“Do you know what a poem is, Esther?' No, what?' I would say. A piece of dust.' Then, just as he was… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
I cannot write poetically, for I am no poet. I cannot make fine artistic phrases that cast light and shadow, for I… — Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Copy Share Image
There is only as much space, only as much time, only as much desire, only as many words, only as many pages,… — Dejan Stojanovic Copy Share Image
“My choices are rejections, since there is no other way, but what I reject is more numerous, denser, more demanding than before.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The poem you brought yesterday,’ said Balbulus in a bored voice as he bent over his work again, ‘it was good. You… — Cornelia Funke Copy Share Image
Nay, the greatest wits and poets, too, cease to live; Homer, their prince, sleeps now in the same forgotten sleep as do… — Lucretius Copy Share Image
“Here’s something I bet you don’t know: every time someone writes a story about a dragon a real dragon dies. Something about… — Catherynne M. Valente Copy Share Image
“It's satisfaction to the soul / To make something out of nothing, and to trim / A figured piece to fit a… — Jane Merchant Copy Share Image
“Once upon a time, there was a girl who talked to the moon. And she was mysterious and she was perfect, in… — Stephanie Perkins Copy Share Image
The true poem is not that which the public read. There is always a poem not printed on paper,... in the poet's… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Before people complain of the obscurity of modern poetry, they should first examine their consciences and ask themselves with how many people… — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
There is not less wit nor invention in applying rightly a thought one finds in a book, than in being the first… — Pierre Bayle Copy Share Image
“And when we describe it as I shall do, it becomes plain that imagination is a specifically human gift. To imagine is… — Jacob Bronowski Copy Share Image
I do try to incorporate particular rhythmic and generally sonic motifs I discover in music as such, and if one thinks of… — Shane McCrae Copy Share Image
“The poem is called: The first glance. You were standing there Your presence changing the atmosphere. I can’t help to stare Your… — Rose J. Bell Copy Share Image
“And if sometimes, on the stairs of a palace, or on the green side of a ditch, or in the dreary solitude… — Eugene O'Neill Copy Share Image
“love does not look like a person love is our actions love is giving all we can even if it's just the… — Rupi Kaur Copy Share Image
I don't believe that poetry is in danger because nobody wants to read it or appreciate it. There is a tremendous audience… — Derek Walcott Copy Share Image
Poem by Howard A. Walter (Character) I would be true, for there are those who trust me; I would be pure, for… — John C. Maxwell Copy Share Image
I think that is where poetry reading becomes such an individual thing. I mean I have friend who like poets who just… — James Laughlin Copy Share Image
However gross a man may be, the minute he expresses a strong and genuine affection, some inner secretion alters his features, animates… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
“The Poet With His Face In His Hands You want to cry aloud for your mistakes. But to tell the truth the… — Mary Oliver Copy Share Image
“Inconstancy of every second punishes me. The wind, the rain, the clouds, the days, I try to grasp the hours but they… — Ansul Noor Copy Share Image
The Last Of England works with image and sound, a language which is nearer to poetry than prose. It tells its story… — Derek Jarman Copy Share Image
Almost everything that's happened in my poetry is what you might call organic. I don't do much preconceiving. The only consistent plan… — Ron Padgett Copy Share Image
As I sit and shake my head, Hurt and bruised by the words you said. I look about and wonder why, I… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
From the moment that photography appeared, the descriptive genre began to invade Letters... In verse as in prose the décor and exterior… — Paul Valery Copy Share Image
Think it's so unfair when people think that you're not a "real artist" unless you're getting paid for it…I personally know so… — Sarah Kay Copy Share Image
“I do think free will is sewn into everything we do; you can't cross a street, light a cigarette, drop saccharine in… — Robert Lowell Copy Share Image
“Be Certain: One cannot possibly guess their way through life. As every creation is manifested with a definite purpose by our Creator,… — Therone Shellman Copy Share Image
“There's that thing that can happen to you when you meet somebody and you don't consider them extraordinary at all and then… — Yvonne Prinz Copy Share Image
“The true poem is the poet's mind; the true ship is the ship-builder. In the man, could we lay him open, we… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“Bullshit is as common as lame poetry and more unavoidable than those armed men who are there to protect you from Bullshit… — Sparrow 13 Laughingwand Copy Share Image
“Acquainted with the Night I have been one acquainted with the night. I have walked out in rain—and back in rain. I… — Robert Frost Copy Share Image
My trick - is there one? Well, perhaps a bitter youth with many changes of occupation, with the necessity of trying everything… — Martin Munkacsi Copy Share Image
What judgment I had increases rather than diminishes; and thoughts, such as they are, come crowding in so fast upon me, that… — John Dryden Copy Share Image
A bad short story or novel or poem leaves one comparatively calm because it does not exist, unless it gets a fake… — Rebecca West Copy Share Image
“I love this Scripture verse: “They went out from us, but they were not of us; for if they had been of… — Joel Osteen Copy Share Image
“And the poet who fears to take the risk that what he writes may turn out not to be poetry at all,… — T.S.Eliot Copy Share Image
A poet articulating the dreads and horrors of our time is necessary in order to make readers understand what is happening, really… — Denise Levertov Copy Share Image
![“Nay, the greatest wits and poets, too, cease to live; Homer, their prince, sleeps now in the same forgotten sleep as do the others. [Lat., Adde repertores doctrinarum atque leporum; Adde Heliconiadum comites; quorum unus Homerus Sceptra potitus, eadem aliis sopitu quiete est.]” quote by Lucretius](https://sms4smile.com/q/i/59a/lucretius-1632_cease_nay-the-greatest-wits-and-poets-too-ceas_1801162.png)
