I began to write poetry again in 1975, when I fell in love with another woman. I returned to poetry not because… — Minnie Bruce Pratt Copy Share Image
I began as a poet, moved to short fiction, then to novel writing, and, for the past twelve years, back to stories.… — Jack Driscoll 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
This capacity for oversignifying, for reading in, is precisely what poets tap into, both in their own practice and in the poem… — Don Paterson Copy Share Image
As an artist, I never wanted to be fettered by gender nor recognized or defined as a female poet, musician or singer.… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
The competition for the future of crime fiction is fierce, as it should be, but don't take your eyes off Craig McDonald.… — Laura Lippman Copy Share Image
Bob Moses, composer, drummer, poet, artist, conceptualizer, inspirer of people, has created a musical environment that is balanced between discipline and freedom,… — Gil Evans Copy Share Image
The ideal audience the poet imagines consists of the beautiful who go to bed with him, the powerful who invite him to… — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
Harriet Levin [is] a shining poet in her generation.... The dynamics of her language and her vigorous voice distinguish all her poems.… — Molly Peacock Copy Share Image
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
You could be a poet, an artist, a comedian - if you're in the culture of innovation then you embrace those who… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
When I taught at the University of Houston in the Creative Writing program we required the poets to take workshops in fiction… — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
“In one creative thought a thousand forgotten nights of love come to life again and fill it with majesty and exaltation. And… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
I tried to explain to her the significance of the great poet, but without much success, The Waste Land not figuring very… — Alan Bennett Copy Share Image
I believe that humanity now is desperately calling for new ideas. These new ideas must come from spiritual teachers and artists, from… — Neale Donald Walsch Copy Share Image
I thought that perhaps the most creative mix for a society would be nine parts solid worker from institutions like MIT to… — James A. Michener Copy Share Image
I know that in a poem, even when the speaker is speaking from the poet's experience, there's always something that's borrowed, some… — Tracy K. Smith Copy Share Image
When we come to understand architecture as the essential nature of all harmonious structure we will see that it is the architecture… — Frank Lloyd Wright Copy Share Image
I'll never be a poet,' said Amory as he finished. 'I'm not enough of a sensualist really; there are only a few… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
A true poem is distinguished not so much by a felicitous expression, or any thought it suggests, as by the atmosphere which… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Hyesims poems: transformative as walking high granite mountains by moonlight, with fragrant herbs underfoot and a thermos of clear tea in the… — Jane Hirshfield Copy Share Image
Through this atmosphere of torrid splendor moved wan beings as richly upholstered as the furniture, beings without definite pursuits or permanent relations,… — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
I think that as poets, we can get away with stuff because we can ride on the melt of metaphor. We cover… — David Biespiel Copy Share Image
There is such a place as fairyland - but only children can find the way to it...until they have grown so old… — Lucy Maud Montgomery Copy Share Image
The government of the United States, under Lyndon Johnson, proposes to concern itself over the quality of American life. And this is… — William F. Buckley, Jr Copy Share Image
“The artist (I suppose) usually pays for the privilege by some sort of partial insomnia, by the possession of one faculty that… — Mary Lascelles Copy Share Image
A musician must make music, an artist must paint, an poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with… — Abraham Maslow Copy Share Image
Already known as one of America’s best and wittiest poets, William Trowbridge has, in Ship of Fool, found the perfect vessel to… — Charles Harper Webb Copy Share Image
How is it that the poets have said so many fine things about our first love, so few about our later love?… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
In the interest of the ethical and moral health of the country, the writer, the poet, the artist, the thinker, must hold… — Clarence Major Copy Share Image
The storyteller and poet of our time, as in any other time, must be an entertainer of the spirit in the full… — Isaac Bashevis Singer Copy Share Image
A poet is wounded into speech, and he examines these wounds, meticulously, to discover how to heal them. The bad poet harangues… — Samuel R. Delany Copy Share Image
As we speak of poetical beauty, so ought we to speak of mathematical beauty and medical beauty. But we do not do… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
There are still many writers out in the Bay, extraordinary writers like Gina Valdez, a poet who I just saw in Portland.… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
I always knew that sooner or later there would come somebody like Woody Guthrie who could make a great song every week.… — Pete Seeger Copy Share Image
This act [creation], as it is for God, must always remain totally inconceivable to man. For we--even our poets and musicians and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“If passion was a substance I would say it is dark brown, and then blood red. It's like wet grass, tons of… — Eileen Myles Copy Share Image
You know, there are good reasons to learn how to read. Poetry isn't one of them. I mean, so what if two… — Gary D. Schmidt Copy Share Image
Virtue is as little to be acquired by learning as genius; nay, the idea is barren, and is only to be employed… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
John Lane has long been recognized as one of the South's finest poets and memoirists. This debut establishes him as one of… — Ron Rash Copy Share Image
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