“Falling in love like that? Writing poetry, crying at pop songs? Dragging people into photo-booths, taking a while day to make a… — David Nicholls Copy Share Image
“Macpherson's [work] was largely inauthentic with respect to any genuine Gaelic verse tradition, but it was the very voice of authenticity for… — Malcolm Chapman Copy Share Image
“Poets talk about “spots of time,” but it is really fishermen who experience eternity compressed into a moment. No one can tell… — Norman Maclean Copy Share Image
“The day I bought my cane, I realized I was through with the burden of feet. Instead, I am going to become… — Clementine von Radics Copy Share Image
I like poetry when I don't quite understand why I like it. Poetry isn't just a question of wrapping something up and… — Mark Haddon Copy Share Image
“ Solitude Happy the man, whose wish and care A few paternal acres bound, Content to breathe his native air In his… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
“It's a bit like sympathetic magic in a way: the usual Western presumption that 'primitive' rituals mimic what they desire to achieve--that… — David Byrne Copy Share Image
When I'm assembling a book I concentrate as though I were writing a poem. A truly imagined arrangement will indicate gaps and… — Michael Longley Copy Share Image
If I thought that any poem of mine could have been written by anyone else, either a contemporary or a forerunner, I… — Robert Graves Copy Share Image
People are always asking me what my lyrics mean. Does it mean this, does it mean that, that's all anybody wants to… — Freddie Mercury Copy Share Image
Here are poems from a new generation of writers who honor the magnetic fields of the real; who feel and think with… — Jane Hirshfield Copy Share Image
In White Summer, Joelle Biele exhibits a Roethke-like affinity with nature and natures creatures. At times a miniaturist, Biele constructs exquisite addresses… — Elizabeth Spires Copy Share Image
...these poets here, you see, they are not of this world:let them live their strange life; let them be cold and hungry,… — Arthur Rimbaud Copy Share Image
“Some people have hollow souls. They’ll see your light and like a moth to a flame, they’ll gravitate toward you. Be cautious,… — Melody Lee Copy Share Image
There is nothing dictators hate so much as that unassailable, eternally elusive, eternally provoking gleam. One of the main reasons why the… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
“the poem doesn’t have stanzas, it has a body, the poem doesn’t have lines,/ it has blood, the poem is not written… — José Luís Peixoto Copy Share Image
“I am astonished by the various kisses we’re capable of. Each from different heights diminished, which is simply the law. And the… — Stephen Dunn Copy Share Image
Lyrics are very different. There is a clear line between that and a poem. Something that has been a source of great… — Joanna Newsom Copy Share Image
“Be an exampler when it comes to love and respect. A farmer when it comes to working hard. A poet when it… — Sravani Saha Nakhro Copy Share Image
“The emotion of art is impersonal. And the poet cannot reach this impersonality without surrendering himself wholly to the work to be… — T S Eliot Copy Share Image
I've noticed that there can be a visceral reaction to strong statements about poetry, as if anyone who has an opinion and… — Matthew Zapruder Copy Share Image
“I have been incapable of moving, even a finger or an eye, for at least a year now. I feel relatively certain… — Jason Leclerc Copy Share Image
“I searched for my own heart and long after I had lost my way in the days trailing past with their foliage… — Ingrid Jonker Copy Share Image
I find myself absolutely fulfilled when I have written a poem, when I'm writing one. Having written one, then you fall away… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
I began composing the next poem, the one that was to be written next. Not the last poem of those I had… — Steve Erickson Copy Share Image
People who didn't live pre-Internet can't grasp how devoid of ideas life in my hometown was. I stopped in the middle of… — Mary Karr Copy Share Image
But Jesus wanted the crowd to know, look, 'John's (the baptist) the one who got this whole thing started.' In verse ten… — Steven Furtick Copy Share Image
Every great man exhibits the talent of organization or construction, whether it be in a poem, a philosophical system, a policy, or… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
I can not hear your laughter. I can not see your smile. I wish that we could talk again If only for… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The first song I wrote and had published was titled "Just As Long As That Someone Is You". It was written in… — Mickey Newbury Copy Share Image
“The Psalms are among the oldest poems in the world, and they still rank with any poetry in any culture, ancient or… — N.T. Wright Copy Share Image
As things are, and as fundamentally they must always be, poetry is not a career, but a mug's game. No honest poet… — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
Formerly I believed books were made like this: a poet came, lightly opened his lips, and the inspired fool burst into song… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Housman is one of my heroes and always has been. He was a detestable and miserable man. Arrogant, unspeakably lonely, cruel, and… — A. E. Housman Copy Share Image
“For those who do not write and who never have been stirred by the creative urge, talk of muses seems a figure… — Dan Simmons Copy Share Image
and I laugh, I can still laugh, who can't laugh when the whole thing is so ridiculous that only the insane, the… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
“Go and tell," I whispered to him. There was little voice left in me, but I whispered it firmly. Then I took… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
Mrs. James, my fifth-grade teacher, introduced us to some of the great literature of African American culture. I won my first blue… — Michael Eric Dyson Copy Share Image
He [Shakespeare] was the man who of all modern, and perhaps ancient poets, had the largest and most comprehensive soul . .… — John Dryden Copy Share Image
Me and my wife were interested in avoiding style, in eliminating voice, in getting away from the poetry logics, textures, and propulsions… — Ben Doller Copy Share Image
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