“Who robbed the woods, The trusting woods? The unsuspecting trees Brought out their burrs and mosses His fantasy to please. He scanned… — Emily Dickinson Copy Share Image
“ Dirge Without Music I am not resigned to the shutting away of loving hearts in the hard ground. So it is,… — Edna St. Vincent Millay Copy Share Image
“Always the wild child, conceived in flames, born of fire. Drawn to the forbidden, witch, warlock, burning stones. Her blood is made… — Melody Lee Copy Share Image
I've never thought of my poems as violent. Violence, to me, has so much negativity attached to it - maybe that's my… — Alex Lemon Copy Share Image
The reverie we intend to study is poetic reverie. This is a reverie which poetry puts on the right track, the track… — Gaston Bachelard Copy Share Image
“I belong with the trees, the wind, the earth beneath my feet. I belong in the land of enchanting things. But mostly,… — Melody Lee Copy Share Image
Imagism was a reductio ad absurdum of one or two tendencies of romanticism, such a beautifully and finally absurd one that it… — Randall Jarrell Copy Share Image
First they came for the Jews, but I did nothing because I'm not a Jew. Then they came for the socialists, but… — Martin Niemoller Copy Share Image
I don't think of writing my poems for China or for the world. I mainly think of a small audience of friends… — Bei Dao Copy Share Image
“Why did you pour tender fire so quickly, over my life’s cool leaves? Who pointed the way to you? What flower, what… — Pablo Neruda Copy Share Image
For a while I just couldn't imagine that there was a place for me in nonfiction. I looked around at what we… — John D'Agata Copy Share Image
Rick Black writes with the honed elegance of a poet so in command of lyric sentiment and the efficient evocative use of… — Kwame Dawes Copy Share Image
When an Englishman has professed his belief in the supremacy of Shakespeare amongst all poets, he feels himself excused from the general… — Aubrey Beardsley Copy Share Image
I'll tell you something. Once I was very fond of a poem by Emily Dickinson or somebody. I only remember one line… — Peter S. Beagle Copy Share Image
“We live entirely in the past, nourished by dead thoughts, dead creeds, dead sciences. And it is the past which is engulfing… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
“[The unicorn] sighed and plodded on, both amused and disappointed. It serves you right, she told herself. You know better than to… — Peter S. Beagle Copy Share Image
“I decline to accept the end of man. It is easy enough to say that man is immortal simply because he will… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
Shakespeare wrote great poetry and preposterous plays. Who really cares, for example, which petty tyrant rules Milan? Or who succeeds to the… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
When you get a poem [in a public place], it happens to you so suddenly that you don't have time to deploy… — Billy Collins Copy Share Image
“Cotton rows crisscross the world And dead-tired nights of yearning Thunderbolts on leather strops And all my body burning Sugar cane reach… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
“O Solitude! if I must with thee dwell, Let it not be among the jumbled heap Of murky buildings; climb with me… — John Keats Copy Share Image
“But something special happened to American poetry in the 19th century when Walt Whitman broke with more traditional English poetics and fashioned… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There are poems that are never written, that simply move across the mind like skywriting on a still day: slowly the first… — Linda Pastan Copy Share Image
“With my polished Verses as a trellis of pure metal Studded cunningly with rhymes of crystal, I shall make for your head… — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
I like putting common expressions next to uncommon expressions. I'm sure in Poetry 101 there is a name for it, but it… — Dan Bejar Copy Share Image
I work on words, mostly, toward them being poetry or short stories, and then some of those become songs. They all find… — P. J. Harvey Copy Share Image
“I surrendered my identity in your eyes. Now I'm just like everybody else, and it's so funny, the way monogamy is funny,… — Jeffrey McDaniel Copy Share Image
Certainly in my youth there was lots of singing, lots of storytelling, and whenever we went to a party, you had to… — Genevieve O'Reilly Copy Share Image
“Imaginative poetry produces a far greater mental strain than novels. It produces probably the severest strain of any form of literature. It… — Arnold Bennett Copy Share Image
“The individual unit of society is the individual & We The People have that authority to be free! It's as if they… — Jose R. Coronado Copy Share Image
“ Gains for all our losses There are gains for all our losses There are balms for all our pains But when… — R.H. Stoddard Copy Share Image
Sport in itself has this power. If you are a poet or a singer, people gravitate. I may not be in the… — Viv Richards Copy Share Image
“All writers recognize this surge of striking; in its energies the objects of the world are made new, alchemized by their passage… — Jane Hirshfield Copy Share Image
Many moons ago dictionaries of quotations may have been less needed than they are today. In those good/bad old days, people walked… — Joseph Epstein Copy Share Image
The poetry I love is written with someone's voice and I believe its proper culmination is to be read with someone's voice.… — Robert Pinsky Copy Share Image
For me, before I go on stage, it all depends. Might be a girl, might be an edible, might be a verse,… — Wyclef Jean Copy Share Image
Poetry is a process of getting back to the unconscious. Hence, I am always writing-even when I'm not facing the white space.… — Yusef Komunyakaa Copy Share Image
The things Nas' Illmatic was saying were sometimes hard realities but it was done on such a high level, I felt I… — Erik Parker Copy Share Image
“There is a good deal of the Nietzschean standpoint in this verse. It is the evolutionary and natural view. Of what use… — Aleister Crowley Copy Share Image
“A Poem: You, with your way of innocence, would have been hurt; thinking I run from you; that I despise you, but… — Brie Edison Copy Share Image
![“[The unicorn] sighed and plodded on, both amused and disappointed. It serves you right, she told herself. You know better than to expect a butterfly to know your name. All they know are songs and poetry, and anything else they hear. They mean well, but they can’t keep things straight. And why…” quote by Peter S. Beagle](https://sms4smile.com/q/i/217/peter-s-beagle-1665_butterfly_the-unicorn-sighed-and-plodded-on-both-a_441340.png)
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