“Poetry is what you find in the dirt in the corner, overhear on the bus, God in the details, the only way… — Elizabeth Alexander Copy Share Image
I am not greedy. I do not seek to possess the major portion of your days. I am content if, on those… — Maya Deren Copy Share Image
The genius of happiness is still so rare. To possess it means to approach life with the humility of a beggar, but… — Ellen Key Copy Share Image
I love you as certain dark things are to be loved, in secret, between the shadow and the soul. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The world calls them its singers and poets and artists and storytellers; but they are just people who have never forgotten the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“But in her web she still delights To weave the mirror’s magic sights, For often thro’ the silent nights A funeral, with… — Alfred Tennyson Copy Share Image
“I'm colored, I'm scientist, I'm poet, I'm polyglot - coming from zero money, I won the world with words. Try and get… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
Poets say science takes away from the beauty of the stars - mere globs of gas atoms. I, too, can see the… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
You have to give your art everything you can - I don't mean only writing, but studying other poets and poetics, thinking,… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
I read the text; and then I come to the Shirat ha-Yam, to the Song of the Sea [Exodus 15], to the… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
Is it possible to write a poem or are these words just screams of outlaws exiled to the desert? — Dejan Stojanovic Copy Share Image
Verse by verse, the Bible becomes more than theory. It becomes my firsthand experience. — Mark Batterson Copy Share Image
“A stranger lies behind my eyes, I know not what he wants; sells me dreams, tells me tales, then with the truth,… — Akash Mandal Copy Share Image
I came to poetry at fourteen, in the middle of a booming oil-rush town in southern Arabia without a single public library:… — Andre Naffis-Sahely Copy Share Image
The oration of poetry, I consider to be its own art form and tradition. — Amanda Gorman Copy Share Image
It is no longer possible for lyric poetry to express the immensity of our experience. Life has grown too cumbersome, too complicated.… — Boris Pasternak Copy Share Image
Think it's so unfair when people think that you're not a "real artist" unless you're getting paid for it....I personally know so… — Sarah Kay Copy Share Image
But here's the thing: what you do as a screenwriter is you sell your copyright. As a novelist, as a poet, as… — Beth Henley Copy Share Image
I will have my voice: Indian, Spanish, white. I will have my serpent's tongue - my woman's voice, my sexual voice, my… — Gloria E. Anzaldúa Copy Share Image
“...they wore their hair long like a poet who hopes that romantically flowing locks will make up for a wretched inability to… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“My thinking, far from being clearer than a crystal, was tortuous. I would read the same passage over and over again only… — Kay Redfield Jamison Copy Share Image
“since the hardships of life is what has made me strong, instead of living with regrets--I'm thankful for what went wrong” — Jason Frisby Copy Share Image
American poetry, like American painting, is always personal with an emphasis on the individuality of the poet. — Diane Wakoski Copy Share Image
“But not to know error is to lie, is to spit up poison through the harrowing margins of weakened mineral campaigns. It… — Will Alexander Copy Share Image
I think there are things in my story that have helped my creativity. Your father being killed, for instance, is one of… — Roger Waters Copy Share Image
“Poetry, like sanctity, is the orchestration of multiple attributes into vast, compelling wholes.” — William Everson Copy Share Image
“You were the stray cat who wandered into my verses and finally found your way home—dumpster diving deep within yourself.” — Curtis Tyrone Jones Copy Share Image
My fears are the obvious ones: that marketplace-minded publishers - all four of them - will shy further away from literary fiction,… — David Edelstein Copy Share Image
I defer to all these other American poets who, for some reason, I both envy and admire. — Charles Olson Copy Share Image
“The greatest of poems is an inventory. Every kitchen tool becomes ideal because Crusoe might have dropped it in the sea. It… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“Tell me a story,” says the poem by Robert Penn Warren. “In this century, and moment, of mania . . . Tell… — Sarah Arthur Copy Share Image
“Oh, what is brighter than the light? What is darker than the night? What is kkener than an axe? What is softer… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
“People cannot stand the saddest truth I know about the very nature of reading and writing imaginative literature, which is that poetry… — Harold Bloom Copy Share Image
“Seated at table - no need for the fracture of the room's silence; noiselessly they conversed.” — R.S. Thomas Copy Share Image
One critic wrote . . . that my poems sounded as though they had been translated from the Hungarian. I don't know… — Stanley Kunitz Copy Share Image
True poetry is a function of awakening. It awakens us, but it must retain the memory of previous dreams. — Gaston Bachelard Copy Share Image
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