“Round these men stories tended to group themselves, sometimes deserting more ancient heroes for the purpose. Round poets have they gathered especially,… — W.B. Yeats Copy Share Image
“Sing these songs, and they will renew you from head to toe, from heart to mind. Pray these poems, and they will… — N.T. Wright Copy Share Image
“Don't tell a girl with fire in her veins and hurricane bones what she should and shouldn't do. In the blink of… — Melody Lee Copy Share Image
“Mute in that golden silence hung with green, Come down from heaven and bring me in your eyes Remembrance of all beauty… — Siegfried Sassoon Copy Share Image
There is still a popular fantasy, long since disproved by both psychoanalysis and science, and never believed by any poet or mystic,… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
“The . . . the one about Colin Eversea! I learned a new verse from a young lady at school. It’s very… — Julie Anne Long Copy Share Image
“SOWING LIGHTNING Seize Bolts of lightning from the sky And plant them in fields of life. They will grow like tender sprouts… — Visar Zhiti Copy Share Image
In [The New Poetry] I had attacked the British poets' nervous preference for gentility above all else, and their avoidance of the… — Al Alvarez Copy Share Image
Poetry connects us to what is deepest in ourselves. It gives us access to our own feelings, which are often shadowy, and… — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
“And with light lips yet full of their swift smile, And hands that wist not though they dug a grave, Undid the… — Algernon Charles Swinburne Copy Share Image
“Poetry, music, forests, oceans, solitude—they were what developed enormous spiritual strength. I came to realize that spirit, as much or more than… — Christopher McDougall Copy Share Image
I think of it this way: When you hear that people have downloaded your comic, appreciate that thousands are eager to hear… — Mark Waid Copy Share Image
“We—are we not formed, as notes of music are, For one another, though dissimilar; Such difference without discord, as can make Those… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
Drill in exact translation is an excellent way of disposing the mind against that looseness and exaggeration with which the sensationalists have… — Richard M. Weaver Copy Share Image
“Sittin’ in a café in dark glasses sippin’ coffee dunkin’ doughnuts while it’s sunny thinking guns guns guns and I’ve got pockets… — Alan Martin Copy Share Image
Each genre has its own process. I'm very intuitive about poetry. I usually write first and second drafts out by hand. The… — Achy Obejas Copy Share Image
I worked privately, and sometimes I feel that might be better for poets than the kind of social workshop gathering. My school… — Mary Oliver Copy Share Image
I think that there are fiction writers for whom that works well. I could never do it. I feel as if, by… — Sharon Olds Copy Share Image
Some of the finest Shakespeare has been done recently by college theater programs. I'll tell you what these young kids have: They… — Roger Rees Copy Share Image
“He is the Way. Follow Him through the Land of Unlikeness; You will see rare beasts, and have unique adventures. He is… — W.H. Auden Copy Share Image
The field is a halfway house, halfway between the detail of those intimately known places and the ignorance of a landscape view… — Adam Nicolson Copy Share Image
Women are very different to men, and that hasn't been respected. So when people say there's never been a good woman painter… — Joanna Lumley Copy Share Image
“ Her Kind I have gone out, a possessed witch, haunting the black air, braver at night; dreaming evil, I have done… — Anne Sexton Copy Share Image
“We've inherited many ideas about writing that emerged in the eighteenth century, especially an interest in literature as both an expression and… — James Shapiro Copy Share Image
Hallo _ hi-moving air in the wretched / hand forgot to introduce you to the heart !! say what is yours: So… — Mak_786 Copy Share Image
Now, I like a church service, but this was one of those write-your-own-vows sorts of things. Neither of them had ever picked… — David Sedaris Copy Share Image
“My true-love hath my heart and I have his, By just exchange one for the other given: I hold his dear, and… — Philip Sidney Copy Share Image
“But my research had taught me that the tissue of contradictions that was my personality was itself, at best, a poem, where… — Ben Lerner Copy Share Image
The best poetry has its roots in the subconscious to a great degree. Youth, naivety, reliance on instinct more than learning and… — May Swenson Copy Share Image
“If words allow themselves to be handled, it is with the help of infinite carefulness. One has to welcome them, listen to… — Paul Nouge Copy Share Image
“An artist is identical with an anarchist,' he cried. 'You might transpose the words anywhere. An anarchist is an artist. The man… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“Dolor I have known the inexorable sadness of pencils, Neat in their boxes, dolor of pad and paper weight, All the misery… — Theodore Roethke Copy Share Image
“What if you slept And what if In your sleep You dreamed And what if In your dream You went to heaven… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
Like all my poems, 'Negotiations' has several sources. It deals with aging lovers and the often silent deals they make. Thinking about… — Rae Armantrout Copy Share Image
...to be a poet, requires a mythology of the self. The self described is the poet self, to which the daily self… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
“Insofar as craft and poetics in a poem have a politics, I wanted to avoid that brittle enjambed-prose-sentence-lyric verse, where you have… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“These names mean nothing to Perowne. But he understands how eminent poets, like senior consultants, live in a watchful, jealous world in… — Ian McEwan Copy Share Image
In general, I would think that at present prose writers are much in advance of the poets. In the old days, I… — William H. Gass Copy Share Image
“…in the twentieth century grief lasts at most a year.’ I have used this quote from the Turkish poet Nazim Hikmet as… — Saeed Akhtar Mirza Copy Share Image
“We all grew up, those of us who took On the Road to heart. We came to cringe a little at our… — Sarah Vowell Copy Share Image
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