“No poet or novelist wishes he was the only one who ever lived, but most of them wish they were the only… — W.H. Auden Copy Share Image
“A timid act may be more bold than one would first assume, for whispering truth is braver than to silently resume.” — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
“You read a hundred military manuals you won't find the word kill they trick you into killing.” — Anne Carson Copy Share Image
Poetry is a way for me to explore a tingly feeling, to let it play itself out, and also to map it.… — Aaron Belz Copy Share Image
Master Sigmund Freud once said that wherever I go, I find a poet has been there before me. This is simply because… — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
I take with me Kentucky, embedded in my brain and heart, in my flesh and bone and blood. Since I am Kentucky,… — Jesse Stuart Copy Share Image
“If a man is at once acquainted with the geometric foundation of things and with their festal splendor, his poetry is exact… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“Glorious sex that poets write about and that angels blow their trumpets over absolutely requires the participants to be fully engaged and… — Roberto Hogue Copy Share Image
Good poetry and successful revolution change our lives. And you cannot compose a good poem or wage a revolution without changing consciousness… — June Jordan Copy Share Image
“I spent one more hour in bed thinking about my dead feather who'd been shot responding to a routine domestic disturbance call… — Tyler Dilts Copy Share Image
“That is the way Emerson said it. But here is the way a poet -the late Douglas Mallochsaid it: If you can't… — Dale Carnegie Copy Share Image
That is many poets don't know how to tell a story and they don't have a sense of how to put things… — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
“We don't read and write poetry because it's cute. We read and write poetry because we are members of the human race.… — N.H. Kleinbaum Copy Share Image
“Ah, Sofia, darlin'! On my best days, I believe in Him with all my heart." "And on your worst days?" she had… — Mary Doria Russell Copy Share Image
The night in prison was novel and interesting enough… I found that even here there was a history and a gossip which… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I did a film recently in the Republic of Georgia [upcoming 'Halo of Stars'] which was based on a long poem written… — Lily Collins Copy Share Image
Writing wasn't just a form of expression. It was a form of pathology by embarking on spoken word over and over and… — Amanda Gorman Copy Share Image
Science fiction, outside of poetry, is the only literary field which has no limits, no parameters whatsoever. — Theodore Sturgeon Copy Share Image
“The horses have stopped their clippity-clop, but feet are too slow for where I must go. So here I shall stay until… — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
“And I've walked away so many times. I've worn a path between his heart and mind. He finds his way back to… — Alfa H Copy Share Image
“The computer is incredibly fast, accurate, and stupid. Man is unbelievably slow, inaccurate, and brilliant. The marriage of the two is a… — Muhammad Waseem Copy Share Image
“Love is not a receiving material, It's a giving material. Like a pen;giving poems, Like a sun and moon;giving hot and cool,… — AR Bharaty Copy Share Image
The older I've got the less I find myself going back and re-reading or really reading new fiction or poetry. — Reynolds Price Copy Share Image
My next project is to get back to that. Actually, to learn how to write poetry. I'm not kidding. — Harry Mathews Copy Share Image
“If an ancient man saw planes two thousand years ago He would've thought they were birds Or angels from another world Or… — Dejan Stojanovic Copy Share Image
The majority of poems one outgrows and outlives, as one outgrows and outlives the majority of human passions. — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
Poetry, unlike oratory, should not aim at clarity... but be dense with meaning, 'something to be chewed and digested'. — George Chapman Copy Share Image
“vers libre," (free verse) or nine-tenths of it, is not a new metre any more than sleeping in a ditch is a… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“Sylvia Plath is an example of the egotistical sublime: her subject is herself, her predicament, her violent Romantic emotions,” wrote the poet… — Andrew Wilson Copy Share Image
From my poem, these are the words I choose. They describe me, and everything I've been through. — Leslie Copy Share Image
“This tiger is sprawled So still and so flat, A question arises When glancing thereat. Is he asleep? to be Perfectly frank,… — Bill Watterson Copy Share Image
“From the first cup of coffee in the morning to playing in the sheets at night, I choose you to be by… — J.WOLF Copy Share Image
In a war situation or where violence and injustice are prevalent, poetry is called upon to be something more than a thing… — Seamus Heaney Copy Share Image
“Let us keep enough money to enjoy each breath we take, but definitely not too much, if we don’t want to spoil… — Erik Pevernagie Copy Share Image
“Have you heard of this? An octogenarian, nasal cannula and wheeled oxygen, explains to me he’s ready and eager, exhausted by consciousness.” — Colin Pope Copy Share Image
“Nurtured by negative circumstances, braiding raging tornadoes in her hair, she held her head high, wearing her weathered poetry with pride.” — Curtis Tyrone Jones Copy Share Image
“If you opened the dictionary and searched for the meaning of a Goddess, you would find the reflection of a dancing lady.” — Shah Asad Rizvi Copy Share Image
I like to move around in the landscape between poetry and prose, between the lyrical and the narrative. — Rigoberto Gonzalez Copy Share Image
“The golden anchor beckons, the blue sail rises Like the wing of a dream unfolding to a new day. Let us depart,… — Delmira Agustini Copy Share Image
Each delicately and fiercely imaged poem is a tribute to perseverence and survival and a lesson for us all. — Walter Bargen Copy Share Image
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