“His poems have no capital letters in them, which is, I believe, the essence of modernity. His books are about unpleasant people… — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
I think that as a poet, I am always concerned about history and baring witness to history. But so often, it's through… — Natasha Trethewey Copy Share Image
“He was young, no older than fifteen, pale and dark-haired, wearing jeans and a soft white T-shirt that had SHAKESPEARE HATES YOUR… — Marjorie M. Liu Copy Share Image
“Laugh until you cry; never let your eyes look dry This is not a matter of joke; this is all to provoke… — Munia Khan Copy Share Image
I used to get in trouble a lot in school because I would write very naughty stories and poems in class. — Ashnikko Copy Share Image
I don't expect you'll hear me writing any poems to the greater glory of Ronald and Nancy Reagan. — Robert Penn Warren Copy Share Image
So much of my poetry begins with something that I can describe in visual terms, so thinking about distance, thinking about how… — Tracy K. Smith Copy Share Image
He wanted to be a poet,' someone else put in while Maggie hugged Tim and patted his back. 'Said he'd only lacked… — Nora Roberts Copy Share Image
But it's silly to suggest the writing of poetry is something ethereal, a sort of soul-crashing, devastating emotional experience that wrings you.… — Louise Bogan Copy Share Image
That is the best instruction you could ever give a poet: whether you're examining a bad line in a poem or a… — Alice Oswald Copy Share Image
The whole thing about making films in an organic film on location is that it's not all about characters, relationships and themes,… — Mike Leigh Copy Share Image
“every experience will fill with immediacy. Because I love this, I am never bored. Beauty constantly wells up like the noise of… — Rumi Copy Share Image
The most available example of how poetry works for a poet is yourself, and yet you'll probably be the last one to… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
“If you only read literature books, only novels, only poetry, only theatre, you are not reading a book! To read in the… — Mehmet Murat ildan Copy Share Image
“There is the question of accumulation (...) just the simple adding up and adding on of life. And as the poet pointed… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
“But the loneliness was still on Danny and demanded an outlet. 'Here we sit,' he began at last. ' - broken-hearted,' Pilon… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
When you're doing poetry like mine that rhymes, it's very easy to sound like a song that didn't work out! — John Cooper Clarke Copy Share Image
I was actually a poetry major in college before I punted and decided to become a theater major. I wrote the poem… — Denis O'Hare Copy Share Image
This be the verse you grave for me: Here he lies where he longed to be; Home is the sailor, home from… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“We are all fragments of one another, strewn across… borders. Different lines in the same poem.” — Isabel Quintero Copy Share Image
I'd always loved poetry and I'd always loved writing music and composing music, but I hadn't thought of putting the two together… — Bruce Cockburn Copy Share Image
My secret dream is to write an epic poem. That's probably the most pretentious thing I've said. — Laurie Anderson Copy Share Image
When you're writing, you're in a totally different zone... I can start a difficult poem and look up at the clock and… — Felix Dennis Copy Share Image
I envy no man's nightingale or spring; Nor let them punish me with loss of rhyme, Who plainly say, My God, My… — George Herbert Copy Share Image
I have to reach "the poetry condition" to write. Then it is as if the border around me is thinned or blurred… — Kim Hyesoon Copy Share Image
“I keep holding up the mirror of the sun, so you can see the stunning reflections of everything you’re becom- ing.” — Curtis Tyrone Jones Copy Share Image
It's always a combination of physics and poetry that I find inspiring. It's hard to wrap your head around things like the… — Tom Hanks Copy Share Image
I think the culture can absorb so many people writing poetry and trying to earn their living in poetry. — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
There have always been poets who performed. Blake sang his Songs of Innocence and Experience to parties of friends. — Adrian Mitchell Copy Share Image
True poetry is truer than science, because it is synthetic, and seizes at once what the combination of all the sciences is… — Henri Frederic Amiel Copy Share Image
“And the poets?' 'Lost in dreams of other worlds.'... 'And the wise, who made this world?' The swan lowered its black neck… — Catherine Fisher Copy Share Image
Charles Dickens was an avid seeker of names - he read directories and looked for odd names on gravestones. — Jane Smiley Copy Share Image
The poet and the painter are only truly great by the mutual influences of their studies, and the jealousy of glory has… — Isaac D'Israeli Copy Share Image
“unsignificantly off the coast there was a splash quite unnoticed this was Icarus drowning” — William Carlos Williams Copy Share Image
Sweet I m But Honey is You. Image is Mine But Colours Are You. Poet I am But Poem is You. Flower… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“In most poetic expressions of patriotism, it is impossible to distinguish what is one of the greatest human virtues from the worst… — W.H. Auden Copy Share Image
My favorite artists don't rap about making it rain They're about the stormy clouds, a better tomorrow, with the pain — Raghib Clitso Copy Share Image
I studied English at the College of Wooster in Ohio, and I did an M.F.A. in Poetry at Columbia. — David Means Copy Share Image
What's really funny about being National Youth Poet Laureate is that not everyone even knows it exists. — Amanda Gorman Copy Share Image
“Being there doesn't mean I'm present. I exist only in words. I want to be transmuted fully to white page and ink.” — David Joseph Cribbin Copy Share Image
