The spark of true poetry flashes when ideas are juxtaposed that no one has yet thought of bringing together. — J. M. Coetzee Copy Share Image
“poet Harold Hart Crane #203 on top 500 poets Poet's Page Poems Comments Stats E-Books Biography Videos Share on Facebook Share on… — Harold Hart Crane Copy Share Image
But in the finished art of the song the use of words has no connection with the use of words in poetry. — John Drinkwater Copy Share Image
I love the verse in Job, where it says a man deserves the devotion of his friends even when he forsakes the… — Rick Warren Copy Share Image
Special qualities are required of the essayist. A poem or a novel may spring from the inner consciousness of an author. Reasoning… — Flora Thompson Copy Share Image
I'm not asking a poem to carry a lot of rocks in its pockets. Just being an ordinary observer and liver and… — Sharon Olds Copy Share Image
“I suppose that's how it looks in prose. But it's very different if you look at it through poetry…and I think it's… — L.M. Montgomery Copy Share Image
You see, the patience of an audience is very short, particularly with a non-entity. You're an intruder, and you must make them… — Nipsey Russell Copy Share Image
You snipe so steady, you snub so snide, so rip and ready to diminish and deride. — Joni Mitchell Copy Share Image
“I believe in Aphrodite, I believe in insane thinkers, I believe in roaring free-spirits, I believe in full-throated poetry, I believe in… — Laura Gentile Copy Share Image
Love is when ssomebody gives you a shoulder to cry on. Love is soomebody makes you laugh when you're sad. Love is… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Poetry is a dumb Buddha who thinks a donkey is as important as a diamond. — Natalie Goldberg Copy Share Image
Poems are ideally suited, in some ways, to social media because they pack so much meaning into so little language. — Michelle Dean Copy Share Image
In fact a lot of them I think are absolute baloney. Those Charles Olsens and people like that. At first I was… — Norman MacCaig Copy Share Image
If anything, hearing another poet is a sacred experience I enter, but I can honestly say this does not influence my own… — Grace Cavalieri Copy Share Image
“I don’t want safety or guarantees— I want a life worth living. I want to jump off a skyscraper And fashion a… — Justin Wetch Copy Share Image
“ I Like For You To Be Still I like for you to be still It is as though you are absent… — Pablo Neruda Copy Share Image
“A booby woos his mate with a story of abundance; a bee dances out a story of food. Whatever line we draw… — Nino Ricci Copy Share Image
“in a slapfight with Jesus my face bleeds because no one cut their fingernails back then” — Daniel Bailey Copy Share Image
“...for life's not a paragraph/ and death, i think, is no parenthesis.” — e. e. cummings Copy Share Image
The statement of ideas in a poem may have to do with logic. More profoundly, it may be identified with the emotional… — Muriel Rukeyser Copy Share Image
