I think a book-length poem stands about as good a chance as a collection of individual poems in reaching its field of… — C.D. Wright Copy Share Image
Why can't fellows be allowed to do what they like when they like and as they like, instead of other fellows sitting… — Kenneth Grahame Copy Share Image
Modern" poetry is, essentially, an extension of romanticism; it is what romantic poetry wishes or finds it necessary to become. It is… — Randall Jarrell Copy Share Image
“Final explanation: I die, not in the least because I am unable to support these next three weeks. Oh no, I should… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
I don't like crows. In the poem "C," crows are predatory, killing other birds and so forth. But in my morning walks,… — Shirley Geok-lin Lim Copy Share Image
“I On the calm black water where the stars are sleeping White Ophelia floats like a great lily; Floats very slowly, lying… — Arthur Rimbaud Copy Share Image
It means abandoning being a poet, abandoning your careerism, abandoning even the idea of writing any poetry, really abandoning, giving up as… — Allen Ginsberg Copy Share Image
“There is also another mother….You walk upon her body. Her breasts grow your food. Her spirit is Nature. If you listen, you… — Louise M. Wisechild Copy Share Image
“When they ask you where you're from, tell them your name was fleshed from the toothless mouth of a war-woman. That you… — Ocean Vuong Copy Share Image
“[Giordano] Bruno died, despised and suffering, after eight years of agony. From that moment, his works have attracted interest, and he has… — Dorothea Singer Copy Share Image
“The promising young poets, the hopefuls? I'd name Richard Wilbur, Peter Viereck, Karl Shapiro, Elizabeth Bishop, Robert Lowell, John Ciardi...Leonard Bacon...but it… — Robert Frost Copy Share Image
I read the poem [In a Dark Time by Theodore Roethke] because I was intrigued and had one of those strange senses:… — Peter van Agtmael Copy Share Image
“Greta is great, but he's a little...extremely...moody. Take my birthday last year. At the stroke of midnight, he appeared at my door.… — Bratniss Everclean Copy Share Image
“I'm a reader and a storyteller, and God chose literature and story and poetry as the languages of my spiritual text. To… — Shauna Niequist Copy Share Image
On our earth, before writing was invented, before the printing press was invented, poetry flourished. That is why we know that poetry… — Pablo Neruda Copy Share Image
I seem to keep returning to my father in poems because his personality was so extreme, so driven. He did everything to… — Robert Morgan Copy Share Image
“Once upon a time all the men of mind and genius in the world became of one belief—that is to say, of… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
But short films are not inferior, just different. I think the short gives a freedom to film-makers. What's appealing is that you… — Jane Campion Copy Share Image
“Vanda (as Dunayev): I am a pagan. I am a Greek. I love the ancients not for their pediments or their poetry,… — David Ives Copy Share Image
From laboratories employing complex apparatus, poetry often emerges into the outside world after a long lapse of time, just as some scientific… — Mieczyslaw Jastrun Copy Share Image
“White encouraged Updike’s equally scrupulous commitment. They bonded over dashes, colons, and commas—most amazingly in an exchange of letters in the last… — Adam Begley Copy Share Image
“Erotic literarature is literature in which eroticism is the novel. It focuses on that. It also implies a certain degree of description,… — Marco Vassi Copy Share Image
“The faint hints of color in her complexion, her tawny blond hair, her extraordinary thinness, all spoke of that unearthly grace modern… — Honoré de Balzac Copy Share Image
I wrote poems and an essay about that weird language. We still remember it to a certain extent, and it still comes… — Paul Beatty Copy Share Image
“Oh God," Coyote said, and rolled onto his side, propping his head up on one hand. "It's hard to remember something that… — Kim Stanley Robinson Copy Share Image
To the question, ‘Is the cinema an art?’ my answer is, ‘what does it matter?’... You can make films or you can… — Jean Renoir Copy Share Image
The profession of magician, is one of the most perilous and arduous specializations of the imagination. On the one hand there is… — William Bolitho Copy Share Image
“When a poet's mind is perfectly equipped for its work, it is constantly amalgamating disparate experience; the ordinary man's experience is chaotic,… — T.S. Eliot Copy Share Image
Neil Shepard's (T)RAVEL/ UN(T)RAVEL takes us from the sublime -- Paris in Spring, sunset on Corfu -- to an unscheduled toilet stop… — Charles Harper Webb Copy Share Image
“Stani walks in later, glaring at them both. “Bloody bastards. One minute punching each other, next minute reading poetry. What’s wrong with… — Melina Marchetta Copy Share Image
“Examine this statement: ‘A woman cannot be a poet.’ Dr Samuel Johnson (Englishman 1709-84 Occupation: Language Fixer and Big Mouth.) What then… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
The true essence of Chinese culture is sophistication, refinement, the spirit of poetry. The spirit of ink painting and calligraphy lives on… — Michael Chow Copy Share Image
Writing a poem is like having an affair, a one-night stand; a short story is a romance, a relationship; a novel is… — Amos Oz Copy Share Image
I'm sure if you see things you wrote when you were 19, you cringe. I saw stuff like angry poetry that I… — Kathleen Hanna Copy Share Image
Some find Lebanese poet Kahlil Gibran’s poetry preachy and moralizing, but I find it plenty enlightening—it’s hard to object to the melodic,… — Khalil Copy Share Image
“Leave me in Granada in the middle of paradise where my soul wells with poetry; Leave me until my time comes and… — Jose Zorilla Copy Share Image
When you write, don't say, "I'm going to write a poem." That attitude will freeze you right away. Sit down with the… — Natalie Goldberg Copy Share Image
“The hallucinations are innumerable. That's what has always been the matter with me, in fact: no belief in history, obliviousness of principles.… — Arthur Rimbaud Copy Share Image
“Thoughts thoughts. Are they not mine? I think, I write, I type. Thoughts. Are they wise? Let truth be told in words,… — Edna Stewart Copy Share Image
“The whole imaginative effort of Walt Whitman was really an effort to absorb and animate these multitudinous modern repetitions; and Walt Whitman… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
![“[Giordano] Bruno died, despised and suffering, after eight years of agony. From that moment, his works have attracted interest, and he has long been recognized as an important figure in the development of modern thought. Nevertheless, few are familiar with the many and often bewildering pages of…” quote by Dorothea Singer](https://sms4smile.com/q/i/a9b/dorothea-singer-162686_astronomy_giordano-bruno-died-despised-and-sufferi_459562.jpg)
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