I hope the poem, as it goes on, gets more complicated, a little more demanding, a little more ambiguous or speculative, so… — Billy Collins Copy Share Image
over and over again I am struck by the wordiness of modern poetry, as if language had replaced experience and must be… — May Sarton Copy Share Image
“Like the seed cannot sprout upwards without simultaneously sending roots into the ground. I here and now vow to constantly nourish my… — Rhys Blanco Copy Share Image
“I caution against communication because once language exist only to convey information, it is dying. In news articles the relation of the… — Richard Hugo Copy Share Image
I don't have a set schedule to work on poetry at any given time, at the same time every day, but I… — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
I think there are different kinds of poetry for different stages of life and there's the wild, exuberance of youth, there's the… — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
But at some point, you know that - you know what poem keeps going through my mind is, "first they came for… — Glenn Beck Copy Share Image
Today is the first of August. It is hot, steamy and wet. It is raining. I am tempted to write a poem.… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
I've always been a fan of comedy, and I understood from a young age that what makes most comedy work is the… — Kevin Keck Copy Share Image
“(WHEN I WAS A CHILD) I was told that I was insane, seeing doctors in hospitals far away from home. LITTLE WHITE… — Laura Chouette Copy Share Image
Generalization is necessary to the advancement of knowledge; but particularly is indispensable to the creations of the imagination. In proportion as men… — Thomas B. Macaulay Copy Share Image
I don't need to praise anything so justly famous as Frost's observation of and empathy with everything in Nature from a hornet… — Randall Jarrell Copy Share Image
“The Wit of Cheats, the Courage of a Whore, Are what ten thousand envy and adore: All, all look up, with reverential… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
Someone once said that "The Waste Land" was a scum of poetry floating on a sea of footnotes. That resonated with me,… — Ted Leo Copy Share Image
“Love Hurts. I daresay there’s two or three poems, six novels and at least twelve songs on the subject. That’s how the… — Daniel S. Fletcher Copy Share Image
“Poetry is the lighthouse of life Guiding the lost from a stormy sea. Without it's presence darkness prevails Keeping us from all… — Tom Zart Copy Share Image
“Homer is universally allowed to have had the greatest Invention of any writer whatever. The praise of judgment Virgil has justly contested… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
But ‘art’ is not anything serious or exclusive: it is the smell of oil paint, Henri Murger’s Vie de Boheme, corduroy trousers,… — Wyndham Lewis Copy Share Image
A man sees only what concerns him… How much more, then, it requires different intentions of the eye and of the mind… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
We may live without poetry, music and art; We may live without conscience and live without heart; We may live without friends;… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“When somebody discusses my work with me and peruses a poem or two, they get to see a piece of who I… — Nicholas Trandahl Copy Share Image
A great emotion is too selfish ; it takes into itself all the blood of the spirit, and the congestion leaves the… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
“The Dopamine Paradigm by Stewart Stafford Never so connected, Yet, never further apart, A crowded room's isolation, An aspic suitors' false start.… — Stewart Stafford Copy Share Image
But the only rhyme he could summon for 'out' was 'sauerkraut,' which lacked poetic glory. He let it go. The right line… — Annie Proulx Copy Share Image
I'm not sure I had ever written a fan letter before to a poet I had not met, but that's what I… — Thom Gunn Copy Share Image
My horizon on humanity is enlarged by reading the writers of poems, seeing a painting, listening to some music, some opera, which… — Wole Soyinka Copy Share Image
“Are you writing in your diary?” Even through the whisper I can tell he’s laughing. “No.” I feel in the dark for… — Kristin Rae Copy Share Image
When I was a teenager, just about the only thing I could do right was play music. In my graduating class, I… — Robert Pinsky Copy Share Image
“Places We Love Places we love exist only through us, Space destroyed is only illusion in the constancy of time, Places we… — Ivan V. Lalić Copy Share Image
“ In the front yard lives the oldest thing around, a white oak That I used to say is my love for… — Coleman Barks Copy Share Image
I think it was Roger Fry who first coined what he took to be a final definition of a work of art,… — Alistair Cooke Copy Share Image
“If for instance the sentiment possessing for the moment the empire of our mind is sorrow, will not the genius sharpen the… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
I'm trying to create a collection of stories - the 'U.F.O.W.A.V.E.' songs are all stories. I haven't really taken direct lyrical influence… — King Krule Copy Share Image
My art and poetry is very political now. Because you've got to find that truth within you and express yourself. Somewhere out… — Jack Bowman Copy Share Image
Let my life as Poet begin. I want the life of the Poet. I have labored for over twelve years, one thousand… — Maxine Hong Kingston Copy Share Image
Our job is to make manifest the story, to be it. In a sense, the theatre is such a big star itself,… — Mark Rylance Copy Share Image
“My writing, it’s my way of making sense of everything. My way to feel whole. May I never be complete and may… — Charlotte Eriksson Copy Share Image
A tattered copy of Johnson's large Dictionary was a great delight to me, on account of the specimens of English versifications which… — Lucy Larcom Copy Share Image
Happy World Poetry Day: 'The American identity has never been a singular one and the voices of poets invariably sing, in addition… — Aberjhani Copy Share Image
Wherever I am, the world comes after me. It offers me its busyness. It does not believe that I do not want… — Mary Oliver Copy Share Image
