If I have any regrets, I could say that I'm sorry I wasn't a better writer or a better singer...When I was… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
Poetry is a dangerous profession between conflict and resolution, between feeling and thought, between becoming and being, between the ultra-personal and the… — May Sarton Copy Share Image
As a sick kid, I always looked out the window. The objects of my observation were the sun, the seasons, the wind,… — Kim Hyesoon Copy Share Image
“You and I are from two different worlds." "Nonsense. We have much in common. We both like books, dogs, poems, Sir Walter… — Karen Hawkins Copy Share Image
“In translation of poetry; there exists a possibility of components like imagination, art of wordplay, skill of constructing internal rhythm and expand… — Suman Pokhrel Copy Share Image
I am not sure, once a poet has found out what has been written already, and how it was written - once,… — Philip Larkin Copy Share Image
Before our eyes met, my mind was an empty mirror. I fear that my dreams will shatter. Now I see you every… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If for the sake of a crowded audience you do wish to hold a lecture, your ambition is no laudable one, and… — Hippocrates Copy Share Image
“Now, I can tell you about some women writers who truly are fantastic. One is Anna Kavan. She writes stories like I… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
When I was in fourth grade, I started writing a lot of poetry, and eventually, someone in the church was like, 'You… — Cupcakke Copy Share Image
when a great war has cut off the young men of a nation it never can be told thereafter what losses of… — James Vila Blake Copy Share Image
The winter moon becomes a companion, the heart of the priest, sunk in meditation upon religion and philosophy, there in the mountain… — Yasunari Kawabata Copy Share Image
When Ulysses hears his own story sung by an epic poet and then he reveals his identity and the poet wants to… — Raymond Queneau Copy Share Image
“I thought leaving you would be easy, just walking out the door but I keep getting pinned against it with my legs… — Clementine von Radics Copy Share Image
“I me memorize a lot of poetry, too, so I'l have something to be saying to myself on long walks. A poem… — Louise Rich Dickinson Copy Share Image
Rene Char wrote somewhere, apropos poetry, that there are those who create and those who discover; they are too completely different worlds.… — Henri Cartier-Bresson Copy Share Image
I prefer formal techniques, and use sonnets and rhyme, any manner of scheme to give a shape and order-of feeling as well… — J. D. McClatchy Copy Share Image
“And you know you are not the first, To bite into her dimples, And sleep in her eyes, Whisper in her ears… — Piyush Rohankar Copy Share Image
AND NOW FOR MY POEM!!!!!!!!!! *ahem* roses are red violets are blue sugar is sweet and so are you….. but the roses… — Amy Dang Copy Share Image
We are befouling and destroying our own home, we are committing a slow but accelerating race suicide and life murder - planetary… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
No, I think that a person writes a poem because they have an inner urge of something that they want to express,… — Leo Ornstein Copy Share Image
Traditional paintings have few figures in them and value negative space. Japanese calligraphy and brush paintings are in black and white. Haiku… — Fumio Sasaki Copy Share Image
“And when you write a poem within the accepted poem-form, making it sound like a poem because a poem is a poem… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
There's that older poem of John Ashbery's-"America"-with the pun "I'm a wrecker," so wreckage and building out of the ashes of that.… — Anne Waldman Copy Share Image
Lately, I've been thinking about the difference between poetry and prose, and as I've experienced it, poetry is insistent. It allows for… — Tracy K. Smith Copy Share Image
“They're not. That's partly what's so awful. I mean they're not real poets. They're just people that write poems that get published… — J.D. Salinger Copy Share Image
“Poems 1959-2009_ I turn into the man they photograph. I think I'll ask him for his autograph. He's older than I am… — Frederick Seidel Copy Share Image
What does that represent? There was never any question in plastic art, in poetry, in music, of representing anything. It is a… — Fernand Leger Copy Share Image
“The most interesting inconsistency in thought is connected with the Bower of Bliss. This passage--the twelfth canto of the second Book--is probably… — Janet Spens Copy Share Image
“On a trip to Paris one day, little Sophie Met a giant lady lighting up the night sky "What's your name, you… — Emmanuel Macron Copy Share Image
Poetry, in the entire course of its development, has always been trying to capture meanings and problems which are still obscure and… — Mieczyslaw Jastrun Copy Share Image
“irony. I know nothing greater, nor more worthy of the truly great man, than the patient and expressive analysis of the ways… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
“His mind took one of its odd jumps. He opened a clean page in his grimy notebook, and in the twig-divided shade… — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
“valentine my friends stitched it up with golden thread like a red satin pillow they gave me other whole ones too roses… — Francesca Lia Block Copy Share Image
“Literature is the best thing humanity has. Poetry is the heart of literature, the highest concentration of everything that is the best… — Lyudmila Ulitskaya Copy Share Image
“History is a hermaphrodite with many distinguished lovers. We are neither mysteries nor strangers but the living breath of revelation made flesh… — Aberjhani Copy Share Image
“Poems are surmountable. They have rhymes and rhythms to help you make meaning. They're short enough. . . to read and reread… — Laurie Frankel Copy Share Image
I am preparing myself for death. When I go to sleep, I try to keep myself smiling. So that when I die,… — Zohra Sehgal Copy Share Image
I have learned so much from working with other poets, travelling and reading with them, spending days discussing poems in progress. There… — Helen Dunmore Copy Share Image
I mean, there's an aspect I've always said that is - it's, you know, it's not poetry but it's kind of like… — Quentin Tarantino Copy Share Image
