“you are a lover of the words a soul mate to the story everything becomes a part of you from my fingertips… — Amanda Linsmeier Copy Share Image
Of course, you would have to be insane to hope your child grows up to be a playwright or poet. Given the… — Mark Helprin Copy Share Image
A musician must make music, an artist must paint, an poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with… — Abraham Maslow Copy Share Image
I like the beauty of Faulkner's poetry. But I don't like his themes, not at all. — Manuel Puig Copy Share Image
A documentary film-maker can't help but use poetry to tell the story. I bring truth to my fiction. These things go hand… — Chloe Zhao Copy Share Image
Genius is mainly an affair of energy, and poetry is mainly an affair of genius; therefore a nation whose spirit is characterized… — Matthew Arnold Copy Share Image
“The History Teacher Trying to protect his students' innocence he told them the Ice Age was really just the Chilly Age, a… — Billy Collins Copy Share Image
You can't blame the President for the state of the country, it's always the poets' fault. You can't expect politicians to come… — Ken Kesey Copy Share Image
The poet is he who fights on the passionate Side and whoever loses he wins; when he Is defeated it is hard… — Allen Tate Copy Share Image
There has been a time on earth when poets had been young and dead and famous - and were men. But now… — Tom Wolfe Copy Share Image
I have never received full credit from the SPLA [Sudanese People's Liberation Army], because the men are very sexist and feel that… — Kola Boof Copy Share Image
The idea that language can be recombined to create new forms, new things, is of course very old in poetry. — Michael Helm Copy Share Image
The commitment to working at poetry is important because a poet is a maker, and a poem is a made thing. We… — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
When modernist poetry, or what not so long ago passed for modernist poetry, can reach the stage where the following piece by… — Laura Riding Copy Share Image
As a child, what captivated me was reading the poems myself and realizing that there was a world without material substance which… — Mary Oliver Copy Share Image
“She knows he's not the same. He's different now. The eyes that once held too much contain nothing at all. He is… — Alfa H Copy Share Image
“Solitude creeps into my bones like winter. Slowly Steadily Suddenly Like the cold and the dark. I am alone, but I am… — Melody Lee Copy Share Image
What do you do when you realize that all you ever wanted was what you always had? Somehow knowing what Im missing… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Married against their will, kept in one room, and to one occupation, how could a dramatist give a full or interesting or… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“Besides, it’s not a favor,” Simon added, “it’s a poetry slam around the block from your house. It’s not like I’m inviting… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
“The Price of a Muse I write for resurrection to see bodies reassemble and rise I've tried to write my dog off… — Nancy Boutilier Copy Share Image
“Speech destroys the functions of love, I think—that’s a hell of a thing for a writer to say, I guess, but I… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“Living is no laughing matter: You must take it seriously. So much so and to such a degree that, for example, your… — Nazim Hikmet Copy Share Image
