Anybody who instantly goes from being a poet and a graduate student to being a public figure has to be in a… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
“The best answer I can give is that poetry is all about the effect it has on a reader, and Robert Frost… — Haven Kimmel Copy Share Image
“The Everlasting Staircase" Jeffrey McDaniel When the call came, saying twenty-four hours to live, my first thought was: can't she postpone her… — Jeffrey McDaniel Copy Share Image
If we’re going to solve the problems of the world, we have to learn how to talk to one another. Poetry is… — Rita Dove Copy Share Image
I do feel that now and I feel that this development of recording poems, of speaking poems at readings, of having records… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
In contrast to a dream a reverie cannot be recounted. To be communicated, it must be written, written with emotion and taste,… — Gaston Bachelard Copy Share Image
I'm Trying: I'm trying To be perfect. I'm trying To be good. I'm trying To be what you want. I'm trying To… — PM Copy Share Image
An English poet writes, I think, just for people who are interested in poetry. An American poet writes, and feels that everyone… — Stephen Spender Copy Share Image
There is an anaesthetic of familiarity, a sedative of ordinariness which dulls the senses and hides the wonder of existence. For those… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“ Швея Уж третий день ни с кем не говорю... А мысли — жадные и злые. Болит спина; куда ни посмотрю —… — Zinaida Gippius Copy Share Image
“REMEMBER YOUR GREATNESS Before you were born, And were still too tiny for The human eye to see, You won the race… — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image
“Charles Edwin Anson Markham (April 23, 1852 - March 7, 1940) was an American poet.. "Ah, great it is to believe the… — Markham Edwin Copy Share Image
“Friends, the ancient word is dead; the ancient books are dead; our speech with holes like worn-out shoes is dead; our poems… — Tarek Osman Copy Share Image
Rumi, who is one of the greatest Persian poets, said that the truth was a mirror in the hands of God. It… — Mohsen Makhmalbaf Copy Share Image
Freud ... showed us that poetry is indigenous to the very constitution of the mind ; he saw the mind as being,… — Lionel Trilling Copy Share Image
“Gather ye rose-buds while ye may, Old Time is still a-flying; And this same flower that smiles today, Tomorrow will be dying.… — Robert Herrick Copy Share Image
“Jewish Warsaw, which was roughly a third of Warsaw proper, was a city of rabbis and swindlers, capitalists and poets; but, most… — Rebecca Goldstein Copy Share Image
“His velvet brush dips deep and lingers there in the warm inkwell of her endless desire. The ink of passion flows for… — Brianna Hughes Copy Share Image
“How I go to the wood Ordinarily, I go to the woods alone, with not a single friend, for they are all… — Mary Oliver Copy Share Image
I'm being explicit about really horrifying experiences in my life, but my hope has always been to be responsible as an artist… — Sufjan Stevens Copy Share Image
“Of course we had hoped that he would take up his sword as part of the President's war on poetry. The time… — Donald Barthelme Copy Share Image
Oh, why was he so handsomely blond, so courteously aloof, so maddeningly boring with his talk about Europe and books and music… — Margaret Mitchell Copy Share Image
“My wishes,’ continued the poet, ‘are as follows. Firstly, may Valdo Marx, the troubadour of Cidaris, die of apoplexy as soon as… — Andrzej Sapkowski Copy Share Image
I had been thinking about the question, "What do I love about America?" I kept coming back to this idea of community… — Richard Blanco Copy Share Image
One day while studying a Yeats poem I decided to write poetry the rest of my life. I recognized that a single… — Robert Bly Copy Share Image
I don't believe in writer's block. I'll get stuck, but being stuck, I'll still write a verse. If you know where you're… — Rakim Copy Share Image
“I am unknown; what does it matter? Poets are brothers. These lines believe; they love; they hope; and that is all. Dear… — Arthur Rimbaud Copy Share Image
We find collected in this book [The Bible] the superstitious beliefs of the ancient inhabitants of Palestine, with indistinct echoes of Indian… — Max Nordau Copy Share Image
“ Making a Fist For the first time, on the road north of Tampico, I felt the life sliding out of me,… — Naomi Shihab Nye Copy Share Image
I'm a fiction writer, and I do write essays, but I am not a poet. And I absolutely reject the phrase 'woman… — Cynthia Ozick Copy Share Image
And your eyes must do some raining if you're ever gonna grow / When crying don't help, you can't compose yourself /… — Conor Oberst Copy Share Image
“. . .In a heartbeat, you will fall right into that novel, that poem, the story that you are most in love… — Terry Kennedy Copy Share Image
“An as-yet-unpublished poet in Boulder, Colorado, once said to me that anything worth doing was worth doing badly. I may seem, in… — Joanna Russ Copy Share Image
Music is the purest form of art... therefore true poets...seek to express the universe in terms of music. The singer has everything… — Rabindranath Tagore Copy Share Image
“At real stripper bars women just dance—so many things they could be checking off their lists. I guess men don’t want to… — Jill McDonough Copy Share Image
“UP You wake up filled with dread. There seems no reason for it. Morning light sifts through the window, there is birdsong,… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
The entire routine of our memorized acquisitions, for example, is a consequence of nothing but the Law of Contiguity. The words of… — William James Copy Share Image
“ With whom do you believe your lot is cast? From where does your strength come? I think somehow, somewhere every poem… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
“Practicing an art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow. Sing in the shower. Dance… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“Now, how are we to get the victory over all our enemies? Turn to Galatians, second chapter, verse twenty: “I am crucified… — D.L. Moody Copy Share Image
![“The best answer I can give is that poetry is all about the effect it has on a reader, and Robert Frost was very, very good at that. If you're asking whatit MEANS that the line is repeated [and miles to go before I sleep] I'd have to say I don't know. It's stylistic. But the effect is pretty clear.” quote by Haven Kimmel](https://sms4smile.com/q/i/28e/haven-kimmel-14289_books_the-best-answer-i-can-give-is-that-poetr_1294407.jpg)
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