Sappho and Emily Dickinson are the only woman geniuses in poetic history. — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
“The two of us snuggled like quotation marks in his room full of words.” — Michelle Hodkin Copy Share Image
The primary and literal meaning of the Bible, then, is its centripetal or poetic meaning. — Northrop Frye Copy Share Image
I write autobiographically, although I apply liberal amounts of poetic license. — Michael Franks Copy Share Image
A poet's autobiography is his poetry. Anything else can only be a footnote. — Yevgeny Yevtushenko Copy Share Image
Burroughs's voice is hard, derisive, inventive, free, funny, serious, poetic, indelibly American. — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
One man's piss-soaked sadomasochistic orgy is another man's poetic ecstasy. — Dan Savage Copy Share Image
“...and the women spread their ntsaroz and sit on one side, the men on the other, like they are two different rivers… — NoViolet Bulawayo Copy Share Image
France is not poetic; she even feels, in fact, a congenital horror of poetry. Among the writers who use verse, those whom… — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
God is a synergetic experience. Science can never reveal it, philosophy can never come to it - only a poetic approach, a… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Look at almost any passage, and you'll find that a paragraph has five or six metaphors in it. It's not that the… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
For Mallarmé naming an object meant suppressing three-quarters of its poetic pleasure (which consists in the joy of guessing bit by bit… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
Poetry is innocent, not wise. It does not learn from experience, because each poetic experience is unique. — Karl Shapiro Copy Share Image
The idea of being a writer attracts a good many shiftless people, those who are merely burdened with poetic feelings or afflicted… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
Considering the wealth of poetic drama that has come down to us from the Elizabethan and Jacobean periods, it is surprising that… — James Fenton Copy Share Image
DAISY: I never knew you were such a realist-I thought you were more poetic. Where's your imagination? There are many sides to… — Eugene Ionesco Copy Share Image
“Poetry purrs like a kitten on the tip of our tongue. Each word fluidly floating from our lips, like little crystalline snowflakes,… — Jaeda DeWalt Copy Share Image
My plays are for the kind of black people who relate to funk music, to Parliament-Funkadelic. When those guys get out of… — Suzan-Lori Parks Copy Share Image
Yes, there was a massive difference between their styles. David is a very technical director and Chris is an actor's director, in… — Tinsel Korey Copy Share Image
“I slept and saw God's forge in frost. Its hearth was quelled, and as it cooled so swooned the verdancy it kept… — Andrew Hussie Copy Share Image
“If not for the rats you could crawl beneath a bush. A bush. A bench. The alliterative universe. Rats too can pass… — Nick Flynn Copy Share Image
Woody Allen is a genius. His films are wonderful. He's poetic, but he's also a critic. He artfully steps back from a… — Mel Brooks Copy Share Image
Just as a poetic discussion of the weather is not meteorology, so an issuance of moral pronouncements or political creeds about the… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
“{ Letter from Fawcett to the great Robert Ingersoll , 1894 } I do so wish, that, in all these big questions,… — Edgar Fawcett Copy Share Image
I have just been through the process of killing a cistudo for the sake of science; but I cannot excuse myself for… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Almost everything that's happened in my poetry is what you might call organic. I don't do much preconceiving. The only consistent plan… — Ron Padgett Copy Share Image
If modern design moved the stage picture away from the specific, tangible, illusionistic world of Romanticism and Realism into a generalized, theatrical,… — Arnold Aronson Copy Share Image
I sense the world might be more dreamlike, metaphorical, and poetic than we currently believe--but just as irrational as sympathetic magic when… — David Byrne Copy Share Image
So you got rid of your astonishment that someone could write so much more dynamically than you. You stopped cherishing your aloneness… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
The simulator is the stage in-between television and virtual reality, a moment, a phase. The simulator is a moment that leads to… — Paul Virilio Copy Share Image
When I hear the hypercritical quarreling about grammar and style, the position of the particles, etc., etc., stretching or contracting every speaker… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“If Messenger would be to open his mouth right now, his voice would be a terrible wound.” — NoViolet Bulawayo Copy Share Image
Agosins poetic language engages the reader in a mesmerizing journey of inward reflection and exile. — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
“Poetry is inspired by the elements of random thoughts, an overflow of gazing at the unseen.” — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
The poetic notion of infinity is far greater than that which is sponsored by any creed. — Joseph Brodsky Copy Share Image
the attempt to control poetry, to subordinate it to extra-poetic ends, constitutes misuse. — Jan Clausen Copy Share Image
What's better, a poetic intuition or an intellectual work? I think they complement each other. — Manuel Puig Copy Share Image
I was a poet animated by philosophy, not a philosopher with poetic faculties. — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
“People are surprisingly poetic. Especially when they’re not trying to be.” — Lewis Morris Copy Share Image
