I cannot write in verse, for I am no poet. I cannot arrange the parts of speech with such art as to… — Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Copy Share Image
I like ornament at the right time, but I don't want a poem to be made out of decoration ... When I… — Jack Gilbert Copy Share Image
All my big heroes are literary, writers. I'd love to meet Jimmy Hendrix or John Coltrane, but I'd much rather meet Thomas… — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
I am not greedy. I do not seek to possess the major portion of your days. I am content if, on those… — Maya Deren Copy Share Image
Moments when the original 'poet' in each of us created the outside world for us, by finding the familiar in the unfamiliar,… — Marion Milner Copy Share Image
“Natures of your kind, with strong, delicate senses, the soul-oriented, the dreamers, poets, lovers are always superior to us creatures of the… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
Love has been taken away from the poets, and has been brought within the domain of true science. It may prove to… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
“The bud stands for all things, even for those things that don’t flower, for everything flowers, from within, of self-blessing; though sometimes… — Galway Kinnell Copy Share Image
I went on all over the States, ranting poems to enthusiastic audiences that, the week before, had been equally enthusiastic about lectures… — Dylan Thomas Copy Share Image
That the language of the poetry of Jamaican music is rastafarian or biblical language cannot simply be put down to the colonizer… — Linton Kwesi Johnson Copy Share Image
If I could take all my parts with me when I go somewhere / and not have to say to one of… — Pat Parker Copy Share Image
I want to understand the piers of language and music and comprehension that can hold up a building even when what the… — Jane Hirshfield Copy Share Image
“Someday the Sun will explode, and what about our journalism and poetry then? Well, so what? To hell with our exploding Sun.… — Bruce Sterling Copy Share Image
“I was, I remember, nineteen years old, wrote poems, still wore no proper collar, ran out in the rain and snow, always… — Robert Walser Copy Share Image
So the physicality of that and the just the sheer lack of urban noise and machinery - just the wind, the water… — DJ Spooky Copy Share Image
“there were more children there than Scrooge in his agitated mind could count, and unlike the celebrated poem, not every forty children… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
The art of poetry consists in taking the poem through draft after draft, without losing its inspirational magic: he removes everything irrelevant… — Robert Graves Copy Share Image
“The thought of our past years in me doth breed Perpetual benediction: not indeed For that which is most worthy to be… — William Wordsworth Copy Share Image
“To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best day and night to make you like everybody else… — E.E. Cummings Copy Share Image
I do think that the long poem speaks for an inner need for continuity. We live in a time of so many… — Alison Hawthorne Deming Copy Share Image
“Pay to go inside Neruda's home A body lies there with no dome. But right there in the front hall Lean a… — Ana Claudia Antunes Copy Share Image
A lot of things appearing under my byline were written in one draft. But when I started to write poetry, I started… — Richard Meltzer Copy Share Image
I am gone into the fields To take what this sweet hour yields; Reflection, you may come to-morrow, Sit by the fireside… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
Read. Read every chance you get. Read to keep growing. Read history. Read poetry. Read for pure enjoyment. Read a book called… — David McCullough Copy Share Image
“There are other, savager, and more primeval aspects of Nature than our poets have sung. It is only white man's poetry. Homer… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“So relax into life, breathe deep and let go. Attain what you need but don't sell your soul. For it's a treasure… — Mark Rickerby Copy Share Image
“Sonnet of Superpowers Poet's superpower is their pain, Philosopher's superpower is reason. Scientist's superpower is their brain, Artist's superpower is their vision.… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
How our story has been divided up among the truth-telling professions! Religion, philosophy, history, poetry, compete with each other for our ears;… — Laura Riding Copy Share Image
It's not realistic to imagine that any poem will last forever. Our species won't last forever! We try to capture and preserve… — James Arthur Copy Share Image
“Mr Earbrass was virtually asleep when several lines of verse passed through his mind and left it hopelessly awake. Here was the… — Edward Gorey Copy Share Image
Rude poets of the tavern hearth, squandering your unquoted mirth, which keeps the ground, and never soars, while jake retorts, and reuben… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“Boy, this is your lucky day!" She clapped her hands. "You found yourself a librarian! I can help wit the figuring-out thing… — Joe Hill Copy Share Image
“If Laura was so prolific with poems, and in truth she was, then what was the problem with Megan’s request? Couldn’t Laura,… — L.L. Barkat Copy Share Image
The poetry of art is in beholding the single tower; the poetry of nature in seeing the single tree; the poetry of… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“Clarissa, sane Clarissa-exultant, ordinary Clarissa- will go on, loving London, loving her life of ordinary pleasure, and someone else, a deranged poet,… — Michael Cunningham Copy Share Image
“ Why , instead of teaching her poetry and drama and needlework, had her governesses not taught the most important lesson anyone… — Mary Balogh Copy Share Image
“Those green irises were like gentle pools of brilliant meadows of sage and green-envy coneflowers swaying in a warm breeze. HOLY fuck.… — Christine Zolendz Copy Share Image
Most poetry is the utterance of a man in some state of passion, love, joy, grief, rage, etc., and no doubt this… — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
“I walk alone, absorbed in my fantastic play, — Fencing with rhymes, which, parrying nimbly, back away; Tripping on words, as on… — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
“It still is on the run, time that is. Sometimes it seems like everything’s changing; my whole world is rearranging. Everything’s different,… — Amanda Leigh Copy Share Image
![“Mr Earbrass was virtually asleep when several lines of verse passed through his mind and left it hopelessly awake. Here was the perfect epigraph for TUH: A horrid ?monster has been [something] delay'd By your/their indiff'rence in the dank brown shade Below the garden... His mind's eye sees them…” quote by Edward Gorey](https://sms4smile.com/q/i/71d/edward-gorey-9339_five-years_mr-earbrass-was-virtually-asleep-when-se_3123103.jpg)
