As human beings, we are the only organisms that create for the sheer stupid pleasure of doing so. Whether it's laying out… — Gary Hamel Copy Share Image
It is absolutely vital to preserve a space where the mind, by means of poetic thinking, can move in a free, even… — Matthew Zapruder Copy Share Image
I've been a puppet, a pauper, a pirate, a poet, a pawn and a king I've been up and down and over… — Frank Sinatra Copy Share Image
“Our lives can be filled with a series of trials. Some would say “You’re either in one, coming out of one or… — Jason Versey Copy Share Image
In addition to the original Executioner series I have also written a number of other works with diverse taste, even poetry. None,… — Don Pendleton Copy Share Image
“I am nine. We are bored and Karen is dying. We drove to Austin that summer so Sarah's dad- who described Karen… — Olivia Gatwood Copy Share Image
“She noticed the lemony yellow light in her dream and heard nothing of her alarm clock so continued to dream and dreamt… — Tiger Lewis Copy Share Image
All poets adore explosions, thunderstorms, tornadoes, conflagrations, ruins, scenes of spectacular carnage. The poetic imagination is therefore not at all a desirable… — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
True poetry, like the religious prompting itself, springs from the emotional side of a man's complex nature, and is ever in harmony… — Epes Sargent Copy Share Image
Even the wisest man grows tense With some sort of violence Before he can accomplish fate, Know his work or choose his… — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
“Maybe those sailors will write bad poems, but the same men would have kept dull diaries, too. The problem has to do… — Antoine de Saint-Exupéry Copy Share Image
“People were made of nothing so much as dust, and I couldn't see that doctoring all that dust was a bit better… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
After all that corrupt poets, and more corrupt philosophers, have told us of the blandishments of pleasure, and of its tendency to… — Hannah More Copy Share Image
“He wondered if he would live to see the blossom on his apple trees and felt an answering pop inside himself. Ah,… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
“It is beyond a doubt that everyone should have time for some special delight, if only five minutes each day to seek… — Helen Keller Copy Share Image
I'm incredibly restless. I read a lot of poetry. I also find myself reading the first 20 pages of everything, looking for… — Janet Fitch Copy Share Image
The real poetry and beauty in life comes from an intense relationship with reality in all its aspects. Realism is in fact… — Robert Greene Copy Share Image
Literature is love. I think it went like this: drawings in the cave, sounds in the cave, songs in the cave, songs… — Eileen Myles Copy Share Image
A poet must never make a statement simply because it sounds poetically exciting; he must also believe it to be true." -… — Robert Frost Copy Share Image
What I hate about kitchen-sink dramas is [this idea] that the set is real, therefore you're going to be seeing truth. You… — John Guare Copy Share Image
“But the inside stuff Isn't in these poems About how to be a REAL HUMAN BEING Because no one can tell you… — Bobby Markels Copy Share Image
“imagine the desert mothers, with hair tangled tighter than their theology and breasts that flowed milk and mystic wisdom. they knew how… — Beth Morey Copy Share Image
I don't like political poetry, and I don't write it. If this question was pointing towards that, I think it is missing… — Diane Wakoski Copy Share Image
“I had suitcases filled with poems hoping to change the shape of liberty bludgeoned by unheard hearts I saw an angel and… — Jeremy Limn Copy Share Image
I would be happier if people who went through MFA programs also were already, by then, deeply committed readers of poetry because… — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
It may be that poetry makes life's nebulous events tangible to me and restores their detail; or conversely, that poetry brings forth… — Frank O'Hara Copy Share Image
England still waits for the supreme moment of her literature--for the great poet who shall voice her, or, better still, for the… — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
The blues is deceptively simple. Verse and chorus. Sometimes not even a chorus. Four bars that repeat, no Auto-Tune, electricity optional. It… — Shawn Amos Copy Share Image
“Poets, as a class, are business men. Shakespeare describes the poet's eye as rolling in a fine frenzy from heaven to earth,… — P. G. Wodehouse Copy Share Image
Deep in my heart that aches with depression and knifes with planitude of bitter pain, A life that thought that hope with… — Michael Lee Copy Share Image
The plain state of being human is dramatic enough for anyone; you don't need to be a heroin addict or a performance… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
Painting can be like poetry but as somebody who creates both I feel the necessity for both so they cant be that… — Danny Fox Copy Share Image
All of a sudden I understand why I like Aliki Barnstones poems so much. They remind me of the one she has… — Gerald Stern Copy Share Image
Do I start with the lyrics? No. Quite honestly, it's the opposite. I generally get the melody first - I kinda fiddle… — Iron & Wine Copy Share Image
Anything Can Happen is also, incidentally, a poem that arose from teaching. I'd talked about the Horace Ode (I, 34) [on which… — Seamus Heaney Copy Share Image
“However, for Hardy the possibility of poetry’s traditional function of transcendence remains, but in a more limited form. In Hardy’s work the… — Geoffrey Harvey Copy Share Image
Poetry is halfway between prose and music: it is sometimes like an intimate conversation, in words and phrases which need not be… — Gilbert Highet Copy Share Image
I thought that perhaps the most creative mix for a society would be nine parts solid worker from institutions like MIT to… — James A. Michener Copy Share Image
There are in me, in literary terms, two distinct characters: one who is taken with roaring, with lyricism, with soaring aloft, with… — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
My poetry doesn't change from place to place - it changes with the years. It's very important to be one's age. You… — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
![“What I hate about kitchen-sink dramas is [this idea] that the set is real, therefore you're going to be seeing truth. You have to earn truth. Truth can't be a part of the fact that people appear to talk that way and live in that room. You're looking for the poetry in something, and I don't mean…” quote by John Guare](https://sms4smile.com/q/i/845/john-guare-10082_believe_what-i-hate-about-kitchen-sink-dramas-is_1436898.jpg)
![“Anything Can Happen is also, incidentally, a poem that arose from teaching. I'd talked about the Horace Ode (I, 34) [on which the poem is based] in a lecture I gave at Harvard in the fall of 2000 entitled Bright Boltsand remembered it after the Twin Towers attack.” quote by Seamus Heaney](https://sms4smile.com/q/i/2e6/seamus-heaney-1711_anything-can-happen_anything-can-happen-is-also-incidentally_181651.png)
