A poem is like a person. The more you know someone, the more you realize there is always something more to know… — Matthew Zapruder Copy Share Image
Of all the arts, abstract painting is the most difficult. It demands that you know how to draw well, that you have… — Wassily Kandinsky Copy Share Image
What we had went so much deeper than a kiss. When we were together, she turned me completely inside out. It didn't… — Kami Garcia Copy Share Image
“I don’t need your praise to survive. I was here first, before you were here, before you ever planted a garden. And… — Louise Glück Copy Share Image
All of the arts are kin - music and sculpture and dance, those are wordless art forms. But poetry is defined by… — Campbell McGrath Copy Share Image
Photography is painting with light! The blurs, the spots, those are errors! But the errors are part of it, they give it… — Miroslav Tichy Copy Share Image
Heaven needed an angel and god sent for you, You are gone from me forever, Now what am I to do, I… — Rashida Rowe Copy Share Image
“Genesis 10:7 is probably the most important verse in the Bible for the purposes of identifying the location of the Garden of… — Gert Muller Copy Share Image
To me, a poem is almost like someone whispering to another person, or you hear the whispering in your head. I hope… — Rita Dove Copy Share Image
“Aubade to Langston" When the light wakes & finds again the music of brooms in Mexico, when daylight pulls our hands from… — Rachel Eliza Griffiths Copy Share Image
The poet's eye, in a fine frenzy rolling, doth glance from heaven to Earth, from Earth to heaven; and as imagination bodies… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
“Pushkin could cry hot tears, and he who can weep can hope. "I want to live, so that I may think and… — Lev Shestov Copy Share Image
It is true that the poet does not directly address his neighbors; but he does address a great congress of persons who… — Richard Wilbur Copy Share Image
“It was not like everyone had said. Not like being needed, or needing; not desperate; it did not whisper that I'd come… — Deborah Garrison Copy Share Image
We spent a long time learning the craft of songwriting, Roger Glover and I, for a few years before we joined Deep… — Ian Gillan Copy Share Image
Art begs you to notice it. Why? Because art is God's way of saying hello. So pay attention to poetry. Pay attention… — Neale Donald Walsch Copy Share Image
Writers, especially poets, are particularly prone to madness. There exists a striking association between creativity and manic depression. Why are more creative… — Nick Flynn Copy Share Image
And in a way, that's been a help to me, because I take great passions for a particular poet - sometimes it… — Norman MacCaig Copy Share Image
“They will talk about you and it won't always be good. You won't even know them but they will critique you -… — Alfa H Copy Share Image
Poetry, unlike music, is a meta-art, and relies upon non-physical structures for the production of its effects. In its case, the medium… — Don Paterson Copy Share Image
The greatest poets are those with memories so great that they extend beyond their strongest experiences to their minutest observations of people… — Stephen Spender Copy Share Image
I certainly derived my skills as a prose writer from my scrutiny of poetry and of the individual word. But schools don't… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
My father died and left me his blessing and his business. His blessing brought no money into my pocket, and as to… — Washington Irving Copy Share Image
“Why didn't you write all this time? Did you not remember us in a song? A dance? In the skies littered with… — Kamand Kojouri Copy Share Image
“Ill love you with every little bit of everything that has ever consumed me and I will forever love you and forever… — robert m drake Copy Share Image
“That time I thought I could not go any closer to grief without dying I went closer, and I did not die.… — Mary Oliver Copy Share Image
... the radical deficiency of imagist verse, as such, is in its lack of general ideas. Much of it might have been… — Bliss Perry Copy Share Image
The dream is not a map. A poem is not the territory. The dreamer reclines in a barbershop carpeted with Afro turf.… — Harryette Mullen Copy Share Image
“I liked to call myself a poet and had affected a habit of reading classical texts (in translation, of course – I… — Mary Karr Copy Share Image
A poem doesn't do everything for you. You are supposed to go on with your thinking. You are supposed to enrich the… — Gwendolyn Brooks Copy Share Image
“Equally, the surrealists consider words as witnesses of life acting in a direct way in human affairs. To use words properly it… — Michael Richardson Copy Share Image
“You brought me to places I’d have never thought to go To a trail near the river Where the water runs slow;… — Justin Wetch Copy Share Image
Poetry is my understanding with the world, my intimacy with things, my participation in what is real, my engagement with voices and… — Sophia de Mello Breyner Andresen Copy Share Image
I was well acquainted with the Calcutta literary circle since I was 17, when I lived in Bangladesh and published and edited… — Taslima Nasrin Copy Share Image
It's difficult to put your own bare ass out on the limb every time you sit down to write a poem. But… — Sam Hamill Copy Share Image
“As Sandy and his wife warmed to the tale, one tripping up another in their eagerness to tell everything, it gradually developed… — Margaret Oliphant Copy Share Image
We have heard much about the poetry of mathematics, but very little of it has as yet been sung. The ancients had… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Time is an enormous, long river, and I’m standing in it, just as you’re standing in it. My elders are the tributaries,… — Utah Phillips Copy Share Image
I did not always know I would be a writer. Until I had a room of my own, I did not write… — Marge Piercy Copy Share Image
“To me at least, poetry like love- implies a magical approach to life, quite different from the presently accepted rational way of… — Jane Roberts Copy Share Image
