Writing poetry is like always being in love. What masochism! What luxury! — Jennifer Stone Copy Share Image
Every time I read Erin Belieu work I'm pierced in that wonderful way poetry can. — Cheryl Strayed Copy Share Image
“maybe this organ will be my country & everyone i love is safe here.” — Jess Rizkallah Copy Share Image
In poetry, I didn't have to provide resolution. I could ask hard questions without feeling responsible for the answers. — Vivek Shraya Copy Share Image
For me, musicians are poets. Beethoven describes himself as a poet of tones, just like Coltrane's a poet of tempo. — Cornel West Copy Share Image
It sounds old-fashioned to say, but we have some kind of purpose for being here, not poets or writers, but all of… — Pattiann Rogers Copy Share Image
“You’re coming with me, poor thing. You don’t know how to listen. You don’t know how to speak. You don’t know how… — Joy Harjo Copy Share Image
Most of us have been subjected to terrible political poetry at least once or twice in our lifetimes, and so we tend… — Andre Naffis-Sahely Copy Share Image
All that I've done in my life thus far, all the poems and all the pictures, are not so much an intermingling… — Gerard Malanga Copy Share Image
I don't think there's anything wrong with someone having to read a poem twice. Or even a book. — George Murray Copy Share Image
“Tell me a story,” says the poem by Robert Penn Warren. “In this century, and moment, of mania . . . Tell… — Sarah Arthur Copy Share Image
For more than thirty years, Joe Eck and Wayne Winterrowd have been gardening with extraordinary, indeed legendary, results. Part memoir, part omnium-gatherum… — Philip Gambone Copy Share Image
These things, she felt, were not to be passed around like disingenuous party favors. She kept an honor code with her journals… — Alice Sebold Copy Share Image
The private reader of listener can become an executant of felt meaning when he learns the poem or the musical passage by… — George Steiner Copy Share Image
“Plato has given to all posterity the model of a new art form, the model of the novel --which may be described… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“How should all the apparatus of heaven and earth, from the farthest firmament to the tender bosom of the mother who nourished… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“After the war, Lee described Traveller in a letter:"Fine proportions, muscular figure, deep chest, short back, strong haunches, flat legs, small head,… — Clint Johnson Copy Share Image
Satire is, indeed, the only sort of composition in which the Latin poets whose works have come down to us were not… — Thomas B. Macaulay Copy Share Image
Poetry is a kind of distilled insinuation. It's a way of expanding and talking around an idea or a question. Sometimes, more… — Yusef Komunyakaa Copy Share Image
“Forcing the muse to let thoughts flow; equals to pushing a child, into labor.” — Aniruddha Sastikar Copy Share Image
I used to joke that if acting didn't work out, poetry was my commonsense fallback. — Merritt Wever Copy Share Image
Since the age of 11, I have loved writing poems and fragments from my life. — Niki de St. Phalle Copy Share Image
grow old with me. the best is yet to be. the last of life for which the first was made. — Robert Browning Copy Share Image
The one stream of poetry which is continually flowing is slang. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Gil Thorpe is a great diversion and is to book writing as poetry is to prose. — Jerry B. Jenkins Copy Share Image
They think I'm going to be a schoolteacher but I'm going to be a poet. — Janet Frame Copy Share Image
“English kings married their cousins and so their kids were as sharp as clubs.” — Peter Prasad Copy Share Image
“And the poem, I think, is only your voice speaking. ― Virginia Woolf, The Waves” — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
