I used to be locked up in my bedroom for hours, just listening to music, making some of my own, doodling and… — Ananya Birla Copy Share Image
“What else was filmmmaking about if not a series of perfect and potent images strung together like the words of a poem?” — Francesca Lia Block Copy Share Image
“Asceticism is giving up selfish activities, as poets know, and the wise declare renunciation is giving up fruits of action. — Krishna.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Poetry does need a bit of ferocity. The only way to attend to the fractured world is to write a ferocious kind… — Alex Lemon Copy Share Image
“I’m the impulse before the language, I’m the reason before the science, I’m the pulse before the poetry, I’m the kernel before… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“A vida vem do éter que se condensa Mas o que mais no cosmos me entusiasma É a esfera microscópica do plasma… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“One of Milton’s poems contains the well-known line “Look homeward, Angel, now, and melt with ruth.” — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
My poems getting published in Russia doesn't make me feel in any fashion, to tell you the truth. I'm not trying to… — Joseph Brodsky Copy Share Image
It seems an odd idea to my students that poetry, like all art, leads us away from itself, back to the world… — Helen Bevington Copy Share Image
“A Poem for a Trick Roses are red, Violets are blue Dumb ass nigguh I was never in love with U I… — Pamela M Johnson Copy Share Image
“WHAT am I, after all, but a child, pleas’d with the sound of my own name? repeating it over and over; I… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
“If you have a bright idea with such significance, don't pause but push, play and display that concept, it will be recognized… — Ency Bearis Copy Share Image
“He smiles. I sit a few feet away and watch as he unpacks the linen bag. “Torin packed this, not Rayna, so… — Veronica Rossi Copy Share Image
“Making it in poetry The young teller at the credit union asked why so many small checks from universities? Because I write… — Bob Hicok Copy Share Image
“We see through a glass, darkly.” The verse surprised him. He hadn’t picked up a Bible in a year, yet he knew… — Janice Cantore Copy Share Image
The ghosts of Rilke and Wordsworth--along with the 300+ MFA programs, which now seem to employ all Living Poets--have misled the American… — Katy Lederer Copy Share Image
Remember, writing poetry is like making love: one will never know whether one's own pleasure is shared. — Cesare Pavese Copy Share Image
“As for my feet, the little feet You used to call so pretty, There's one, I know, in Bedford Row, The t'other's… — Thomas Hood Copy Share Image
“For poetry is a spirit; and they that would worship it must worship in spirit and in truth.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
That choice to be ready to reject all other purposes, in favor of the possibilities of language freed from utility, is when… — Matthew Zapruder Copy Share Image
“Poetry is man’s best means of perceiving most profoundly the action and the consequence of his own emotions.” — John Ciardi Copy Share Image
People who can't speak Russian will be less susceptible to Russian propaganda. But they will also be less susceptible to the poetry… — Keith Gessen Copy Share Image
“I don’t fear the madness that springs forth, occasionally devouring me. I’m ready to cut the crazy wide open and explore it… — Melody Lee Copy Share Image
Photography, painting or poetry - those are just extensions of me, how I perceive things; they are my way of communicating. — Viggo Mortensen Copy Share Image
“Tell me: what's more obscene than fucking waste? Death is in quite poor taste, if you ask me.” — Eleanor Brown Copy Share Image
One way of ending the poem is to turn it back on itself, like a serpent with its tail in its mouth. — Maxine Kumin Copy Share Image
“You’ll go from heaven to hell. From silence to scream. From deep sleep to awakening. And by the time you finish... you… — Phoenix Moon Copy Share Image
The mystical poetry of William Blake's artwork also forms the basis for the album cover. — Bruce Dickinson Copy Share Image
My films are an extension of my poetry, using the white screen like the white page to be filled with images. — James Broughton Copy Share Image
“A fairy tale becomes one dream of a reality when a tale has been told by a poet in a dream.” — Petra Hermans Copy Share Image
“For what is the point of having something lovely if you never share it? It would be like having a poem, a… — Ally Condie Copy Share Image
“Magic is when you live your life the way you didn’t picture it and leave nothing behind.” — robert m drake Copy Share Image
I must say, when I reread myself, it's the poetry I tend to look at. It's the most exciting to write, and… — John Updike Copy Share Image
“Love is an act of will, both an intention and an action. “Let us not love with words or tongue but with… — Jason Versey Copy Share Image
There's a wonderful family called Stein: There's Gert and there's Ep and there's Ein. Gert's poems are bunk, Ep's statues are junk,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Yoga is an exact science in the form of poetry when we measure the flow of neurotransmitters in the brain.” — Amit Ray Copy Share Image
The other day, when my 4-year-old saw a flowering tree and said, "Daddy, it's raining petals," that was poetry that just melted… — Brendan Fraser Copy Share Image
Nay, what is worse, perhaps turn poet, which, they say, is an infectious and incurable distemper. — Miguel de Cervantes Copy Share Image
The poet has to make a synthesis out of the moral life of our time, and this life is lived at this… — Rose Macaulay Copy Share Image
“Some of the dead are too useful for sympathy The past we own exists on stone and white paper.” — Janet McAdams Copy Share Image
