“In the writings of other poets a character is too often an individual; in those of Shakespeare it is commonly a species.” — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
I want to branch out. I want to write. I write poetry. I want to see my children grow up well. — Annie Lennox Copy Share Image
A man--poet, prophet, or whatever be may be--readily persuades himself of his right to all the worship that is voluntarily tendered. — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
It is in books, poems, paintings which often give us the confidence to take seriously feelings in ourselves that we might otherwise… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
“Stars open among the lilies. Are you not blinded by such expressionless sirens? This is the silence of astounded souls. --from "Crossing… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
Modern poets talk against business, poor things, but all of us write for money. Beginners are subjected to trial by market. — Robert Frost Copy Share Image
“Crossing the limit is not my style My footsteps meander less than a mile I travel the world perhaps in a minute… — Munia Khan Copy Share Image
Like my old mentor would always say, Fool me once, shame on you, fool me twice and I'll be dead.'' Okay, she… — John Zakour Copy Share Image
Poetry Competition asked For A 2-Line Rhyme With d Most Romantic 1st Line & the Least Romantic 2nd Line There's d Winning… — Sadie Copy Share Image
“ Dirge Without Music I am not resigned to the shutting away of loving hearts in the hard ground. So it is,… — Edna St. Vincent Millay Copy Share Image
This poem is one of a series, all of them elegiac in intention, and subject to the strange forces of mourning that… — Lyn Hejinian Copy Share Image
At first, when an idea, a poem, or the desire to write takes hold of you, work is a pleasure, a delight,… — Natalie Clifford Barney Copy Share Image
“...I wonder who first discovered the efficacy of poetry in driving away love!" "I have been used to consider poetry as the… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
Poets do not compose their poems with knowledge, but by some inborn talent and by inspiration, like seers and prophets who also… — Plato Copy Share Image
These are some of the characteristics of the state of mind which the creation and appreciation of haiku demand: Selflessness, Loneliness, Grateful… — Reginald Horace Blyth Copy Share Image
I'd been writing poems for many years, but most of them I didn't like. Then, when I was 23, I wrote one… — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
“Wasn't sunrise meant to be the hour of hope? 'The season of creation' some poet or other had once called it. Fucking… — Uzma Aslam Khan Copy Share Image
Versification is, indeed, indispensable for music, but rhyme, solely for rhyming's sake, most pernicious. — Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Copy Share Image
“If you aren’t aware, there is a lioness living inside you. Maybe it’s time you get acquainted.” — Melody Lee Copy Share Image
She entered a state where prayer and poetry became one and the everyday world seemed full of holiness and significance. — Lian Hearn Copy Share Image
I would give anything to sing like Beyonce or Adele. I've said many times to my friends that if I could sing… — Rupi Kaur Copy Share Image
I just can't sit down and write three verses and a chorus and a bridge anymore. It just don't find it inspiring. — Sturgill Simpson Copy Share Image
There is such a thing as literary fashion, and prose and verse have been regulated by the same caprice that cuts our… — Isaac D'Israeli Copy Share Image
Poets are the only people to whom love is not only a crucial, but an indispensable experience, which entitles them to mistake… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
Is the biographer an artist who can and should exist on equal terms with the dramatist, fiction writer and poet? The short… — Tom Paulin Copy Share Image
The fact that something is in a rhymed form or in blank verse will not make it good poetry. — Robert Morgan Copy Share Image
Lastly, this threefold poetry flows from three great sources - The Bible, Homer, Shakespeare… The Bible before the Iliad, the Iliad before… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
A mind that is lively and inquiring, compassionate, curious, angry, full of music, full of feeling, is a mind full of possible… — Mary Oliver Copy Share Image
“Some wrong eternity that wouldn’t budge, like trying to move a wardrobe or a safe, only to feel how light I was.” — Deborah Digges Copy Share Image
You can't make poetry out of thought; poetry is passion. Linear thought must be seduced by wild mind, by the fires of… — Jennifer Stone Copy Share Image
“Tide with invisible strings, I'm an embroidery in fate, A mess and misunderstood, A masterpiece worth the wait.” — Ritu Negi Copy Share Image
It's a little mad, but I believe I am many people. When I am writing a poem, I feel I am the… — Anne Sexton Copy Share Image
As a great master once observed: "There are two methods of becoming god, the upright or the averse." Let the mind become… — Peter J. Carroll Copy Share Image
But the divinest poem, or the life of a great man, is the severest satire… The greater the genius, the keener the… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
We've seen violent responses to 'Satanic Verses.' We've seen violent responses to the cartoons depicting the Prophet Mohammed in an evil way. — Susan Rice Copy Share Image
In poetry compromise is fatal. In action of any cooperative sort it is inevitable. The thing is to find the balance. — May Sarton Copy Share Image
“I want to believe in prophecies more than policies. I want to listen to poets rather than pollsters.” — Carolina De Robertis Copy Share Image
Poetry is very crafted. You can't have too many words. It needs compression. It has to be spare, just the right number… — Barbara Feldon Copy Share Image
“Do you think it's ready?" I [Silenus, The Poet] asked. "It's perfect... a masterpiece." "Do you think it'll sell?" I asked. "No… — Dan Simmons Copy Share Image
“She stood. He Stood. They stood on different corners with cardboard signs. Signs that read "Why lie? I need love." signs. ©… — Antonia Perdu Millie Farquoix Copy Share Image
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