'The Odyssey' is a great poem to refugee-dom... Odysseus is not entirely a refugee... he's somebody who's blown off course. The entire… — Lawrence Osborne Copy Share Image
“The Arab poet Silm Al Khaser wrote “He who watches people dies of worry” and his words have never been more potent… — Aysha Taryam Copy Share Image
I thought to spend my declining years writing poetry and teaching - but that won't pay the Bergdorf's bill. I think I'll… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
“André Breton (who fled Nazi dominated Europe)told poets of this Caribbean country: 'Surrealism is allied with peoples of colour, first because it… — David Craven Copy Share Image
Most poetry is the utterance of a man in some state of passion, love, joy, grief, rage, etc., and no doubt this… — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
There are some fine books and essays about that. Lewis Hyde has written about alcoholism and poets and the role that society… — Sharon Olds Copy Share Image
Among those today who believe that modern poetry must do without rhyme or metre, there is an assumption that the alternative to… — James Fenton Copy Share Image
I had hoped to be a poet, and for a long time I tried to write poetry. My first published pieces were… — Norman Lock Copy Share Image
“Some of the worst items in math suffer from forcing students to overanalyze process verses simply perform. In sports, are gymnasts rated… — Terry Marselle Copy Share Image
“I am the dumb, the wild, the things now dead / That men have killed for being mute and strange” — Gertrud Kolmar Copy Share Image
“Solitude favors the original, the daringly and otherworldly beautiful, the poem. But it also favors the wrongful, the extreme, the absurd, and… — Thomas Mann Copy Share Image
“I know now that the poem in my head, the one that pushed me to the page, begged me - or dared… — Juan-Paolo Perre Copy Share Image
I returned to poetry as a more precise way to describe the world, more precise than science. — David Whyte Copy Share Image
My favourite poem is the one that starts 'Thirty days hath September' because it actually tells you something. — Groucho Marx Copy Share Image
The great poem and the deep theorem are new to every reader, and yet are his own experiences, because he himself recreates… — Jacob Bronowski Copy Share Image
“Shakespeare acquired more essential history from Plutarch than most men could from the whole British Museum. What is to be insisted upon… — T.S. Eliot Copy Share Image
“Have you ever plunged into the immensity of space and time by reading the geological treatises of Cuvier? Borne away on the… — Honoré de Balzac Copy Share Image
When a poem is really finished, you can't change anything. You can't move words around. You can't say, 'In other words, you… — W. S. Merwin Copy Share Image
Shelley and Keats were the last English poets who were at all up to date in their chemical knowledge. — John B. S. Haldane Copy Share Image
