“To wake up on a gloriously bright morning, in a tent pitched beneath spruce trees, and to look out lazily and sleepily… — Josiah Edward Spurr Copy Share Image
“It’s a beautiful way to put it: Leave the poetry in what you make. When something becomes too polished, it loses its… — Jason Fried Copy Share Image
“I wrote a poem once — a simple thing, but instinct with longing — while sitting under a tree and listening to… — Jerome K. Jerome Copy Share Image
Desmond O'Grady is one of the senior figures in Irish Literary life, exemplary in the way he has committed himself over the… — Seamus Heaney Copy Share Image
I'd been writing poems for many years, but most of them I didn't like. Then, when I was 23, I wrote one… — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
“I believe that no great lyric poet ever speaks in the so-called “proper” language of his or her time. Emily Dickinson didn’t… — Ilya Kaminsky Copy Share Image
“LESLIE CHEUNG JUMPS OFF MY BUILDING CLOSES HIS EYES AND THEN SINGS A SONG WE BOTH KNOW AND LOVE // LESLIE CHEUNG… — Richard Chiem Copy Share Image
My friends never talk to me about my poetry because they're embarrassed that I write it or they're embarrassed by what I… — Peter Davison Copy Share Image
The short story is at an advantage over the novel, and can claim its nearer kinship to poetry, because it must be… — Elizabeth Bowen Copy Share Image
“The poet Robert Browning caused considerable consternation by including the word twat in one of his poems, thinking it an innocent term.… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
I find it hard to write poems in reaction to world/national events unless there's a way in that's so evident to me… — Allison Joseph Copy Share Image
In civilized places idleness, once the prerequisite for abstract thought, poetry, religion, philosophy, and falling in love, has become a character flaw.… — Barbara Holland Copy Share Image
I am an artist. For me, a picture is like poetry. When you make art, this is not coming from an intellectual… — Alejandro Jodorowsky Copy Share Image
To understand Vers libre, one must abandon all desire to find in it the even rhythm of metrical feet. One must allow… — Amy Lowell Copy Share Image
If I do a poetry reading I want people to walk out and say they feel better for having been there -… — Roger McGough Copy Share Image
John's legacy? His bravery. When he had the power, he used it. He really wanted peace on Earth, and John's lyrics, well,… — Astrid Kirchherr Copy Share Image
“How do your poems start out?” “They start as a lump in the throat,” she said. “Isn’t that normally just a cocktail… — Louise Penny Copy Share Image
“Here the phenomenologist has nothing in common with the literary critic who, as has frequently been noted, judges a work that he… — Gaston Bachelard Copy Share Image
And pomp, and feast, and revelry, With mask, and antique pageantry, Such sights as youthful poets dream On summer eves by haunted… — John Milton Copy Share Image
By failing to read or listen to poets, society dooms itself to inferior modes of articulation: those of the politician, the salesman… — Joseph Brodsky Copy Share Image
“When the rose’s flash to the sunset Reels to the wrack and the twist, And the rose is a red bygone, When… — Carl Sandburg Copy Share Image
When you write a song it's sometimes in a desperate moment whn you can't really articulate it. What I love about lyrics… — Marcus Mumford Copy Share Image
“I like masculine aesthetics. But I also write, make art, have written poetry, and like feminine aesthetics as well. I am probably… — Angel Millar Copy Share Image
“I know you are reading this poem which is not in your language guessing at some words while others keep you reading… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
“We shall not sip from the same glass, No water for us, or sweet wine; We’ll not embrace at morning, Not gaze… — Anna Ahkmatova Copy Share Image
For within livin structures defined by profit, by linear power, by institutional dehumanization, our feelings were not meant to survive. Kept around… — Audre Lorde Copy Share Image
“Oh, what is brighter than the light? What is darker than the night? What is kkener than an axe? What is softer… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
The only advice [for new writers and poets] I can offer is to be yourself: not the self someone else wants you… — Nikki Giovanni Copy Share Image
“Whoever wants to become a Christian must first become a poet. That's what it is! You must suffer. You must love and… — Elder Porphyrios Copy Share Image
“It is as if the soul of the continent is weeping. Why does it weep? It weeps for the bones of the… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
“My memories are not books. They are only stories that I have been over so many times in my head that I… — Elizabeth McCracken Copy Share Image
I got into an argument with someone because I said I think 2Pac will be regarded as a great poet. They said… — Scott Glenn Copy Share Image
I rarely think of poetry as something I make happen; it is more accurate to say that it happens to me. Like… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
“Wonder of time,' quoth she, 'this is my spite, That, thou being dead, the day should yet be light. 'Since thou art… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
“I named you Fauna because I loved Robinson Jeffers’ poem about Flora and Fauna. I asked that they keep that name. I… — Fauna Hodel Copy Share Image
“...Want to know why my roses grow dead on a living vine? Prayer against civil war. Let us hate with a single… — Robin Schiff Copy Share Image
“His conversation was full of imagination, and very often in limitation of ther Persian, and Arabic writers, he invented tales of wonderful… — Mary Shelley Copy Share Image
The poet's role has changed over the centuries, the ages. The poets, the griots, used to be the keepers of the facts;… — Malik Yusef Copy Share Image
In youth it is the outward aspect of things that most engages us; while in age, thought or reflection is the predominating… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
“Candle In the Wind Author: Bernie Tauplin Goodbye Norma Jeane. Though I never knew you at all. You had the grace to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
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