Nobody has to tell nobody nothing,” I say, taking another step forward. “You never were a poet, were you, Todd?” he says. — Patrick Ness Copy Share Image
Poetry is also the physical self of the poet, and it is impossible to separate the poet from his poetry. — Salvatore Quasimodo Copy Share Image
I had a funny feeling as I saw the house disappear, as though I had written a poem and it was very… — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
“Training is an active, dynamic process lived out daily in all areas of life- not a rote exercise in memorizing verses and… — Craig Groeschel Copy Share Image
I have thought many times since that if poets when they get discouraged would blow their brains out, they could write very… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Signs of a maddening system of writing and counting that calibrates the values of something the poet does not yet know. Praxis… — Shirley Geok-lin Lim Copy Share Image
“A fragment for my friend-- If your soul left this earth I would follow and find you Silent, my starship suspended in… — Emily St. John Mandel Copy Share Image
They see poetry in what I have done. No. I apply my methods, and that is all there is to it. — Georges Seurat Copy Share Image
As a poet, I would always hear emcees come up to me and say, 'Yo, you should rap,' and I was like,… — Omari Hardwick Copy Share Image
When a man's verses cannot be understood, nor a man's good wit seconded with the forward child understanding, it strikes a man… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
“Some day there will be girls and women whose name will no longer signify merely an opposite of the masculine, but something… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
“Surely, then, mere style, or language, never was, as it never could, naturally, it never could, possibly be praised, by well-informed readers;… — Percival Stockdale Copy Share Image
“I heard it stated that, on one occasion, during one of Alastair's visits to his friend "Mr Lachlan," the famous divine requested… — Various Copy Share Image
“Imagination does not breed insanity. Exactly what does breed insanity is reason. Poets do not go mad; but chess-players do. Mathematicians go… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
'But I never see any guys like that! you may protest. The reason for this is probably because Christlike Warrior Poets arent… — Leslie Ludy Copy Share Image
“When I write poetry, I’ll write it down, or a tiny bit of it, and then have to depend on the reader… — William Anderson Copy Share Image
Francis Webb is easily our greatest poet and one of the greatest poets in the world but he's hardly ever mentioned. — Robert Adamson Copy Share Image
“Go on down to the local palm reader, she'll spit out exactly what you feed her because honey, you already knew your… — Casey Renee Kiser Copy Share Image
“For the blind poor, Rx: bleed. For yourself; Rx: love nothing. Sow rows of onions only. Plant turnips in the dark of… — T.R. Hummer Copy Share Image
I used to try and concentrate the poem so much that there wasn't a word that wasn't essential. This leads to becoming… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“All words, then, belonging to the inner world of the mind, are of the imagination, are originally poetic words.” — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
“Don’t forget to collect the memories on your journey. Remember, if you only focus on your destination, you will miss out on… — Tanya R. Liverman Copy Share Image
Fogs are like dreams that feed the soul, and without their mysterious embrace, childhood, courtship, poetry and the composition of music become… — Michael Leunig Copy Share Image
[On Dutch flat poetry]: It is too smooth and blubbery; it reads like butter-milk gurgling from a jug. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Pretty much every artist in Scotland - musician, writer, poet, actor - they're all part of a thing called the National Collective. — Roddy Woomble Copy Share Image
There's poetry in being the band that can sell out Wembley but also makes a record in a garage. I don't like… — Dave Grohl Copy Share Image
Poetry is a mystic, sensuous mathematics of fire, smoke-stacks, waffles, pansies, people, and purple sunsets. — Carl Sandburg Copy Share Image
The more I read my poems, the more I find out about them. I still read them with the same passion I… — Linton Kwesi Johnson Copy Share Image
“One with compassion is kind even when angry; one without compassion will kill even as he smiles. SHABKAR, TIBETAN POET” — Barbara Ann Kipfer Copy Share Image
Poetry is like standing on the edge of a lake on a moonlit night and the light of the moon is always… — Billy Collins Copy Share Image
In The Doors we have both musicians and poets, and both know of each other's art, so we can effect a synthesis. — Robby Krieger Copy Share Image
By the general process of epic poetry, I mean the way this form of art has constantly responded to the profound needs… — Lascelles Abercrombie Copy Share Image
“I have written in my life many critical poems, but viewed in retrospect, they were merely a human harmless reflection, and not… — sir kristian goldmund aumann Copy Share Image
I owe everything to a system that made me learn by heart till I wept. As a result I have thousands of… — George Steiner Copy Share Image
He repeated until his dying day that there was no one with more common sense, no stone cutter more obstinate, no manager… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share Image
I have always disliked the idea of an arts ghetto in which poetry is kept on a life-support system. — Tony Harrison Copy Share Image
No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem. — Booker T. Washington Copy Share Image
“I lose faith in mathematics, logical and rigid. What with those that even zero doesn’t accept?” — Dejan Stojanovic Copy Share Image
“I'll let no man in, unless of course, he knocks. Walk right in to my heart with a thousand locks.” — Casey Renee Kiser Copy Share Image
I don't want to turn any of this into poetry / but / you're so beautiful / flowers turn their heads to smell you — Shane Koyczan Copy Share Image
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