“CELL Now look objectively. You have to admit the cancer cell is beautiful. If it were a flower, you'd say, How pretty,… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“Poetry often enters through the window of irrelevance. M. C. RICHARDS” — Julia Cameron Copy Share Image
“Pretty Words" Poets make pets of pretty, docile words: I love smooth words, like gold-enamelled fish Which circle slowly with a silken… — Elinor Wylie Copy Share Image
Poetry for me is as much a spiritual practice as sexual ecstasy is. — James Broughton Copy Share Image
Poetry is about slowing down. You sit and you read something, you read it again, and it reveals a little bit more,… — Mark Strand Copy Share Image
“...fine love poetry tends to be written when the object of one's affection is at a safe distance; also, it often reflects… — Kate Fox Copy Share Image
what primitive tastes the ancients must have had if their poets were inspired by those absurd, untidy clumps of mist, idiotically jostling… — Yevgeny Zamyatin Copy Share Image
“Could any State on Earth Immortall be, Venice by Her rare Goverment is She; Venice Great Neptunes Minion, still a Mayd, Though… — James Howell Copy Share Image
Around the world, the generals are being ousted, and the poets are taking charge. — Warren G. Bennis Copy Share Image
There's not too much difference between writing a picture book and writing a collection of a hundred poems or so, except that… — Jack Prelutsky Copy Share Image
The art has to make it on its own, without explanations, and it’s the same for poetry. If the poem or the… — Lawrence Ferlinghetti Copy Share Image
I always say that photography's closest cousin is poetry because of the way it sparks your imagination and leaves gaps for the… — Alec Soth Copy Share Image
“In icy footsteps do actors tread in moonlight's chill, In crystalline depth, The players set, To entertain and do no ill. ©… — Stewart Stafford Copy Share Image
Roses are red, violates are blue, hes for me not for you, if by chance you take my place, I'll take my… — Anna Copy Share Image
All that I've done in my life thus far, all the poems and all the pictures, are not so much an intermingling… — Gerard Malanga Copy Share Image
Now the power of the imagination is a unifying power, hence the force of metaphor; and the poet is the supreme manipulator… — R. S. Thomas Copy Share Image
To starve a child of the spell of the story, of the canter of the poem, oral or written, is a kind… — George Steiner Copy Share Image
From reading a previous answer, you know that I consider all those aspects to be part of American cultural myth and thus… — Diane Wakoski Copy Share Image
She knows more of love than the poets can say, and her eyes offer something that won't go away. — Harry Chapin Copy Share Image
“Stop. Watch. Listen. There’s poetry all over. And the thing about poetry? It don’t write itself.” — Bethany House Publishers Copy Share Image
"I want to be always happy," Maxine Hong Kingston announces . But, as this interview makes clear, for me, it was the… — Shirley Geok-lin Lim Copy Share Image
“In an old family album Ever again you return, Melancholy, O meekness of the solitary soul. A golden day glows and expires.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I think everything should be in verse. 'The New York Times' should be in verse. — David Ives Copy Share Image
Usually the poems are written in one sitting. There's always a groping towards some satisfying ending. But I'd say the hardest part… — Billy Collins Copy Share Image
The object, Truth, or the satisfaction of the intellect, and the object, Passion, or the excitement of the heart, are, although attainable,… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
“Style is not how you write. It is how you do not write like anyone else. * * * How do you… — Charles Ghigna Copy Share Image
Thinking in prose is different. I gained an immense amount of respect for people who write prose, and also felt even more… — Matthew Zapruder Copy Share Image
“Maybe those verses in Ezekiel about the dry bones coming back to life were actually a prophecy in reference to caffeine.” — Erynn Mangum Copy Share Image
“level, they use this as a poor excuse to disregard the rules of the sharia. Drinking, dancing, music, poetry, and painting” — Elif Shafak Copy Share Image
“I tell you hopeless grief is passionless, That only men incredulous of despair, Half-taught in anguish, through the midnight air Beat upward… — Elizabeth Barrett Browning Copy Share Image
Our suicidal poets (Plath, Berryman, Lowell, Jarrell, et al.) spent too much of their lives inside rooms and classrooms when they should… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
That I am your heart's secret fills me with song. I wish I could sing of you here in my cage. You… — Laura Whitcomb Copy Share Image
Fiction is of the essence of poetry as well as of painting; there is a resemblance in one of human bodies, things,… — John Dryden Copy Share Image
We must take our sentences seriously, which means we must understand them philosophically, and the odd thing is that the few who… — William H. Gass Copy Share Image
