When poets write about food it is usually celebratory. Food as the thing-in-itself, but also the thoughtful preparation of meals, the serving… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
“This is how I recognize an authentic poet: by frequenting him, living a long time in the intimacy of his work, something… — emil cioran Copy Share Image
Poets may boast (as safely-vain) Their work shall with the world remain: Both bound together, live, or die, The verses and the… — Edmund Waller Copy Share Image
Putting Instagram into a different context is about rescuing it from the tyranny of now, taking it back from the muddy river… — Frances Stark Copy Share Image
I think tension between the intimate and the vast is at the heart of every poem by any poet, though of course… — Tracy K. Smith Copy Share Image
Our emotions are ever-changing and infinitely varied, but the words with which we describe them are fixed and rigid. Our life is… — Laura Huxley Copy Share Image
It may very well be that we have entered another time when most poets will feel compelled to use poetry to stop… — Matthew Zapruder Copy Share Image
Scholars and artists thrown together are often annoyed at the puzzle of where they differ. Both work from knowledge; but I suspectthey… — Robert Frost Copy Share Image
Ultimately you're trying to reach across and find some other person, some other human warmth. But it is, especially in written poetry,… — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
There is still a popular fantasy, long since disproved by both psychoanalysis and science, and never believed by any poet or mystic,… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
In [The New Poetry] I had attacked the British poets' nervous preference for gentility above all else, and their avoidance of the… — Al Alvarez Copy Share Image
The willed recovery of what's been lost - often forcibly, I suppose - is what keeps me going. It is this reason… — Kevin Young Copy Share Image
Drill in exact translation is an excellent way of disposing the mind against that looseness and exaggeration with which the sensationalists have… — Richard M. Weaver Copy Share Image
Women are very different to men, and that hasn't been respected. So when people say there's never been a good woman painter… — Joanna Lumley Copy Share Image
I worked privately, and sometimes I feel that might be better for poets than the kind of social workshop gathering. My school… — Mary Oliver Copy Share Image
Now, I like a church service, but this was one of those write-your-own-vows sorts of things. Neither of them had ever picked… — David Sedaris Copy Share Image
What I might do is watch Mrs Doubtfire. Or Dead Poets Society or Good Will Hunting and I might be nice to… — Russell Brand Copy Share Image
In general, I would think that at present prose writers are much in advance of the poets. In the old days, I… — William H. Gass Copy Share Image
...to be a poet, requires a mythology of the self. The self described is the poet self, to which the daily self… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
A poet is an unhappy creature whose heart is tortured by deepest suffering but whose lips are so formed that when his… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
Happy the poet who with ease can steer From grave to gay, from lively to severe. [Lat., Heureux qui, dans ses vers,… — Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux Copy Share Image
Poetry and philosophy are, according to how you take them, different spheres, different forms, or factors of religion. Try to really combine… — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel 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
Gabriel Levin's book is a journey through time and through entrenched animosities of the Middle East. What's astonishing and refreshing is his… — Adam Zagajewski Copy Share Image
But there are spirits of a yet more liberal culture, to whom no simplicity is barren. There are not only stately pines,… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
True poetry is born of scrutiny, Scrutiny, the son of meditation, Meditation, the son of lore, Lore, the son of inquiry, Inquiry,… — Stephen R. Lawhead Copy Share Image
Shakespeare possesses the power of subordinating nature for the purposes of expression, beyond all poets. His imperial muse tosses the creation like… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The trouble with poetry is it's often written to the sound of a drum only the poet may hear; nonetheless, blessed are… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
I've learned that my readings of others' work often has little connection to their intentions. This doesn't mean that my response is… — Alice Fulton Copy Share Image
Mervyn Peake is a finer poet than Edgar Allan Poe, and he is therefore able to maintain his world of fantasy brilliantly… — Mervyn Peake Copy Share Image
I really think kids should understand that music is like learning the alphabet. You put small letters together to make words, and… — Terry Bozzio Copy Share Image
No state sorrier than that of the man who keeps up a continual round, and pries into "the secrets of the nether… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
What would we not give for some great poem to read now, which would be in harmony with the scenery,--for if men… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
My child, you have a flawed grasp of the nature of myth-making. I am a poet and storyteller, a creator of ballads… — Frances Hardinge Copy Share Image
Nobody grasped you by the shoulder while there was still time. Now the clay of which you were shaped has dried and… — Antoine de Saint-Exupery Copy Share Image
There are those who say that poets should use her and his art to change the world. I'd agree with that, but… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
For the critic, criticism is a form of natural self-expression, as poetry is to the poet. So, for a critic, criticism is… — Helen Vendler Copy Share Image
I suppose it's useful in designating writing that tends to come from personal experience, work that delineates an "I," but it's a… — Matthea Harvey Copy Share Image
Now I would say at any given moment in American life, there are probably 45 poets in airplanes vectoring across the country… — Billy Collins Copy Share Image
Primitives of our own species, even today are historically shallow in their knowledge of the past. Only the poet who writes speaks… — Loren Eiseley Copy Share Image
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