image
Poetry is like painting: one piece takes your fancy if you stand close to it, another if you keep at some distance. — Horace Copy Share Image
After writing all day I go for a walk and see a piece of architecture i want to photograph and i have… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
“Swan-white of heart; I smile not ever neither do I weep. I am as lovely as a dream in stone.” — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
“And from then on I bathed in the Poem Of the Sea, infused with stars and lactescent, Devouring the green azure where,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Poems give us permission to be unsure, in ways we must be if we are ever to learn anything not already known.… — Jane Hirshfield Copy Share Image
“In Poems of Love and Light: The Light of The Sun…Our Breath as One, the tenor seems to have changed slightly, as… — Frank L. DeSilva Copy Share Image
we need poetry most at those moments when life astounds us with losses, gains, or celebrations. We need it most when we… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
“The course of a man's destiny can seem sharply altered by a sudden illumination. But illumination is no more than the Spirit's… — Antoine de Saint-Exupéry Copy Share Image
“Outside the study hall the next fall, the fall of our senior year, the Nabisco plant baked sweet white bread twice a… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
“Finding him has been the only thing for so long. Even without a map, even without the compass, I know I can… — Ally Condie Copy Share Image
“On the Eighth Day Adam Slept Alone It must have been the eighth day. A day the scribes and Pharisees conveniently left… — Nancy Boutilier Copy Share Image
“What is more dangerous than to become a poet? which is, as some say, an incurable and infectious disease.” — Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra Copy Share Image
“I swear that girl was born with a pen in her hand, the moon in her hair and stars in her soul.” — Melody Lee Copy Share Image
“She was broken, I think it’s because she loved too much and she was always blind to the fact that love too… — robert m drake Copy Share Image
In short stories there's more permission to be elliptical. You can have image-logic, or it's almost like a poem in that you… — Karen Russell Copy Share Image
Poetry’s medium is the individual chest and throat and mouth of whoever undertakes to say the poem. — Robert Pinsky Copy Share Image
“Dear friend, I have searched all night through each burnt paper, but I fear I will never find the formula to let… — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
As for my stuff, I'm just doing guest verses for other people's records. I try to stay recording, because if I don't,… — Eminem Copy Share Image
It is the timber of poetry that wears most surely, and there is no timber that has not strong roots among the… — John Millington Synge Copy Share Image
Before you ridicule, remember somebody on a railway platform who seems to be train spotting may actually be writing poetry. — John Hegley Copy Share Image
Poetry is something to make us wiser and better, by continually revealing those types of beauty and truth, which God has set… — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
“Your friends, and your associates, and the people around you, and the environment that you live in, and the speakers around you… — Juan Felipe Herrera Copy Share Image
“If the impress on the imagination is that of a high poetic form it is not because the poetry is 'allegorically' imposed… — Newton Arvin Copy Share Image
We approach nonfiction at a much different level than we approach fiction or poetry or drama: that there's almost no room for… — John D'Agata Copy Share Image
“Way Down South in Dixie (Break the heart of me) They hung my black young lover To a cross roads tree. Way… — Langston Hughes Copy Share Image
Rose once told me about this poem she’d read. There was this line, ‘If your eyes weren’t open, you wouldn’t know the… — Richelle Mead Copy Share Image
“Your ability to make me feel like I was less than I was, took awhile to recover from. But after ripping my… — Alfa H Copy Share Image
“Steal from anywhere that resonates with inspiration or fuels your imagination. Devour old films, new film, music, books, paintings, photographs, poems, dreams,… — Jim Jarmusch Copy Share Image
“Turn to Second Corinthians, chapter one, and read with me starting at verse three.” He waited a few moments. “Paul’s speakin’ here… — Neta Jackson Copy Share Image
“I don't want to wrong anybody, so I won't go so far as to say that she actually wrote poetry, but her… — PG Wodehouse Copy Share Image
I think Walt Whitman went to the help wanted section and found a squib that said "Wanted: National Poet." And he was… — Allan Gurganus Copy Share Image
“Though solitude, endured too long, Bids youthful joys too soon decay, Makes mirth a stranger to my tongue, And overclouds my noon… — Anne Brontë Copy Share Image
“ When I Am Dead, My Dearest When I am dead, my dearest, Sing no sad songs for me; Plant thou no… — Christina Rossetti Copy Share Image
“I’m in love with you Renata. I know I’m not a poet – shit, not even close. I don’t have all the… — Lara Adrian Copy Share Image
The novel may be dead as a commercial form. When art forms things die as commercial forms, something happens to the practice… — William Monahan Copy Share Image
