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
“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
“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
“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
“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
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
“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
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
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
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
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
“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
“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
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
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
“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
The first thing you see in my hallway is a large 18th-century bust of Milton, who stares at me as I watch… — Tony Harrison Copy Share Image
I think New York is working its way into my poems. It takes a while for a place to filter its way… — Nick Laird Copy Share Image
“But too long a sacrifice can make a stone of the heart, as my favourite poet has written.’ ‘Who’s that?’ ‘W. B.… — Rohinton Mistry Copy Share Image
“A poet is an unhappy being whose heart it torn by secret sufferings, but whose lips are so strangely formed that when… — Søren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
“It ends. Good things always end terribly, at dawn in his arms wrapped, silently or— late in the night in unchartered apartments… — Abhijit Sarmah Copy Share Image
“There’s a poem by Adrienne Rich I first read twenty years ago called “Splittings” that I thought of when I read your… — Cheryl Strayed Copy Share Image
“The words of the true poems give you more than poems, They give you to form for yourself poems, religions, politics, war,… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
When the Negro musician or dancer swings the blues, he is fulfilling the same fundamental existential requirement that determines the mission of… — Albert Murray Copy Share Image
If a poem is written well, it was written with the poet's voice and for a voice. Reading a poem silently instead… — Robert Pinsky Copy Share Image
“I carry your heart with me (I carry it in my heart)I am never without it (anywhere I go you go,my dear;… — E.E. Cummings Copy Share Image
The aesthetic event is something as evident, as immediate, as indefinable as love, the taste of fruit, as water. We feel poetry… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
“ One Day I Wrote Her Name Upon the Strand One day I wrote her name upon the strand, But came the… — Edmund Spenser Copy Share Image
Baby, I have no idea how this will end. Maybe the equator will fall like a hula hoop from the earth's hips… — Andrea Gibson Copy Share Image
“sometimes when everything seems at its worst when all conspires and gnaws and the hours, days, weeks years seem wasted – stretched… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
“Ilm is rather a comprehensive term, for the Prophet has said: “Knowledge consists of three things, a clear verse (of the Qur-… — Franz Rosenthal Copy Share Image
“And if I am not mistaken here is the secret of the greatness that was Spain. In Spain it is men that… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
The role of the poet is almost nothing...drearily nothing. And when he steps outside of his boots and tries to get tough… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
“The old poems said that lovers were made for each other. But that wasn't true for Kai and Elliot. They hadn't been… — Diana Peterfreund Copy Share Image
“Tomorrow she’d look up tattoo removal. They were doing big things with lasers now. When Cal was just a little more stable,… — Sam Lipsyte Copy Share Image
“The roses tremble; oh, the sunflower's eye Is opened wide in sad expectancy. Westward and back the circling swallows fly, The rooks'… — Denise Levertov Copy Share Image
“Now goes under, and I watch it go under, the sun That will not rise again. Today has seen the setting, in… — Edna St. Vincent Millay Copy Share Image
It seems to me that this is the true test for poetry: - that it should go beneath experience, as prose can… — Ellen Glasgow Copy Share Image
The work of the painter, the poet or the musician, like the myths and symbols of the savage, ought to be seen… — Claude Levi-Strauss Copy Share Image
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