“Surely, then, mere style, or language, never was, as it never could, naturally, it never could, possibly be praised, by well-informed readers;… — Percival Stockdale Copy Share Image
As a poet, I would always hear emcees come up to me and say, 'Yo, you should rap,' and I was like,… — Omari Hardwick Copy Share Image
“cademics and intellectuals are culture vultures. In a gathering of today’s elite, it is perfectly acceptable to laugh that you barely passed… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
… that sour blend of loneliness and lust for recognition, shyness and extravagance, deep insecurity and self-intoxicated egomania, that drives poets and… — Amos Oz Copy Share Image
“I heard it stated that, on one occasion, during one of Alastair's visits to his friend "Mr Lachlan," the famous divine requested… — Various Copy Share Image
“Imagination does not breed insanity. Exactly what does breed insanity is reason. Poets do not go mad; but chess-players do. Mathematicians go… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
'But I never see any guys like that! you may protest. The reason for this is probably because Christlike Warrior Poets arent… — Leslie Ludy Copy Share Image
“When I write poetry, I’ll write it down, or a tiny bit of it, and then have to depend on the reader… — William Anderson Copy Share Image
The violinist must possess the poet's gift of piercing the protective hide which grows on propagandists, stockbrokers and slave traders, to penetrate… — Yehudi Menuhin Copy Share Image
Over the last few decades, I've grown more skeptical about a few things in which I used to have more faith. I… — Joshua Clover Copy Share Image
“I confess, I have setbacks like anyone. But they don’t cause distress or coalesce in a mess for I’ve learned to step… — Shaun Hick Copy Share Image
“How may we be saints and live in golden coffins Who will leave on our stone shelves pathetic notes for intervention How… — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
Poetry has an indirect way of hinting at things. Poetry is feminine. Prose is masculine. Prose, the very structure of it, is… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
“I’ve wanted to write about them for a long while, but it’s a tricky subject, always put off for later and perhaps… — Wisława Szymborska Copy Share Image
Some of the old folk singers used to phrase things in an interesting way, and then, I got my style from seeing… — Bob Dylan Copy Share Image
Since the beginning of establishment, poets and spoken word artists have always been both vocal supporters and critics of government. And in… — Malcolm-Jamal Warner Copy Share Image
“Show me that you can divide the notes of a song; But first, show me that you can discern Between what can… — Siddhartha Mukherjee Copy Share Image
The day I found you was when I found myself. The sun shines in the day, The moon shines in the night.… — Nghi Lam Copy Share Image
“right now, I am a rough draft; I am here to be revisited and revised. hard as I try, I am not… — Caroline Kaufman Copy Share Image
“We strove for a name, while the light of the lamps burnt thin and the outer dawn came in, a ghost, the… — Hilda Doolittle Copy Share Image
“It was useless trying to explain to Cecila that poetry wasn't a commodity, that it could never be bought or sold, that… — Tennessee Williams Copy Share Image
“What do they think has happened, the old fools, To make them like this ? Do they somehow suppose It's more grown-up… — Philip Larkin Copy Share Image
Young poets worry that their experiences - whether urban or rural, immigrant or native, small town, suburb, or big city - aren't… — Allison Joseph Copy Share Image
Such an obstacle Is falling in love. The greatest loss of clarity, Yet I can see you oh so well. My eyes… — Yours Truly Copy Share Image
For 2,500 years, people have been writing odes. Why? I think that there's something innately human in wanting to praise the world… — Barbara Hamby Copy Share Image
“Shit is disgusting and horrible. A lot of people and things are disgusting and horrible, and I want to be a nice… — Ariana Reines Copy Share Image
My best songs were written very quickly. Just about as much time as it takes to write it down is about as… — Bob Dylan Copy Share Image
What poetry does above all else is develop sensibility. And that's what makes poetry so dangerous. That's why poetry is so good… — Sam Hamill Copy Share Image
“Somewhere between poetry and science, somewhere between heaven and earth, clairaudience is born. Clairaudience is the sweetest mystery any human being could… — Amelia Kinkade Copy Share Image
Writing a poem ... is a kind of possible love affair between something like the heart (that courageous but also shy factory… — Mary Oliver Copy Share Image
When did "sentimental" become a pejorative barb? I do not at all share the notion that a piece of music, or a… — Bill Richardson Copy Share Image
I have never written a play, a story, a poem, or my one film - anything - unless something was troubling me… — Israel Horovitz Copy Share Image
When Emily Dickinson's poems were published in the 1890s, they were a best-seller; the first book of her poems went through eleven… — Robert Hass Copy Share Image
Children read to learn - even when they are reading fantasy, nonsense, light verse, comics or the copy on cereal packets, they… — Joan Aiken Copy Share Image
I think that's what poetry does. It allows people to come together and identify with a common thing that is outside of… — Diane Wakoski Copy Share Image
Most people are trying to go digital, and trying to do different things with poetry. McSweeney's is going in the opposite direction… — Victoria Chang Copy Share Image
“I do not know how it is elsewhere, but here, in this country, poetry is a healing, life-giving thing, and people have… — Osip Mandelstam Copy Share Image
I think, though, that perspective-awareness may follow from a kind of speaking that also came into my work more recently - the… — Jane Hirshfield Copy Share Image
Nature and books belong to the eyes that see them. It depends on the mood of the man, whether he shall see… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“He never described himself as a poet or his work as poetry. The fact that the lines do not come to the… — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
