“You are the sick prince of my cerise innovations and in your drowning caresses I walk the sea” — Frank O'Hara Copy Share Image
I'd never really been content with just churning out these slim volumes every three or four years. I've always tried to think… — Simon Armitage Copy Share Image
“Where there is no speech we must live in despair. And exile is first of all where our speech has been silenced… — Walter Brueggemann Copy Share Image
“I could feel it--inside, and I decided that night, reading poetry beneath a caged light bulb, that real was when you could… — Han Nolan Copy Share Image
For me, the short story is the depth of a novel, the breadth of a poem, and, as you come to the… — Amy Bloom Copy Share Image
I always had, you know, in the book of Hebrews, I think it's chapter 11, verse 1, where it says, "Now faith… — Naomi Judd Copy Share Image
Never has every member in 1 crew been so diverse. yin 2 outdo the last verse that I birthed, hat is my curse. — Outkast Copy Share Image
“I will have poetry in my life. And adventure. And love. Love above all. No... not the artful postures of love, not… — Marc Norman Copy Share Image
Self-editing is the way I write. Ten verses of a song and it's finished. Then we start playing it and if I… — Nick Cave Copy Share Image
“Baudelaire was far more than a great poet. He established the keyboard of a sensibility that still lives within us, if we… — Roberto Calasso Copy Share Image
The tragedy of "Hamlet" is critically considered to be the masterpiece of dramatic poetry; and the tragedy of "Hamlet" is also, according… — George Augustus Henry Sala Copy Share Image
Poetry is a beautiful way of expressing feelings - happy, sad, angry, caring. It's also a way that we share with other… — Mattie Stepanek Copy Share Image
“Karen Owens has captured this witty little paradox in equally engaging verse: Can omniscient God, who Knows the future, find The… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
( Hey guys heres one of my poems I wrote hope you like it comment so I can see :) ) ask… — Natalya Johnson Copy Share Image
A man who is intentionally unarmed relies upon the Unseen Force called God by poets, but called the Unknown by scientists. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
“There are productive spirits who require many and great destinies or experience in order to produce a small work. There is a… — Georg Brandes Copy Share Image
We have only one story. All novels, all poetry, are built on the neverending contest in ourselves of good and evil. And… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“It is true that biographical readings of the plays are dangerous, unregulated, prone to sentimentalization. It is absurd to cherry-pick passages of… — Charles Nicholl Copy Share Image
See how weak prose is.... Presently I shall go to a bar and there one or two poets will speak to me… — Jack Spicer Copy Share Image
“Macpherson's [work] was largely inauthentic with respect to any genuine Gaelic verse tradition, but it was the very voice of authenticity for… — Malcolm Chapman Copy Share Image
The poet sees things as they look. Is this having a faculty the less? or a sense the more? — Augustus William Hare Copy Share Image
The waving of a pine tree on the top of a mountain - a magic wand in Nature's hand - every devout… — John Muir Copy Share Image