“GERTRUDE (1964) Three men-her husband, a poet, and a young musician-love her, but because none of them will put his love for… — Steven Jay Schneider Copy Share Image
The storyteller and poet of our time, as in any other time, must be an entertainer of the spirit in the full… — Isaac Bashevis Singer Copy Share Image
“So then he tried saying the grass is green and the sky is blue and so to propitiate the austere spirit of… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
It is what the poets of Ireland used to be saying, that every brave man, good at fighting, and every man that… — Lady Gregory Copy Share Image
My dance is a sacred poem in which each movement is a word and whose every word is underlined by music. The… — Mata Hari Copy Share Image
I never edit the songs that come out. And they tend to come out as a whole. The closest thing I have… — Laura Marling Copy Share Image
“At start of spring I open a trench In the ground. I put into it The winter’s accumulation of paper, Pages I… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
“I'm in love with New York. It matches my mood. I'm not overwhelmed. It is the suitable scene for my ever ever… — Anaïs Nin Copy Share Image
When students are first at the Kerouac School we harp on Gertrude Stein's very basic poetic insistence that words are things .… — Anne Waldman Copy Share Image
I teach a lecture course on American poetry to as many as 150 students. For a lot of them, it's their only… — Robert Hass Copy Share Image
“The beauty of that poem is that everybody can relate, because we all feel like nobody. We all feel like we are… — Amy Harmon Copy Share Image
I believe that every English poet should read the English classics, master the rules of grammar before he attempts to bend or… — Robert Graves Copy Share Image
I've seen a lot of patriots and they all died just like anybody else if it hurt bad enough and once they… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
I take pride in never being rude to anyone on this earth, which contains a great number of unbearable villains who set… — Heinrich Heine Copy Share Image
“In your light I learn how to love. In your beauty, how to make poems. You dance inside my chest, where no… — Rumi Copy Share Image
It is the role of the artistic coder to question the coding languages, both through self-reflection and by using them for unintended… — Stephanie Strickland Copy Share Image
Whoever lives for poetry must read everything. How often has the light of a new idea sprung for me from a simple… — Gaston Bachelard Copy Share Image
“To write a poem...to paint an image on canvass from the contemplation of nature and life...is to be present again in this… — Deeper sense of presence Isabella koldras Copy Share Image
Natalie Lyalin is writing some of the best poems in the world. There is an evil in her gorgeous poem-hearts. She must… — Zachary Schomburg Copy Share Image
I culled poetry from odors, sounds, faces, and ordinary events occurring around me. Breezes bulged me as if I were cloth; sounds… — Jimmy Santiago Baca Copy Share Image
Human bodies are words, myriads of words, (In the best poems re-appears the body, man's or woman's, well-shaped, natural, gay, Every part… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
Then, of course, there are those sad occasions when a poet or a writer has not grown, and one has to let… — James Laughlin Copy Share Image
“My tactic is to look at you To learn how you are Love you as you are My tactic is to talk… — Mario Benedetti Copy Share Image
“ A Baby Elephant Right now my love for you is a baby elephant Born in Berlin or in Paris, And treading… — Nikolai Gumilev 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
“The horses suddenly began to neigh, protesting Against those who were drowning them in the ocean. The horses sank to the bottom,… — Boris Slutsky Copy Share Image
“You take my breath away From mile away Hair, twice as nice Smile is your make up, angelic face You light up… — Patrick Cruz Copy Share Image
In a sense, the first (if not necessarily the prime) function of a novelist, of ANY artist, is to entertain. If the… — Brigid Brophy Copy Share Image
I think Don Henley is a brilliant contemporary rock writer. He would have been a fabulous poet if he weren't a musician.… — Don Felder Copy Share Image
“Young poets are too apt to consider themselves “children of the mist” – they must dwell apart from men and contemn their… — Deborah L. Halliday Copy Share Image
Never forget that the subject is as important as your feeling; the mud puddle itself is as important as your pleasure in… — Valerie Worth Copy Share Image
I'm fascinated by rap and by hip-hop. I think there's a lot of poetry in it. There's a lot of anger, a… — John F. Kerry Copy Share Image
“Robots are like Mars: they need girls. Boys won't do; the memesoup is all wrong. They stomp when they should kiss and… — Catherynne M. Valente Copy Share Image
When I met Bob Dylan, I was definitely impressed. This guy had come from the American folk world, but he was very… — Donovan Copy Share Image
I am a relatively rational being and I like to create order in poems. I like meter, I like rhyme, but ultimately… — Mary Jo Salter Copy Share Image
“And this love of definite conception, this clearness of vision, this artistic sense of limit, is the characteristic of all great work… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“McIntyre’s tale may have predecessors, but it is unique. I strain for literary comparisons and think: Kipling, the classical Chinese poets, early… — Stephen J. Bodio Copy Share Image
“A Poem For Papa She visit you on any giving day. With only a few words to say. She bow her head… — Ray Price Billy Copy Share Image
People get anxious about dividing sorts of poetry, say Confessionalism from political poetry. But Confessionalism is very much an expression of racial… — Shane McCrae Copy Share Image
“...feel the fierce way desire tourniquets itself around you and clings Clubland South of Market tweak- chic trannies powder their noses from… — Clint Catalyst Copy Share Image
