A lot of people, when you ask if they want to read your epic poem, start bolting for the door. — Toby Barlow Copy Share Image
I am still interested in the long or serial poem, but have written a few smaller things. I may start sending to… — George Murray Copy Share Image
“The Daughter of Babylon verses prophesy a destroyed nation with an impotent military (Jeremiah 50:23; 30; 36; 51:3), unable to act after its massive national destruction.” — John Price Copy Share Image
Poetry is ordinary language raised to the Nth power. Poetry is boned with ideas, nerved and blooded with emotions, all held together… — Paul Engle Copy Share Image
When I get depressed, I try to get something for the terrible sadness that comes over me and create something in terms… — Spike Milligan Copy Share Image
“The monsters were never under my bed. Because the monsters were inside my head. I fear no monsters, for no monsters I… — Nikita Gill Copy Share Image
We like to think we live in daylight, but half the world is always dark, and fantasy, like poetry, speaks the language… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I didn't really like confessional poetry or things. They seemed sort of dated to me, or just corny. — Stephen Malkmus Copy Share Image
All writers know that on some golden mornings they are touched by the wand; they are on intimate terms with poetry and… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
I am a poet writing of my pain. I am a person living a life of shame. I am your daughter hiding… — Ritu Ghatourey Copy Share Image
A poet can feel free, in my estimation, to write a poem for himself. Or a painter can paint a painting for… — Keegan-Michael Key Copy Share Image
I don't agree with you in saying that in all human minds there is poetry. Man as he came from the hand… — John Muir Copy Share Image
“a cracked yolk split between her thighs. she rushed to clean up her shame. yellow stained her hands; yellow stained her child,… — Mecca-Amirah Jackson Copy Share Image
Poetry has in a way been my bridge to my acting career. I had so many questions about my life, so I… — Omari Hardwick Copy Share Image
“I remember what Anna called the three of us. The Pilot. The Poet. The Physic. They are in all of us. I… — ally condie Copy Share Image
True love, it's like an illness. I never understood it before. In books and plays. Poems. I never understood what drove otherwise… — Kate Morton Copy Share Image
“She, however, stood and said nothing. / Small, unnoticed, she stood in the crowd, listened, and said / nothing.” — Gertrud Kolmar Copy Share Image
Poets can't worry about popularity since loving life and humanity involves saying what some people don't want to hear. — Vanna Bonta Copy Share Image
Epic poetry exhibits life in some great symbolic attitude. It cannot strictly be said to symbolize life itself, but always some manner… — Lascelles Abercrombie Copy Share Image
The few bad poems which occasionally are created during abstinence are of no great interest. — Wilhelm Reich Copy Share Image
Poetry demands a different material than prose. It uses another facet of the same fact … the spontaneous conformation of language as… — William Carlos Williams Copy Share Image
A writer's work often reflects what he or she has been exposed to in life; experiences which are the groundwork of a… — Eyvind Johnson Copy Share Image
“Time is the real emperor and there is no space for any pride since time flies and blows away anything.” — Neel Preet Copy Share Image
Death most resembles a prophet who is without honor in his own land or a poet who is a stranger among his… — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
My poetry had the same functional origin and the same formal configuration as teenage acne. — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
Prose is a poor thing, a poor inadequate thing, compared with poetry which says so much more in shorter time. — Vita Sackville-West Copy Share Image
“You hate him for turning you inside of yourself. You are still getting used to looking at your body in the light.” — Kristina Haynes Copy Share Image
“brave love, dream not of staunching such strict flame, but come, lean to my wound; burn on, burn on.” — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
“Nature, it seems, is the popular name for milliards and milliards and milliards of particles playing their infinite game of billiards and… — Piet Hein Copy Share Image
I've forgotten lines all the time. Sometimes I switch verses in a song. It's just hard not to when you're doing the… — Josh Young Copy Share Image
Drawing is a way of coming upon the connection between things, just like metaphor in poetry reconnects what has become separated. — John Berger Copy Share Image
“Knowing that you knew everything about us before we were born Lord, your love is amazing” — April Nichole Copy Share Image
These capacities for randomness may have been amplified into human creativity through sexual and social selection. — Geoffrey Miller Copy Share Image
“Practice teaching others the 'unsearchable riches' of Christ. Each week, explain a verse from a section of Scripture to another person.” — Henry Hon Copy Share Image
“[The poet] is no arguer . . . he is judgment. He judges not as the judge judges but as the sun… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
“What liars poets and everybody were! They made one think one wanted sentiment. When what one supremely wanted was this piercing, consuming,… — D.H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
“I clearly understand, first, that the real human being is a poet and, second, that [the tyrant] is the incarnate negation of… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
I've had trouble with criticism, I guess. It's hard to know what role criticism plays in either encouraging poets or in getting… — Kenneth Koch Copy Share Image
“It's very difficult to look at the World and into your heart at the same time. In between, a life has passed.” — Jim Harrison Copy Share Image
“Dear Hands, I get it. You like writing poetry. But you can’t bring a metaphor to a gunfight.” — Rudy Francisco Copy Share Image
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