Poetry is basically built out of what I think of as being a fairly political act at its core: "I'm not going… — Ted Genoways Copy Share Image
“Morning, noon & bloody night, Seven sodding days a week, I slave at filthy WORK, that might Be done by any book-drunk… — Philip Larkin Copy Share Image
A lot of artists use memories. A lot of prose writers, a lot of poets, a lot of songwriters, refer back to… — Paul McCartney Copy Share Image
Take your materials from what is around you - if you see a dandelion, write about that; if it's misty, write about… — Masaoka Shiki Copy Share Image
“Besides, if she was able to get away, Dorothea would obtain the one thing that Avelina had dreamed of, written stories about,… — Melanie Dickerson Copy Share Image
No more than a famous master can be replaced and another take over the completion of the half-finished painting he has left… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
When I meet people for the first time, I always put on my glasses because I feel like that's a little something… — Edwidge Danticat Copy Share Image
The impulse to write the poem, that impulse is a great dramatic impulse. But hell, anybody could write a play. I do… — August Wilson Copy Share Image
“Years have passed since that day And I have long since forgotten the crush I had on that one beautiful, young flaming… — Logan Pethtel Copy Share Image
“Perhaps it's my destiny to remain a bookkeeper forever, and for poetry and literature to remain simply butterflies that alight on my… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
“Almighty Freedom! give my venturous song The force, the charm that to thy voice belong; Tis thine to shape my course, to… — Joel Barlow Copy Share Image
“It is these cancelled, earlier commands which our leaders use to deceive us about the violent history of Islam and the commands… — Peter Mcloughlin Copy Share Image
The Divine Comedy is a political poem and when you say poetry is not about - he's always quoted out of context,… — W. S. Merwin Copy Share Image
“I miss her. God, I do. It’s beyond missing; it’s a kind of mourning. And not just for everything we had, but… — Barry Eisler Copy Share Image
Ruy-Sanchez's works of fiction are always amazing: adventure, poetry and intelligence in a new geometry of words... His writing has nerve and… — Octavio Paz Copy Share Image
A poem has a certain - a different time. For instance, a poem is a very private experience, and it doesn't have… — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
“Or reading poetry. Now there was a job that should exist. To spend one’s days in the company of Blake and Dickinson,… — Anne D. LeClaire Copy Share Image
“do you hear them? they sing like their hearts might burst the trees sift their tunes weaving a sacred dialogue between the… — Malebo Sephodi Copy Share Image
“She's my pride, my winning prize, always a surprise, to look into her eyes, see her free soul, as soap that slips… — Anthony Liccione Copy Share Image
When a philosopher, scientist, or psychologist discusses the discrepancy between the actual and the ideal, he or she attempts to convince us… — Stephen Dobyns Copy Share Image
“Poet of Nature, thou hast wept to know That things depart which never may return: Childhood and youth, friendship and love's first… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
“... some things aren't any good unless they're shared. Sitting up all night would be pointless if somebody you loved wasn't sitting… — Peter S. Beagle Copy Share Image
I'm not a poet. I'm not up onstage to get something off my chest. I'm making musical statements, or, most of the… — Mike Patton Copy Share Image
To begin with, I wanted that truth to life to possess a concrete reliability, and rejoiced most when the poem seemed most… — Seamus Heaney Copy Share Image
I hope you accept this invitation from my heart. The last thing I want is for us to be apart. I know… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I could not do what I do, and teach a class, and never miss a deadline, never be late for anything if… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“Elizabeth Bishop wrote love poems, and poems about lovemaking, and one of the best poems ever written in English about the loss… — Megan Marshall Copy Share Image
“The task of art is to transform what is continuously happening to us, to transform all these things into symbols, into music,… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
Poetry is an ethic. By ethic I mean a secret code of behavior, a discipline constructed and conducted according to the capabilities… — Jean Cocteau Copy Share Image
It's fun to see someone grow as a writer, moving from their first workshopped poems to publishing their earliest poems to having… — Allison Joseph Copy Share Image
Be it sculpture, poetry, or narrative fraught with terrible insight... art does endure. It troubles and pleases, inspires, and reminds us that… — Stephanie Mills Copy Share Image
“The Poem That Took The Place Of A Mountain There it was, word for word, The poem that took the place of… — Wallace Stevens Copy Share Image
The great Sufi poet and philosopher Rumi once advised his students to write down the three things they most wanted in life.… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
“Lawrence is the supreme poet of Eros. No recriminations, no reproaches, no guilt, no 'morality'. For what's 'morality' but a leash around… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
“Your reason and your passion are the rudder and the sails of your seafaring soul. If either your sails or your rudder… — Kahlil Gibran Copy Share Image
“I started seeing poetry from a strictly consumerist perspective as poets serving up beverages. Most, maybe like 97 percent or something, serve… — Martinus Hendrikus Benders Copy Share Image
“Girls, be good to these spirits of music and poetry that breast your threshold with their scented gifts. Lift the lyre, clear… — Sappho Copy Share Image
A poem I just came up with titled:{IF I COULD RE-WRITE MY OWN LIFE}~~~>If I could re-write my own life,Mann…if I could… — Malcolm Cleveland Copy Share Image
“Art, she said, is more nuanced than life. If a teacher is lecturing and looking out of smudged windows, smeared with obscenities… — Clark Blaise Copy Share Image
“My tears of joy hear the raindrops crying, as the rain never wants to pour down on my cloudy days when I… — Munia Khan Copy Share Image
