“History describes what has happened, poetry what might. Hence poetry is something more philosophic and serious than history; for poetry speaks of… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
“And my Black bird, still not quitting, still is sitting, still is sitting On that pallid bust -- still flitting through my… — Gilbert Adair Copy Share Image
How does the ordinary person come to the transcendent? For a start, I would say, study poetry. Learn how to read a… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
“And again: We fight by faith. Ephesians, sixth chapter, verse sixteen: “Above all, taking the shield of faith, wherewith ye shall be… — D.L. Moody Copy Share Image
To think of writing poetry as a "career" is not only ridiculous, it's dangerous. To the imagination. To the way one thinks… — Cate Marvin Copy Share Image
“The Way of heaven takes away where there's abundance and restores where there's want, but the Way of humankind isn't like that:… — Lao Tzu Copy Share Image
If poets often commit suicide, it is not because their poems are bad but because they are good. Whoever heard of a… — Walker Percy Copy Share Image
Prophetic utterance, like poetic utterance, transforms experience and moves the receiver to new attitudes. The kinds of experience--the recognitions or revelations--out of… — Denise Levertov Copy Share Image
“The next morning I awoke and saw the morning sun peeking through my open window. The sound of wind chimes murmured their… — Gary D. Conrad Copy Share Image
“The greatest of poems is an inventory. Every kitchen tool becomes ideal because Crusoe might have dropped it in the sea. It… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“Having solved all the major mathematical, physical, chemical, biological, sociological, philosophical, etymological, meteorological and psychological problems of the Universe except for his… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
“ Hap If but some vengeful god would call to me From up the sky, and laugh: “Thou suffering thing, Know that… — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
“The Snow Cricket Just beyond the leaves and the white faces Of the lilies, I saw the wings Of the green snow… — Mary Oliver poet Copy Share Image
Constellations shine with light that was emitted aeons ago, and I wait for something to come to me, words that a poet… — Nicholas Sparks Copy Share Image
“How we perceive the world and how we act in it are products of how and what we remember...No lasting joke, invention,… — Joshua Foer Copy Share Image
“Without this excitement they cannot have their Lyric Verse, and so they get it by any convenient means -- and with absolute… — A.S. Byatt Copy Share Image
I liked to write from the time I was about 12 or 13. I loved to read. And since I only spoke… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
Poetry is creative expression; Prose is constructive expression... by creative I mean original. In Poetry the words are born or reborn in… — Herbert Read Copy Share Image
“We which were Ovids five books, now are three, For these before the rest preferreth he: If reading five thou plainst of… — Christopher Marlowe Copy Share Image
“We don't know how to say goodbye, We wander on, shoulder to shoulder Already the sun is going down You're moody, and… — Anna Akhmatova Copy Share Image
I feel deep gratitude for the life poetry has allowed me to live. I know the life I could have lived without… — Dorianne Laux Copy Share Image
I want each poem to be ambiguous enough that its meaning can shift, depending on the reader's own frame of reference, and… — James Arthur Copy Share Image
Much of a poet's experience takes place in imagination only; the life he tells is oftenest the life that he strongly desires… — George Edward Woodberry Copy Share Image
In the writing of poetry we never know anything for sure. We will never know if we have 'trained' or 'practised' enough.… — James Fenton Copy Share Image
“And what is written well and what is written badly...need we ask Lysias or any other poet or orator who ever wrote… — Robert M Pirsig Copy Share Image
“I'd just smashed someone's head in with a cast-iron skillet, and now this gorgeous, enigmatic man was speaking poetry to me. Finding… — Natalie Bennett Copy Share Image
I certainly was surprised to be named Poet Laureate of this far-out city on the left side of the world, and I… — Lawrence Ferlinghetti Copy Share Image
What's the function of poetry? It's to express general truths, to connect with the reader and make him think: 'Wow, I've experienced… — Giles Andreae Copy Share Image
“The poet called Miss Liberty's torch 'the lamp beside the golden door.' Well, that was the entrance to America, and it still… — Ronald Regan Copy Share Image
What has praise and fame to do with poetry? Was not writing poetry a secret transaction, a voice answering a voice? So… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“Shakespeare is above all writers, at least above all modern writers, the poet of nature; the poet that holds up to his… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“In fiction, the characters have their own lives. They may start as a gloss on the author’s life, but they move on… — Jane Yolen Copy Share Image
Well, probably I was fed up with concrete poetry. There was a lot of badTo be a part of a championship team,… — Ian Hamilton Finlay Copy Share Image
“Four very strange and truly poetic human beings in this century have attained mastery in prose, for which this century was not… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Mediocre prose might be read as an escape, might be spoken on television by actors, or mouthed in movies. But mediocre poetry… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
I grew up around poets and novelists and my dad wrote poems about everything - from a cat sleeping in a window… — Lucinda Williams Copy Share Image
Any extreme political creed brought only darkness in the long run; it lit up nothing. The best politics were those of caution,… — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image
“The greatest poet does not moralize or make applications of morals... he knows the soul. The soul has that measureless pride which… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
I'm passing on a tradition of which I am part. There's a long line of poets who went before me, and I'm… — Diane Wakoski Copy Share Image
“A poem is a heroic act of integration that binds into rough harmony the chorus of forces within and outside the soul.… — Tony Hoagland Copy Share Image
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