“Pardon me, but my father says that it is a lie that Americans have everything. You have no sheep, no goats, no… — Robert Fulghum Copy Share Image
“Now, you might think that because there are more poets than ever, there might be more opportunities for poets than ever. And… — Jim Behrle Copy Share Image
If a man can only write well when drunk, I'll tell him: get drunk. And if he tells me that his liver… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
Whenever I become discouraged (which is on alternate Tuesdays, between three and four) I lift my spirits by remembering: The artists are… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
“This river is famed in atrocious song and verse; the most prevalent motif is one which attempts to make of the river… — John Kennedy Toole Copy Share Image
“And Ásta Sóllilja, it was she who swept on wings of poetry into those spheres which she had sensed as if in… — Halldór Laxness Copy Share Image
“In this couple defects were multiplied, as if by a dangerous doubling; weakness fed upon itself without a counterstrength and they were… — Elizabeth Hardwick Copy Share Image
...he who has seen the intimate beauty of nature cannot tear himself away from it again. He must become either a poet… — Konrad Lorenz Copy Share Image
New voices in an old art - and women poets have been that for much more than a century - do not… — Eavan Boland Copy Share Image
I am apparently gentle, unstable, and full of pretenses. I will die a poet killed by the nonpoets, will renounce no dream,… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
Few poets have made a more interesting rhetoric out of just fooling around: turning things upside down, looking at them from under… — Randall Jarrell Copy Share Image
Jazz and poetry both involve a structure that may be familiar and to some extent predictable. And then, you try to create… — Robert Pinsky Copy Share Image
Why must ancients, and provided the same talent, be better than modern authors? Free to exploit the vast realm of the simpleand… — Franz Grillparzer Copy Share Image
“Is it by chance that the 18th century of France, the century of the "philosophy of enlightenment," did not produce any poets… — Benjamin Péret Copy Share Image
I might go to heaven, I might go to hell But at least I know my cum doesn't smell And if I… — Trace Adkins Copy Share Image
I am, as far as I can tell, about a month behind Lord Byron. In every town we stop at we discover… — Susanna Clarke Copy Share Image
“Life, of course, never gets anyone's entire attention. Death always remains interesting, pulls us, draws us. As sleep is necessary to our… — Janet Malcolm Copy Share Image
“Elrick turned to the proper pages in the Broadman hymnal and gamely sang along to the first, second, and fourth verses. We… — Brad Whittington Copy Share Image
Why do people speak of great men in terms of nationality? Great Germans, great Englishmen? Goethe always protested against being called a… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
“This assumption that she need look for no more devotion now that her beauty had passed proceeded from the fact that she… — Thornton Wilder Copy Share Image
“The following obituary appeared in the Pittsburgh Sun-Telegraph of Sept. 16, 1958: A GREAT POET died last week in Lancieux, France, at… — Robert Service Copy Share Image
Literature is always something - it is either story or poetry, ideally both. That is, you always know what it is and… — Aleksandar Hemon Copy Share Image
Whether you're studying electrical engineering or poetry, college is not about maximizing income, it's about becoming a better and more informed observer… — John Green Copy Share Image
Poetry has its uses for despair. It can carve a shape in which a pain can seem to be; it can give… — Christian Wiman Copy Share Image
My love for him was so exquisitely pure that if we all were capable of giving and receiving such a beautiful gift… — Elizabeth Barrett Browning Copy Share Image
I always tell students that writing a poem and publishing it are two quite separate things, and you should write what you… — Wendy Cope Copy Share Image
“Then one day he sent her a single long-stemmed rose with the famous Hfez of Shrz poem that you probably know.” She… — Lilian Jackson Braun Copy Share Image
“...when dragged into prominence by half poets, the result is not poetry, nor till the poets among us can be "literalists of… — Marianne Moore Copy Share Image
“I know this much, is all," Franny said. "If you're a poet, you do something beautiful. I mean you're supposed to leave… — J.D. Salinger Copy Share Image
“For Mark Strand, the poet’s responsibility to be a witness, a recorder of experience, is part of the broader responsibility we all… — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Copy Share Image
Even the most inspired verse, which boasts not without a relative justification to be immortal, becomes in the course of ages a… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
In general, I find that poets spend a lot of time thinking about themselves, and not a lot of time thinking about… — Victoria Chang Copy Share Image
My dad, a mathematician, raised me to believe that mathematics is beautiful, so math is a part of my imaginative terrain. In… — James Arthur Copy Share Image
“Meredith,' interposed Celia, 'makes one of his women, Emilia in England, say that poetry is like talking on tiptoe; like animals in… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Green trees against the sky in the spring rain while the sky set off the spring trees in the obscuration. Red flowers… — Gayle Forman Copy Share Image
A poet ought not to pick nature's pocket. Let him borrow, and so borrow as to repay by the very act of… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
“Take a shower. Wash away every trace of yesterday. Of smells. Of weary skin. Get dressed. Make coffee, windows open, the sun… — Charlotte Eriksson Copy Share Image
Nowadays when a poet with one privately printed book can have his next three years taken care of by a Guggenheim fellowship,… — Randall Jarrell Copy Share Image
There's great poetry in the Old Testament and the New Testament. And I'm not interested in trying to prove whether this paragraph… — Cecil Williams Copy Share Image
“There is a master way with words which is not learned but is instead developed: a deaf man develops exceptional vision, a… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
