There's a fine line between writing the poem and the poem writing itself. You have to be there and not be there,… — David Meltzer Copy Share Image
The end of poetry is not to create a physical condition which shall give pleasure to the mind... The end of poetry… — Laura Riding Copy Share Image
The wonder is that communism lasted so long. But then again, modern poetry lasted a long time, too. — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
“MOST DAYS MY LIFE CAN BE SUMMED UP IN MOVIE QUOTES AND HIP HOP AND R&B LYRICS ” — Qwana Reynolds-Frasier Copy Share Image
“Here's to adrenaline. Here's to dramatic abandon of protocol. Here's to treasured pain and purple rain. Here's to chasing our souls, burning… — Virginia Petrucci Copy Share Image
The fine gifts of temperament and imagination which are essential to the production of true poetry are often accompanied by morbid sensibility.… — Myrtle Reed Copy Share Image
From the moment that photography appeared, the descriptive genre began to invade Letters... In verse as in prose the décor and exterior… — Paul Valery Copy Share Image
Over many years so many poets have touched my imagination and opened paths for me - it hardly makes sense to list… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
“Here Carlyle had come, here George Eliot had progressed through the bookshelves. Roland could see her black silk skirts, her velvet trains,… — A.S. Byatt Copy Share Image
“Ill love you with every little bit of everything that has ever consumed me and I will forever love you and forever… — robert m drake Copy Share Image
“When words lose their meaning, physical force takes over. from an essay for Writers by Nancy Crampton ” — W.H. Auden Copy Share Image
The artist does not exist except as a personification, a figure of speech that represents the sum total of art itself. It… — Harold Rosenberg Copy Share Image
It is very difficult to explain poetry. You have to understand the poetry and figure out your own take and your relatability. — Shoojit Sircar Copy Share Image
Madonna, she still has not showed, we see this empty cage now corrode, where her cape of the stage once had flowed,… — Bob Dylan Copy Share Image
Genius is always sufficiently the enemy of genius by over influence. The literature of every nation bear me witness. The English dramatic… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I had a million jobs before I managed to make a living out of poetry. — John Cooper Clarke Copy Share Image
Soldier, there is a war between the mind And sky, between thought and day and night. It is For that the poet… — Wallace Stevens Copy Share Image
I remember, in fifth grade, doing a report on the Russian poet Alexander Pushkin as a rap. It was just an easy… — Lil Dicky Copy Share Image
“He calls me desperate (on my tombstone) I hope poetic license will allow: HUNGRY” — Eli Coppola Copy Share Image
I am grown old, and have possibly lost a great deal of that fire, which formerly made me love fire in others… — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
For far more marvelous is the truth than any artists of the past imagined it. Why do the poets of the present… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
We spent a long time learning the craft of songwriting, Roger Glover and I, for a few years before we joined Deep… — Ian Gillan Copy Share Image
“I sleep with thee, and wake with thee, And yet thou are not there; I fill my arms with thoughts of thee,… — John Clare Copy Share Image
