“Emily Dickinson , in my opinion, is the perfect (although admittedly slightly cliche) poet for lonely fat girls.” — Suzanne Supplee Copy Share Image
“When it comes to matters of the heart and soul, I'm not a falling kind of girl. I'm more of a slamming,… — Melody Lee Copy Share Image
The flower bloomed and faded. The sun rose and sank. The lover loved and went. And what the poets said in rhyme,… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Every poem is an infant labored into birth and I am drenched with sweating effort, tired from the pain and hurt of… — Jimmy Santiago Baca Copy Share Image
“There’s a great line from the poet Anaïs Nin that reads: “And the day came when the risk to remain tight in… — Jen Sincero Copy Share Image
“If poets have to be in some way criminals, she thinks, nowadays criminals could try being poets.” — Joseph McElroy Copy Share Image
“Imagine a twelve-year-old-girl. Imagine her being attacked, raped and murdered. Take your time. Then imagine God. M. Barin, poet” — Håkan Nesser Copy Share Image
Let first the onion flourish there, Rose among roots, the maiden-fair, Wine-scented and poetic soul Of the capacious salad bowl. — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
“I never tried to be anything other than a dreamer. I never paid any attention to people who told me to go… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
I had read a Tale of Two Cities and found it up to my standards as a romantic novel. She opened the… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
Of course a poem is a two-way street. No poem is any good if it doesn't suggest to the reader things from… — James Laughlin Copy Share Image
He [the writer] must, teach himself that the basest of all things is to be afraid; and, teaching himself that, forget it… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
“Oh, God. She’d now have to invent a bawdy verse on the spot. She’d never had to improvise so much in her… — Julie Anne Long Copy Share Image
If you cannot respect women, you cannot respect anybody else because it is from women you come. The woman mothered you for… — Ritu Ghatourey Copy Share Image
“Father's Day POETRY Jeffrey Harrison | 36 words My first father- less Father’s Day came a little too soon after the funeral,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Sometimes humans hit on a moment of profundity more complete than their dim minds could comprehend, and they took that nugget of… — Kelley Armstrong Copy Share Image
“Poetry is about finding the best way to plagiarize the reader’s ideas, thoughts, emotions, feelings and memories, their past present or future… — Cody Edward Lee Miller Copy Share Image
“Justice is in the hands of the gods, an old poet wrote, mortal hands hold only mercy and the sword.” — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
It's always good to show that poetry isn't the little depressed lyric people believe it to be, that it's something bigger. — John Fuller Copy Share Image
“Gather ye rose-buds while ye may, Old Time is still a-flying; And this same flower that smiles today, Tomorrow will be dying.” — Robert Herrick Copy Share Image
“You say you like to be by yourself, I am like that too. Although I don't think company would be so bad,… — Bailey Nadeen Copy Share Image
Poets, for example, are generally considered starry-eyed and sensitive, but only by those who have never encountered one. — Craig Brown Copy Share Image
Dreamlands Nightmare Hate is not the opposite of love, so the poet hates, the male-chauvinistic, womanizer thats narcissistic, the boss! Poets love,… — Javaz Copy Share Image
Underneath the forms of fiction and poetry, you can bet your ass the ground comes from someone's actual life experience. — Lidia Yuknavitch Copy Share Image
The poetry you read has been written for you, each of you - black, white, Hispanic, man, woman, gay, straight. — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
There are two men inside the artist, the poet and the craftsman. One is born a poet. One becomes a craftsman. — Emile Zola Copy Share Image
Young poets are advised by their elders to avoid the practice of journalism as they would wet socks and gin before breakfast. — Archibald MacLeish Copy Share Image
Poetry reminds us of the truths about life and human nature that we knew all along, but forgot somehow because they weren't… — Diane Ackerman Copy Share Image
“But the reason we fly from the city is not in reality that it is not poetical; it is that its poetry… — G. K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Why don't we all take the time and do what this class in the poem have done. Think about what our actions… — Nikki Marie Copy Share Image
I never deny poems when they come; whatever I am doing, whatever I am writing, I lay it aside and attend to… — Amy Lowell Copy Share Image
I have decided to be a poet. My father said there isn't a suitable career structure for poets and no pensions and… — Sue Townsend Copy Share Image
“[Poetry] was a form of incantation, a means of welding the world inside his head to the one that surrounded him, words… — Elizabeth Hand Copy Share Image
The category "Women Poets" is bizarre and irrelevant. It's a subcategory of Poets, but there is not a "Men Poets" category. — Vanna Bonta Copy Share Image
“I am not afraid to die because I know heaven is a place of artists, musicians and poets” — rassool jibraeel snyman Copy Share Image
Gregory Corso used to get really pissed when people called Bob Dylan a 'poet.' After writing poetry for a few years, I… — Steve Earle Copy Share Image
“Watch me go. Watch me. Because you said i couldn't. Because you thought I wouldn't. Go on, cry now. Cry.” — Kellie Elmore Copy Share Image
“there is a difference between someone telling you they love you and them actually loving you” — Rupi Kaur Copy Share Image
The poet enjoys the incomparable privilege of being able to be himself and others, as he wishes. — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
“There is a comfort in the strength of love; 'Twill make a thing endurable, which else Would overset the brain, or break… — William Wordsworth Copy Share Image
![“He [the writer] must, teach himself that the basest of all things is to be afraid; and, teaching himself that, forget it forever, leaving no room in his workshop for anything but the old verities and truths of the heart, the old universal truths lacking which any story is ephemeral and doomed…” quote by William Faulkner](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b32/william-faulkner-306_all-things_he-the-writer-must-teach-himself-that-th_1547279.jpg)
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