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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
[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
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
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
To cook, and to do it well, every talent must be used; the strength of a prize-fighter, the imagination of a poet,… — Anne Ellis Copy Share Image
When in public poetry should take off its clothes and wave to the nearest person in sight; it should be seen in… — Brian Patten Copy Share Image
I remember I was very taken with a book called DreamTigers by [Jorge Luis] Borges. He was at the University of Texas,… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
Therefore we value the poet. All the argument and all the wisdom is not in the encyclopedia, or the treatise on metaphysics,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
My dad was the baby. When he was born they were already successful. They sent him to business school - he probably… — Bob Balaban Copy Share Image
By virtue of this science the poet is the Namer, or Language-maker, naming things sometimes after their appearance, sometimes after their essence,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
You might learn as much about how to write by reading Shakespeare, Tolstoy, Wallace Stevens, Raymond Chandler, Saul Bellow, Paul Muldoon or… — David Denby Copy Share Image
How does a poet teach himself or herself? I think chiefly by imitation, chiefly by practising it as a deliberate technical exercise… — Derek Walcott Copy Share Image
I love to publish new writers, and we do so consistently. But a lot of contemporary American poets sound alike to me.… — Jonathan W. Galassi Copy Share Image
When I was learning to write I was surrounded by poets; Brian Blanchfield and Annie Guthrie were always with me as I… — Samantha Hunt Copy Share Image
It starts off like climbing a tree or solving a puzzle - poetry, if nothing else, is just fun to write. But… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
He who without the Muse's madness in his soul comes knocking at the door of poesy and thinks that art will make… — Plato Copy Share Image
The ghosts of Rilke and Wordsworth--along with the 300+ MFA programs, which now seem to employ all Living Poets--have misled the American… — Katy Lederer Copy Share Image
Rama, the ancient idol of the heroic ages, the embodiment of truth, of morality, the ideal son, the ideal husband, and above… — Swami Vivekananda 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
Theodore Dalrymple is a brilliant observer of both medicine and society, and his book wittily engages with two versions of the current… — Kenneth Minogue Copy Share Image
Poets and songwriters speak highly of spring as one of the great joys of life in the temperate zone, but in the… — Barbara Holland Copy Share Image
At birth we begin to discover that shapes, sounds, lights, and textures have meaning. Long before we learn to talk, sounds and… — Nancy Newhall Copy Share Image
Mary Mackey joins other visionary poets of dpaysement . . . recovering a lost part of herself in the edgy lyricism of… — Dennis Nurkse Copy Share Image
I think that poets can say, "What we want is for everybody on earth to wake up free from fear and with… — Robert Hass Copy Share Image
Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill. Without… — Barbara Tuchman Copy Share Image
I was strong and tough enough and charming. / How else is a fat Jew lesbian poet gonna get by? / Listening… — Elana Dykewomon Copy Share Image
A trouble with poetry is the presence of presumptuousness in poetry, the sense you get in a poem that the poet takes… — Billy Collins Copy Share Image
The night in prison was novel and interesting enough… I found that even here there was a history and a gossip which… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
That is many poets don't know how to tell a story and they don't have a sense of how to put things… — Edward Hirsch 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
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