If you're going to write, write one poem all your life, let nobody read it, and then burn it. This is very… — Jack Nicholson Copy Share Image
That is what all poets do: they talk to themselves out loud; and the world overhears them. But it's horribly lonely not… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
One of these poems I wrote after having been here only a month. The other, I wrote this morning. In the space… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
My mother was an actress and a director, as well. And my father was a playwright and poet. — Maximilian Schell Copy Share Image
The trauma said, ‘Don’t write these poems. Nobody wants to hear you cry about the grief inside your bones. — Andrea Gibson Copy Share Image
I know very well what Goethe meant when he said that he never had a chagrin but he made a poem out… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“It is true that a mathematician who is not somewhat of a poet, will never be a perfect mathematician.” — Karl Weierstrass Copy Share Image
I've been writing songs since I was like six or seven. I've been writing poetry and short stories and stuff, but my… — Gabrielle Aplin Copy Share Image
I didn't know how this would play out when I was a kid. I knew I wanted to play ball, be a… — Myles Garrett Copy Share Image
“The Canopic Inversion by Stewart Stafford In nascent light, their nose-rings entwined, Like a brazen Hathor daughter, Funnelled to market and auction,… — Stewart Stafford Copy Share Image
Poetry is only secondarily about words. Primarily, it is about truth. I dealt with the Ding an Sich, the substance behind the… — Dan Simmons Copy Share Image
“When you are reading your Scriptures in this way—it matters not whether you have read little or much—if a verse stands out… — David Martyn Lloyd-Jones Copy Share Image
“The Fever Bird The fever bird sand out last night. I could not sleep, try as I might. My brain was split,… — Vikram Seth Copy Share Image
She knew that what she was going through was nothing special, just garden-variety heartbreak, the sort of thing that poets and novelists… — Sarah Dunn Copy Share Image
The puzzle and conundrums of Emily Dickinson's poetry or The Cantos, by Ezra Pound, is infinitely pleasurable. Or Ronald Johnson's Ark. And… — Anne Waldman Copy Share Image
“I often ask the question: Is it impossible to have a simple life? The world is not simple, Claire said. The world… — Elizabeth Brundage Copy Share Image
“What is it you Frenchies say? Tou-che? You see, I'm a bit of a poet and you did not know it, what?” — The Scarlet Pimpernel Copy Share Image
“And at the closing of the day She loosed the chain, and down she lay; The broad stream bore her far away,… — Lord Alfred Tennyson Copy Share Image
I would define the poetic effect as the capacity that a text displays for continuing to generate different readings, without ever being… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
“There lived a poet in the lands of gold, Wrote along poems unaffected by warmth or cold, His words spoke truth and… — Adhish Mazumder Copy Share Image
“Think less of yourself and more of others…and others will think more of you. ~Jason Versey” — Jason Versey Copy Share Image
“Deb and I were married on a snowy night - wind cross-wove a veil of snow for her then threw confetti at… — John Geddes Copy Share Image
I was well read and knew languages, but I didn't want to become Ezra Pound. I wanted to write poetry that people… — Tony Harrison Copy Share Image
Trust me, no tortures which the poets feign, can match the fierce, the unutterable pain, he feels, who night and day, devoid… — Juvenal Copy Share Image
I need about one hundred fifty drafts of a poem to get it right, and fifty more to make it sound spontaneous. — James Dickey Copy Share Image
I don't think there's any essential difference, at least for me, between writing poetry and writing prose. — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
The city and nature, the built stone and the found stone, concrete and slate, poetry addresses them all democratically. — Shirley Geok-lin Lim Copy Share Image
He capers, he dances, he has eyes of youth, he writes verses, he speaks holiday, he smells April and May. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
The great leaders of business, industry and finance, and the great artists, poets, musicians and writers all became great because they developed… — Napoleon Hill Copy Share Image
I think there's a poet who wrote once a tragedy by Shakespeare, a symphony by Beethoven and a thunderstorm are based on… — Maximilian Schell Copy Share Image
I never find words right away. Poems for me always begin with images and rhythms, shapes, feelings, forms, dances in the back… — Gary Snyder Copy Share Image
My mentor made me say a poem over and over. 'Stop! That's not your voice. Start again.' I was sobbing by the… — Jamila Woods Copy Share Image
~Love cant be proven with poems, promises, or presents but with sacrifice, compromise, and patience.. — Green Monk Copy Share Image
“It makes me wonder if living under tragic circumstances inflects a person's sentences, irresistibly, with poetry.” — Sara Baume Copy Share Image
“...who shall measure the heat and violence of a poet's heart when caught and tangled in a woman's body?” — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Without painting, sculpture, music, poetry, and the emotions produced by natural beauty of every kind, life would lose half its charm. — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
I am a writer... I am a genius of a writer; I have it in me. I am writing the best poems… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
“Poetry is the essence of life in which twinkling lights tickle the minds of readers and take them to a world where… — Debasish Mridha Copy Share Image
A haiku is the expression of a temporary enlightenment, in which we see into the life of things. — Reginald Horace Blyth Copy Share Image
People who publish poetry today do it from a sense that poetry needs to be published, not because they think they are… — Campbell McGrath Copy Share Image
