“Fat Charlie blew his nose. "I never knew I had a brother," he said. "I did," said Spider. "I always meant to… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“What a need we humans have for confession. To a priest, to a friend, to a psychoanalyst, to a relative, to an… — Aidan Chambers Copy Share Image
The thing is, the way we write is all jams and bits and pieces that get pieced together and sometimes things are… — Danny Carey Copy Share Image
There’s only one subject for fiction or poetry or even a joke: how it is. In all the arts, the payoff is… — Robert Stone Copy Share Image
“We maintain, therefore, that the first essential, the life and soul, so to speak, of Tragedy is the Plot; and that the… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
I always hesitate to call myself a children's poet, and I always hesitate to call what I write for children poetry. Though… — Mary Ann Hoberman Copy Share Image
“Since the age of fifteen poetry has been my ruling passion and I have never intentionally undertaken any task or performed any… — Robert Graves Copy Share Image
“Beauty is a hard thing. Beauty is a mean story. Beauty is slender girls who die young, fine-featured delicate creatures about whom… — Dorothy Allison Copy Share Image
In the 1970s, for example, I found myself learning to relish the poetry of Andrew Marvell and Sir Thomas Wyatt, and getting… — Adam Kirsch Copy Share Image
“The physical impact of taiko music, along with the sheer visual poetry of a choreographed ensemble presenting its music in perfect synchrony,… — Gil Asakawa Copy Share Image
Although I was calm as a child, I had this restlessness about me–this need and hunger to create my own world. Poetry… — Masiela Lusha Copy Share Image
I saw the Village as a place you could escape to, to express yourself. When I first went there, I wrote and… — Richie Havens Copy Share Image
For it is not metres, but a metre-making argument that makes a poem, - a thought so passionate and alive that like… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“Belief In Self If you quit while pursuing your dreams, you will never know how close you've come to success. It might… — Kamil Ali Copy Share Image
“If you ever think of me, I hope it is not with regret but with gratitude. We were not a mistake. We… — Marjory Qwen Copy Share Image
“[John Clare's] father was a casual farm labourer, his family never more than a few days' wages from the poorhouse. Clare himself,… — George Monbiot Copy Share Image
“I fell in love with the young assistant professor who took me through my first poetry course. Really in love--that is, enough… — Agnes De Mille Copy Share Image
“In the place of the bells, where battle is waged, The reeds all lie broken in Chalco today. Dust yellows the air,… — David Bowles Copy Share Image
“We are the hollow men We are the stuffed men Leaning together Headpiece filled with straw. Alas! Our dried voices, when We… — T.S. Eliot Copy Share Image
“There are some griefs so loud They could bring down the sky, And there are griefs so still None knows how deep… — May Sarton Copy Share Image
“Whatever jasmines whispered to the breeze, brought sweets to the night, For there it dove, deep into the heart, The rush of… — Jayita Bhattacharjee Copy Share Image
To be wild is not to be crazy or psychotic. True wildness is a love of nature, a delight in silence, a… — Robert Bly Copy Share Image
“You’re human. You can’t be a “motivational speaker” every damn day of your life. It’s okay to have dark days. Allow yourself… — Melody Lee Copy Share Image
“Can there really be a form of verse where all that counts is the number of syllables in a line? No patterning… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
The mind wraps itself around a poem. It is almost sensual, particularly if you work on a computer. You can turn the… — Marge Piercy Copy Share Image
We must cultivate and defend particularity, individuality, and irregularity-life. Human beings do not have a future in the collectivism of bureaucratic states… — Octavio Paz Copy Share Image
“ The Scholars "Bald heads forgetful of their sins, Old, learned, respectable bald heads Edit and annotate the lines That young men,… — W.B. Yeats Copy Share Image
You make a right on L, make a left on O, come to a green light and that's when you can go.… — R. Kelly Copy Share Image
I didn't come in and say: "I'm a singer." I came into the band as a second guitar player and a vocalist,… — Paul Banks Copy Share Image
A lonely flower in a field . A lonely child does not yield. A lonely star in the night sky. A lonely… — Shubham Joshi Copy Share Image
Sometimes humans hit on a moment of profundity more complete than their dim minds could comprehend, and they took that nugget of… — Kelley Armstrong Copy Share Image
If you cannot respect women, you cannot respect anybody else because it is from women you come. The woman mothered you for… — Ritu Ghatourey Copy Share Image
“Father's Day POETRY Jeffrey Harrison | 36 words My first father- less Father’s Day came a little too soon after the funeral,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Oh, God. She’d now have to invent a bawdy verse on the spot. She’d never had to improvise so much in her… — Julie Anne Long Copy Share Image
He [the writer] must, teach himself that the basest of all things is to be afraid; and, teaching himself that, forget it… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
Of course a poem is a two-way street. No poem is any good if it doesn't suggest to the reader things from… — James Laughlin Copy Share Image
I had read a Tale of Two Cities and found it up to my standards as a romantic novel. She opened the… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
“I never tried to be anything other than a dreamer. I never paid any attention to people who told me to go… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
I recently read that it's the left brain that does all that calculating, and the right brain that does the poetry. Somehow… — Jason Mraz Copy Share Image
The poets are wrong of course […] But then poets are almost always wrong about facts. That's because they are not really… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
![“In the 1970s, for example, I found myself learning to relish the poetry of Andrew Marvell and Sir Thomas Wyatt, and getting a handle on poetry of plainer speech than I had dwelt with heretofore. Which led me into a new appreciation of middle [William Butler ] Yeats, of the short three-beat line…” quote by Adam Kirsch](https://sms4smile.com/q/i/3dc/adam-kirsch-38562_andrew_in-the-1970s-for-example-i-found-myself_1542775.png)
![“[John Clare's] father was a casual farm labourer, his family never more than a few days' wages from the poorhouse. Clare himself, from early childhood, scraped a living in the fields. He was schooled capriciously, and only until the age of 12, but from his first bare contact fell wildly in love…” quote by George Monbiot](https://sms4smile.com/q/i/f04/george-monbiot-2762_children_john-clare-s-father-was-a-casual-farm-la_1287142.jpg)
![“He [the writer] must, teach himself that the basest of all things is to be afraid; and, teaching himself that, forget it forever, leaving no room in his workshop for anything but the old verities and truths of the heart, the old universal truths lacking which any story is ephemeral and doomed…” quote by William Faulkner](https://sms4smile.com/q/i/b32/william-faulkner-306_all-things_he-the-writer-must-teach-himself-that-th_1547279.jpg)
![“The poets are wrong of course […] But then poets are almost always wrong about facts. That's because they are not really interested in facts: only in truth: which is why the truth they speak is so true that even those who hate poets by simple and natural instinct are exalted and terrified by it.” quote by William Faulkner](https://sms4smile.com/q/i/118/william-faulkner-306_always-wrong_the-poets-are-wrong-of-course-but-then-p_3100133.png)
