Writers quite often starve. And I'm mainly just writing critical prose and poetry, that's a formula for starvation. — Clive James Copy Share Image
One difference between poetry and lyrics is that lyrics sort of fade into the background. They fade on the page and live… — Stephen Sondheim Copy Share Image
What if this were Hell, this absence of sleep, this poet's desert, this pain of living, this dying of not dying, this… — Leopold Sedar Senghor Copy Share Image
Art history and Elizabethan poetry don't employ workers; the arduous and tedious application of business sciences such as computer programming and accounting… — Edward Conard Copy Share Image
Poetry calls us to pause. There is so much we overlook, while the abundance around us continues to shimmer, on its own. — Naomi Shihab Nye Copy Share Image
“In my more rebellious days I tried to doubt the existence of the sacred, but the universe kept dancing and life kept… — David N. Elkins Copy Share Image
All bad poetry springs from genuine feeling. To be natural is to be obvious, and to be obvious is to be inartistic. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
I always thought millennials are going westward, and they probably won't understand vernacular poetry. — Ayushmann Khurrana Copy Share Image
“Love's night and a lamp Judged our vows: That she would love me ever And I should never leave her. Love's night… — Meleager Copy Share Image
Once I started writing all the time and interacting with poets, I made a conscious decision to identify myself as a poet.… — Tracy K. Smith Copy Share Image
I am delighted, one more time, by the daring of my species and the audacity of our flying machines. There is poetry… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
The charming landscape which I saw this morning is indubitably made up of some twenty or thirty farms. Miller owns this field,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“All of these teeth had once been in real, live people. They had talked and smiled and eaten and sang and cursed… — Gabrielle Zevin Copy Share Image
You can judge the moral bearing of a political system, a political institution, a political man by the degree of danger they… — Roque Dalton Copy Share Image
I never send a story off until I have read it aloud to at least two or three people. Because when I… — Harlan Ellison Copy Share Image
“Hence the vanity of translation; it were as wise to cast a violet into a crucible that you might discover the formal… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
“All from the shines of yours The starlight of genuinity Being there at all times --Masterpiece In Your Heart. a series of… — S.Sulianah Copy Share Image
My father loved poetry and music. But deep in himself he thought teaching the finest thing a person could do. — George Steiner Copy Share Image
“.. "All religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination, and poetry." -Edgar Allan Poe” — Nykki Mills Copy Share Image
The poet's function is to make his imagination . . . become the light in the mind of others. His role, in… — Wallace Stevens Copy Share Image
“...and so many colors I will have seen... the menacing greys and pine greens the soft pink and purples of spring and… — Sanober Khan Copy Share Image
“Beware, the moon is ablaze tonight. no telling what kind of insanity she’ll ignite. Listen to the wolves howl. Oh my, her… — Melody Lee Copy Share Image
It took me awhile to not be ashamed to be a poet in the business environment, and to be a business person… — Victoria Chang Copy Share Image
“His tales took on the form of an epic poem, and I felt I was hearing some Canadian Homer reciting his Iliad… — Jules Verne Copy Share Image
“The dark silhouette of a forgotten rose in a forbidden garden of love; what kind of delicate fragrance of forgiveness it seems… — Laura Chouette Copy Share Image
Far off in the red mangroves an alligator has heaved himself onto a hummock of grass and lies there, studying his poems. — Mary Oliver Copy Share Image
“And medecine, law, business, engineering, these are noble pursuits and necessary to sustain life. But poetry, beauty, romance, love: these are what… — N.H. Kleinbaum Copy Share Image
My poetry is the most disappointing thing for me that I've ever written. When I say I can write everything, I don't… — Jess Walter Copy Share Image
“The voice I heard on the edge of death is the same which inspired my ancestors to write their verse: a further… — Tobias Wade Copy Share Image
“you are a lover of the words a soul mate to the story everything becomes a part of you from my fingertips… — Amanda Linsmeier Copy Share Image
I grew up in a place in which, if you learned poetry, you shouted it out. Boys would scream it out and… — Derek Walcott Copy Share Image
I don't separate writing songs from poetry and short fiction. In the area where I work in my house, there's a word… — Steve Earle Copy Share Image
“It takes more energy to find the words to describe poems than almost anything I can think of, except of course for… — Robert Newman Copy Share Image
“The completely unambitious writer and the really good unpublished poem are the things we lack most at this time. There is, of… — Hemingway Ernest Copy Share Image
The young artist of today need no longer say 'I am a painter,' or 'a poet,' or 'a dancer.' He is simply… — Allan Kaprow Copy Share Image
“Poetry is music for the human voice. Until you actually speak it or someone speaks it, it has not come into its… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
Those who are not very concerned with art want poems or pictures to record for them something they already know - as… — George Oppen Copy Share Image
I was always into poetry and writing. So the urgency of spoken word is something that really has always appealed to me. — Mat Kearney Copy Share Image
“Writing poetry felt silly, not practical. It was poetry. I wasn't exploring space here. But it felt necessary to me.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Poetry reproduces an indefinable mood that is more amorous than love itself. Venus is not so beautiful all naked, alive, and panting,… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
