“The Artist His gift is the ability to deeply see a woman. There are men who truly see women and men who… — Karen Brody Copy Share Image
I have always written poetry but I have never applied it to songwriting. — Janine Turner Copy Share Image
“O King, may the world bow to your command; May lips drip with expressions of thanks and salutations; Since it is your… — Audrey Truschke Copy Share Image
“We see through a glass, darkly.” The verse surprised him. He hadn’t picked up a Bible in a year, yet he knew… — Janice Cantore Copy Share Image
“This must be what feelings are. This is why people write poems! I get it now. I get it, and I want… — Laini Taylor Copy Share Image
“There is this pain of love. You experience it some moments. It begins like a strange gnawing in your heart. It then… — Avijeet Das Copy Share Image
Young poets worry that their experiences - whether urban or rural, immigrant or native, small town, suburb, or big city - aren't… — Allison Joseph Copy Share Image
“In the art of literature there are two contending parties. Those who aim to tell stories that are more or less well… — Gauguin Copy Share Image
Whenever I get to a point I'm so tired that I forgot the verse of a song, I know I'm burnt out. — Carlene Carter Copy Share Image
Distinctly American poetry is usually written in the context of one's geographic landscape, sometimes out of one's cultural myths, and often with… — Diane Wakoski Copy Share Image
The shape that poems make in the mind is an echo of something powerful in the cosmos. I do believe that, and… — Campbell McGrath Copy Share Image
“If freedom is free and none need worry, then what blood drops for thee?” — Ryan Goodrich Copy Share Image
“Love's night and a lamp Judged our vows: That she would love me ever And I should never leave her. Love's night… — Meleager Copy Share Image
I used to write poems more when I was younger, but I haven't in a long time. I just write ideas and… — Kacey Musgraves Copy Share Image
In the original novel [ Anthem], the story unfolds in the mind of a single character. Maybe that's why Ayn Rand called… — Jeff Britting Copy Share Image
“You like that poet, Bukowski?” “Yeah,” I answered, confused. “Don’t try.” “I don’t understand.” “That’s what it says, on Bukowski’s grave.” — Kami Garcia Copy Share Image
I can't actually explain why my lines got shorter, but they did. Just as I can't explain why my early poems were… — Gregory Orr Copy Share Image
Living is the original art. As a young man I wanted to be a poet and I learned along the way that… — Mark Nepo Copy Share Image
Happiness. It comes on unexpectedly. And goes beyond, really, any early morning talk about it. — Raymond Carver Copy Share Image
The Black Mountain poet I like most is the early Creeley. Those early poems seem very lyrical and very traditional, with a… — Robert Morgan Copy Share Image
“Time has transfigured them into Untruth. The stone fidelity They hardly meant has come to be Their final blazon, and to prove… — Philip Larkin Copy Share Image
My question is "when did other people give up the idea of being a poet?" You know, when we are kids we… — William Stafford Copy Share Image
Poetry is rather an approach to things, to life, than it is typographical production. — Joseph Brodsky Copy Share Image
“I am not afraid to die because I know heaven is a place of artists, musicians and poets” — rassool jibraeel snyman Copy Share Image
People are always asking me what my lyrics mean. Does it mean this, does it mean that, that's all anybody wants to… — Freddie Mercury Copy Share Image
“I write love poems when I'm not rapping. It comes naturally." He winked at me. "If you start rapping, I promise you… — Kristen Day Copy Share Image
“It is disappointing how people tend not to read a broad range of material. When the poets only read poetry, the historians… — Anthony Leskov Copy Share Image
I always wrote poems when I was a little girl, and I loved hip hop music, and I kind of just started… — Chanel West Coast Copy Share Image
“ Maya Angelou entered our lives at Virago in 1984, when we first published I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings .… — Lennie Goodings Copy Share Image
This be the verse you grave for me: Here he lies where he longed to be; Home is the sailor, home from… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The psalmist says “I have set the LORD always before me.” Paul says, “We take captive every thought to make it obedient… — John Ortberg Copy Share Image
What other people may find in poetry or art museums, I find in the flight of a good drive. — Arnold Palmer Copy Share Image
Every poem I write falls short in some important way. But I go on trying to write the one that won’t. — Dorianne Laux Copy Share Image
Creating a poem is a continual process of re-creating your ignorance, in the sense of not knowing what's coming next. — Derek Walcott Copy Share Image
“ Children's Song We live in our own world, A world that is too small For you to stoop and enter Even… — R.S. Thomas Copy Share Image