At our present bad moment, we need above all to recover our sense of literary individuality and of poetic autonomy. — Harold Bloom Copy Share Image
Bad, quirky poetry might be better than some of the good stuff, because it really comes from the heart. — Cheryl Hines Copy Share Image
“I could feel it--inside, and I decided that night, reading poetry beneath a caged light bulb, that real was when you could… — Han Nolan Copy Share Image
“One line lands in a word and one word lands in a line and there you have it the secret of poetry” — Daniel Abdal-Hayy Moore Copy Share Image
“Inside your heart A golden flower blossoms; Inside of me And inside of you Never dying . . . This flower of your soul” — Ilchi Lee Copy Share Image
Slowly poetry becomes visual because it paints images, but it is also musical: it unites two arts into one. — Eugenio Montale Copy Share Image
“The world holds two classes of men--intelligent men without religion, and religious men without intelligence. poet” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Sometimes, when we cannot attain the freedom we are fighting for, we free ourselves b carving a new path to freedom.” — Christina Westover Copy Share Image
There is something about the way that Greek poets, say Aeschylus, use metaphor that really attracts me. I don't think I can… — Anne Carson Copy Share Image
“Sound is so important to creative writing. Think of the sounds you hear that you include and the similes you use to… — Barbara DeMarco-Barrett Copy Share Image
“Gray waited a full verse before approaching her, prowling around her periphery and coming to rest behind her right shoulder. A few… — Tessa Dare Copy Share Image
Tocqueville saw the brute repression of deviants as a necessity if men were to keep convincing themselves of their collective dignity through… — Richard Sennett Copy Share Image
What is a poet? An unhappy person who conceals profound anguish in his heart but whose lips are so formed that as… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
Thinking in prose is different. I gained an immense amount of respect for people who write prose, and also felt even more… — Matthew Zapruder Copy Share Image
“This is your poetry. Join the network to discover new ways of making meaning. Do not fixate on poem, voice, other striated… — Charles Bernstein Copy Share Image
I thought of Chatterton, the marvellous boy, The sleepless soul that perished in his pride; Of him who walked in glory and… — William Wordsworth Copy Share Image
Not by wisdom do they [poets] make what they compose, but by a gift of nature and an inspiration similar to that… — Socrates Copy Share Image
One ought, everyday, to hear a song, read a fine poem, and, if possible, to speak a few reasonable words. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
I was unnerved to learn in my twenties that the poems of Emily Dickinson that I had memorized as a girl were… — Helen Vendler Copy Share Image
I think it's true to say that in 1973 I could read every book of poems that was published in a year,… — Robert Hass Copy Share Image
“I am a poem, or I am a pattern, or a race of people whose world was swallowed by the sea.” — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
I want to write a play. I'd like to do an original musical. I should probably put together a poetry collection. — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“The Daniel, the third poem of the MS., is SO dull that it is no matter who wrote it or when it… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The poet must believe in the unknown as well as the known. This must become indistinguishable at times within the poem to… — the mag man Copy Share Image
“I can speak of you now to anyone because I’ve stopped wanting anything like what I once wanted from you.” — Carol Guess Copy Share Image
Chloe turned to Vetch. The poet said gently, "You see, you do have power. Words give you power, to create or destroy."… — Catherine Fisher Copy Share Image
In one moment I'm goin all the way. I make my poetry everyday and I'm frozen, comin right on time I froze… — Saliva Copy Share Image
[He] had the soul of a poet, and because of this, he liked very much to consider questions that had no answers. — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
Anybody who has had experience of poetesses knows that they may forgive a punch on the jaw, but never a suggestion that… — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
The incalculable winds of fantasy and music and poetry, the mere face of a girl, the song of a bird, or the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We can write the new chapters in a visual language whose prose and poetry will need no translation. — Ernst Haas Copy Share Image
“When I took my poetry class in school. I read an e. e. cummings poem. I don’t mind eels except how they… — Stanley Victor Paskavich Copy Share Image
“You didn't know emotion could be used as a weapon? Have you not read the poetry of Jewel?” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Byron owed the vast influence which he exercised over his contemporaries at least as much to his gloomy egotism as to the… — Thomas B. Macaulay Copy Share Image
Poetry, like jazz, is one of those dazzling diamonds of creative industry that help human beings make sense out of the comedies… — Aberjhani Copy Share Image
As for literature It gives no man a sinecure. And no one knows, at sight, a masterpiece. And give up verse, my… — Ezra Pound Copy Share Image
My days are filled with work I love - reading poems, writing poems, talking with people about poems, teaching, directing a writing… — Deborah Landau Copy Share Image
My publishers will make any kind of a beautiful book I design and send in to them, but ... For poetry they… — Gene Stratton-Porter Copy Share Image
This disease they call 'rap' - some kind of rhythmic pulse is going by, while some sociopathic idiot is belching out grade… — Frank Sinatra, Jr Copy Share Image
Conservatism makes no poetry, breathes no prayer, has no invention; it is all memory. Reform has no gratitude, no prudence, no husbandry. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
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