“I want to gossip about forever / against the part of your back that / is mine.” — Mikl Paul Copy Share Image
The oration of poetry, I consider to be its own art form and tradition. — Amanda Gorman Copy Share Image
The name Phenomenal Woman was inspired by Maya Angelo, who wrote 'Phenomenal Woman', a favorite poem of mine. — Meena Harris Copy Share Image
“She's unafraid to reveal her broken parts, because she's learned that's where her freedom starts.” — Louisa Jolanda Copy Share Image
“Poetry is not communication with angels or with the "subconscious." It is communication with the guts, genitals, and five portals of sense.… — Thomas Pynchon Copy Share Image
Bob Altman got nothing from the TV series 'M*A*S*H,' and the royalties for the theme song went to his oldest son, Michael,… — Mitchell Zuckoff Copy Share Image
“this is where the poets will interject / they will say: show, dont tell / but that assumes most people can see” — Marwa Helal Copy Share Image
“There's a famous line from a poem about the ocean," Mother had finally said to end the discussion. "'Water water every where,… — mindy mcginnis Copy Share Image
Poems can't help but be personal. Mine are certainly an accurate blueprint of the things I think about, if not a record… — Matthea Harvey Copy Share Image
for what is the gift of the poet and the artist except to see the sights which others cannot see and to… — Ouida 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
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
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
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
“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
“...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 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
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
Poetry is about as much a 'criticism of life' as red-hot iron is a criticism of fire. — Ezra Pound Copy Share Image
Eroticism is one of the basic means of self-knowledge, as indispensable as poetry. — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
I always have a backpack. I was a poet, so it reminds me of being a backpack poet. — Omari Hardwick Copy Share Image
“How much must be forgotten out of love, How much must be forgiven, even love.” — W.H. Auden Copy Share Image
“There's no money in poetry. Then again, there's no poetry in money either.” — Robert Graves Copy Share Image
“Going outside is highly overrated. —Anorak’s Almanac, Chapter 17, Verse 32” — Ernest Cline Copy Share Image
Some of us – poets are not exactly poets. We live sometimes – beyond the word. — Wole Soyinka Copy Share Image
The unit of the poet is the word, the unit of the prose writer is the sentence. — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
“If the poet is not a real genius, I do not know what a genius is.” — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The mathematician's patterns, like the painter's or the poet's, must be beautiful. — G. H. Hardy Copy Share Image
