A good joke will sell quicker than a good poem, and, measured in sweat and blood, will bring better remuneration. — Jack London Copy Share Image
Poems not only demand patience, they demand a kind of surrender. You must give yourself up to them. This is the real… — Mark Strand Copy Share Image
“If I could write words Like leaves on an autumn forest floor, What a bonfire my letters would make. If I could… — Spike Milligan Copy Share Image
“Sweet day, so cool, so calm, so bright, The bridal of the earth and sky; The dew shall weep thy fall tonight,… — George Herbert Copy Share Image
I'm always talking about how the poems I am most obsessed with are like people: complex and unknowable and with a huge… — Ada Limon Copy Share Image
One should always be drunk. That's all that matters...But with what? With wine, with poetry, or with virtue, as you chose. But… — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
“Dearest Shell, If you let me I'd always keep you 400 miles away and write you pretty poems and letters. . .I'm… — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
A lot of poets too live on the margins of social acceptance, they certainly aren't in it for the money. William Blake… — Jim Jarmusch Copy Share Image
“ Жираф Сегодня, я вижу, особенно грустен твой взгляд, И руки особенно тонки, колени обняв. Послушай: далёко, далёко на озере Чад Изысканный… — Nikolai Gumilev Copy Share Image
“A crowd of men stood in front of them. Of all ages, with expressions of sex-wonder in their eyes, gazing curiously as… — Jim Tully Copy Share Image
When the poet Paul Valery once asked Albert Einstein if he kept a notebook to record his ideas, Einstein looked at him… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
The interpretations of science do not give us this intimate sense of objects as the interpretations of poetry give it; they appeal… — Matthew Arnold Copy Share Image
And there's wordplay and there's rhythms and you have to be able to get the poetry out of it. You have to… — Quentin Tarantino Copy Share Image
“Post-structuralism is a reaction to structuralism and works against seeing language as a stable, closed system. It is a shift from seeing… — E. Smith Sleigh Copy Share Image
Poets, come out of your closets, Open your windows, open your doors, You have been holed up too long in your closed… — Lawrence Ferlinghetti Copy Share Image
The poet's body even is not fed like other men's, but he sometimes tastes the genuine nectar and ambrosia of the gods,… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
If I'm the people's poet, then I ought to be in people's hands - and, I hope, in their heart. — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
“He pushed her so far away that when he tried to find her again... she was light years beyond his reach.” — Alfa H Copy Share Image
Pound's translation of Chinese poetry was maybe the most important thing I read. Eliot a little bit later. — Robert Morgan Copy Share Image
The South produced statesmen and soldiers, planters and doctors, lawyers and poets, but certainly not engineers or mechanics. Let the Yankees adopt… — Margaret Mitchell Copy Share Image
Never did Poesy appear So full of heaven to me, as when I saw how it would pierce through pride and fear… — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
Poetry should describe itself, and always be simultaneously poetry and the poetry of poetry. — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Copy Share Image
We have a motto at Naropa: 'Keep the world safe for poetry.' It's humorous but has some real bite to it. If… — Anne Waldman Copy Share Image
To me, poetry is a rational act. I never write a poem if I'm not sure what I am going to say… — Luljeta Lleshanaku Copy Share Image
“One spring patio is for rodeos niggled with iodine figures, weaved tapestries inside vast Tuileries. But that reminds me, how exactly do… — Adam Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
You had turned my life to a poem and its rhythm makes my dears and nears to rejoice ever and ever Happy… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“You want to be a poet and you’re not. By the time you realize you’re not doomed, your life is going to… — Tarryn Fisher Copy Share Image
Prose is admittedly an art rooted in social intercourse, and a fiction writer is faster to find a common denominator with his… — Joseph Brodsky Copy Share Image
Poetry is emotion put into measure. The emotion must come by nature, but the measure can be acquired by art. — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
It is a way we reassess our past. We can do that in poetry in ways we can't do in prose. — Peter Davison Copy Share Image
The one who writes a poem writes it above all because verse writing is an extraordinary accelerator of conscience, of thinking, of… — Joseph Brodsky Copy Share Image
“When reading, one needs to remember that poets and philosophers are not prescribing courses of action but exploring aspects of existence.” — Louise Cowan Copy Share Image
Love grows by not giving to us. And if our passion for poetry lives on and persists, it is because poetry offers… — Kiki Dimoula Copy Share Image
The passages in which Milton has alluded to his own circumstances are perhaps read more frequently, and with more interest, than any… — Thomas B. Macaulay Copy Share Image
“I swing like a pendulum between the darkness and the light, sometimes it feels like gallows other times it feels like flight.” — Collette O'Mahony Copy Share Image
I consider myself a poet first and a musician second. I live like a poet and I'll die like a poet. — Bob Dylan Copy Share Image
In a notable family called Stein There were Gertrude, and Ep, and then Ein. Gert's writing was hazy, Ep's statues were crazy,… — Bennett Cerf Copy Share Image
Prose exists to convey meaning, and no meaning such as prose conveys can be expressed as well in poetry. That's not poetry's… — Basil Bunting Copy Share Image
I exaggerate. I oversimplify. I generalize. But there’s no cynicism here. American poetry is a mess. Long live American poetry. — David Biespiel Copy Share Image
“Kindness went out to play all on a summer's day. With her about many smiles came out and joined in sweet array.… — Sara Loo Copy Share Image
