“Keep an eye out for her, she tends to disappear intermittently, leaving no note for one to know, as to where she… — Akash Mandal Copy Share Image
“Broken hearts, you can run, you can hide and perhaps the earth is big enough to believe you’re safe. So maybe for… — robert m drake Copy Share Image
Increasingly, those who used to teach and write critical or theoretical texts are writing fiction, poetry and so on; and kinds of… — Nicholas Royle Copy Share Image
What excites me is that I'm an ambassador for poetry, which is something that I wholeheartedly believe in and that has been… — Tracy K. Smith Copy Share Image
Some say the world will end in fire,Some say in ice.From what I've tasted of desire I hold with those who favor… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Without language, one cannot talk to people and understand them; one cannot share their hopes and apsirations, grasp their history, appreciate their… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
“Go into yourself. Find out the reason that commands you to write; see whether it has spread its roots into the very… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
I want to yell about it most days and stop strangers in the street to share my outrage. But my mind is… — Robin Beth Schaer Copy Share Image
At times it has been doubtful to me if Emerson really knows or feels what Poetry is at its highest, as in… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
If I'm very drunk, I can improvise. But generally speaking, no. Generally speaking, almost all of my work is material that was… — Richard Meltzer Copy Share Image
Of course, a psychologist would find it more direct to study the inspired poet. He would make concrete studies of inspiration in… — Gaston Bachelard Copy Share Image
There are probably very few people who have not at some time of their lives had some quality of genius. If they… — Otto Weininger Copy Share Image
“Here Carlyle had come, here George Eliot had progressed through the bookshelves. Roland could see her black silk skirts, her velvet trains,… — A.S. Byatt Copy Share Image
You have the greatest soul, the noblest nature, the sweetest, most loving heart I have ever known, and my love, my reverence,… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
The interesting thing is that you don't often meet a poet who doesn't have a sense of humour, and some of them… — Wendy Cope Copy Share Image
It is the very strangeness of nature that makes science engrossing. That ought to be at the center of science teaching. There… — Lewis Thomas Copy Share Image
“I could write an epic poem about your thighs.” “That would amuse polite society rather too much, and I wouldn’t like that.”… — Christina Dodd Copy Share Image
I wish to put together an imaginary nation. It is my belief that no other nation is possible, or rather, I believe… — Robin Blaser Copy Share Image
“You don't need to get the reference to get the joke; but the joke eventually got me to Swinburne, who would gradually… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Greed and desire Not peace, but fire Coveting creation Created damnation Pulled alongside A gate thrown too wide Now our home calls… — Kiersten White Copy Share Image
“ Solitude There is a charm in Solitude that cheers A feeling that the world knows nothing of A green delight the… — John Clare Copy Share Image
“even the slightest stir in the broad grammar of existence—a moment asking only to be noticed—was enough to rekindle that astonished brightness,… — Neena H. Brar Copy Share Image
Poets are excellent students of blizzards and salt and broken statuary, but they are always elsewhere for the test. Any intention in… — Dean Young Copy Share Image
“When in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes I all alone beweep my outcast state, And trouble deaf heaven with my bootless… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Part of the pleasure of giving a reading comes from the rapport between the audience and the poet. I don't want to… — Ron Padgett Copy Share Image
Although Poets are vain and ambitious, their vanity and ambition are of the purest kind attainable in this world. They are ambitious… — Stephen Spender Copy Share Image
I know that one of the things that I really did to push myself was to write more formal poems, so I… — Barbara Hamby Copy Share Image
My life is like a song and I think I know the words, And as I start to sing along the whole… — MURS Copy Share Image
If there's a track that's rhyme friendly, the verse will basically write itself. If the track is less rhyme friendly, you have… — Black Thought Copy Share Image
The moment Aunt March took her nap, or was busy with company, Jo hurried to this quiet place, and curling herself up… — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
My poems - I don't even like the sound of that, in a way. Not that anyone else wrote them. But we… — Sharon Olds Copy Share Image
“Some poems survive it to become poems in another language,” he argued, “but others refuse to live in any language but their… — Pablo Neruda Copy Share Image
The last thing a young artist should do in poetry or any other field is think about whats in style, whats current,… — Robert Pinsky Copy Share Image
Most lyric poetry is about love, whether yearned after, fulfilled, or wistfully regretted; what isn't tends to consist of laments and cris… — Michael Dirda Copy Share Image
When I was in college, I did do some writing of poetry, somewhat inspired, I think at that time, by Carl Sandburg,… — Lisel Mueller Copy Share Image
“O my body! I dare not desert the likes of you in other men and women, nor the likes of the parts… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
“...passions, poetry and the ego have been seen as perpetual explosions? But if that's true, then so its its opposite; ever since… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
A lot of people think, 'I'll give acting or poetry or filmmaking a try. And if it doesn't work out I'll go… — Brit Marling Copy Share Image
“(...) It,s hard not to be able. There, look there!/ I cannot get the movement nor the light;/Sometimes it almost makes a… — John Masefield Copy Share Image
“In trials of ir'n and silver fain “The dead will rise and walk again “The blesséd few that touch the light “Will… — Nenia Campbell Copy Share Image
