I dabbled in writing, wrote really bad poetry in high school. I also took a few writing classes when I was an… — Jesmyn Ward Copy Share Image
“She's brim full of poetry - actualized poetry, if I may use the expression. She lives what paper-poets only write...” — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
The Black Mountain poet I like most is the early Creeley. Those early poems seem very lyrical and very traditional, with a… — Robert Morgan Copy Share Image
“ To Those Without Pity Cruel of heart, lay down my song. Your reading eyes have done me wrong. Not for you… — Edna St. Vincent Millay Copy Share Image
Making love to Aurelia was like rummaging through a card catalog in a deserted library, searching for one very obscure, little-read entry… — Marisha Pessl Copy Share Image
The ingredients that make a good poem often differ from those that make a good essay and from those that make a… — Kathleen Rooney Copy Share Image
After watching Guru Dutt's films, I became a huge fan of Sahir Ludhianvi's poetry and the songs of Guru Dutt's films. — Mahira Khan Copy Share Image
Some poets marry a language; some have affairs with it; some treat it as a parent, some as a child, some as… — Stephen Burt Copy Share Image
“They say this city can absorb anyone. It does seem that every nationality is here in some part. There are dreamers and… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
It will be hard James but you come from sturdy peasant stock men who picked cotton and dammed rivers and built railroads… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Surrealism is not a school of poetry but a movement of liberation... A way of rediscovering the language of innocence, a renewal… — Octavio Paz Copy Share Image
“The talked about their messed-up, dysfunctional families, carefully respecting boundaries, never probing too deep in any one sitting. And they always ended… — Andrea Kayne Kaufman Copy Share Image
I think a lot about the poems I wasn't able to write...I masturbrated...Solitude is essentially a matter of pride; you bury yourself… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
“The memories come back like the rainbow after the rain with all the hues and shades of color and an unending train… — Avijeet Das Copy Share Image
“I was the solitary plover a pencil for a wing-bone From the secret notes I must tilt upon the pressure execute and… — Lorine Niedecker Copy Share Image
“She winced and covered her ears as Eric,onstage, wrestled with his microphone. "Sorry about that, guys!" he yelled. "All right. I'm Eric,… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
During the last years of Mayakovski's life, when all poetry had ceased to exist . . . literature had stopped. — Boris Pasternak Copy Share Image
It is strange how a scrap of poetry works in the mind and makes the legs move in time to it along… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
The ecstatic beauty and soulful grace of Rumi's poetry inspires human hearts to believe in possibilities beyond the predictably fatal. — Aberjhani Copy Share Image
The white light of truth, in traversing the many sided transparent soul of the poet, is refracted into iris-hued poetry. — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
Shakespeare's fault is not the greatest into which a poet may fall. It merely indicates a deficiency of taste. — Denis Diderot Copy Share Image
“Character is just an invention, but it's an invention that serves as both reason and justification for our behaviour. - Broken Verses” — Kamila Shamsie Copy Share Image
“Citing Poe’s celebrity—everybody was “raven-mad about his last poem”—Briggs took him on as junior partner.” — Mike Wallace Copy Share Image
“If we were to understand how important it is to say something and say it well, maybe we wouldn’t write a single… — Dejan Stojanovic Copy Share Image
“For me,” she wrote, “poetry is an evasion from the real job of writing prose.” Throughout” — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
Happiness. It comes on unexpectedly. And goes beyond, really, any early morning talk about it. — Raymond Carver Copy Share Image
“A true poet is one who can appreciate the disciplines and structures of any and all styles of poetry.” — David J Delaney Copy Share Image
I often write from memory by walking around and talking to myself. Even when I'm working at a computer I write out… — James Arthur Copy Share Image
“I am the eye that beholds... And I am the dreamer that paints the stars in the night sky... For I am… — Solange nicole Copy Share Image
I do not feel like writing verses; but as I light my perfume burner with myrrh and jasmine incense, they suddenly burgeon… — Hafez Copy Share Image
“You will get no poetry from me, nor songs of love. But I will love you, every day for the rest of… — Christy English Copy Share Image
The poem is never complete in the mind. It emerges, and then it's like an act of unveiling. The unveiling is the… — Ben Okri Copy Share Image
I was reading the poems of Rochester. Rochester made himself out to be bisexual, but I think that was only to shock.… — Thom Gunn Copy Share Image
Science arose from poetry... when times change the two can meet again on a higher level as friends. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
I feel that at any stage of my literary career it could have been said that the last book contained all the… — V. S. Naipaul Copy Share Image
“The Love rush. Sensation only felt by the seduced mind and body under the command of it.” — J.Wolf Copy Share Image
She was the amoureuse of all the novels, the heroine of all the plays, the vague “she” of all the poetry books. — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
Shakespeare, who is probably the greatest writer and poet of the English language, lived in a time that was politically very conservative… — Alex Cox Copy Share Image
. . . it is through poetry that we give name to those ideas which are-until the poem-nameless and formless, about to… — Audre Lorde Copy Share Image
Being an art form, verse cannot be "free" in the sense of having no limitations or guiding principle. — William Carlos Williams Copy Share Image
