Re examine all you have been told in school and in church Or in any book, dismiss what insults your own soul… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
“You have already achieved the English-Language poet's most important goal: you can read, Write and speak English well enough to understand this… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
“until the hunted have their poets then songs of the hunt will always glorify the hunter, not the prey” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In the world of poetry there are would-be poets, workshop poets, promising poets, lovesick poets, university poets, and a few real poets. — James Broughton Copy Share Image
Men yearn for poetry though they may not confess it; they desire that joy shall be graceful and sorrow august and infinity… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A felon could plead "benefit of clergy" and be saved by [reading aloud] what was aptly enough termed the "neck verse", which… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Your eyelashes will write on my heart the poem that could never come from the pen of a poet. — Rumi Copy Share Image
“A poet, you see, is a light thing, and winged and holy, and cannot compose before he gets inspiration and loses control… — Plato Copy Share Image
We must remember that there is a great difference between a myth and a miracle. A myth is the idealization of a… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I feel that women of my kind are a profound mistake. There have been few women poets of distinction, and, if we… — Anna Wickham Copy Share Image
“From darkness; take me unto Light. O God! Help me today, make my maiden flight. From sorrow; give me the strength to… — Madhavi Sood alias Madhavi Mohandas Copy Share Image
When I get sent manuscripts from aspiring poets, I do one of two things: if there is no stamped self-addressed envelope, I… — Philip Larkin Copy Share Image
I don't think any poetry is written that isn't primarily written to the self, in a way... I'm always talking to myself.… — Kay Ryan Copy Share Image
“Certainly not! I didn't build a machine to solve ridiculous crossword puzzles! That's hack work, not Great Art! Just give it a… — Stanisław Lem Copy Share Image
“This creative tension between wonderful and terrible is named so well by Gerard Manley Hopkins, as only poets can. Even the long… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
I don’t think ‘science fiction’ is a very good name for it, but it’s the name that we’ve got. It is different… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“I'm going to Hell in a basket Weaved in from my sins, Like wicker With little Wiccan ties As if I'm a… — Matthew Little Copy Share Image
“What I want my father's writing to keep teaching us is that at the table of writing, everyone is welcome. No voice… — Kim Stafford Copy Share Image
“Some of the most passionately erotic poets have been the most self-contained in their daily lives.” — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
When I am writing fiction, I believe I am much better organized, more methodical - one has to be when writing a… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
Frost isn't exactly despised but not enough people have worked out what a brilliant poet he was — Paul Muldoon Copy Share Image
The first poem I ever wrote, about loss, when I was 5 years old, expressed the themes of everything I would ever write. — Marguerite Young Copy Share Image
From what the moderns want, we must learn what poetry should become; from what the ancients did, what poetry must be. — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Copy Share Image
The birds, the poets of the animal creation - what though they never get beyond the lyrical! - awoke to utter their… — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
“Like a snake, my heart has shed its skin. I hold it there in my hand, full of honey and wounds. The… — Federico García Lorca Copy Share Image
“I can already feel some things slipping through my fingers like sand and water, like artifacts and poems, like everything you want… — Ally Condie Copy Share Image
“Go for it because for all those moments that you would make up your mind the other might have already rushed for… — Neel Preet Copy Share Image
I began to imitate what I was reading, and I started to become a poet, even though what I was writing were… — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
Poetry is one of the ancient arts, and it began as did all the fine arts, within the original wilderness of the… — Mary Oliver Copy Share Image
Some Marines made fun of the fact that I had done plays and studied poetry, but then I won the award for… — David Hunt Copy Share Image
The poet casts an eye on what is horrendous, but his truest life is in what sustains, restores, heals. Love, the act… — Lawrence Joseph Copy Share Image
“in the end it is words poetry. sunsets someone’s deep blue silk voice. mountain scents. someone’s smile. eyes. that we have no… — Sanober Khan Copy Share Image
I seldom deal in symbolisms; if there be hidden meanings in my verse, they are there without my knowledge. — George Edward Woodberry Copy Share Image
“Poems are not often simply emotions but One has enough emotions -- they're experience Experience themselves are not important…” — Angela Suba Natarajan Copy Share Image
But you'd have a job to find many of my poems which would seem to be very influenced by a particular person. — Norman MacCaig Copy Share Image
“She's unafraid to reveal her broken parts, because she's learned that's where her freedom starts.” — Louisa Jolanda Copy Share Image
The name Phenomenal Woman was inspired by Maya Angelo, who wrote 'Phenomenal Woman', a favorite poem of mine. — Meena Harris Copy Share Image
“Poetry is not communication with angels or with the "subconscious." It is communication with the guts, genitals, and five portals of sense.… — Thomas Pynchon Copy Share Image
Bob Altman got nothing from the TV series 'M*A*S*H,' and the royalties for the theme song went to his oldest son, Michael,… — Mitchell Zuckoff Copy Share Image
“There's a famous line from a poem about the ocean," Mother had finally said to end the discussion. "'Water water every where,… — mindy mcginnis Copy Share Image
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