“In the land of poetry commentary, you will encounter those who take poetry too lightly, and those who take poetry too seriously.… — Jasper Sole Copy Share Image
I'm thinking like the character in order to be as authentic as I can. But after a while, how would I be… — Masiela Lusha Copy Share Image
There are places in the world where it's easier than in the US to be a person who produces theory and not… — Joshua Clover Copy Share Image
My father was an amateur oil painter, so some of his oil paintings were on our walls. There was one above the… — Edward Burtynsky Copy Share Image
“The greatest poet hardly knows pettiness or triviality. If he breathes into any thing that was before thought small it dilates with… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
“where does creativity come from? Creativity comes from the Universe itself. “There is music and poetry in the Universe itself — surely… — Matthew Fox Copy Share Image
The question does arise if how and why to write poetry in this time. It feels both completely essential and also quite… — Matthew Zapruder Copy Share Image
Poetry is the most subtle of the literary arts, and students grow more ingenious by the year at avoiding it. If they… — Terry Eagleton Copy Share Image
What if this young woman, who writes such bad poems, in competition with her husband, whose poems are equally bad, should stretch… — Gilbert Sorrentino Copy Share Image
“For me the poem and the poetry open mic isn’t about competition and it never will be. Honestly? It's wrong. The open… — R.M. Engelhardt Copy Share Image
A poem's essential discovery can happen at a single sitting. The cascade of discoveries in an essay, or even finding a question… — Jane Hirshfield Copy Share Image
What is beautiful enchants me. I mean not just physical beauty but a wider concept of beauty. There is beauty in poetry… — Andrea Bocelli Copy Share Image
“Mental life consists, according to the textbooks, of thought and feeling, according to the poets, of addressing an inner voice (or voices),… — Miroslav Holub Copy Share Image
“The poetry of motion is a phrase much in use, and to enjoy the epic form of that gratification it is necessary… — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
The unconscious mind: I don't need no pain. I'm just gonna have another drink. Closed eyes see darkness, patterns of thoughts in… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There is no separate art of life. If you know how to allow poetry, if you know how to allow dance, if… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Poets loved the full moon; they wrote thousands of poems about it, but it was the new moon that Veronika loved best… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
“To open the wound To write in its blood―with its blood means your realisation through her― the feel of her absence, like… — Al-Saddiq Al-Raddi Copy Share Image
“I'll say I love you, Which will lead, of course, to disappointment, but those words unsaid poison every next moment. I will… — Stephen Dunn Copy Share Image
“The chaos of the mind cannot constitute a reply to the providence of the universe. All it can be is an awakening… — Georges Bataille Copy Share Image
“As human beings we’ve certainly suffered the loss of awe, the loss of sacredness, and the loss of the fact that we’re… — Derek Walcott Copy Share Image
“The Trifler Death's the lover that I'd be taking; Wild and fickle and fierce is he. Small's his care if my heart… — Dorothy Parker Copy Share Image
Poetry has always been this completely alien art to me. I am the sort of bloke who, when he gets into things,… — Frank Skinner Copy Share Image
“That men, who might have tower'd in the van Of all the congregated world, to fan And winnow from the coming step… — John Keats Copy Share Image
“ When We Two Parted When we two parted In silence and tears, Half broken-hearted To sever for years, Pale grew thy… — George Gordon Byron Copy Share Image
Paul Otremba’s remarkable first book, The Currency, is an intriguing foray into lyric epistemology that tries to come to ter ms with… — Michael Collier Copy Share Image
“People say I must be cold–natured—sexless—on account of it. But I won’t have it! Some of the most passionately erotic poets have… — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
It was Rick's Rubin idea to have the 'Brooklyn' verse repeat. It already was a story, but having that made it a… — Scott Avett Copy Share Image
There are still many writers out in the Bay, extraordinary writers like Gina Valdez, a poet who I just saw in Portland.… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
I want books written out of a brain and heart and soul crowded and vital with Life, spelled with a big L.… — Gertrude Atherton Copy Share Image
I tended to write poems about both social and spiritual problems, and some problems one doesn't really want to solve, and so… — C. K. Williams Copy Share Image
If you find that the reader of popular romances--however uneducated a reader, however bad the romances--goes back to his old favourites again… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Dante Alighieri is a universal poet, and great creators, they are writing for everybody always. Every single verse is very moving, and… — Roberto Benigni Copy Share Image
“over the centuries Dante has been variously "constructed" - as lover, statesman, neo-Platonist, proto-Protestant, Romantic visionary, Byronic hero, Pre-Raphaelite, father of his… — Peter S. Hawkins Copy Share Image
“On August 18, 1941, Officer John Gillespie Magee, Jr. of the Royal Canadian Air Force took a new airplane, the Spitfire Mk… — Ryan W. Quinn Copy Share Image
I think I love and reverence all arts equally, only putting my own just above the others; because in it I recognize… — Charlotte Saunders Cushman Copy Share Image
“Poetry is the language of the gods. I love poems myself. But poetry is not only in poems; it is diffused everywhere,… — Ivan Turgenev Copy Share Image
“What exactly is the new verse movement? The New Verse Movement of the 1910's was to make poetry relevant again by immersing… — R.M. Engelhardt Copy Share Image
Do Not Wait For Me (By Mimi Mata) Do not wait for me... My craving sent me elsewhere I yearn for some… — Mimi Mata (Aspiring Writer Copy Share Image
“I wrote her story because she wanted to live forever and I loved her far more with every word, too much! Even… — robert m drake Copy Share Image
