Ambiguity around ambiguity is forgivable in an unpublished poet and expected of an arts student on the pull: for a professional comedian… — Robert Webb Copy Share Image
“He wondered again at the easy, graceful manner in which the Roman lyricists accepted the fact of death, as if the nothingness… — John Williams Copy Share Image
“Final Disposition Others divided closets full of mother's things. From the earth, I took her poppies. I wanted those fandango folds of… — Jane Glazer Copy Share Image
To name oneself is the first act of both the poet and the revolutionary. When we take away the right to an… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
“... I don't know what I feel anymore, or maybe it's that I don't know HOW to feel anymore. I question every… — Alfa H Copy Share Image
Poets and men of action differ: the former yield to their feelings in order to reproduce them in lively colors, and therefore… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
I'm going to spend my life writing poems, turning them into music that will affect people and touch their hearts. I'm going… — Stevie Nicks Copy Share Image
Evolution does not isolate us from the rest of the Kosmos, it unites us with the rest of the Kosmos: the same… — Ken Wilber Copy Share Image
“Where had I heard this wind before Change like this to a deeper roar? What would it take my standing there for,… — Robert Frost Copy Share Image
“I thrived on his fire He lived for my madness My dirty kisses We were undying fervor Dancing volcanoes erupting in lust… — Melody Lee Copy Share Image
There are two very important things you need to realize from this verse of Scripture. The first one is: Whatever we must… — Chris Oyakhilome Copy Share Image
If a poet has any obligation toward society, it is to write well. Being in the minority, he has no other choice.… — Joseph Brodsky Copy Share Image
“Some say; “Poetry is what gets lost in translation!” In this sense, my life is a bitter poem. But that is the… — Fereidoon Yazdi Copy Share Image
In Europe life retreats out of the cold, and exquisite fireside myths have resulted—Balder, Persephone—but [in India] the retreat is from the… — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
“If I had my life to live over again, I would make it a rule to read some poetry, listen to some… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
Poems' deep work is a matter of language, but also a matter of life. One part of that work is to draw… — Jane Hirshfield Copy Share Image
You know, there's an economy in lyric-writing that doesn't afford you, or at least me - I usually start off with nine… — J. Tillman Copy Share Image
“If you haven't the creative urge, or if it is fulfilled elsehow, then, although you may be a skilled craftsman, writing the… — Christopher Milne Copy Share Image
As an artist, I never wanted to be fettered by gender nor recognized or defined as a female poet, musician or singer.… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
The immediate success of the war poem anthologies ... proved that the war had aroused in a new public an ear for… — Edmund Gosse Copy Share Image
“It is my own language, limited as it is. I will have to learn to work with it. There was a kind… — Sherwood Anderson Copy Share Image
As it can be maintained that all the great advances have come from men under forty, so the history of the world… — William Osler Copy Share Image
When modernist poetry, or what not so long ago passed for modernist poetry, can reach the stage where the following piece by… — Laura Riding Copy Share Image
In the beginning, said a Persian poet Allah took a rose, a lily, a dove, a serpent, a little honey, a Dead… — William Sharp Copy Share Image
I sometimes like to tinker with poems that have failed, ones that I have sent aside. Even years afterward, I will revisit… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I think many poets, including myself, write both for the voice and for the page. I certainly write for the person alone… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
Many great works of art, poetry, and music are inspired by astral memories. The desire to do noble, beautiful things here on… — Paramahansa Yogananda Copy Share Image
It is true that I didn't write any poetry between 1995 and 2011. The reason for this was probably because I had… — Yuriy Tarnawsky Copy Share Image
“I may not be able to say these words to you but that doesn't mean I can't say it to the rest… — Tammy-Louise Wilkins Copy Share Image
My cure for writer's block is to step away from the thing I'm stuck on, usually a novel, and write something totally… — Jess Walter Copy Share Image
Whosoever loves not picture is injurious to truth, and all the wisdom of poetry. Picture is the invention of heaven, the most… — Ben Jonson Copy Share Image
“He began to write a new type of short lyric, which he sometimes called a “Kunst-Ding”: a poem in which the obtrusive… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
Men of great talents, whether poets or historians, seldom escape the attacks of those who, without ever favoring the world with any… — Miguel de Cervantes Copy Share Image
“How clear she shines ! How quietly I lie beneath her guardian light; While heaven and earth are whispering me, " To… — Emily Brontë Copy Share Image
“I wish I could take back every ounce of my heart that I gave away. Does that make me selfish, or just… — Alfa H Copy Share Image
“There are moments we return to, now and always. Family is like water--it has a memory of what it once filled, always… — Colum McCann Copy Share Image
Because so many poets have chosen a political idiom right now in the US and so many poets have assigned value and… — David Biespiel Copy Share Image
“When was the last time we took a verse like, “Let there be no filthiness nor foolish talk nor crude joking, which… — Kevin DeYoung Copy Share Image
The poem that comes closest to saying what I think is the one in Human Wishes called "Rusia en 1931." This poem… — Robert Hass Copy Share Image
“When I throw back my head and howl People (women mostly) say But you've always done what you want, You always get… — Philip Larkin Copy Share Image
![“In Europe life retreats out of the cold, and exquisite fireside myths have resulted—Balder, Persephone—but [in India] the retreat is from the source of life, the treacherous sun, and no poetry adorns it because disillusionment cannot be beautiful. Men yearn for poetry though they may not confess…” quote by E. M. Forster](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/d93/e-m-forster-1118_august_in-europe-life-retreats-out-of-the-cold_1674386.jpg)
![“The poem that comes closest to saying what I think is the one in Human Wishes called "Rusia en 1931." This poem is about [Osip] Mandelstam, who was a great poet and an anti-Stalinist, and [Cesar] Vallejo, who was a great poet and a Stalinist.” quote by Robert Hass](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/3f6/robert-hass-3548_closest_the-poem-that-comes-closest-to-saying-wh_2774432.jpg)
