I have been writing poetry ever since I was in high school. My poetry mainly concerned the theme of love. And that,… — Robert Indiana Copy Share Image
“Being a poet one confronts the limitation of language, how can the spirit be revealed under any restrictions.” — Mohit.K.Misra Copy Share Image
The deviant that does not observe the trivial uses of the language is a poet, a deviant who violates the banal customs… — William C. Brown Copy Share Image
Everything on this record is what I really wanted to say, and I'm back to being the poet I always thought I… — Stevie Nicks Copy Share Image
When Robert Frost was alive, I was known as the other new England poet, which is to be barely known at all. — Howard Nemerov Copy Share Image
“By working faithfully eight hours a day, you may eventually get to be a boss and work twelve hours a day. —ROBERT… — Timothy Ferriss Copy Share Image
Our poetry now is the realization that we possess nothing. Anything therefore is a delight (since we do not posses it) and… — John Cage Copy Share Image
“Little deer, I've stuffed all the world's diseases inside you. / Your veins are thorns // and the good cells are lost… — Pascale Petit Copy Share Image
The process of preparing programs for a digital computer is especially attractive, not only because it can economically and scientifically rewarding, but… — Donald Knuth Copy Share Image
“It could have been so beautiful. The way I learned and got free and swore to never love another person ever again… — Charlotte Eriksson Copy Share Image
When you are very old, and sit in the candle - light at evening spinning by the fire, you will say, as… — Pierre de Ronsard Copy Share Image
“A turning point in the criticism of Hardy’s poetry came in his centenary year, in which W. H. Auden (1940) recorded his… — Geoffrey Harvey Copy Share Image
“Take down the walls. That is, after all, the whole point. You do not know what will happen if you take down… — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
“When i remember your name i know you are my hope. for what ? not for love... 'cause i know you can't… — Yulianto Eko P Copy Share Image
I was in juvenile detention center, and I was in Rikers Island. And there was an anthology written by the inmates called… — Lemon Andersen Copy Share Image
With rock music, it usually revolves around the band. You go in as a band and probably take about a year to… — Travis Barker Copy Share Image
The one man in the room who was as big as his poems, huge, with hulk and dynamic chunks of words. — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
“I’d reconstruct Heaven, or usurp Hell— write till I swing open like a door hinge. I arrive—a rogue who’d refurbish town. I… — BJ Ward Copy Share Image
Becoming interested in poetics got me interested in theater. Theater is supposed to be poetry, you know, before it's anything else. It… — Steve Earle Copy Share Image
In Latin America in general, and Cuba in particular, poets have been the inspiration behind struggles for independence, struggles for freedom of… — Margarita Engle Copy Share Image
and for the first time in my life I understand the end of that poem. And I never wanted to. You have… — Stephen Chbosky Copy Share Image
“I want to tie one thousand balloons around my neck and float up while slowly dying of happiness.” — Matthew Donahoo Copy Share Image
A contemporary poet has characterized this sense of the personality of art and of the impersonality of science in these words,-'Art is… — Claude Bernard Copy Share Image
“Blame the poets. It’s easier to stir people to rebellion if they think they’re on the side of a demigod or some… — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
Every Night and every Morn Some to Misery are born. Every Morn and every Night Some are born to Sweet Delight, Some… — William Blake Copy Share Image
I didn't have a dream of being a press secretary, I had a dream of being a playwright; I had a dream… — Pearl Cleage Copy Share Image
Poetry should... should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost a remembrance. — John Keats Copy Share Image
Cannery Row in Monterey in California is a poem, a stink, a grating noise, a quality of light, a tone, a habit,… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“I have waltzed with wolves and howled at the moon. But my heart will always remember the slow-dance that ended much too… — Alfa H Copy Share Image
The reader is the content of any poem or of the language he employs, and in order to use any of these… — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
Mathematics is the art of giving the same name to different things. [As opposed to the quotation: Poetry is the art of… — Henri Poincare Copy Share Image
I'm sort of annoyed that some very basic things about poetic forms were not conveyed to me in the various poetry courses… — Juliana Spahr Copy Share Image
“I paid, got up, walked to the door, opened it. I heard the man say, "that guy's nuts." out on the street… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
If the poem can be improved by the author's explanations, it never should have been published. — Archibald MacLeish Copy Share Image
“Each loved one went silently down; bubbles bursting leaving behind images they held to stick on the glass of memory.” — Dr. Prathap Kamath Elegy Copy Share Image
Ordering is very important with essays, even if a reader doesn't read the essays or the poems in order through the book... — Pattiann Rogers Copy Share Image
The best books of our times have included the three mature volumes of Philip Larkin. They're very short books of poems, and… — Robert Morgan Copy Share Image
“Me too thy nobleness has taught To master my despair; The fountains of my hidden life Are through thy friendship fair.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
True poets don't write their thoughts with a pen. They release the ink that flows from within their heart. — Ritu Ghatourey Copy Share Image
I think I've been writing black poems all along, wearing my white mask. I'm always the victim ... but no longer! — Anne Sexton Copy Share Image