I like to give and get basically anything (I love to read) but especially fiction and poetry. — Suzan-Lori Parks Copy Share Image
“Oh on my breast in days hereafter Light the earth should lie, Such weight to bear is now the air, So heavy… — A.E. Housman Copy Share Image
“I need you because I know I deserve you but let me fall in love with you one last time before I… — robert m drake Copy Share Image
I have always made my own rules, in poetry as in life - though I have tried of late to cooperate more… — Anne Stevenson Copy Share Image
“As another year went by And a new year came to greet us I got up in the morning to take my… — Avijeet Das Copy Share Image
A blend of fact and fiction has been used in various forms since the dawn of creative writing, starting with sagas and… — Antony Beevor Copy Share Image
“Falling in love like that? Writing poetry, crying at pop songs? Dragging people into photo-booths, taking a while day to make a… — David Nicholls Copy Share Image
“Remember, a stranger once told you that the breeze here is something worth writing poems about.” — Shinji Moon Copy Share Image
Although I was able to study music with teachers, I never studied lyric writing. I read poetry, and I read other lyricists.… — Paul Simon Copy Share Image
“The was her magic, she could still see the sunset even on those darkest days.” — Atticus Poetry Copy Share Image
Hear the verse they be like, "who's lines was that?" I guess I'm a Wayne Brady type of cat. Hear roar with… — D Pryde Copy Share Image
In Bonn, where I studied for a year, I changed from classical to Romance philology, taught there by its great founder, F.… — Paul Heyse Copy Share Image
A theology should be like poetry, which takes us to the end of what words and thoughts can do. — Karen Armstrong Copy Share Image
“the production of spectacular effects depends more on the art of the stage machinist than on that of the poet.” — Aristotle Copy Share Image
As a child, I learned hundreds of poems by heart, which I can recite to this day. — Caterina Fake Copy Share Image
They will smile, as they always do when they plan a major attack late in the night. — Dejan Stojanovic Copy Share Image
About three years ago, I started an exercise in openness and inclusiveness to create new digital tools for magic - tools that… — Marco Tempest Copy Share Image
Never discuss the poem you contemplate writing. It's like turning on the outside spigot. It takes all the pressure off the upstairs… — Robert Frost Copy Share Image
“It was interesting, not stupid or silly or sappy or overly intellectual—not any of those things that I thought poetry was. Some… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A good many of my poems over the years have alluded to or taken on the political. Stevens has a line in… — Stephen Dunn Copy Share Image
“Love, that is first and last of all things made, The light that has the living world for shade, The spirit that… — Algernon Charles Swinburne Copy Share Image
“I liked to call myself a poet and had affected a habit of reading classical texts (in translation, of course – I… — Mary Karr Copy Share Image
“a woman will tell you every home she has ever inhabited has been broken into starting with her body” — Suheir Hammad Copy Share Image
“In this way the insurrection began. Death was everywhere. Death was everything. Career. Desire. Dream. Poetry. Love. Youth itself. Dying became just… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
“I recall that now and I recall everything for what do we have but the past to parent us?” — Kathleen Driskell Copy Share Image
On the one hand poetry is useless. It can't change the world materially. On the other hand it is a basic part… — Bei Dao Copy Share Image
Especially once those poetry events began, because, yeah, the stuff was still on the page, but the page was starting to spill… — Vito Acconci Copy Share Image
One ought, everyday, to hear a song, read a fine poem, and, if possible, to speak a few reasonable words. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
In truth it may be laid down as an almost universal rule that good poets are bad critics. — Thomas B. Macaulay Copy Share Image
“Insofar as craft and poetics in a poem have a politics, I wanted to avoid that brittle enjambed-prose-sentence-lyric verse, where you have… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Whatever the poets pretend, it is plain they give immortality to none but themselves; it is Homer and Virgil we reverence and… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
“This philistinism of interpretation is more rife in literature than in any other art. For decades now, literary critics have understood it… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
A French poet famously referred to the aroma of certain cheeses as the ‘pieds de Dieu’—the feet of god. Just to be… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
“We—are we not formed, as notes of music are, For one another, though dissimilar; Such difference without discord, as can make Those… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
“The beauty of that poem is that everybody can relate, because we all feel like nobody. We all feel like we are… — Amy Harmon Copy Share Image
We admire Chaucer for his sturdy English wit.... But though it is full of good sense and humanity, it is not transcendent… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“Go and tell," I whispered to him. There was little voice left in me, but I whispered it firmly. Then I took… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
