Poetry comes with anger, hunger and dismay; it does not often visit groups of citizens sitting down to be literary together, and… — Christopher Morley Copy Share Image
Time is, after all, the greatest of poets; and the sons of Memory stand a better chance of being the heirs of… — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
How can the poem and the stink and the grating noise - the quality of light, the tone, the habit and the… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
In a meadow full of flowers, you cannot walk through and breathe those smells and see all those colors and remain angry.… — Jonas Mekas Copy Share Image
there is a poetry in making preserves; the housewife has caught duration in the snare of sugar, she has enclosed life in… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
It's easier to teach a poet how to read a balance sheet than it is to teach an accountant how to write. — Henry R. Luce Copy Share Image
Gather ye rose-buds while ye may, Old Time is still a flying: And this same flower that smiles to day, Tomorrow will… — Robert Herrick Copy Share Image
A poet who is a bad man is a degraded being, baser and more culpable than a bad man who is not… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“We live entirely in the past, nourished by dead thoughts, dead creeds, dead sciences. And it is the past which is engulfing… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
When an Englishman has professed his belief in the supremacy of Shakespeare amongst all poets, he feels himself excused from the general… — Aubrey Beardsley Copy Share Image
Rick Black writes with the honed elegance of a poet so in command of lyric sentiment and the efficient evocative use of… — Kwame Dawes Copy Share Image
When you get a poem [in a public place], it happens to you so suddenly that you don't have time to deploy… — Billy Collins Copy Share Image
Shakespeare wrote great poetry and preposterous plays. Who really cares, for example, which petty tyrant rules Milan? Or who succeeds to the… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
“I decline to accept the end of man. It is easy enough to say that man is immortal simply because he will… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
“[The unicorn] sighed and plodded on, both amused and disappointed. It serves you right, she told herself. You know better than to… — Peter S. Beagle Copy Share Image
“The fructe of all the servise that I serve Dispaire doth repe, such haples hap have I ; But tho he have… — Thomas Wyatt Copy Share Image
You say to yourself, Well, this poem isn't going to be any good, but I'll write it anyway. — Robert Bly Copy Share Image
“What! have you no poems by heart, no great songs, no verses from the Bible, no speeches from Shakespeare? Then you have… — John Macy Copy Share Image
“I grew into my hips when I was seventeen years old I learned from my mother She used hers like a boat… — Hannah V. Sawyerr Copy Share Image
Re-examine all you have been told in school or church or in any book, and dismiss whatever insults your own soul; and… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
“I did not willingly let half of my soul leave my body. It was torn from me. I still hear the ransomed… — Alfa H Copy Share Image
“On the walk home a Jeep roars past; the driver calls you a fucking towelhead. One of the ex-sucias publishes a poem… — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
“In crime and enmity they lie Who sin and tell us love can die, Who say to us in slander's breath That… — John Clare Copy Share Image
I read the other day some verses written by an eminent painter which were original and not conventional. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“& lord knows I have been called by what I look like more than I have been called by what I actually am” — Hanif Abdurraqib Copy Share Image
All is fish that comes to the literary net. Goethe puts his joys and sorrows into poems, I turn my adventures into… — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
Now I think poetry will save nothing from oblivion, but I keep writing about the ordinary because for me it's the home… — Philip Levine Copy Share Image
“With heaven in our hearts, life is romancing us with glimpses of the universe dancing.” — Ann Louise Ramsey Copy Share Image
“Poems ought to reflect the work the poet does, and his relationships with other people, and family, and institutions, and organization.” — Wallace Stegner Copy Share Image
The tango is a direct expression of something that poets have often tried to state in words: the belief that a fight… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
“I made her go because I knew she could do better and now I wonder if I should have just been better.” — Atticus Poetry Copy Share Image
The dignity of man is vindicated as much by the thinker and poet as by the statesman and soldier. — James Bryant Conant Copy Share Image
That's one of the great things about poetry; one realises that one does one's little turn - that you're just part of… — Paul Muldoon Copy Share Image
The music is notated first, the text follows. I might have to wait until the right kind of text or form arises.… — Anne Waldman Copy Share Image
chromosomal dance oh, heavenly happenstance rare creation, you -Marcus (Poetry Spam #22) — Megan McCafferty Copy Share Image
“there are only so many things that you can fix with your hands. ...What they don't realize is I am not a… — Danabelle Gutierrez Copy Share Image
All men owe honor to the poets - honor and awe; for they are dearest to the Muse who puts upon their… — Homer Copy Share Image
“we were born for sorrow we were born for pain we were born for loss but we were also born to love… — K.R. Albers Copy Share Image
I think that poetry is perfect for women raising children, with just bits of time and such need to connect to other… — Francesca Lia Block Copy Share Image
Writing or making anything-a poem, a bird feeder, a chocolate cake-has self-respect in it. You're working. You're trying. You're not lying down… — Sharon Olds Copy Share Image
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