You have killed my love. You used to stir my imagination. Now you don't even stir my curiosity. You simply produce no… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“It may well be on such a night of clouds and cruel colors that there is brought forth upon the earth such… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
It is one thing to write as poet and another to write as a historian: the poet can recount or sing about… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
What poetry does above all else is develop sensibility. And that's what makes poetry so dangerous. That's why poetry is so good… — Sam Hamill Copy Share Image
My best songs were written very quickly. Just about as much time as it takes to write it down is about as… — Bob Dylan Copy Share Image
Young poets worry that their experiences - whether urban or rural, immigrant or native, small town, suburb, or big city - aren't… — Allison Joseph Copy Share Image
The violinist must possess the poet's gift of piercing the protective hide which grows on propagandists, stockbrokers and slave traders, to penetrate… — Yehudi Menuhin Copy Share Image
Some of the old folk singers used to phrase things in an interesting way, and then, I got my style from seeing… — Bob Dylan Copy Share Image
As a poet, I would always hear emcees come up to me and say, 'Yo, you should rap,' and I was like,… — Omari Hardwick Copy Share Image
… that sour blend of loneliness and lust for recognition, shyness and extravagance, deep insecurity and self-intoxicated egomania, that drives poets and… — Amos Oz Copy Share Image
To live within limits. To want one thing. Or a few things very much and love them dearly. Cling to them, survey… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
What a poem means is as much what it means to others as what it means to the author; and indeed, in… — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
Poetry transcends the nation-state. Poetry transcends government. It brings the traditional concept of power to its knees. I have always believed poetry… — Sam Hamill Copy Share Image
I was born in the Bay Area because my dad was a semi-professional photographer and poet who was really into John Coltrane.… — W. Kamau Bell Copy Share Image
Indians are the Italians of Asia and vice versa. Every man in both countries is a singer when he is happy, and… — Gregory David Roberts Copy Share Image
“He never described himself as a poet or his work as poetry. The fact that the lines do not come to the… — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
What advice do you have for writers working on their first novels?If you feel called to write a book, consider it a… — Kathleen Grissom Copy Share Image
“Don’t be afraid of your struggles, they are making you dangerously strong and wise. They are preparing you for your superpowers. Let… — Melody Lee Copy Share Image
Spin-off technologies are changing the culture. Even if you don't become an engineer you could be a poet, a journalist, a lawyer,… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
“You write poetry?" Klaus asked. He had read a lot about poets but had never met one. "Just a little bit," Isadora… — Lemony Snicket Copy Share Image
That is the best instruction you could ever give a poet: whether you're examining a bad line in a poem or a… — Alice Oswald Copy Share Image
The most available example of how poetry works for a poet is yourself, and yet you'll probably be the last one to… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
I teach a lecture course on American poetry to as many as 150 students. For a lot of them, its their only… — Robert Hass Copy Share Image
I think that were beginning to remember that the first poets didn't come out of a classroom, that poetry began when somebody… — Lucille Clifton Copy Share Image
Everywhere we are told that our human resources are all to be used, that our civilization itself means the uses of everything… — Muriel Rukeyser Copy Share Image
The idea that a poem was a made thing stayed with me, and I decided then that I wanted to be an… — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
As for what I have done as a poet, I take no pride in whatever. Excellent poets have lived at the same… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Peter Lucas and I live in Durham but spend a great of time in North Wales, where we have a cottage in… — Anne Stevenson Copy Share Image
People think, 'Oh my goodness! I have to do something really big.' You don't. Do what you love. There's a great quote… — Maria Shriver Copy Share Image
There is no objection to the proposal: in order to learn to be a poet, I shall try to write a sonnet.… — James Fenton Copy Share Image
In a way, that's also a recognition that Dante needs Virgil and that the Inferno needs the Aeneid and that the epic… — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
So much inspires me. People living their lives with courage, beauty of all kinds, nature in all its aspects, people I love… — Ellen Bass Copy Share Image
There is poetry even in prose, in all the great prose which is not merely utilitarian or didactic: there exist poets who… — Eugenio Montale Copy Share Image
Oh, Black known and unknown poets, how often have your auctioned pains sustained us? Who will compute the lonely nights made less… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
And this tenderness was not like That which a certain poet At the beginning of the century called true And, for some… — Anna Akhmatova Copy Share Image
There is a wonderful place where flowers grow in colors beyond the words of poets... trees sing with the songs of butterflies.… — Laurel Burch Copy Share Image
As an architect you are a builder. You are of course more than a builder. You need to be a militant, you… — Renzo Piano Copy Share Image
[On collectors of quotations:] How far our literature may in future suffer from these blighting swarms, will best be conceived by a… — Maria Edgeworth Copy Share Image
If you want to be considered a poet, you will have to show mastery of the petrarchan sonnet form or the sestina.… — Anthony Burgess Copy Share Image
Our bread need not ever be sour or hard to digest. What Nature is to the mind she is also to the… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
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