“I do not know which to prefer,/ The beauty of inflections/ Or the beauty of innuendos, / The blackbird whistling/Or jus after.” — John Green Copy Share Image
“I didn't dare look at Conrad. I was afraid my love for him and my need for him to say yes would… — Jenny Han Copy Share Image
Poets know how useful passion is for publication. Nowadays a broken heart will run to many editions. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“Till the time you realize your conquest you already reach that stage when you start losing the grip.” — Neel Preet Copy Share Image
Literary poetry in a painter is something special, and is neither illustration nor the translation of writing by form. — Paul Gauguin Copy Share Image
My passion is bringing storylines around and constructing a full body of work rather than just a 16-bar verse. — Kendrick Lamar Copy Share Image
I don't think the nature of my poetry is satirical or even ironic, I think it's essentially lyrical but again I don't… — Kenneth Koch Copy Share Image
“Being a star is depressing. It twinkles but is distant and cold. I'd rather be the moon, Shine in your glory and… — Avinash Matta Copy Share Image
I felt like I was a writer, and I just thought filmmaking was the best way for me to express that, because… — Lena Dunham Copy Share Image
“You may write me down in history With your bitter, twisted lies, You may tread me in the very dirt But still,… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
“Their special scent is a part of many of our perfumes. Photos or paintings of roses grace calendars, cards and advertisements. Poets… — Maggie Oster Copy Share Image
“It didn’t disturb the Sumerians that their script was ill-suited for writing poetry. They didn’t invent it in order to copy spoken… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
I want to preserve a certain unknowing about my own poems - perhaps because unknowing is in itself a useful poetic thirst.… — Jane Hirshfield Copy Share Image
I intend 'Dämmerung' to be an ironic meditation on the financial rewards of poetry and a tragicomic lament on the passing of… — Simon Armitage Copy Share Image
As the beautiful does not exist for the artist and poet alone—though these can find in it more poignant depths of meaning… — Evelyn Underhill Copy Share Image
“We all hit rock bottom; sometimes, you bounce up fast, sometimes you crawl until you can straighten up and sometimes you have… — J. Autherine Copy Share Image
Even though poetry was written for the 'minds ear' as well as the physical ear, the minds ear can be trained only… — Yvor Winters Copy Share Image
“The lives and deaths of characters in stories and poems, however tragic, help us to learn about the world and - if… — Nicola Morgan Copy Share Image
One of the most intuitive nature writers of our recently past century, Peter Matthiessen, lends a poets voice to the desperate effort… — Ron Franscell Copy Share Image
As an actor, I come to set, and I have already broken the character down by writing a poem about the character.… — Omari Hardwick Copy Share Image
“Poetry is simple when you write what you see and feel, searching for the words only makes it difficult” — Rayvon L. Browne Copy Share Image
Because I was writing verse, my instructor suggested I study Shakespeare. The Shakespeare teacher insisted you couldn't understand the text without seeing… — Jamey Sheridan Copy Share Image
Baudelaire's L'Héautontimorouménos was long seen to be a sexual sadomasochistic poem, it is now generally accepted that the poem is about writing… — Stephen Dobyns Copy Share Image
I'd say people do need some help with poetry because I think poetry just helps takes us to places that Americans aren't… — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
But I am not political in the current events sense, and I have never wanted anyone to read my poetry that way. — Diane Wakoski Copy Share Image
one reason why I like writing poetry - you can say so many things in it that are true in poetry but… — Lucy Maud Montgomery Copy Share Image
His writer's words poured over her like poetry, and she couldn't find a single wisecrack to put up between them. — Susan Elizabeth Phillips Copy Share Image
“Seseorang memberiku gaun puisi. "Pakailah,"katanya."Kau tak kan jenuh lagi." Tetiba cuaca mesra, matari biru, aku menapak di atas laut.” — Helvy Tiana Rosa Copy Share Image
I was around in 1970, and now I am around in 2015 ... there is no poetry and very little romance in… — Don McLean Copy Share Image
I don't like a kind of workshop that is about editing--I don't want to sit there and be an editor. I don't… — Natasha Trethewey Copy Share Image
There is no peace to be taken With poets who are young, For they worry about the wars to be fought and… — Joyce Kilmer Copy Share Image
And Robert Lowell, of course - in his poems, we're not located in his actual life. We're located more in the externals,… — Mark Strand Copy Share Image
A true poet does not bother to be poetical. Nor does a nursery gardener scent his roses. — Jean Cocteau Copy Share Image
The greatest poem ever known Is one all poets have outgrown: The poetry, innate, untold, Of being only four years old. — Christopher Morley Copy Share Image
Respect the language in which you write. Be kind, develop good vocabulary, and be creative in writing beautiful sentences. Your prose should… — Ruskin Bond Copy Share Image
Poetry is certainly something more than good sense, but it must be good sense, at all events, just as a palace is… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
I spent years of being a ghost / Unsure of where home is anymore / I tell them I feel nothing /… — Needa Muy Copy Share Image
What a writer can do, what a fiction writer or a poet or an essay writer can do is re-engage people with… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
I am what libraries and librarians have made me, with little assistance from a professor of Greek and poets — Heraclitus Copy Share Image
“Poetry is a distinct faculty, - it won't come when called, - you may as well whistle for a wind.” — George Gordon Byron Copy Share Image
