Mediocre prose might be read as an escape, might be spoken on television by actors, or mouthed in movies. But mediocre poetry… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
Literature is love. I think it went like this: drawings in the cave, sounds in the cave, songs in the cave, songs… — Eileen Myles Copy Share Image
You can't be too influenced by a great poet. You simply have to live through it. — Kenneth Koch Copy Share Image
“No reprimand in the mirror Slow walk to Liberia Slow dance across the Sahara Slow unraveling of gray matter” — Mellon Black Copy Share Image
“Were it not, such short tresses so great a treasure, That you teach me a sweetness, quite other, Soft through the kiss… — Stéphane Mallarmé Copy Share Image
We are ordinarily so indifferent to people that when we have invested one of them with the possibility of giving us joy,… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“The most successful scientist thinks like a poet—wide-ranging, sometimes fantastical—and works like a bookkeeper. It is the latter role that the world… — Edward O. Wilson Copy Share Image
“I see you drinking at a fountain with tiny blue hands, no, your hands are not tiny they are small, and the… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
Isn't it interesting that all of the biblical prophets and psalmists were poets? — Eugene H. Peterson Copy Share Image
“I know a person who, though no poet, composed some verses in a very short time, which were full of feeling and… — Santa Teresa de Jesús Copy Share Image
Boston: Their hotels are bad. Their pumpkin pies are delicious. Their poetry is not so good. — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
“What I know is nothing but that we are a spring path of autumn light carved into a river of ancient singing.” — Heather K. O'Hara Copy Share Image
Love the earth and sun and animals, Despise riches, give alms to everyone that asks, Stand up for the stupid and crazy,… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
“Final Disposition Others divided closets full of mother's things. From the earth, I took her poppies. I wanted those fandango folds of… — Jane Glazer Copy Share Image
“To my knowledge, no one in or out of the field has ever been able to cite a game worthy of comparison… — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
“I am the eye that beholds... And I am the dreamer that paints the stars in the night sky... For I am… — Solange nicole Copy Share Image
We cannot overlook the importance of wild country as source of inspiration, to which we give expression in writing, in poetry, drawing… — Olaus Murie Copy Share Image
“Your love is my treasure And my heart is buried there. Your touch is my pleasure Soothing my soul with every care.… — Warren L.G De Mills Copy Share Image
What was the function of poetry if not to improve the petty, cautious minds of evasive children? — Bharati Mukherjee Copy Share Image
Times are such that poetry has been slowly drifting away from our songs and the language of conversation is used a lot… — M. Jayachandran Copy Share Image
I am the poet of the high wire - I never do stunts; I do theatrical performances. — Philippe Petit Copy Share Image
“It is warmer here. Can you see the light? Trust it. It is safe. It has lived a long time. It has… — Donna Goddard Copy Share Image
Mere poets are sottish as mere drunkards are, who live in a continual mist, without seeing or judging anything clearly. A man… — John Dryden Copy Share Image
“And as this creation itself is poetry, so its creators were poets; and language was the instrument of their art” — Percy Shelley Copy Share Image
