Special qualities are required of the essayist. A poem or a novel may spring from the inner consciousness of an author. Reasoning… — Flora Thompson Copy Share Image
I am destructive with brutal force, philosophical with the verse, magical with the voice, remain unfamiliar with loss, a champion in every… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“And God said: Let there be light, and there was light." Lena opened her eyes, feeling as if someone had been reading… — Gala.J Copy Share Image
In poetry you can express almost inexpressible feelings. You can express the pain of loss, you can express love. People always turn… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
We know the surrealist solution: concrete irrationality, objective risk. Poetry is the conquest, the only possible conquest, of the 'supreme position', 'a… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“I don't know if you're alive or dead. Can you on earth be sought, or only when the sunsets fade be mourned… — Anna Akhmatova Copy Share Image
“Poetry was a discipline grounded in experience that drew its life and worth from a source much greater than oneself, and as… — Kathleen Norris Copy Share Image
“The half-brained creature to whom books are other than living things may see with the eyes of a bat and draw with… — Algernon Charles Swinburne Copy Share Image
“If you had told me, though, when I was twenty-four that I would write about Skokie, Illinois, where I grew up, I… — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
To cook, and to do it well, every talent must be used; the strength of a prize-fighter, the imagination of a poet,… — Anne Ellis Copy Share Image
My dad was the baby. When he was born they were already successful. They sent him to business school - he probably… — Bob Balaban Copy Share Image
By virtue of this science the poet is the Namer, or Language-maker, naming things sometimes after their appearance, sometimes after their essence,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
When in public poetry should take off its clothes and wave to the nearest person in sight; it should be seen in… — Brian Patten Copy Share Image
I remember I was very taken with a book called DreamTigers by [Jorge Luis] Borges. He was at the University of Texas,… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
“STONE Let my heart turn to stone. Maybe then I can sleep without nightmares. May be then I can eat without a… — Lisa Schroeder Copy Share Image
“In two of your poems you called that central Passage of womanhood a wound, Instead of a curtain guarding a silken Trail… — Michele Wolf Copy Share Image
Anne Pitkin's poems have such lyrical sweep, such a sensitive eye for the natural world as it touches the human, that reading… — Rosellen Brown Copy Share Image
Therefore we value the poet. All the argument and all the wisdom is not in the encyclopedia, or the treatise on metaphysics,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The tragedy of "Hamlet" is critically considered to be the masterpiece of dramatic poetry; and the tragedy of "Hamlet" is also, according… — George Augustus Henry Sala Copy Share Image
The difficulty with poetry is that it doesn't have the life that Shakespeare or Jane Austen have beyond the page. You can't… — Simon Schama Copy Share Image
When I was nine, the teacher asked us to write a piece about our village fete. He read mine in class. I… — Eugene Ionesco Copy Share Image
If you want to be considered a poet, you will have to show mastery of the petrarchan sonnet form or the sestina.… — Anthony Burgess Copy Share Image
[On collectors of quotations:] How far our literature may in future suffer from these blighting swarms, will best be conceived by a… — Maria Edgeworth Copy Share Image
“I wrote too many poems in a language I did not yet know how to speak But I know now it doesn't… — Andrea Gibson Copy Share Image
Our bread need not ever be sour or hard to digest. What Nature is to the mind she is also to the… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
What I discerned in the U.S. was a convergence of poetic voices coming from many different rents in the social fabric, many… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
If you stuff yourself full of poems, essays, plays, stories, novels, films, comic strips, magazines, music, you automatically explode every morning like… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“A sixteenth-century poet, especially one who knew that he ought to be a curious and universal scholar, would possess some notions, perhaps… — Frank Kermode Copy Share Image
Every work of art reaches man in his inner powers. It reaches him more profoundly and insidiously than any rational proposition, either… — Jacques Maritain Copy Share Image
“Why covet a knowledge of new facts? Day and night, house and garden, a few books, a few actions, serve us as… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
There is a wonderful place where flowers grow in colors beyond the words of poets... trees sing with the songs of butterflies.… — Laurel Burch Copy Share Image
It's your worst sin saving your f***ing life; It's the devil's knife carving holes into your soul so angels have a way… — Andrea Gibson Copy Share Image
As an architect you are a builder. You are of course more than a builder. You need to be a militant, you… — Renzo Piano Copy Share Image
“These are immigrant times And the lines are long, The signs for jobs few, The songs sadder, the air meaner. Everyone is… — Alberto Ríos Copy Share Image
Be careful what you think, because your thoughts run your life. Do you want to be happy tomorrow? Then sow seeds of… — Max Lucado Copy Share Image
“But my heart is an old house (the kind my mother grew up in) hell to heat and cool and faulty in… — Clementine von Radics Copy Share Image
I think what gets a poem going is an initiating line. Sometimes a first line will occur, and it goes nowhere; but… — Billy Collins Copy Share Image
“Destarte! How musical! What does it mean?” “You can’t say it except in Mescalero. It means Morning, but that isn’t what it… — Louis L'Amour Copy Share Image
“The amateur has not mastered the technique of his art. Nor does he expose himself to judgment in the real world. If… — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
When I began rapping, I only had one form at my disposal. All I had, all I needed was a rhyme verse;… — Kate Tempest Copy Share Image
![“Poetry was a discipline grounded in experience that drew its life and worth from a source much greater than oneself, and as it realized its potential to touch others in their innermost being, what [Kathleen] Fraser has termed their "yearning side," it could be a profoundly communal act. Poetry…” quote by Kathleen Norris](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/aee/kathleen-norris-7283_discipline_poetry-was-a-discipline-grounded-in-expe_449388.jpg)
![“I remember I was very taken with a book called DreamTigers by [Jorge Luis] Borges. He was at the University of Texas, Austin, and they collected some of his writings and put them in a little collection. It's called DreamTigers in English, but it doesn't exist in Spanish. It's a little sampler. But…” quote by Sandra Cisneros](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/466/sandra-cisneros-862_austin_i-remember-i-was-very-taken-with-a-book_2635005.png)
![“[On collectors of quotations:] How far our literature may in future suffer from these blighting swarms, will best be conceived by a glance at what they have already withered and blasted of the favourite productions of our most popular poets.” quote by Maria Edgeworth](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/f83/maria-edgeworth-5129_books_on-collectors-of-quotations-how-far-our_2557405.png)
