I don't think all poems need to be written in conversational language - those are often great poems but there should also… — Matthea Harvey Copy Share Image
Luxury has been railed at for two thousand years, in verse and in prose, and it has always been loved. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Poets like painters, thus unskilled to trace The naked nature and the living grace, With gold and jewels cover ev'ry part, And… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
How often might a man, after he had jumbled a set of letters in a bag, fling them out upon the ground… — John Tillotson Copy Share Image
Though it does seem like I have written an immense amount of work, over the years I have pushed the pause button.… — Denise Duhamel Copy Share Image
Men We Reaped is a fiercely felt meditation on the value of life that at once reminds us of its infinite worth… — Peter Ho Davies Copy Share Image
If you read quickly to get through a poem to what it means, you have missed the body of the poem. — M. H. Abrams Copy Share Image
One difference between poetry and lyrics is that lyrics sort of fade into the background. They fade on the page and live… — Stephen Sondheim Copy Share Image
I only hope that one day you shall remember me like I'll remembered you. My heart for you only belongs and I… — Mahmoud El Hallab Copy Share Image
When I devoted myself to poetry - and poetry is a very serious medium - I don't think the people that knew… — Ana Castillo Copy Share Image
Criticism starts - it has to start - with a real passion for reading. It can come in adolescence, even in your… — Harold Bloom Copy Share Image
“If thou must love me, let it be for naught Except for love's sake only. Do not say, 'I love her for… — Elizabeth Barrett Browning Copy Share Image
A children's writer should, ideally, be a dedicated semi-lunatic, a kind of poet with a marvelous idea, who, preferably, when not committing… — Joan Aiken Copy Share Image
The applause of his native land is the richest reward to which the patriot ever aspires. It is this for which 'he… — John Tyler Copy Share Image
“Every work turns against its author: the poem will crush the poet, the system the philosopher, the event the man of action.… — Emil Cioran Copy Share Image
[The poet] is endowed to speak for those who do not have the gift of language, or to see for those who… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
“I have to get them out. It’s the only way I know how to do it. Ever since I was a little… — Greg F. Gifune Copy Share Image
Poetry is an ongoing conversation with the past and the future and the present. I'm interested in that continuity, in that way… — Jonathan W. Galassi Copy Share Image
Poetry is a puppet-show, where riders of skyrockets and divers of sea fathoms gossip about the sixth sense and the fourth dimension. — Carl Sandburg Copy Share Image
One who writes a poem writes it because the language prompts, or simply dictates, the next line. — Joseph Brodsky Copy Share Image
“The very reason why the poetry excites one to such abandonment, such rapture, is that it celebrates some feeling that one used… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“A poet expresses with a few words, what a philosopher means with many.” — Stephen McDonough Copy Share Image
Beauty is not all there is of poetry. It must contain the truth. It is not simply an oak, rude and grand,… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
“I just didn’t get it— even with the teacher holding an orange (the earth) in one hand and a lemon (the moon)… — Denise Duhamel Copy Share Image
“Tho' you're tired and weary, still journey on, Till you come to your happy abode, Where all the love you've been dreaming… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Cold hearts don't bleed. Still they pray for eternity, never seeing tomorrow. — Ja Rule Copy Share Image
I came to writing mysteries through poetry and still think that a well-constructed mystery is very much like a well-constructed sonnet. Both… — Margaret Maron Copy Share Image
“Medieval Persia also produced a long and beautiful poem satirizing the claims and practices of religion. Though Omar Khayyám (1048-1131) is best… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
In African-American culture, there's often a family historian, someone who does the genealogy or keeps the family Bible. I became aware that… — Kevin Young Copy Share Image
“We may feel bitterly how little our poems can do in the face of seemingly out of control technological power and seemingly… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
“It is full of interest, it has noble poetry in it and some clever fables and some blood drenched history, some good… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
There's a wonderful family called Stein: There's Gert and there's Ep and there's Ein. Gert's poems are bunk, Ep's statues are junk,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“What could my mother be to yours? What kin is my father to yours anyway? And how did you and I meet… — Vikram Chandra Copy Share Image
In my view, the composer, just as the poet, the sculptor or the painter, is in duty bound to serve Man, the… — Sergei Prokofiev Copy Share Image
One thing about being a children's poet or a versifier, is that there is a large market for your wares. These things… — Mary Ann Hoberman Copy Share Image
“What I really want is to be recognized as a writer; that someday, my poetry — this is an interesting paradox —… — Harley King Copy Share Image
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