“[Short Talk on the Sensation of Airplane Takeoff] Well you know I wonder, it could be love running toward my life with… — Anne Carson Copy Share Image
To most people who look at a mobile, it's no more than a series of flat objects that move. To a few,… — Alexander Calder Copy Share Image
Poetry's medium is not merely light as air, it is air: vital and deep as ordinary breath. — Robert Pinsky Copy Share Image
“She loved to read her old poems. They are like photographs, she thought. There’s so much evidence of me.” — Leopoldine Core Copy Share Image
A prose writer gets tired of writing prose, and wants to be a poet. So he begins every line with a capital… — Samuel McChord Crothers Copy Share Image
“A great poet can have the role of spiritual head of a nation.A great ruler is the spiritual head of a nation,… — Anatoli Rybakov Copy Share Image
“As Henry Moore carved or modelled his sculpture every day, he strove to surpass Donatello 4. and failed, but woke the next… — Donald Hall Copy Share Image
“LEASE Life Ends And Session Expires Kamil Ali - Poem, The Balance' - Profound Vers-A-Tales” — Kamil Ali Copy Share Image
“Christopher loved her with the passion of youth, of imagination, of poetry, of all the fresh beginnings of wonder and worship that… — Elizabeth von Arnim Copy Share Image
You never forget the books you loved as a kid. You never forget the poems you memorized, the first book you read… — Meg Medina Copy Share Image
As poets, we're writing into the void, and we're not writing to be bestsellers. Whatever individual responses we get, whether at a… — Mary Jo Salter Copy Share Image
“It doesn’t say these signs will accompany only “the apostles.” It says these signs will accompany “those who BELIEVE.” Are you a… — Elliana Olivia Copy Share Image
It is possible that Mount Olympus may have supplied the poets with the hint for saying that Jupiter obtained the kingdom of… — Lactantius Copy Share Image
“There has fallen a splendid tear From the passion-flower at the gate. She is coming, my dove, my dear; She is coming,… — Alfred Tennyson Copy Share Image
“The Dieter's Daughter Mom's got this taco guy's poem taped to the fridge, some ode to celery, which she is always eating.… — Anita Endrezze Copy Share Image
“They are constantly colonists and emigrants ; they have the name of being at home in every country. But they are in… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“For the poet, the world is word. Words. Not that precisely. Precisely: the world and words fuck each other.” — Kathy Acker Copy Share Image
A poem is like a child; at some point we have to let it go and trust that it will make its… — Dorianne Laux Copy Share Image
“I reckon a good poem lasts a whole lot longer than a hundred of those people put together.” — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
I have always felt like an artist when I work on a book. I see no reason why the word should always… — Barbara Tuchman Copy Share Image
“Everything you invent is true: you can be sure of that. Poetry is a subject as precise as geometry.” — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
“They were high up. If he fell, he'd have time to hum three verses of "She Has No Ankles That I Can… — Robert Jordan Copy Share Image
One will never again look at a birch tree, after the Robert Frost poem, in exactly the same way. — Paul Muldoon Copy Share Image
To me there's no creativity without boundaries. If you're gonna write a sonnet, it's 14 lines, so it's solving the problem within… — Lorne Michaels Copy Share Image
Walter [Cronkite] sang me a little sea chantey. The verse ended, 'Just watch your back with Dan [Rather], dear, just watch your… — Connie Chung Copy Share Image
There's so much rage in the world now and I'm finding poems to be the place where I want to stay. I… — Ada Limon Copy Share Image
What's interesting about songs where the writer is genuinely in love with words is that it's easy to read the lyrics like… — Ann Reed Copy Share Image
“We Irish are too poetical to be poets; we are a nation of brilliant failures, but we are the greatest talkers since… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“I wrote so meagerly to you. But what I couldn't write swelled and swelled like an old-fashioned airship and drifted away at… — Tomas Tranströmer Copy Share Image
The poet is a creator, not an iconoclast, and never will tamely endeavor to say in prose what can only be expressed… — Edmund Clarence Stedman Copy Share Image
Unjustly poets we asperse: Truth shines the brighter clad in verse, And all the fictions they pursue Do but insinuate what is… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
The poet and the politician have this in common: their greatness depends on the courage with which they face the challenges of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Among the American contemporaries I read with most enjoyment are several North Carolinians. I think the best poetry being written these days… — Robert Morgan Copy Share Image
I'm a poet who practices Zen. And it's not, I'm somebody who practices Zen who writes poetry. There's no separation for me. — Sam Hamill Copy Share Image
“It’s been raining outside and I feel like a sad poet, hating my imagination pissing on the roof.” — Munia Khan Copy Share Image
“Any poet may find the most profound themes scattered along the path. Observation, if passionate, however, might debauch the deepest of themes.” — Alok Mishra Copy Share Image
“It did not seem to me to be a time to guard myself against Love's blows: so I went on confident, unsuspecting;… — Petrarch Copy Share Image
On the other hand, if there's an underlying core of poetry that I go to, I go to the sea. I've lived… — Richard Serra Copy Share Image
“You know you possess the soul of an artist when, each time you sit down to create, the whole universe lays itself… — Eric Micha'el Leventhal Copy Share Image
“Ginsberg was the favourite bohemian poet of straight college boys who wanted to transgress, and of gay college boys who were not… — Christopher Bram Copy Share Image
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