“Few pay attention to the histories and the root pictures words can release. These neglected qualities are there, however, and the poets… — John Ciardi Copy Share Image
The changes that have occurred in poetry have been minor when you look at it over the scale of human time. It's… — Dorianne Laux Copy Share Image
Any long work in which poetry is persistent, be it epic or drama or narrative, is really a succession of separate poetic… — John Drinkwater Copy Share Image
If art doesn't require an audience, can an intimate conversation be a work of art? Can a thought be a work of… — James Arthur Copy Share Image
“She went by the name of Belisa Crepusculario, not because she'd been born with it or baptized it, but because she herself… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
“We writers are the worst kind of cruel, Because we worship our own stories and poems, And what human can compete with… — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
“And yet the cares are many and the hours of toil are few; There is not time enough on earth for all… — Edgar A. Guest Copy Share Image
But for me, dinner at a fine restaurant was the ultimate luxury. It was the very height of civilization. For what was… — Amor Towles Copy Share Image
There's a sameness about American poetry that I don't think represents the whole people. It represents a poetry of the moment, a… — Yusef Komunyakaa Copy Share Image
The Internet is full of strangers, generous strangers who want to help you for no reason at all. Strangers post poetry and… — Caterina Fake Copy Share Image
“Raindrops fall from clouds of gray. The fragile flowers grow. Teardrops seem all I can say. They speak of endless woe. Your… — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
The writing of poetry is a chancy business, it's currency solitude and loss, its tools coffee and too much wine, its hours… — Keith Miller Copy Share Image
“Hannah didn't see Robbie again for weeks after that. She thought he'd forgotten his promise to lend her his book of poetry.… — Kate Morton Copy Share Image
Pound described poetry as original research in language, and just as formal experiment in poetry has to try things and has to… — Robert Hass Copy Share Image
In your language you have a form of poetry called the sonnet…There are fourteen lines, I believe, all in iambic pentameter. That’s… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
Don't talk to me any more about poetry for months -- unless it is other men's work. I really love verse, even… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
“but love is not fashionable anymore, the poets have killed it. They wrote so much about it that nobody believed them, and… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
There are Harvard grads, free thinkers, feminists, abolitionists, well-to-do people who want to go write poetry and live on a farm and… — Christine Jennings Copy Share Image
Most poets, most good poets even, no longer have the heart to write about what is most terrible in the world of… — Randall Jarrell Copy Share Image
There is a beauty in discovery. There is mathematics in music, a kinship of science and poetry in the description of nature,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
As far as poetry, I don't know if I've ever written any. I've read a lot. I just write and it comes… — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
“Умом Россию не понять, Аршином общим не измерить. У ней особенная стать, В Россию можно только верить! Fyodor Tyutchev, Russian poet, 1803–1873… — Fyodor Tyutchev Anatoly Liberman Copy Share Image
“Above us all rose my mother’s hand, dangling from the column shifter like some battle-tattered flag for independence, surrounded by the glass… — BJ Ward Copy Share Image
Some people think that English poetry begins with the Anglo-Saxons. I don't, because I can't accept that there is any continuity between… — James Fenton Copy Share Image
Witchcraft offers the model of a religion of poetry, not theology. It presents metaphors, not doctrines, and leaves open the possibility of… — Starhawk Copy Share Image
“Alas, it is too true. I visited him this morning and found him en deshabille, clasping his brown. He seized on me… — Georgette Heyer Copy Share Image
It is the province of poetry to be more realistic and present than the artificial narratives of an outer discourse, and not… — David Whyte Copy Share Image
“ A Blessing Just off the highway to Rochester, Minnesota, Twilight bounds softly forth on the grass. And the eyes of those… — James Wright Copy Share Image
“I do not mean to exclude books of history, poetry, or even fables from our schools. They may and should be read… — Benjamin Rush Copy Share Image
Like so many aspiring writers who still have boxes of things they've written in their parents' houses, I filled notebooks with half-finished… — Ally Carter Copy Share Image
I've always felt that the poems I've written which have historical context are hopefully not just simply plucking something out of history… — Rita Dove Copy Share Image
Ever since I was first read to, then started reading to myself, there has never been a line read that I didn't… — Eudora Welty Copy Share Image
A Herd of Turtles' is the only song on 'Behold Electric Guitar' that is not strictly instrumental. But instead of singing, I… — Paul Gilbert Copy Share Image
Poets tend to form loose groups - the "Romantics" or the "Imagists". And sometimes they write manifestoes in the name of these… — Rae Armantrout Copy Share Image
One of the deep fundamentals of poetry is the recurrence of sounds, syllables, words, phrases, lines, and stanzas. Repetition can be one… — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
Artist - musicians, painters, writers, poets, always seem to have had the most accurate perception of what is really going on around… — Billy Joel Copy Share Image
“Fear makes you believe that you’re safer in the confines of your own mind instead of the comfort of another’s arms. When… — Liz Newman Copy Share Image
Nowhere have I found words more powerful than those in the Psalms. Their fervid poetry cleanses one, gives one strength, brings hope… — Svetlana Alliluyeva Copy Share Image
In sixth grade my teacher said that we had to do a talent show. You could sing or recite a poem... I… — Ann Reinking Copy Share Image
“ There Will Come Soft Rains There will come soft rains and the smell of the ground, And swallows circling with their… — Sara Teasdale Copy Share Image
