Here in the United States, we speak with reverence of authentic experience. We write poems about our daddies taking us fishing and… — Charles Simic Copy Share Image
A grownup says go, and off the happy children go. To hunt for brightly colored eggs hidden all over the place. The… — Sonya Parker Copy Share Image
“For the sake of a few lines one must see many cities, men and things. One must know the animals, one must… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
A book is sent out into the world, and there is no way of fully anticipating the responses it will elicit. Consider… — Chaim Potok Copy Share Image
I read as much poetry as time allows and circumstance dictates: No heartache can pass without a little Dorothy Parker, no thunderstorm… — J. Courtney Sullivan Copy Share Image
“when we were kids laying around the lawn on our bellies we often talked about how we'd like to die and we… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
No, what I should really like to do right now, in the full blaze of lights, before this illustrious assembly, is to… — Knut Hamsun Copy Share Image
“ The Mercy The ship that took my mother to Ellis Island eighty-three years ago was named "The Mercy." She remembers trying… — Philip Levine Copy Share Image
To be able to write a play a man must be sensitive, imaginative, naive, gullible, passionate; he must be something of an… — Robert E. Sherwood Copy Share Image
Don't feel guilty if you don't immediately love your stepchildren as you do your own, or as much as you think you… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
“If you were coming in the Fall, I'd brush the Summer by With half a smile and half a spurn, As Housewives… — Emily Dickinson Copy Share Image
With lines that show an unyielding dedication to craft, these poems are not afraid of meaning or the meaningful. More and more… — Jericho Brown Copy Share Image
I have always wanted to midcourse-correct (or undermine) in a poem, and let that be the turn. That poem is to do… — Randall Mann Copy Share Image
“BLACK AND WHITE Oh Princess of the Sun. Daughter of nature. Love of the trees. Your eyes are with tears but love… — Victor Vote Copy Share Image
“And here, in thought, to thee- In thought that can alone, Ascend thy empire and so be A partner of thy throne,… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
GIFT You tell me that silence is nearer to peace than poems but if for my gift I brought you silence (for… — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
Most writers - poets in especial - prefer having it understood that they compose by a species of fine frenzy - an… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
If one doubts whether Grecian valor and patriotism are not a fiction of the poets, he may go to Athens and see… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
It takes something of a poet to apprehend and get into the depth, the lusciousness, the spiritual life of a great poem.… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Copy Share Image
“I used to write poetry when I was younger," Jess said. She had kept a notebook by her bed, in case some… — Allegra Goodman Copy Share Image
Poetry, even when apparently most fantastic, is always a revolt against artifice, a revolt, in a sense, against actuality. It speaks of… — James Joyce Copy Share Image
“Many of the poets writing today are hung up on language and symbolism. If the poem does not have depth of meaning… — Harley King Copy Share Image
In 1977, I wrote a series of poems about a character, Black Bart, a former cattle rustler-turned-alchemist. A good friend, Claude Purdy,… — August Wilson Copy Share Image
“I fancied my luck to be witnessing yet another full moon. True, I’d seen hundreds of full moons in my life, but… — Roman Payne Copy Share Image
“She used to recite the poem as a schoolgirl in England until she heard that it derived from the Great Plague of… — Dan Brown Copy Share Image
“So there is something perhaps more difficult to conceive of, sometimes born of resignation and sometimes not- a life in which not… — Adam Phillips Copy Share Image
When I taught at the University of Houston in the Creative Writing program, we required the poets to take workshops in fiction… — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
Introducing someone as a "Negro poet with a University degree" or again, quite simply, the expression, "a great black poet." These ready-made… — Frantz Fanon Copy Share Image
I think a young poet, or an old poet, for that matter, should try to produce something that pleases himself personally, not… — Philip Larkin Copy Share Image
When a poem is really finished, you can't change anything. You can't move words around. You can't say, 'In other words, you… — W. S. Merwin Copy Share Image
I had closed the door upon my heart And wouldn't let anyone in, I had trusted and loved only to be hurt… — Ritu Ghatourey Copy Share Image
“4) Step Four Now that we are in the secret place meditating on the presence of God it is good to read… — Adam Houge Copy Share Image
I have spent a good many years since―too many, I think―being ashamed about what I write. I think I was forty before… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“POEM FOR SOUKAÏNA” **** To tell of my new Moroccan Love, Ô, I court her everyday. But just as a pearl in… — Roman Payne Copy Share Image
Anyone who wants to be a writer should, if given the opportunity, hang out with "real writers," that is, poets or writers… — Kirby Wright Copy Share Image
And when we will finally understand all this we will know how to see our God that is our Creating Factor and… — Sorin Cerin Copy Share Image
Metrics are not a device for restraining the mad, any more than 'open form' or free verse is a prairie where a… — James Fenton Copy Share Image
He was all emotion all the time, constantly talking about his feelings and his profound love for her. He was minutes from… — Chelsea Handler Copy Share Image
“If I were a poet, that’s what I’d write about. People who worked in the middle of the night. Men who loaded… — Janet Fitch Copy Share Image
In HEATHEN, R. Flowers Rivera remixes the classical and the Biblical, the usual and the typical until what we thought we knew… — Terrance Hayes Copy Share Image
