“You smell like a bar," he said. I thought, You smell like a library. But I wanted to have sex right then,… — Melissa Bank Copy Share Image
“Have you ever noticed that all four of the greatest poets in the world are Muslim? And yet all the Muslims you… — Aravind Adiga Copy Share Image
There's not a big range in the political poetry of the last year, or not a political range. On the one hand,… — David Biespiel Copy Share Image
“I am—yet what I am none cares or knows; My friends forsake me like a memory lost: I am the self-consumer of… — John Clare Copy Share Image
Kierkegaard was once asked, 'What is a poet?' He answered that a poet was an unhappy man whose moans and cries of… — Langdon Brown Gilkey Copy Share Image
I've always written poetry and lyrics. My first husband, who was a musician, we wrote a bunch of songs together. — P. J. Soles Copy Share Image
You will enjoy the TV and radio forecast much more if you stop taking it as advice and simply treat it as… — Victoria Coren Mitchell Copy Share Image
Murder in the murderer is no such ruinous thought as poets and romancers will have it; it does not unsettle him, or… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I always loved reading. Growing up, my favorite book was 'A Child's Garden of Verses,' by Robert Louis Stevenson. — Francine Pascal Copy Share Image
“She stood. He Stood. They stood on different corners with cardboard signs. Signs that read "Why lie? I need love." signs. ©… — Antonia Perdu Millie Farquoix Copy Share Image
As a poet and as a mathematician, he would reason well; as a mere mathematician, he could not have reasoned at all. — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
Pleasure has ever more been represented by poets and by painters as clothed in perpetual smiles and adorned with the richest jewels;… — John Tyler Copy Share Image
I make it clear why I write as I do and why other poets write as they do. After hundreds of experiments… — Carl Sandburg Copy Share Image
It should here be added that poetry habitually takes the form of verse. — John Drinkwater Copy Share Image
Where politics is concerned, I think poets have to be pragmatists, philosophical pragmatists. — Robert Hass Copy Share Image
“Brother,you who have the light, tell me mine. I am like a blind man. I go without direction and fumble along. I… — Rubén Darío Copy Share Image
“Many are poets, but without the name; For what is Poesy but to create From overfeeling Good or Ill; and aim At… — George Gordon Byron Copy Share Image
“You leave behind your fine poems. You leave behind your beautiful flowers. And the earth that was only leant to you. You… — Aliette de Bodard Copy Share Image
“Nothing is more lethal to the effect that a ghost story should make than for the author to provide alternative materialist solution.… — Robert Aickman Copy Share Image
Every phrase and every sentence is an end and a beginning, every poem an epitaph. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I visited the Museum of Modern Art last spring and spent time with David Alfaro Siqueiros's painting, 'Echo of a Scream (1937).'… — Adrian Matejka Copy Share Image
The sense of flowing, which is so crucial to song, is also crucial to poetry. — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
“Nor is it again that the novel has killed the play, as some critics would persuade us - the romantic movement of… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
