“this is where the poets will interject / they will say: show, dont tell / but that assumes most people can see” — Marwa Helal Copy Share Image
Poems can't help but be personal. Mine are certainly an accurate blueprint of the things I think about, if not a record… — Matthea Harvey Copy Share Image
for what is the gift of the poet and the artist except to see the sights which others cannot see and to… — Ouida Copy Share Image
“The way contemporary literature is emerging, soon we can expect "Item poetry" in novels.” — Himmilicious Copy Share Image
“I cannot tell you now; When the wind's drive and whirl Blow me along no longer, And the wind's a whisper at… — Carl Sandburg Copy Share Image
We shall not cease from exploration, and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know… — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
I would say my life experiences are my poetry, whether I'm writing about those actual, factual experiences or not. — Dorianne Laux Copy Share Image
Great poetry must be admired, because it is great and because it is poetry, and so we admire it. — Witold Gombrowicz Copy Share Image
“The Correspondence-School Instructor Says Goodbye to His Poetry Students Goodbye, lady in Bangor, who sent me snapshots of yourself, after definitely hinting… — Galway Kinnell Copy Share Image
The life of a poet lies not merely in the finite language-dance of expression but in the nearly infinite combinations of perception… — Dan Simmons Copy Share Image
Since the boundary of the world of poetry is fluid, the language in it is also fluid. Hence, the language that is… — Kim Hyesoon Copy Share Image
“The Psalms are the steady, sustained subcurrent of healthy Christian living. They shaped the praying and vocation even of Jesus himself. They… — N.T. Wright Copy Share Image
“Ah!' said Michel, tempted, 'you have modern poems?' 'Of course. For instance, Martillac's 'Electric Harmonies,' which won a prize last year from… — Jules Verne Copy Share Image
“so much of the world is plunged in darkness and chaos... So ring the bells that still can ring Forget your perfect… — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
“I have forgot much, Cynara! gone with the wind, Flung roses, roses riotously with the throng, Dancing, to put thy pale, lost… — Ernest Dowson Copy Share Image
Whatever brief delights it provides, mere strangeness in poetry and prose eventually leaves us cold, especially when we suspect the writer is… — Roger Rosenblatt Copy Share Image
He was then in his fifty-fourth year, when even in the case of poets reason and passion begin to discuss a peace… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
“In poetry a certain faith in the impossible,…as in religion a like faith in the inscrutable, must have a place[;]” — Robert Von Hallberg Copy Share Image
“Some teach you what can't be taught, by turning their back on you & helping you get internally closer to everything you… — Curtis Tyrone Jones Copy Share Image
The world goes to sleep when it's a cold winter. All except those writers in which it naturally rains inside of them… — Needa Muy Copy Share Image
It's not surprising to me that books ended up playing a central role in my life, but it is somewhat mysterious that… — Campbell McGrath Copy Share Image
I think what will happen is that fiction will become more like poetry. As in, the only people who read it will… — Gary Shteyngart Copy Share Image
We all fear loneliness, madness, dying. Shakespeare and Walt Whitman, Leopardi and Hart Crane will not cure those fears. And yet these… — Harold Bloom Copy Share Image
Gotta get a tight grip, don't slip, loose lips, sank ships, it's a trip, I love the way she licks her lips. — Tupac Shakur Copy Share Image
Back in those early days when I began my apprenticeship as a poet, I also tried to voice our anger, spirit of… — Linton Kwesi Johnson Copy Share Image
“We are mosaics - pieces of light, love, history, stars -- glued together with magic and music and words.” — Anita Krishan Copy Share Image
He said, "You have pigs in this poem; pigs are not poetic." I got up and walked out of that class and… — Carolyn Kizer Copy Share Image
To feel keenly the poetry of a morning's roses, one has to have just escaped from the claws of this vulture which… — Henri Frederic Amiel Copy Share Image
Poetry is a whim of Nature in her lighter moods; it requires nothing but its own madness and, lacking that, it becomes… — Pietro Aretino Copy Share Image
I would have any one, who really and truly has leisure and ability, make verses. I think it a more refining and… — Sara Coleridge Copy Share Image
“I don't want to go to university. I don't like unity and I hate verses. I just love the choruses of songs. ” — Emma Forrest Copy Share Image
The poet who does not revere his art, and believe in its sovereignty, is not born to wear the purple. — Edmund Clarence Stedman Copy Share Image
“Your heart has always been willing to bleed, to ache, to humble itself for love. And, when you’ve had enough, your heart… — Liz Newman Copy Share Image
“Out in this profane city, sometimes sidewalks seem the only cement that connects us, pressed by the sacred strangers we will never… — B.J. Ward Copy Share Image
There are some fine books and essays about that. Lewis Hyde has written about alcoholism and poets and the role that society… — Sharon Olds Copy Share Image
I've written and translated my own poems from English to German. It's basically a summation of my identity as it stands now. — Masiela Lusha Copy Share Image
I do love writing prose interspersed with the poetry of other people. Their rhythms break into my prose and create a connection. — Pattiann Rogers Copy Share Image
Heroes in history seem to us poetic because they are there. But if we should tell the simple truth of some of… — George William Curtis Copy Share Image
You are walking in a desert.You hear a bird singing.As absurd as it may seem for a bird to be pending in… — Kiki Dimoula Copy Share Image
Poetry isn't as relevant in the Western world as it is in Afghanistan. And not many people make time for something that… — Eliza Griswold Copy Share Image
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