“I Knew a Woman" I knew a woman, lovely in her bones, When small birds sighed, she would sigh back at them;… — Theodore Roethke Copy Share Image
“Naskar, The Origin Story (Sonnet 1999) Naren, Subhas, Abhijit, three vessels, one spirit. All three spring from paramhansa, in paramhansa we three… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
Public school teachers from every corner of America post classroom project requests on DonorsChoose.org. Requests range from pencils for a poetry writing… — Charles Best Copy Share Image
I would define, in brief, the Poetry of words as the Rhythmical Creation of Beauty. Its sole arbiter is taste. With the… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
Nature is a book of many pages and each page tells a fascinating story to him who learns her language. Our fertile… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Im a poet writing of my pain im a person living a life of shame I'm a daughter hiding my depression im… — 13 Yearold Copy Share Image
“A poet is a musician that can't sing. Words have to find a man's mind before they can touch his heart, and… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
“Mummy and Daddy want him to be an evil genius, but he has his heart set on Latin verse. Don’t you, Pill?”… — Gail Carriger Copy Share Image
“How to be a Poet (to remind myself) i Make a place to sit down. Sit down. Be quiet. You must depend… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
“The ways by which you may get money almost without exception lead downward. To have done anything by which you earned money… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I was at Yale and I said to the poet Elizabeth Alexander, "I'm interested in the ways in which black health seems… — Claudia Rankine Copy Share Image
“It was the furthest thing in the world from the rosy-fingered dawn of poetry and old Technicolor movies; this was an anti-dawn,… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Poems have a different music from ordinary language, and every poem has a different kind of music of necessity, and that's, in… — C. K. Williams Copy Share Image
As a teenager, I loved acting, painting, photography, and making films with my friend's Super 8 camera. But I always loved writing… — Denise Duhamel Copy Share Image
“The Type Everyone needs a place. It shouldn't be inside of someone else. -Richard Siken If you grow up the type of… — Sarah Kay Copy Share Image
Shaw...has a woman ever asked you to write a poem for her?" "Good God, no," Gideon replied with a snicker. "Shaws don't… — Lisa Kleypas Copy Share Image
“His grip firmed on her arms. “I’m here. You’re not alone now.” Hardly poetry, those words. A simple statement of fact. They… — Tessa Dare Copy Share Image
The poems I did write there [in Harvard] include Alphabets the 1984 Phi Beta Kappa poem and A Sofa in the Forties.… — Seamus Heaney Copy Share Image
I went for years not finishing anything. Because, of course, when you finish something you can be judged...I had poems which were… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
“Lies I've told my 3 year old recently Trees talk to each other at night. All fish are named either Lorna or… — Raul Gutierrez Copy Share Image
Sappho is a great poet because she is a lesbian, which gives her erotic access to the Muse. Sappho and the homosexual-tending… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
“…A common little song has died and left me here with a heart in pain and sent me wandering lovelessly to deposit… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Wherein lies a poet's claim to originality? That he invents his incidents? No. That he was present when his episodes had their… — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
“How pathetic it is that such products now appeal to a huge market of people who do not understand that the way… — Susan Jacoby Copy Share Image
The first spoken word poem I ever wrote was when I was 14 and I wrote it because I was accidentally signed… — Sarah Kay Copy Share Image
“Our mother tongue, so far ahead of me, Displays her goods, hints at each bond and link, Provides the means, leaves it… — Ivor A. Richards Copy Share Image
“If you must write prose or poems, the words you use should be your own. Don't plagiarize or take 'on loan'. There's… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Ariel Gordon is superbly, supremely, a poet of the body. She finds words for the physicality of the forest, of the garden,… — Robert Kroetsch Copy Share Image
We are, all of us, exploring a world none of us understands...searching for a more immediate, ecstatic, and penetrating mode of living...for… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
That being said, some of my favorite poets are extremely funny. The aforementioned Matt Rohrer, for instance. Mary Ruefle. James Tate might… — Matthew Zapruder Copy Share Image
Dont teach my boy poetry, an English mother recently wrote the Provost of Harrow. Dont teach my boy poetry; he is going… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
“We never know how high we are Till we are called to rise; And then, if we are true to plan, Our… — Emily Dickinson Copy Share Image
Poetry, I think, intensifies the reader's experience. If it's a humorous facet of the story, poetry makes it more exuberant. If it's… — Vikram Seth Copy Share Image
I don't find any direct statements in life. My poetry imitates or reproduces the way knowledge or awareness come to me, which… — John Ashbery Copy Share Image
In my dreams, my silent screams. They set me free and let me be. I sing myself lullaby's with lonely crys. Going… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Falling in love with you was out of my control, but I do have a say in what happens next. And, I… — Liz Newman Copy Share Image
“Alexandria was "the single place on earth where all the knowledge in the entire world was gathered together -- every great play… — Adam Rogers Copy Share Image
It is my belief that many who think they dislike poetry are really poetical in their natures and are indebted to it,… — Orson F. Whitney Copy Share Image
“Under the rough and ridiculous circumstances of life in the Rocky Mountains there was something exciting and vital, full of rude poetry:… — Wallace Stegner Copy Share Image
“There are a couple of utterly important rules to writing anything, whether it's a novel, a short story or a collection of… — Nicholas Trandahl Copy Share Image
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