Poetry is statement of a series of equations, with numbers and symbols changing like the changes of mirrors, pools, skies, the only… — Carl Sandburg Copy Share Image
I actually very rarely see comedy myself, and although I admire the work of some comics, it does come from all over,… — Dylan Moran Copy Share Image
If you want a definition of poetry, say: Poetry is what makes me laugh or cry or yawn, what makes my toenails… — Dylan Thomas Copy Share Image
One of the poets, whose name I cannot recall, has a passage, which I am unable at the moment to remember, in… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Art is at present the only construction complete unto itself, about which nothing more can be said, it is such richness, vitality,… — Tristan Tzara Copy Share Image
“I left the bank because they wouldn’t deposit my cheque of poems. So I went to the store, but they didn’t accept… — Kamand Kojouri Copy Share Image
“Every poet will forever try to write the greatest poem ever written, I have found that this kind of poem can be… — Michael Jones Copy Share Image
originality" is everyone's aim, and novel techniques are as much prized as new scientific discoveries. [T.S.] Eliot states it with surprising naïveté:… — Randall Jarrell Copy Share Image
Perhaps already I am dead, And these perhaps are phantoms vain;— These motley phantasies that pass At night through my disordered brain.… — Heinrich Heine Copy Share Image
I think we all recognize that one of the problems in American culture is that increasingly, there's no middle ground. That either… — Frederic Tuten Copy Share Image
“The many great gardens of the world, of literature and poetry, of painting and music, of religion and architecture, all make the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Like a great poet, Nature produces the greatest results with the simplest means. These are simply a sun, trees, flowers, water and… — Heinrich Heine Copy Share Image
I always see nice images like that but I don't know what to do with them. I guess you share them with… — James Franco Copy Share Image
“re-examine all you have been told in school or church or in any book, and dismiss whatever insults your own soul; and… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
The spiritual kinship between Lincoln and Whitman was founded upon their Americanism, their essential Westernism. Whitman had grown up without much formal… — Edgar Lee Masters Copy Share Image
“Everything is temporary, almost like a passing fase, some of laughter Some of pain. What we would do, If we had the… — Nikki Rowe Copy Share Image
The poems in Helena Mesa’s virtuosic first book, Horse Dance Underwater, run with such speed, verve, and alacrity they leave you breathless,… — Michael Collier Copy Share Image
Good poems do a lot of things at once. Often, by doing so, they encourage us to acknowledge mixed and incompatible feelings.… — Stephen Burt Copy Share Image
“He could guide anyone to the point of no return. He'd corral them with poetry, music, invoking the alcoholic gods that all… — Hannah Lillith Assadi Copy Share Image
“Being his workmanship doesn’t mean we are all poets. It means we are all poems, individual created works of a creative God.… — Emily P. Freeman Copy Share Image
I tend to like the way poets form communities. Writing can be lonely after all. Modern life can be lonely. Poets do… — Rae Armantrout Copy Share Image
“And so it’s hard for a certain kind of naïve mind at a restless, awakening time of year not to wonder, for… — Lisa R. Spaar Copy Share Image
Pure poetry in motion. A swift-moving, heartfelt tale of love and loss, two stories intersecting-an d connecting-by magic. Michelle Baker is a… — Trent Zelazny Copy Share Image
“Beowulf is usually seen as a masculine text, but I think that's somewhat unfair. The poem, while (with one exception) not structured… — Maria Dahvana Headley Copy Share Image
The necessity of poetry has to be stated over and over, but only to those who have reason to fear its power,… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
I wanted to remember the original energy; strip away all the glamour and limousines and tons of drugs. I wanted to get… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
As anthropomorphic and surreal people have said my early writing was, to me it was really stock and almost banal in the… — Devendra Banhart Copy Share Image
“If you see her staring into space, probably her mind is in a deep poetic embrace or a story is brewing in… — Melody Lee Copy Share Image
When I was little, my dad told me about Anandpur Sahib and the court of Guru Gobind Singh. That we came from… — Rupi Kaur Copy Share Image
But give thanks, at least, that you still have Frost's poems; and when you feel the need of solitude, retreat to the… — Robert Graves Copy Share Image
“I treasure ruefully some memories of W.H. Auden that go back to the middle 1960s, when he arrived in New Haven to… — Harold Bloom Copy Share Image
... not only dowomen sufferindignities in daily life, but the literature of the world proclaims their inferiority and divinely decreed subjection in… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
By eloquence I understand those appeals to our moral perceptions that produce emotion as soon as they are uttered. This is the… — Kobe Bryant Copy Share Image
Punk gave you a kind of chutzpah, so even trying to be a writer, I just thought, 'Well, I'm going to send… — Ian Rankin Copy Share Image
I thought about one of my favorite Sufi poems, which says that God long ago drew a circle in the sand exactly… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
“The Expanding Universe of Poetry Often I lose myself in such distances and numbers that I fear I shall never find myself… — Ondra Lysohorsky Copy Share Image
“There is an Anglo-Saxon form of riddling that plays with the polarities of words like bright and dark, cold and warm, throwing… — Gerald Hausman Copy Share Image
If freedom in the imagination is a privilege, it's one I believe everyone should have, as a basic human right. I also… — Matthew Zapruder Copy Share Image
I don't see much difference between prose poems and flash fiction (I've often taught the latter as the former), but then I… — Matthea Harvey Copy Share Image
“Poetry is the way we help give name to the nameless so it can be thought. The farthest horizons of our hopes… — Audre Lorde Copy Share Image
![“originality" is everyone's aim, and novel techniques are as much prized as new scientific discoveries. [T.S.] Eliot states it with surprising naïveté: "It is exactly as wasteful for a poet to do what has been done already as for a biologist to rediscover Mendel's discoveries.” quote by Randall Jarrell](https://sms4smile.com/q/i/aa8/randall-jarrell-3811_aim_originality-is-everyone-s-aim-and-novel_641026.png)
