I think the first time I really heard poetry was in the schoolyard. Just the little limericks that kids say when they're… — Jill Scott Copy Share Image
It is useless to check the vain dunce who has caught the mania of scribbling, whether prose or poetry, canzonets or criticisms,--let… — Sarah Josepha Hale Copy Share Image
“He read the verses backwards but then they were not poetry. Then he read the flyleaf from the bottom to the top… — James Joyce Copy Share Image
Andy Brown is one of our most interesting and exciting younger poets. With its love of ideas and language, his work demonstrates… — John Burnside Copy Share Image
All Of Me [Verse 1:] What would I do without your smart mouth? Drawing me in, and you kicking me out You've… — Corey JUSTICECR3W Whitmore Copy Share Image
I wish I'd been better able to resist the sense of obligation to write some of the poems I did. It's in… — Andrew Motion Copy Share Image
Poetry was my dirty little secret when I was a fiction writer at Iowa, and then fiction became my dirty little secret… — Jenny Zhang Copy Share Image
“I have nothing but duct-taped syntax to offer them-- noise of jury-rigged verse, of entire days burned by the focus of a… — B.J. Ward Copy Share Image
“And when you are foolish enough to identify yourself as a poet, your interlocutors will often ask: A PUBLISHED Poet? And when… — Ben Lerner Copy Share Image
“From a Berkeley Notebook' ~Denis Johnson One changes so much from moment to moment that when one hugs oneself against the chill… — Denis Johnson Copy Share Image
Poetry had great powers over me from my childhood, and today the poems live in my memory which I read at the… — Bayard Taylor Copy Share Image
Martin Buber suggested that evil prevailed because of the inability of man to imagine the real. Yet human beings do have that… — Bernard Lown Copy Share Image
“When asked about rewriting, Ernest Hemingway said that he rewrote the ending to A Farewell to Arms thirty-nine times before he was… — Susan M. Tiberghien Copy Share Image
“All ten years of my trepidations, Each and every sleepless night, I placed them all in a quiet word And I voiced… — Anna Akhmatova Copy Share Image
“What people want to read often seems incongruous. A pair of biker-types taking away Thoughts of the Dalai Lama. People without access… — Alan Bennett Copy Share Image
Much can they praise the trees so straight and high, The sailing pine,the cedar proud and tall, The vine-prop elm, the poplar… — Edmund Spenser Copy Share Image
“All of us,' he said, 'have hopes of being poet, artist, discoverer, philospoher, scientist; of possessing the attributes of all these simultaneously.… — Robert Edison Fulton Jr Copy Share Image
“A teacher will be frustrated if she is only motivated to teach what she has learned. Yet, if she is motivated because… — Tanya R. Liverman Copy Share Image
“She will blaze through you like a gypsy wildfire. Igniting you soul and dancing in its flames. And when she is gone,… — Nicole Lyons Copy Share Image
I hope that the feeling of making poetry is not confined to the people who write it down. There is no luxury… — Stella Benson Copy Share Image
We have a 'now you see Him, now you don't' God. We have Himself clothed in visions, in dreams, in metaphors, in… — Luci Shaw Copy Share Image
What the artist tries to do (either consciously or unconsciously) is to not only capture the essence of something but also to… — Vilayanur S. Ramachandran Copy Share Image
“This reminded him of Alvis Bender's contention that stories were like nations - Italy, a great epic poem, Britain, a thick novel,… — Jess Walter Copy Share Image
A song just doesn't have verse-chorus-verse. It could just be one line. There are Chinese love songs that you have to learn… — Jeff Buckley Copy Share Image
I've embraced rock 'n' roll because it encompasses all the things I'm interested in: poetry, revolution, sexuality, political activism - all of… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
People I know who succeed don't mind working. Those who are competent seem to like doing things well -- not stopping because… — Sylvia Earle Copy Share Image
The task of the mind is to produce future, as the poet Paul Valery once put it. A mind is fundamentally an… — Daniel Dennett Copy Share Image
“I am. . . .power. . I am. . . .joy . . . . .peace. . . . . I am.… — Suenammi Richards Copy Share Image
“We don't read and write poetry because it is cute. We read and write poetry because we are members of the human… — Tom Schulman Copy Share Image
“The journey through another world, beyond bad dreams beyond the memories of a murdered generation, cartographed in captivity by bare survivors makes… — Elizabeth Cook-Lynn Copy Share Image
“Where there’s madness, there’s genius. Where there is genius, there’s creativity. We all have it somewhere within us; that hint of madness,… — Melody Lee Copy Share Image
“In the country whereto I go I shall not see the face of my friend Nor her hair the color of sunburnt… — Louise Bogan Copy Share Image
When I saw the sun bears at the Oakland Zoo, I immediately was drawn to them. Not to be ornery, but regarding… — Matthew Zapruder Copy Share Image
While some mothers sing lullabies to their children, my mother read me poetry. And to this day, I associate my strongest and… — Masiela Lusha Copy Share Image
“Too long now things divine have been cheaply used And all the power of heaven, the kindly, spent In trifling waste by… — Friedrich Hölderlin Copy Share Image
“There is no fiercer enemy than a word. A word that can be written down in pages and punctuated by quotation marks… — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
Give me a flagon of red wine, a book of verses, a loaf of bread, and a little idleness. If with such… — Omar Khayyam Copy Share Image
I guess what concerns me always is the need for a field, a rich compost, for any art to flourish. But however… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
Country music especially can get very formulaic - you know, you have to have your verses and a bridge and a chorus,… — Sturgill Simpson Copy Share Image
And, because my role in society —or any artist or poet's role— is to try to express what we all feel. Not… — John Lennon Copy Share Image
![“All Of Me [Verse 1:] What would I do without your smart mouth? Drawing me in, and you kicking me out You've got my head spinning, no kidding, I can't pin you down What's going on in that beautiful mind I'm on your magical mystery ride And I'm so dizzy, don't know what hit me, but I'll be alright…” quote by Corey JUSTICECR3W Whitmore](https://sms4smile.com/q/i/adc/corey-justicecr3w-whitmore-100_john-legend-all-of-m_all-of-me-verse-1-what-would-i-do-withou_1291364.jpg)
