I see architecture not as Gropius did, as a moral venture, as truth, but as invention, in the same way that poetry… — Michael Graves Copy Share Image
If i write a book it will probably be a book about how not to use the internet or a book of… — Misha Collins Copy Share Image
Poetry is simply the most beautiful, impressive, and widely effective mode of saying things. — Matthew Arnold Copy Share Image
I think that all my books are political, I think that I have a political body of work. I am essentially a… — Maria Teresa Horta Copy Share Image
Part of the strength of Pollock and Rothko's art, in fact, is this doubt as to whether art may be there at… — John Ashbery Copy Share Image
If you only write when inspired, you may be a fairly decent poet, but you'll never be a novelist. — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
A poem employs both the sound and the sense of language, it treats words not just as signifiers but as a plastic… — Campbell McGrath Copy Share Image
There is no comment on pictures but pictures, on music but music, on poems but poetry. If you do, you do. If… — William Carlos Williams Copy Share Image
Happy indeed the poet of whom, like Orpheus, nothing is known but an immortal name! Happy next, perhaps, the poet of whom,… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
“Got Love? True love is not an emotion. It's a choice of the heart. It is a conscious act of kindness, forgiveness… — Jason Versey Copy Share Image
I first got caught up in this marvelous feeling of being spoken to in that very direct, private, magical way by a… — Tracy K. Smith Copy Share Image
“Do you remember…(doesn’t that appear in each of my letters?), do you remember that you spoke of how eagerly you experienced that… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
“Haunting the library as a kid, reading poetry books when I was not reading bird books, I had been astonished at how… — Kenn Kaufman Copy Share Image
“A few weeks later, in the wood, I came across Miss Riding Hood. But what a change! No cloak of red, No… — Roald Dahl Copy Share Image
The crown of literature is poetry. It is its end and aim. It is the sublimest activity of the human mind. It… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
“This summer, a lot of what I was teaching was against Bloom’s Anxiety of Influence , very broadly speaking, this anxiety of… — Tony Leuzzi Copy Share Image
“What has praise and fame to do with poetry? Was not writing poetry a secret transaction, a voice answering a voice?” — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“If you hate me for who I am, then hate, you should; but I hate it when I am being, misunderstood.” — Akash Mandal Copy Share Image
Feel you the barren flattery of a rhyme? Can poets soothe you, when you pine for bread, By winding myrtle round your… — George Crabbe Copy Share Image
A poem is a small machine made of words. . .Its movement is intrinsic, undulant, a physical more than a literary character. — William Carlos Williams Copy Share Image
Metaphor impinges on everything, allowing us - poets and non-poets alike - to experience and think about the world in fluid, unusual… — James Geary Copy Share Image
“If war is the test of reality, than all poetry is unreal; but in that case unreality is a virtue.” — Louis MacNeice Copy Share Image
When you reach out and touch other human beings, it doesn't matter whether you call it therapy or teaching or poetry. — Audre Lorde Copy Share Image
“Nothing would be easier without you, because you are everything, all of it- sprinkles, quarks, giant donuts, eggs sunny-side up- you are… — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
“Those letters under the door A new life The war at a distance and my drinking glass that smokes A brightness crowns… — Paul Dermée Copy Share Image
There is a whole book of poetry written by a woman with sucidial ideation, borderline personality disorder, major depression and who is… — Sue E Cidal Copy Share Image
Poets don't draw. They unravel their handwriting and then tie it up again, but differently. — Jean Cocteau Copy Share Image
“The cover is alluring. The beginning may be enthralling. But there’s no culmination and no happy ending. So I sagely advise you… — S. Anne Cole Copy Share Image
The poet only asks to get his head into the heavens. It is the logician who seeks to get the heavens into… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“To a versifier, sounds are the means and the aim; a poet travels toward the aim using sounds.” — Dejan Stojanovic Copy Share Image
The professionalization of poetry, or the balkanization, has come out of the fact that when you apply to most creative writing programs,… — Robert Hass Copy Share Image
Poetry contains love and holds it in high esteem, even though love always humiliates it by using it merely as a soothing… — Kiki Dimoula Copy Share Image
“Man is no star, but a quick coal Of mortal fire: Who blows it not, nor doth control A faint desire,” — George Herbert Copy Share Image
For nothing keeps a poet In his high singing mood Like unappeasable hunger For unattainable food. — Joyce Kilmer Copy Share Image
I think that as long as you have other poets before you and that you can learn from them, then it's always… — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
For me, the short story is the depth of a novel, the breadth of a poem, and, as you come to the… — Amy Bloom Copy Share Image
I do not usually revise much, though I often cut, particularly the end or toward the end of a poem — James Schuyler Copy Share Image
“Up, lad: thews that lie and cumber Sunlit pallets never thrive; Morns abed and daylight slumber Were not meant for man alive.” — A.E. Housman Copy Share Image
A poem conveys not a message so much as the provenance of a message, an advent of sense. — Thomas Harrison Copy Share Image
“Talent is a faucet. When it is on, one must write. Inspiration is a farce that poets have invented to give themselves… — Jean Anouilh Copy Share Image
