“ Magic Words " " Silly words cause trills because they're ludicrous and funny. Happy words paint endless smiles and swallow troubles… — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
Jorge Luis Borges wrote a poem when he was in his 80s about one day writing the book that would justify him.… — Theodora Goss Copy Share Image
“As a poet there is something about joy I find hard to express, whereas every other emotion is rather simple. For instance,… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
“If I were a poet, that’s what I’d write about. People who worked in the middle of the night. They knew how… — Janet Fitch Copy Share Image
“That life is simply a collection of little lives, each lived one day at a time. That each day should be spent… — Nicholas Sparks Copy Share Image
It is a curious thing how poets tend to become ascetics… Even a debauch for them is a self-flagellation. They go on… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
“It was about how men walk into a forest afraid because they know all the things that can happen. They might wake… — Laura Anderson Kurk Copy Share Image
I think the poet is the last person who is still speaking the truth when no one else dares to. I think… — Diane di Prima Copy Share Image
“Even in their reading, More charged, too many women were prone to superficiality. In search of a passing knowledge of books and… — Karen Swallow Prior Copy Share Image
“This week in live current events: your eyes. All power can be dangerous: Direct or alternating, you, socket to me. Plugged in… — Daphne Gottlieb Copy Share Image
When I rap, I get to express myself in a way where putting words together is like poetry, and sometimes it's better… — Wyclef Jean Copy Share Image
Have you ever noticed the way you always fall in love with the wrong people. When your chatting with friends and they… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I've always written poetry but I didn't realise it was a therapy for me until I was maybe 15. That's when my… — Amy Winehouse Copy Share Image
In America, where you'd have thought the country's so huge it couldn't happen quite so cosily, everyone's giving his imprimatur to everyone… — Michael Longley Copy Share Image
I do not see how a man can work on the frontiers of physics and write poetry at the same time. They… — Paul Dirac Copy Share Image
I was reading poetry to my girlfriends, and they were like, 'You're really good. You should go to some poetry readings or… — Jill Scott Copy Share Image
“And then there is, of course, always, and inevitably, this spume of poetry that's just blowing out of the sulphurous flue-holes of… — Nicholson Baker Copy Share Image
Poetry being the sign of that which all men desire, even though the desire be unconscious, intensity of life or completeness of… — John Drinkwater Copy Share Image
[ Mrs. James, my fifth-grade teacher] introduced us to these authors early on and taught us that their literature is important. Langston… — Michael Eric Dyson Copy Share Image
John Lane has long been recognized as one of the South's finest poets and memoirists. This debut establishes him as one of… — Ron Rash Copy Share Image
“The chaos in me is the chaos in you. Like the love in you is the love in me. So maybe we’re… — robert m drake Copy Share Image
“Cabral’s poetry, as with Guimarães Rosa’s prose, constituted a critical reply to the relations of determination that existed in regionalist literature between… — Durval Muniz de Albuquerque Jr Copy Share Image
“Sigh. Here's another fine woman that historians can't believe was real. Of course she was real. Not only is there a splendid… — Sandi Toksvig Copy Share Image
I love all kinds of music. My dad's from London, so he loves David Bowie, the Stones, The Clash. I grew up… — Adam Hicks Copy Share Image
All poets adore explosions, thunderstorms, tornadoes, conflagrations, ruins, scenes of spectacular carnage. The poetic imagination is not at all a desirable quality… — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
I always credited my mother with inspiring me to be a writer because she was such a passionate reader. She read poetry… — Judith Viorst Copy Share Image
If I can quote myself, I explained whatever it is I'm doing once for No Tell Motel, and I still think it's… — Shane McCrae Copy Share Image
I take a real interest in the possibilities of teaching - including the practice of bringing creative writing, and serious reading, into… — Michael Cadnum Copy Share Image
“But the detail of the poem shows power akin to genius, and reveals to us that much neglected law of literary history… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
I had to learn quick, because I was performing in Cinco de Mayo festivals with babies crying and people lifting their beers,… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
"I know perfectly well that at this moment the whole universe is listening to us," Jean Giraudoux wrote in The Madwoman of… — Frank Drake Copy Share Image
A poet is never one of the people. He is detached, remote, and the life of small-time dances and talk about football… — Patrick Kavanagh Copy Share Image
People are so used to reading novels now, they just read a poem straight through to get the meaning. And that's something… — Alice Oswald Copy Share Image
“Who will believe my verse in time to come, If it were fill'd with your most high deserts? Though yet, heaven knows,… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Literature - novels, plays, and poems - can have an uncanny dual life, where they simultaneously represent something eternal and something historical,… — Jane Smiley Copy Share Image
“For the Wife Beater's Wife With blue irises her face is blossomed. Blue Circling to yellow, circling to brown on her cheeks.… — Bruce Weigl Copy Share Image
“Where there is no speech we must live in despair. And exile is first of all where our speech has been silenced… — Walter Brueggemann Copy Share Image
“We of the here-and-now are not for a moment satisfied in the world of time, nor are we bound in it; we… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
All I try to do is portray Indians as we are, in creative ways. With imagination and poetry. I think a lot… — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
If you're angry, you don't have to write a poem dealing with the cause of your anger. But it needs to be… — Jay Asher Copy Share Image
![“[ Mrs. James, my fifth-grade teacher] introduced us to these authors early on and taught us that their literature is important. Langston Hughes - we read his poetry. We studied who W.E.B DuBois was. And so she whetted our appetites.” quote by Michael Eric Dyson](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/39d/michael-eric-dyson-1424_appetite_mrs-james-my-fifth-grade-teacher-introdu_519534.png)
