“I am not like those other women bowing down to the whims of insecure, domineering men. I am a bird, a raven,… — Melody Lee Copy Share Image
“What song, what home, what calm or one clarity can I not quite come to, never quite see: this field, this sky,… — Christian Wiman Copy Share Image
“Outside, the meadows - dewy and golden are cloaked in summer blooms. My heart, scorching and desolate sighs and sings sad songs… — Neena H Brar Copy Share Image
“I believe there is nothing that our better nature needs more absolutely than music, no other art of perfection possesses that strange… — Pauline Decaradeuc Heyward Copy Share Image
Writing a book of poetry is like dropping a rose petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo. — Don Marquis Copy Share Image
“An editorial in the Los Angeles Times [1923] wistfully asked, 'Will eating chestnuts by crackling log fires become one of the lost… — Susan Freinkel Copy Share Image
I invented animals and birds - I had about two dozen. After working on them for six months, I sat down and… — Jack Prelutsky Copy Share Image
I had this idea for a long time to make a film about a poet in Paterson named Patterson. I wanted him… — Jim Jarmusch Copy Share Image
“Life is but a day; A fragile dew-drop on its perilous way From a tree’s summit.” — John Keats Copy Share Image
“And so it is in poetry also: all this love of curious French metres like the Ballade, the Villanelle, the Rondel; all… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“I’m not trying to impress you,” he replied, glancing up at the front of the room. “Gads,” he said, blinking in surprise.… — Julia Quinn Copy Share Image
Honey, check it out, you got me mesmerized with your black hair and your fat-ass thighs. Street poetry is my everyday but… — A Tribe Called Quest Copy Share Image
“One of the effects of indoctrination, of passing into the anglo-centrism of British West Indian culture, is that you believe absolutely in… — Michelle Cliff Copy Share Image
I liked the kid who wrote me that he had to do a term paper on a modern poet and he was… — Howard Nemerov Copy Share Image
Now that I am in my forties, she [my mother] tells me I'm beautiful; now that I am in my forties, she… — Marge Piercy Copy Share Image
The experience of poetry could bring my mother back to me. Poetry offers a different kind of solace - here on earth. — Natasha Trethewey Copy Share Image
“They are constantly colonists and emigrants ; they have the name of being at home in every country. But they are in… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“...these vignettes I sketch for you - what are they? watercolors ..yes and dreams blurred with tears ...” — John Geddes Copy Share Image
She [Carol Parsinan] somehow read my poems and came back to me and convinced me that I could be a poet, that… — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
I started out as a poet who primarily wanted to write about image and moment. Over the years I've been trying to… — Dan Chaon Copy Share Image
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