Why do people speak of great men in terms of nationality? Great Germans, great Englishmen? Goethe always protested against being called a… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
This seems to me a philosophical question, and therefore irrelevant, question. A poet's destiny is to love. — Robert Graves Copy Share Image
Even though I always claimed that I didn't want to write about something - once I wasn't writing fiction, anyway; I think… — Vito Acconci Copy Share Image
“Sitting in a corner, I live like a toad Oh! How I love my room: my tiny abode! Here I wake up;… — Munia Khan Copy Share Image
As things are, and as fundamentally they must always be, poetry is not a career, but a mug's game. No honest poet… — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
“inspiration. five minutes in the back of a greyhound bus; the world passing by. a gateway to freedom. the american dream. from… — K.R. Albers Copy Share Image
Whether we call it sacrifice, or poetry, or adventure, it is always the same voice that calls. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
I think the first little jolt I got was reading Gerard Manley Hopkins - I liked other poems... but Hopkins was kind… — Seamus Heaney Copy Share Image
“The Canopic Inversion by Stewart Stafford In nascent light, their nose-rings entwined, Like a brazen Hathor daughter, Funnelled to market and auction,… — Stewart Stafford Copy Share Image
Poetry has the virtue of being able to say twice as much as prose in half the time, and the drawback, if… — Christopher Fry Copy Share Image
Anybody is qualified, according to everybody, for giving opinions upon poetry. It is not so in chemistry and mathematics. Nor is it… — Elizabeth Barrett Browning Copy Share Image
Remember, writing poetry is like making love: one will never know whether one's own pleasure is shared. — Cesare Pavese Copy Share Image
I'm from Chicago, so the Chicago working-class poets still mean a great deal to me. — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
“It's very important to write things down instantly, or you can lose the way you were thinking out a line. I have… — Mary Oliver Copy Share Image
There are two ways to dislike poetry: One is to dislike it; the other is to read Pope. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“Time goes by at the speed of life Slower than a slow dance on a hot summer night Faster than the skin… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The vitality of the ordinary members of society is dependent on its Outsiders. Many Outsiders unify themselves, realize themselves as poets or… — Colin Wilson Copy Share Image
“It comes down to this: we're pieces of equipment To be counted and signed for. On occasion some of us break down,… — Rolando Hinojosa Copy Share Image
Neil Shepard's (T)RAVEL/ UN(T)RAVEL takes us from the sublime -- Paris in Spring, sunset on Corfu -- to an unscheduled toilet stop… — Charles Harper Webb Copy Share Image
“My spirit mirrors the radiance of a clear, blue sky. With closed eyes I lift my face and smile, warmed from the… — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
“On the inspiration for Never Love a Stranger: “[The book begins with] a poem from To the Unborn by Stella Benson. There… — Harold Robbins Copy Share Image
“poetry is the tombstone of experience, nothing i write is my own. ~from "the damned” — D.W.Metz Copy Share Image
