No poet is required to write in stanzas, or indeed in regular forms at all. Coleridge's 'Dejection: An Ode' has a rhyme… — James Fenton Copy Share Image
The programmer, like the poet, works only slightly removed from pure thought-stuff. He builds his castles in the air, from air, creating… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
And I myself a Catholic will be, So far at least, great saint, to pray to thee. Hail, Bard triumphant! and some… — Abraham Cowley Copy Share Image
So we start with an oversignifying reader. Those texts that appear to reward this reader for this additional investment - text that… — Don Paterson Copy Share Image
When poets go off the boil, they sound like bumble bees; when critics do, they sound like sewing machines. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
Since childhood, it was my dream to go where all the poets and artists had been. Rimbaud, Artaud, Brancusi, Camus, Picasso, Bresson,… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
There is no doubt that the loftiest written wisdom is either rhymed or in some way musically measured,--is, in form as well… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
In my own prejudice.. I would have of a poet...whose worlds would not be too esoteric..fond of talking....capable of pity and laughter..appreciative… — Louis MacNeice Copy Share Image
I invented the colors of the vowels!--A black, E white, I red, O blue, U green--I made rules for the form and… — Arthur Rimbaud Copy Share Image
I have heard that hysterical women say They are sick of the palette and fiddle-bow, Of poets that are always gay — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
If poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world, science fiction writers are its court jesters. We are Wise Fools who can… — Bruce Sterling Copy Share Image
All the things an artist must be: poet, explorer of nature, philosopher! — Paul Klee Copy Share Image
I'm afraid I take ... this rather clinical view of love: it's saving you from madness. I'm not so enthusiastic as other… — William Empson Copy Share Image
I know some people might think it odd - unworthy even - for me to have written a cookbook, but I make… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
Here in the United States, we speak with reverence of authentic experience. We write poems about our daddies taking us fishing and… — Charles Simic Copy Share Image
Secretly, deep down, everybody on Earth believes they can write poetry, apart from the members of the Poets' Guild, who know they… — K.J. Parker Copy Share Image
Even if you walk exactly the same route each time - as with a sonnet - the events along the route cannot… — A. R. Ammons Copy Share Image
The poet's perspective of life, the musician's sense of harmony, the artist's eye of proportion and relationships ~ these are all shared… — Michael Tierra Copy Share Image
Heaven deliver us, what's a poet? Something that can't go to bed without making a song about it. — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
Bad luck for the young poet would be a rich father, an early marriage, an early success or the ability to do… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
