“The only time she's come close to being "known" was when she accidentally came out as bisexual during sophomore English class while… — C.B. Lee Copy Share Image
My exposure to Beckett and to late O'Neill was probably important right at the time I gave up poetry and the novel. — Edward Albee Copy Share Image
“Floribert could neither sing nor recite these poems because they were without words, but he dreamed and felt them sometimes, especially in… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
He drew a circle that shut me out- Heretic , rebel, a thing to flout. But love and I had the wit… — Edwin Markham Copy Share Image
The vain poet is of the opinion that nothing of his can be too much: he sends to you basketful after basketful… — Walter Savage Landor Copy Share Image
I STILL THINK THE REVOLUTION IS TO MAKE THE WORLD SAFE FOR POETRY, MEANDERING, FOR THE FRAIL AND VULNERABLE, THE RARE AND… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
Painters and poets are obliged to exaggerate the proportions of their figures in order to give true perspective. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
“Green and living jewels drip into my eyes" from the poem "All Green and Living Things" in the book "Terra Affirmative” — Jay Woodman Copy Share Image
“When by my solitary hearth I sit, When no fair dreams before my “mind’s eye” flit, And the bare heath of life… — John Keats Copy Share Image
The primary function of poetry, as of all the arts, is to make us more aware of ourselves and the world around… — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
“REQUIEM Under the wide and starry sky Dig the grave and let me lie: Glad did I live and gladly die, And… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
To live within limits. To want one thing. Or a few things very much and love them dearly. Cling to them, survey… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
“So while I drove my little and planned his fantasy night of how I was going to give Otter the key to… — T.J. Klune Copy Share Image
“Across the centuries the moral systems from medival chivalry to Bruce Springsteen love anthems have worked the same basic way. They take… — david brooks Copy Share Image
The violinist must possess the poet's gift of piercing the protective hide which grows on propagandists, stockbrokers and slave traders, to penetrate… — Yehudi Menuhin Copy Share Image
Over the last few decades, I've grown more skeptical about a few things in which I used to have more faith. I… — Joshua Clover Copy Share Image
“Nothing in all those "O swan" poems had ever mentioned that they hissed. Or resented being mistaken for felines. Or bit.” — Connie Willis Copy Share Image
“Its snaky acids kiss. It petrifies the will. These are the isolate, slow faults That kill, that kill, that kill.” — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
“They are good evidence to prove that poems which seem often to be constructed of arbitrary surreal symbols are really impassioned reorganizations… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
“Lay a golden egg. After you built a nest, You wait for a leg. And you land next. Now you hope and… — Ana Claudia Antunes Copy Share Image
“In all we do, and hear, and see, Is restless Toil and Vanity. While yet the rolling earth abides, Men come and… — Anne Brontë Copy Share Image
“The house burned in the fire. Her house. Her prison of lies and of denial. Her American dream turned nightmare.”~Unbreakable Heart” — Kimberly Kinrade Copy Share Image
“Steven dreamed of you the very second you died (So the poem goes) and you may have visited him But I'm pretty… — Jon Paul Fiorentino Copy Share Image
“She does not love you. Your metaphors thrill her you are her poet. But that's all there's to it. from “She Does… — Mahmoud Darwish Copy Share Image
“My battered heart will always be where the ocean meets the sand, I will break over and over Every day. That is… — Clementine von Radics Copy Share Image
Critics write out of intellectual exercise, not poets. Poets write straight from the heart. — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
I've written poetry since I was a kid. As the years went on, I got into writing stories and screenplays, but I… — Blake Jenner Copy Share Image
People who attack biography choose as their models vulgar and offensive biography. You could equally attack novels or poems by choosing bad… — Claire Tomalin Copy Share Image
I saw an amazing film when I was 16 called 'Slam'. It's about a spoken-word poet. Saul Williams is in it. — Boyd Holbrook Copy Share Image
In the poem "C," the crows are associated with cancer, because I had suffered a cancer scare. — Shirley Geok-lin Lim Copy Share Image
The lines of poetry, the period of prose, and even the texts of Scripture most frequently recollected and quoted, are those which… — William Shenstone Copy Share Image
In the years 1910 and 1911 I had 51 innings with 10 not outs and an average of 19. This I consider… — Siegfried Sassoon Copy Share Image
Most painters have painted themselves. So have most poets: not so palpably indeed, but more assiduously. Some have done nothing else. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Hmmm. I think a lot of people can write poems that are howls of anguish. I think I've probably written such things… — John Fuller Copy Share Image
To name an object is to deprive a poem of three-fourths of its pleasure, which consists in a little-by-little guessing game; the… — Wallace Stevens Copy Share Image
Despite his dodgy politics, Yeats remains an inspiration for his genius and the simple fact that the older he got, the better… — David Benioff Copy Share Image
“Maybe those verses in Ezekiel about the dry bones coming back to life were actually a prophecy in reference to caffeine.” — Erynn Mangum Copy Share Image
A world without poetry and art would be too much like one without birds or flowers: bearable but a lot less enjoyable. — Aberjhani Copy Share Image
I'm a storyteller: the crux of the matter is to reach beauty, poetry; it doesn't matter if that is comedy or tragedy.… — Roberto Benigni Copy Share Image
“WRITTEN IN PENCIL IN THE SEALED RAILWAY-CAR here in this carload i am eve with abel my son if you see my… — Dan Pagis Copy Share Image
