“He sang one whole verse directly to her, then, in fidelity to the song, he sent his vision inward to where his… — Guy Gavriel Kay Copy Share Image
Often it seems that there are writers who are their best selves on the page. That Seamus Heaney was as genuine and… — Natasha Trethewey Copy Share Image
“Pablo Neruda's poems tramped through the mud [with the fieldworker]...knocked at the doors of mansions...sat at the table of the baker...The shopkeeper… — Pam Muñoz Ryan Copy Share Image
“The move away from writing poetry was gradual. It was a gentle slope into a muddy pond; it was a collection of… — Angela Doll Carlson Copy Share Image
When the poet's sentiments are overly visible, the audience may become uncomfortable. Japanese ritual is the opposite. By writing simply and only… — Naoto Fukasawa Copy Share Image
“Maple. Maypole Catch and carry. Ash and Ember. Elderberry. Woolen. Woman. Moon at night. Willow. Window. Candlelight. Fallow farrow. Ash and oak.… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
“With a little more time, patience, and hard work, and above all with a more sensitive taste for the formal aspects of… — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
A poem really does recreate the language, and that's what it has to do. A true poem, I think, has to give… — Mary Ann Hoberman Copy Share Image
“One young fellow pointed to another steamer in the distance, and said it was the Lady of the Lake, a United States… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“Spring, spring! Bytuene Mershe ant Averil, when spray biginneth to spring! When shaws be sheene and swards full fayre, and leaves both… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
What poetry is asking us to accept can be difficult. Our proximity to our mortality, the fragility of our existence, how close… — Matthew Zapruder Copy Share Image
I am a poet writing about my pain. I am person recovering and trying to gain. I am your daughter who is… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Note, to-day, an instructive, curious spectacle and conflict. Science, (twin, in its fields, of Democracy in its)—Science, testing absolutely all thoughts, all… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
Why is it that all those who have become eminent in philosophy, politics, poetry, or the arts are clearly of an atrabilious… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
My biggest poetic influences are probably 20th-century British and Irish poets. So I suppose I'm always listening for the music I associate… — David Starkey Copy Share Image
In one line of his poem he said good fences make good neighbors. I'd like to think that Alaska and British Columbia… — Dan Miller Copy Share Image
don’t write out of what I know; I write out of what I wonder. I think most artists create art in order… — Lucille Clifton Copy Share Image
“I don't know you, But I love you, Just as God loves me and you. The sun and the moon are opposing… — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image
“There are productive spirits who require many and great destinies or experience in order to produce a small work. There is a… — Georg Brandes Copy Share Image
“Youth is the time to go flashing from one end of the world to the other both in mind and body; to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Jen's Mum Will Write Jen's mum writes advertising copy. She specializes in white goods: washing machines, dryers, fridges, freezers, dishwashers. She hates… — Margaret Wild Copy Share Image
Kools and Newports were for black people and lower-class whites. Camels were for procrastinators, those who wrote bad poetry, and those who… — David Sedaris Copy Share Image
R&b, poetry, I'd like to do everything. But I'm an entertainer and entertaining is not just music. I can do comedy; I'm… — Keak da Sneak Copy Share Image
Political means so many things. We are political willy-nilly. Political poetry is an easy invitation to disaster. But then so is love… — Gerald Stern Copy Share Image
“Prison Moon Four a.m. work duty and I begin my solitary trudge from outer compound to main building. A shivering guard, chilled… — Jorge Antonio Renaud Copy Share Image
I like poetry, but honestly, I like dramatic literature more. If I had to pick between Rumi and Dostoevsky, I would pick… — Ramin Bahrani Copy Share Image
Thich Nhat Hanh has the ability to express some of the most profound teachings of interdependence and emptiness I've ever heard. With… — Jack Kornfield Copy Share Image
Cats are to dogs what modern people are to the people we used to have. Cats are slimmer, cleaner, more attractive, disloyal,… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
“The Prophet himself sometimes openly suppressed or negated older verses, considering them to have been replaced by newer ones. That is because… — Reza Aslan Copy Share Image
“It comes down to this: we're pieces of equipment To be counted and signed for. On occasion some of us break down,… — Rolando Hinojosa Copy Share Image
“I examined the poets, and I look on them as people whose talent overawes both themselves and others, people who present themselves… — Socrates Copy Share Image
“But there is a third mode of trancendence: in it language simply ceases, and the motion of spirit gives no further outward… — George Steiner Copy Share Image
Matt Mason must be declared the poet laureate of the Midwest! No other native son celebrates the overlooked America, its unsung citizens… — Rigoberto Gonzalez Copy Share Image
“If I had another life I would want to spend it all on some unstinting happiness. I would be a fox, or… — Mary Oliver Copy Share Image
“It’s not magic. I remember because I make comparisons. Not in terms of better or worse, just different. And not all of… — Shane Koyczan Copy Share Image
The pure playfulness of certain wholly whimsical portions of (Charles) Cros’s work should not obscure the fact that at the center of… — Andre Breton Copy Share Image
I Jarrod have created this poem on my own. If you like it subscribe and say something and rate it!tell me if… — Jarrod Copy Share Image
To be a poet is to have a soul so quick to discern, that no shade of quality escapes it, and so… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
I have a dark and dreadful secret. I write poetry... I believe poetry is a primal impulse within all of us. I… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
The poet resists the pressures of reality, including the pressures of violence, in making, in forming, the poem. The tension is in… — Lawrence Joseph Copy Share Image
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