We fall into the old stuff of textuality, and almost everything becomes safe because nobody wants to talk about what is not… — Fady Joudah Copy Share Image
How would you paint me? If you were a artist how would you paint me? With deep solid strokes or your brush… — Christy Ann Martine Copy Share Image
“There was a poem, she said, by Beckett that he had written twice, once in French and once in English, as if… — Rachel Cusk Copy Share Image
“Numb to the words you have left heavy on my skin. Dipped with malice and edged with regret, it's within these shadows… — A.Y. Greyson Copy Share Image
“all the pretty woman thought the poems i wrote on love were meant for them. and i always felt badly about having… — Orhan Veli Kanık Copy Share Image
“He's always had a nameless, unanchored longing; and when, at critical points in his life, a period of intense longing coincided with… — Josephine Humphreys Copy Share Image
If a thing can be said in ten words, I may be relied upon to take a hundred to say it. I… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
Poetry is probably the last gift economy. Part of the negotiation is to understand that you're going to do something you really… — Claudia Rankine Copy Share Image
“She was sunshine on a rainy day, a rainbow against gray clouds, hope in a Catholic school uniform. She was why poetry… — S.L. Scott Copy Share Image
I say sometimes that I'm a poet but I work in the novel form. That's what I do. That's what makes sense… — Douglas A. Martin Copy Share Image
A poet who makes use of a worse word instead of a better, because the former fits the rhyme or the measure,… — Horace Walpole Copy Share Image
A play's an interpretation. It is not a report. And that is the beginning of its poetry because, in order to interpret,… — Arthur Miller Copy Share Image
My father was a fun guy and a good poet and singer, had friends in the film industry and was so generous… — Arshad Warsi Copy Share Image
I was shy at school, but not at home. We had a boiler that had tiles around it, so if my sister… — Sarah Millican Copy Share Image
Just as the good actor perform well whatever role the poet assigns, so too must the good man perform whatever Fortune assigns.… — Bion of Borysthenes Copy Share Image
“...Eugene Sue's The Mysteries of Paris, a brilliant reenvisioning of one's own city as an exotic locale. Sue, who was too poor… — Andrei Codrescu Copy Share Image
“I hit on something I believe when I wrote that I meant to be a Poet and a Poem. It may be… — A.S. Byatt Copy Share Image
When I started writing poetry in my senior term of high school - I was sixteen - I felt in touch with… — Gerard Malanga Copy Share Image
“Some people react physically to the magic of poetry, to the moments, that is, of authentic revelation, of the communication, the sharing… — Dylan Thomas Copy Share Image
“I had become wiser, I tried to find out what irony really is, and discovered that some ancient writer on poetry had… — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
“I speak here of poetry as a revelatory distillation of experience, not the sterile word play that, too often, the white fathers… — Audre Lorde Copy Share Image
As a composer I might class myself as a Neo-Romantic, inasmuch as I have always regarded music as a highly personal and… — Bernard Herrmann Copy Share Image
“The most authentic thing about us is our capacity to create, to overcome, to endure, to transform, to love and to be… — Alison Miller Copy Share Image
If you were making poetry out of convictions - trying to convince other people - you were in the territory of rhetoric,… — Robert Hass Copy Share Image
“But all of what Jesus says in this chapter should be read in light of the opening few verses: “Do whatever they… — David Desilva Copy Share Image
I keep a journal for my future wife. I jot down love letters, poems, etc. I write as if she's a real… — Ben Copy Share Image
“To speak again of solitude, it becomes ever clearer that in truth there is nothing we can choose or avoid. We are… — Anita Barrows Copy Share Image
“ Today Today is the day that good things come your way, and then bad things to suck all the fun from… — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
“Submerged Suburbia by Stewart Stafford Fell out of bed, dragging my soul, Looked out the old goldfish bowl, To see suburbia was… — Stewart Stafford Copy Share Image
My artistic manifesto exists in the world as poetry. So even though most of the things that I've done have been on… — Jamila Woods Copy Share Image
“I need to climb the orange trees in Yaffa City, and let the orange branches hold me, and write poetry “كم أتمنى أن أتسلق أشجار برتقال يافا ، و سأسمح لبرتقالة تلفها رائحة حكايات جدتي وتسكنها طفولتي أن تحملني كي أكتب الشعر٠” — Amany Al-Hallaq Copy Share Image
A young poet in America should not be advised at the outset to give up all for the Muse-to seclude himself in… — Edmund Wilson Copy Share Image
Reagan wrote out many of his radio commentaries and newspaper articles as well as many of his own speeches. He wrote poetry,… — Charlie Sykes Copy Share Image
“…The heavens could not bear my debt And wrote me as a madman in my fate. But lovers bled their hearts And… — Hafiz Shirazi Copy Share Image
“I screamed at myself in the subway for writing poems about you still. I made a scene. I think about you almost… — Jon Sands Copy Share Image
And Mandelstam says a poet - you go down to the shore and you see an unlikely looking from a bottle from… — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
“Memory Verse Study Guide Jesus’ mission statement for the church is to make disciples. These pivotal verses (Matthew 28:18-20) are commonly referred… — Greg Ogden Copy Share Image
“On No Work of Words On no work of words now for three lean months in the bloody Belly of the rich… — Dylan Thomas Copy Share Image
“Why should it be any surprise that people find solace in the most intimate literary genre? Poetry slows us down, cherishes small… — Naomi Shihab Nye Copy Share Image
“Why is it, he asked, that wherever a Chilean goes in the world, Neruda and his fucking seashells has already been there… — Nicole Krauss Copy Share Image
