I began by doing book reviews on the typewriter and then went over to short stories on the machine, meanwhile sticking to… — Conrad Aiken Copy Share Image
There are two types of poets: People who write poetically about their lives, and poets that live poetically and write about it. — Daniel Radcliffe Copy Share Image
“Dating is poetry. Marriage is a novel. There are times, maybe years, that are all exposition.” — Ada Calhoun Copy Share Image
The avant-garde poet or artist tries in effect to imitate God by creating something valid solely on its own terms. — Clement Greenberg Copy Share Image
People who buy 'The National Enquirer' would buy poetry. They should be given a choice. I'm absolutely serious. — Joseph Brodsky Copy Share Image
And I'm no expert on the word I can't qoute you chapter and verse But I've heard you love the worst ones… — Bobby Pinson Copy Share Image
In every artist there is poetry. In every human being there is the poetic element. We know, we feel, we believe. — Ernst Haas Copy Share Image
Anybody who is born in Santa Rosa must turn out to be either an artist or a poet, for the spirit of… — Robert Ripley Copy Share Image
Lord when I was just a tender young kid I cry for my Dad when I was abused by the hands of… — Glen Rambharack Copy Share Image
“Reanimated, spirit restored, reincorporated, body restored, I contemplate between dreams the scene I’ve stolen like the one who took fire, like the… — Pura López-Colomé Copy Share Image
“The maiden with her wheel of old Sat by the fire to spin, While lightly through her careful hold The flax slid… — Madeline S. Bridges Copy Share Image
“Utensil While feasting On venison stew After we buried my mother, I recognized my spoon And realized my family Had been using… — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
“And now, let us go out on the terrace where 'droops the milk-white peacock like a ghost,' while the evening star 'washes… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“Literature simulates life. A novel is a story of what never was, and a play is a novel without narration. A poem… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
“The ruinous deeds of the ravaging foe (Beowulf) The best-known long text in Old English is the epic poem Beowulf. Beowulf himself… — Ronald Carter Copy Share Image
“The text, in its mass, is comparable to a sky, at once flat and smooth, deep, without edges and without landmarks; like… — Roland Barthes Copy Share Image
Sculptors, poets, painters, musicians-they're the traditional purveyors of Beauty. But it can as easily be created by a gardener, a farmer, a… — Charles de Lint Copy Share Image
I come here to speak poetry. It will always be in the grass. It will also be necessary to bend down to… — Boris Pasternak Copy Share Image
Possible impossibility emerges from an impossible possibility, or possibly, impossible possibility blooms from the impossibly possible impossibility. — Dejan Stojanovic Copy Share Image
I also like poems that are haunted by a structure or a narrative, or poems that frisk flirtatiously at the boundary of… — Matthea Harvey Copy Share Image
it is as unseeing to ask what is the use of poetry as it would be to ask what is the use… — Edith Sitwell Copy Share Image
“We write in darkness. We love in alleys. We breathe into beige paper bags. Anything to mollify the confusion. Anything to simplify… — Bill Yarrow Copy Share Image
To write regular verses destroys an infinite number of fine possibilities, but at the same time it suggests a multitude of distant… — Paul Valery Copy Share Image
The poetry, if you will, of life is reduced to this sort of dry, scientific, you know, it's the worst sort of… — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
Eloquence is heard; poetry is overheard ... All poetry is of the nature of the soliloquy. — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
Poetry has never been the language of barriers, it's always been the language of bridges. — Amanda Gorman Copy Share Image
Music is my thing. It's my thing; it's what I love. It's what I do. It's football to me; it's Christmas to… — Ryan Adams Copy Share Image
The world is full of poetry as the earth is of pay-dirt; one only needs to know how to strike it. — Charles Dudley Warner Copy Share Image
Keetje Kuipers' poems are daring, formally beautiful and driven by rich imagery and startling ideas. — Tracy K. Smith Copy Share Image
“La poésie se fait dans un lit comme l’amour Ses draps défaits sont l’aurore des choses (English) Poetry is made in bed… — André Breton Copy Share Image
Statues and pictures and verse may be grand, But they are not the Life for which they stand. — James Thomson Copy Share Image
Topography is one of my chief themes in my poetry, about the country, the suburbs and the seaside. Then there comes love...… — John Betjeman Copy Share Image
The constructive intellect [genius] produces thoughts, sentences, poems, plans, designs, systems. It is the generation of the mind, the marriage of thought… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“The monsoon came, six months of infinite rain. The towns I once knew were wiped clean, and everyone said it was God… — Eric Gamalinda Copy Share Image
“His work killed the poet Because he called it complete. After it nothing else could be said.” — Marne L. Kilates Copy Share Image
“It is as if I knew you before we spoke Do our hearts know something we don't? Conspiring, converging without giving us… — Brooke Fraser Copy Share Image
“The sidewalks flash silver with mica. Skyline smeared with geese. By way of recognition I lost the sound of your voice.” — Ryan Murphy Copy Share Image
Poets and kings are but the clerks of Time, Tiering the same dull webs of discontent, Clipping the same sad alnage of… — Edwin Arlington Robinson Copy Share Image
The poet Paul Éluard says that to understand my film version of Beauty and the Beast, you must love your dog more… — Jean Cocteau Copy Share Image
I learned to impersonate the kind of person that talks about poetry. It comes from teaching, I think. — Robert Morgan Copy Share Image
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