I am furious at all the letters to answer, when all I want to do is think and write poems. ... I… — May Sarton Copy Share Image
The poet who speaks out of the deepest instincts of man will be heard. The poet who creates a myth beyond the… — Babette Deutsch Copy Share Image
To be a political poet means simply to be a poet, and any poet worth their salt will be a political animal… — Andre Naffis-Sahely Copy Share Image
“~A Comparison of Seasons~ Snow's unforgiving power causes some men to wish for spring's flower. Some might hate snow's bitter chill, but… — Seth D Copy Share Image
I was a better writer when I was teaching. I was constantly going over the basics and constantly reminding myself, as I… — Gil Scott-Heron Copy Share Image
“In poems, equally as in philosophic disquisitions, genius produces the strongest impressions of novelty while it rescues the most admitted truths from… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
“What is this love that makes me see beauty, and makes every beautiful thing bring you back to me? What is this… — Kamand Kojouri Copy Share Image
I used to write sonnets and various things, and moved from there into writing prose, which, incidentally, is a lot more interesting… — Shelby Foote Copy Share Image
“You are the know place to which the unknown is always leading me back." "I possess nothing worthy to give you." "There's… — Marie Sexton Copy Share Image
“I'll be writing as long as I can hold a pen in my curled, crimped arthritic hands and then I'll dictate it,… — Wanda Lea Brayton Copy Share Image
“The day before yesterday, in the woods of Touques, in a charming spot beside a spring, I found old cigar butts and… — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
“And the truth is that I'm not , Ed, is what I wanted to tell you. I'm not arty like everyone says… — Daniel Handler Copy Share Image
“Here the children have a custom. After the celebration of evil they take those vacant heads that shone once with such anguish… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“KINGDOM OF THE WOMB From her thighs, she gives you life And how you treat she who gives you life Shows how… — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image
“Mallarmé described this agony as a battle that took place on God's "boney wing". "I struggled with that creature of ancient and… — Maggie Nelson Copy Share Image
When I am writing poetry, I try to make my mind go a little lazy, to not think too much, as a… — Dawn Lundy Martin Copy Share Image
“These words are my mother’s, my father’s, my brother’s, my lender’s, my garbage man’s—the poem runs like oil on fire beneath this… — BJ Ward Copy Share Image
Do you wanna be a poet and write? Do you wanna be an actor up in lights? Do you wanna be soldier,… — Jo Dee Messina Copy Share Image
There is this tendency to think that if you could only find the magic way, then you could become a poet. "Tell… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
“back in the middle ages they burned unruly women at the stake and out of the ashes of their bones and flesh… — Leah Harris Copy Share Image
The idea of how to read a poem is based on the idea that poetry needs you as a reader. That the… — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
Like hungry guests, a sitting audience looks / Plays are like suppers; poets are the cooks / The founder's you; the table… — George Farquhar Copy Share Image
My life all-around is really different than a lot of other poets. Not poets that are parents, too, but just that I… — Victoria Chang Copy Share Image
Works of art are not so much finished as abandoned. Perhaps poems can be perfect. A short-short story might even be perfectible,… — Bruce Holland Rogers Copy Share Image
It is certain that satirical poems were common at Rome from a very early period. The rustics, who lived at a distance… — Thomas B. Macaulay Copy Share Image
I can cite a chapter and verse of literature at the times saying Italians don't speak our language, these folks coming from… — Chris Hayes Copy Share Image
In Náhuatl, the language of the Aztec world, one key word for poet was 'tlamatine,' meaning 'the one who knows,' or 'he… — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
From the beginning I felt that I didn't ever want to leave the impression that the process of writing a poem is… — Pattiann Rogers Copy Share Image
My colleagues knew I was writing poems. I never hid it from them. I don't think they ever thought I was cheating… — Ted Kooser Copy Share Image
“Creed by Abigail Carroll, p.196-197 I believe in the life of the word, the diplomacy of food. I believe in salt-thick ancient… — Sarah Arthur Copy Share Image
Just as a poet often has license from the rules of grammar and pronunciation, we should like to ask for 'physicists' license… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
I believed even then that if I could transform my experience into poetry I would give it the value and dignity it… — Philip Levine Copy Share Image
“When he came back, I hid my face within my hands. He said: "Fear nothing. Who has seen our kiss? --Who saw… — Pierre Louÿs Copy Share Image
“What an incredible amount of poetry, of novels, of sociological solutions to the ills of the world! One supposes that poetry is… — Augusto Monterroso Copy Share Image
“Extreme civilization robs crime of its frightful poetry, and prevents the writer from restoring it. That would be too dreadful, say those… — Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly Copy Share Image
“Love Was Love Will Be But Most of All, Love is. Life Cannot Be Without It It is found in the Womb… — Cindy Martinusen-Coloma Copy Share Image
Poetry is not Irish or any other nationality; and when writers such as Messrs. Clarke, Farren and the late F. R. Higgins… — Patrick Kavanagh Copy Share Image
The experiment of the poem is mostly intuitive. I write the first draft, pulling in the various elements that interest me, in… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“ The Last Toast I drink to our demolished hose, to all this wickedness, to you, our loneliness together, I raise my… — Anna Akhmatova Copy Share Image
“I miss her | & not the type of missing when you’re alone, not the type when you’re broken down half drunk,… — Brandon Villasenor Copy Share Image
