He consorted with prostitutes and poets...and with persons even worse. — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
Ginsberg's Collected Poems contains a wonderful poem about making it with Neal Cassady. — Thom Gunn Copy Share Image
I believe that there is a kind of poetry, even a kind of truth, in simple fact. — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
“I will be your poet, I will be more to you than to any of the rest.” — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
Roses are red, Violets are blue, The sun shines as bright as my love does for you. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“August is dust here. Drought stuns the road, but juice gathers in the berries.” — Robert Hass Copy Share Image
To most people who look at a mobile, it's no more than a series of flat objects that move. To a few,… — Alexander Calder Copy Share Image
“...and it made his heart shake to hear these things in the street or bus or dime store, the uninventable poetry, inside… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
Color, which is the poet's wealth, is so expensive that most take to mere outline sketches and become men of science. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
No one, evidently, except me has found "No Alarms" poem ironical that an obsessive theme in my writing was - and has… — Shirley Geok-lin Lim Copy Share Image
The poet is a creator, not an iconoclast, and never will tamely endeavor to say in prose what can only be expressed… — Edmund Clarence Stedman Copy Share Image
“I wrote so meagerly to you. But what I couldn't write swelled and swelled like an old-fashioned airship and drifted away at… — Tomas Tranströmer Copy Share Image
“We Irish are too poetical to be poets; we are a nation of brilliant failures, but we are the greatest talkers since… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
What's interesting about songs where the writer is genuinely in love with words is that it's easy to read the lyrics like… — Ann Reed Copy Share Image
I think there's a faith formula in that verse: believe plus receive equals become. So I think believing's important, having intellectual agreement… — Lee Strobel Copy Share Image
...why did Plato say that poets should be chased out of the republic? Precisely because every poet and every artist is an… — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
Creativity has three layers; the ultimate is the mystic: he lives in a climate of creativity. The poet, once in a while,… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
The wisdom of literature is quite antithetical to having opinions. 'Nothing is my last word about anything,' said Henry James. Furnishing opinions,… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
The human mind is generally far more eager to praise and dispraise than to describe and define. It wants to make every… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“I won't have it, in poetry, that bulk counts. People say to me, 'Now settle down and do a long work, since… — Robert Frost Copy Share Image
“The only artists I have ever known who are personally delightful are bad artists. Good artists exist simply in what they make,… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
I have a band called M&O. We were working on our first album in 2011 or 2012. We were looking for people… — Jamila Woods Copy Share Image
Most people ignore most poetry because most poetry ignores most people. — Adrian Mitchell Copy Share Image
Oh for a seat in some poetic nook, Just hid with trees and sparkling with a brook! — Leigh Hunt Copy Share Image
That I make poetry and give pleasure - if I give pleasure - are because of you. — Horace Copy Share Image
A poem is, so to speak, a way of making you forget how you wrote it. — Randall Jarrell Copy Share Image
