“I had forgotten. Disgust shadows desire. Another life is never safely envied.” — Robert Wells Copy Share Image
Satire among the Romans, but not among the Greeks, was a bitter invective poem. — John Dryden Copy Share Image
“Poetry?" ... "No, just thoughts, glimpses, things running through my head.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I want to be a poet and have a chance to explore that and let people know what's really on my mind. — Christina Aguilera Copy Share Image
The musician is perhaps the most modest of animals, but he is also the proudest. It is he who invented the sublime… — Erik Satie Copy Share Image
This verse starts as my snipers hit the mark and your guards fall from a rifle to the heart — Drake Copy Share Image
If every head of state and every government official spent an hour a day reading poetry we'd live in a much more… — Mark Strand Copy Share Image
I really like accompanying. I like working with vocalists, I've worked with a lot of poets. — Z'EV Copy Share Image
“The judge sentenced us to life— real, awake life out of the jails we had been roaming in— life in prism— then… — BJ Ward Copy Share Image
The music of language became extremely important to me, and obvious to me. By the time I was seven I was writing… — June Jordan Copy Share Image
“It creates anew the universe after it has been annihilated in our minds by the recurrence of impressions blunted by reiteration.” — Percy Shelley Copy Share Image
“Desmonde looked over to where Delilah had gone, his gaze focused on it. He smiled wryly and said softly, "You'd be surprised… — Jennifer Megan Varnadore Copy Share Image
I want to just go to places where writers don't usually go, where people like me don't usually show up, and say,… — Tracy K. Smith Copy Share Image
As I get older, I recognize that my thinking about poetry may or may not have anything actively to do with my… — Robert Creeley Copy Share Image
“Higgledy piggledy, my black hen, She lays eggs for gentlemen. Gentlemen come every day To count what my black hen doth lay.… — Ogden Nash Copy Share Image
“A Poem By Maximum Ride How does one describe freedom, How can one call themselves free, How does one sleep at night… — James Patterson Copy Share Image
“As an unperfect actor on the stage, Who with his fear is put besides his part, Or some fierce thing replete with… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
I was twenty-nine years old and I wasn't a very good poet and I wasn't a very good novelist, [so] I thought… — Edward Albee Copy Share Image
“He may allow his people to be tried for a period, and to be tossed to and fro by storms of trouble;… — David Limbaugh Copy Share Image
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