If I'm walking along the street, ideas come. Ideas about things that I'm interested in. I've jotted them down in the past… — Stephen Hough Copy Share Image
No poet is required to write in stanzas, or indeed in regular forms at all. Coleridge's 'Dejection: An Ode' has a rhyme… — James Fenton Copy Share Image
Familiarity with any great thing removes our awe of it. The great general is only terrible to the enemy; the great poet… — L. Frank Baum Copy Share Image
“ladies & gentlemen," the Professor began, "the Other Professor is so kind as to recite a Poem. The title of it is… — Lewis Carroll Copy Share Image
“When you begin to see the Power of Loving your Mind, Body and Soul You will build up the Courage to say… — Rhys Blanco Copy Share Image
“ I was born, slipping on a symphony of broken melancholy; created of pencils and crayons; i was not supposed to be… — Emily Sturgill Copy Share Image
What I love about drafts is the experimental nature of them. The draft is what you know about writing a poem running… — Cornelius Eady Copy Share Image
“Always learn poems by heart,' she said. 'They have to become the marrow in your bones. Like fluoride in the water, they'll… — Janet Fitch Copy Share Image
If I have some extra words and I'm trying to make it fit into that shape, then I just sort of take… — Helen Frost Copy Share Image
“The idea of Sufism as a vaguely deist, New-Age-style philosophy with lots of poetry, alcohol and soft drugs is also immensely appealing… — Anatol Lieven Copy Share Image
God knows; I won't be an Oxford don anyhow. I'll be a poet, a writer, a dramatist. Somehow or other I'll be… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
If you take text and image and you put them together, the multiple readings that are possible in either poetry or in… — Richard Hell Copy Share Image
Every Christmas Eve, we used to listen to evensong live from King's College chapel in Cambridge, and I'm almost ashamed to admit… — Rebecca Front Copy Share Image
“Tieken has suggested, on the basis of the problems we have outlined, that all the Sangam poems in the major anthologies were… — David Dean Shulman Copy Share Image
I have a vast 'bone pile' of stillborn or abandoned poems along with jottings and wisps from the great beyond that I… — Maxine Kumin Copy Share Image
“A poetess is not as selfish as you assume. After months of agonising over her marriage of words—the bride— and spaces—the groom,… — Kamand Kojouri Copy Share Image
Make a mistake in the interpretation of one of Shakespeare’s plays, falsely scan a piece of Spenserian verse, and there is unlikely… — D. A. Carson Copy Share Image
I wanted to write the kind of poetry that people read and remembered, that they lived by - the kinds of lines… — Tracy K. Smith Copy Share Image
Through books you will meet poets and novelists whose creations will fire your imagination. You will meet the great thinkers who will… — Neil Armstrong Copy Share Image
It's often said that elephants are the most human of animals - there's something comical about their acquiescence, and tragic also. The… — Dan Chiasson Copy Share Image
The poems ... are moments when I had the intensity to see, and the energy to build, some careful analog that completed… — Samuel R. Delany Copy Share Image
“She was an extravagantly slender girl. Her ribs showed. The conspicuous knobs of her hipbones framed a hollowed abdomen, so flat as… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
Even the good artisans fell into the same error as the poets; because they were good workmen they thought that they also… — Plato Copy Share Image
I've always believed that poetry must speak of realities as least as complicated as those spoken of in prose. I've read books… — Lawrence Joseph Copy Share Image
In this respect a program is like a poem: you cannot write a poem without writing it. Yet people talk about programming… — Edsger Dijkstra Copy Share Image
To different minds, poetry may present different phases. To me, the reverent faith of the people I lived among, and their faithful… — Lucy Larcom Copy Share Image
Our poets do not write about it; our artists do not try to portray this remarkable thing. I don't know why. Is… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
“All she captures is a moment and what she calls it is a memory, Sometimes, it is assumptions that we use; all… — Nishikant Copy Share Image
Before I was rapping, I did poetry. I went to a performing art school, and I won an award for the talent… — Doechii Copy Share Image
With a poetry book I can send 100 copies out to reviewers and other people, and even do it in advance and… — Felix Dennis Copy Share Image
“Poems are made by fools like me, But only God can make a tree; And only God who makes the tree Also… — Yip Harburg Copy Share Image
“So things remained until one day, many years later, I happened upon a line in a poem by Heine: “Death is the… — Yu Hua Copy Share Image
No poem in the world could do my mom justice. Despite circumstance and adversity, she had an unwavering love for her kids… — Ed Schultz Copy Share Image
“Reading does not occupy me enough: the only relief I find springs from the composition of poetry, which necessitates contemplations that lift… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
Whether you like modern incarnations of what country radio hits are, or you like what I'm doing, or you like something really… — Chris Stapleton Copy Share Image
A forest," William said, his expression distant. "Where the ground is dry soil and stone. Where tall trees grow and centuries of… — Ilona Andrews Copy Share Image
No one can threaten poetry. It's always been there, always will be. Humans need it to live: it has sustaining powers. How… — Gregory Orr Copy Share Image
“Like a forest thriving and throbbing with vitality I absorb all energy, I accept all energy descending from the sky and arising… — Rhys Blanco Copy Share Image
“My mother's death changed the alchemy of food. Holidays run together now like ungrooved rivers. I forget what they are for. I… — Florence Weinberger Copy Share Image
What we know for sure is that metaphor is the raw uranium of poetry, and that an urge to say that one… — Tony Hoagland Copy Share Image
