“Autobiographia Literaria" When I was a child I played by myself in a corner of the schoolyard all alone. I hated dolls… — Frank O'Hara Copy Share Image
I would tell a young Jadakiss, learn the game as much as you learn how to rap, as seriously you take a… — Jadakiss Copy Share Image
“The Fallen It was the night a comet with its silver tail fell through darkness to earth's eroded field, the night I… — Linda Hogan Copy Share Image
I did go through a phase of reading a lot of poetry and getting heavily into philosophy and ended up writing things… — Katie Melua Copy Share Image
“Rhyme is bullshit. Rhyme says that everything works out in the end. All harmony and order. When I see a rhyme in… — Tobias Wolff Copy Share Image
“I Dwelt alone In a world of moan, And my soul was a stagnant tide, Till the fair and gentle Eulalie became… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
“Reading The Waste Land, then, is in part reading about reading in the early twentieth century. The crisis in epistemology brought on… — Jewel Spears Brooker Copy Share Image
“These Things I've Done (Part 1) I have emptied the cup that overflowes, From the garden clipped the finest rose... Interrupted the… — Woody Johnson Copy Share Image
“Siapakah yang lahir dari jari jemari puisi? Yang memetik waktu di taman kenangan? Kau hanya tersenyum menatapku sambil membujuk hurufhuruf itu untuk… — Helvy Tiana Rosa Copy Share Image
“She told me her father taught her to live life way beyond the cusp of it, way out in the outer reaches… — Marisha Pessl Copy Share Image
“If the mystery can be reduced to one solution, it lies in a simple coincidence: Rimbaud's interest in his own work had… — Graham Robb Copy Share Image
Debate doesn’t really change things. It gets you bogged in deeper. If you can address or reopen the subject with something new,… — Seamus Heaney Copy Share Image
“I love you." lightning. Once it has forked, hot-white, from sky to earth, there is no going back. It's time. I feel… — Ally Condie Copy Share Image
Children should transcribe favourite passages. --A certain sense of possession and delight may be added to this exercise if children are allowed… — Charlotte Mason Copy Share Image
“Most of my friends like words too well. They set them under the blinding light of the poem and try to extract… — Jack Spicer Copy Share Image
I never even considered writing a career option. I just liked the play of words. I was certainly interested in story, but… — Charles de Lint Copy Share Image
“I am—yet what I am none cares or knows; My friends forsake me like a memory lost: I am the self-consumer of… — John Clare Copy Share Image
What I search for continuously in my art is adequate language, language I hope can stand beyond any particular occasion. What I'm… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
The "biggest" poems I ever made are based on the psychological principal of the "Johari Window:" what the self freely shares with… — Denise Duhamel Copy Share Image
Every poem holds the unspeakable inside it. The unsayable... The thing that you can't really say because it's too complicated. It's too… — Marie Howe Copy Share Image
That was in the days when everyone rode a bicycle, and the journal had a circulation of over one hundred and twenty-five… — Joseph C. Lincoln Copy Share Image
Much verse fails of being poetry because it was not written exactly at the right crisis, though it may have been inconceivably… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The last image created in verse four of this hymn, ["Come, O Thou Glorious King"] that of the promised Messiah coming into… — Eric D. Huntsman Copy Share Image
When Keats says: 'Axioms in philosophy are not axioms until they are proved upon our pulses', what he means is that we… — Andrew Motion Copy Share Image
“ I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud I wandered lonely as a cloud That floats on high o'er vales and hills, When… — William Wordsworth Copy Share Image