Poetry has no investment in anything besides openness. It's not arguing a point. It's creating an environment. — Claudia Rankine Copy Share Image
Though my father was poor and had nothing, the Torah, the poetry of prophets, was his daily bread. — Anzia Yezierska Copy Share Image
Ever since I was a kid, I've always been interested in the poetry of melancholy, if you like. — Steven Wilson Copy Share Image
“Painted desert, ocean of color sun's worshiper, moon's lover picture of a coyote's voice sandbox of angels, another toy.” — Trine Daely Copy Share Image
“Robert Conquest once suggested that 'a curious little volume might be made of the poems of Stalin, Castro, Mao and Ho Chi… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
“Eggs I must instantly have!" she announced. "And Lope de Vega I will not have, though in general a fine poet, but… — Georgette Heyer Copy Share Image
[Photography is] very related to poetry. It's suggestive and fragmentary and unsatisfying in a lot of ways. It's as much about what… — Alec Soth Copy Share Image
“A writer, an author or a poet does not write because of a public or herself. She lives by a great youth.” — Petra Hermans Copy Share Image
My best songs were written very quickly. Just about as much time as it takes to write it down is about as… — Bob Dylan Copy Share Image
When did "sentimental" become a pejorative barb? I do not at all share the notion that a piece of music, or a… — Bill Richardson Copy Share Image
I have never written a play, a story, a poem, or my one film - anything - unless something was troubling me… — Israel Horovitz Copy Share Image
When Emily Dickinson's poems were published in the 1890s, they were a best-seller; the first book of her poems went through eleven… — Robert Hass Copy Share Image
“It was useless trying to explain to Cecila that poetry wasn't a commodity, that it could never be bought or sold, that… — Tennessee Williams Copy Share Image
“What do they think has happened, the old fools, To make them like this ? Do they somehow suppose It's more grown-up… — Philip Larkin Copy Share Image
“right now, I am a rough draft; I am here to be revisited and revised. hard as I try, I am not… — Caroline Kaufman Copy Share Image
“We strove for a name, while the light of the lamps burnt thin and the outer dawn came in, a ghost, the… — Hilda Doolittle Copy Share Image
Everything in creation has its appointed painter or poet and remains in bondage like the princess in the fairy tale 'til its… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“When humankind cannot produce a philosopher to speak its mind, it longs for a poet to sing its heart” — Subhan Zein Copy Share Image
A bell is not a bell until someone rings it, a song is not a song until someone sings it. Love wasn't… — Senora Roy Copy Share Image
I had nothing but time on my hands. That's when it became, 'Quan, what are you good at?' Poetry... I read a… — Rich Homie Quan Copy Share Image
Don’t you love the Oxford Dictionary? When I first read it, I thought it was a really really long poem about everything. — David Bowie Copy Share Image
“She was a beautiful dreamer. The kind of girl, who kept her head in the clouds, loved above the stars and left… — robert m drake Copy Share Image
“Poetry isn’t an island, it is the bridge. Poetry isn’t a ship, it is the lifeboat. Poetry isn’t swimming. Poetry is water.” — Kamand Kojouri Copy Share Image
'Alphabet' by the late Danish poet Inger Christensen. It's a book-length abecedarian poem. It's an activist text but also a portal to… — Jenny Zhang Copy Share Image
My stories are sometimes closer to poems or meditations, but often there is at least a little narrative in them. — Lydia Davis Copy Share Image
“just a little bit longer, sing: like rain, like sand, like wind in the night, prickling" from the poem - STAY from… — Jay Woodman Copy Share Image
My dad was a poet. He saw the world through unique glasses, with simplicity, spirituality, and humor. — John Carter Cash Copy Share Image
“A mí me ha tocado no estar contigo; no tengo miradas para encontrarte ni hay cosa en que pueda reconocerte.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Wordsworth went to the Lakes, but he was never a lake poet. He found in stones the sermons he had already hidden… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
If there is any verse that you would like left out of the Bible, that is the verse that ought to stick… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
“This is the way the world ends This is the way the world ends This is the way the world ends Not… — T.S. Eliot Copy Share Image
“This is the difficult miracle of Black poetry in America: that we persist, published or not, and loved or unloved: we persist.” — June Jordan Copy Share Image
Thats the way it is with poetry: When it is incomprehensible it seems profound, and when you understand it, it is only… — Galway Kinnell Copy Share Image
Prose is when all the lines except the last go on to the end. Poetry is when some of them fall short… — Jeremy Bentham Copy Share Image
“I sometimes think you despise poetry,' said Phineas. 'When it is false I do. The difficulty is to know when it is… — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
With "poets dead and gone" as Keats says in "Mermaid Tavern" they are alive and talking to us and us to them. — Gregory Orr Copy Share Image
Believe it or not, I sold my first novel, 'Crank,' with only seventy-five pages complete. It was in verse then, and it… — Ellen Hopkins Copy Share Image
But I can only write what the muse allows me to write. I cannot choose, I can only do what I am… — Ian Hamilton Finlay Copy Share Image
That poetry survived in its formal agencies finally, and that prose survived to get something said. — Robert Creeley Copy Share Image
The poet Melvin B. Tolson once said, 'A civilization is judged only in its decline.' That made sense to me. I would… — Nikki Giovanni Copy Share Image
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