“Keen winter stabs the breasts of May Whose crimson roses burst his frost, Ships tempest-tossed Will find a harbour in some bay,… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“Auden? Does he rhyme? I only like poetry that rhymes. All the best poets write in rhyme." "Really?" "Dr. Seuss and Shakespeare.… — Shiela Jane Copy Share Image
I hope I can write toward my interests. But poets should be afraid of too fluidly responding to what they're interested in. — Shane McCrae Copy Share Image
I saw a poet chase a butterfly in a meadow. He put his net on a bench where a boy sat reading… — Karl Kraus Copy Share Image
“Live in the shadow of the moon until you're bright enough to give birth to your own suns.” — Curtis Tyrone Jones Copy Share Image
“You'd think hindsight would do us some good But all it does sometimes Is add glass to the kaleidoscope” — J.D. Estrada Copy Share Image
The Soul of the Warrior, Screams out for Battle. The Soul of the Poet, Cries out for Love. I sit between them,… — Eric Nickel Copy Share Image
Poetry is the work of poets, not of peoples or communities; artistic creation can never be anything but the production of an… — Lascelles Abercrombie Copy Share Image
“History allows us to see patterns and make judgments. It sketches for us the structures within which we can seek freedom. It… — Timothy Snyder Copy Share Image
“Who could truly set His shield to rest? His throne? His mighty spear? Think on that. Remember it well, O princes. Who… — David Bowles Copy Share Image
My father is a visual artist, so I was influenced by him, and my mother is an English teacher who forced me… — Taika Waititi Copy Share Image
The Color Purple really floored me. That book was just incredible because I loved the language. The biggest deal of that book… — Matt de la Pena Copy Share Image
I think poetry is the only domain where a writer you like can truly be said to influence you, because you read… — Michel Houellebecq Copy Share Image
The most beautiful conception of immortality of which I know, and certainly one that by contrast shows the utter vulgarity of Christian… — Revilo P. Oliver Copy Share Image
Perhaps the author cited is one of those, who, shunning the practice of the world, have taught the world to shun return!… — Samuel Laman Blanchard Copy Share Image
“Emotions are like a river flowing out of one’s heart. Form is like the riverbanks. Without them the river runs shallow and… — John Piper Copy Share Image
The emperor would prefer the poet to keep away from politics, the emperor's domain, so that he can manage things the way… — Chinua Achebe Copy Share Image
Poetry is a lyrical insinuation. Often, its melodic subtlety kisses the subconscious mind. — Masiela Lusha Copy Share Image
If any of you are secret poets, the best way to break into print is to run for the presidency, — Eugene McCarthy Copy Share Image
“A poet is a person who manages, in a lifetime of standing out in thunderstorms, to be struck by lightening five or… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I was born with the devil in me,' [Holmes] wrote. 'I could not help the fact that I was a murderer, no… — Erik Larson Copy Share Image
We have the words in our pockets, obscure directions. The old ones have taken away the light of their presence. — Denise Levertov Copy Share Image
Journalism is concerned with events, poetry with feelings. Journalism is concerned with the look of the world, poetry with the feel of… — Archibald MacLeish Copy Share Image
Yeats was the greatest poet of our times . . . certainly the greatest in this language, and so far as I… — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
Our planet is poorly equipped for delight. One must snatch gladness from the days that are. In this life it's not difficult… — Vladimir Mayakovsky Copy Share Image
“Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard Are sweeter; therefore, ye soft pipes, play on.” — John Keats Copy Share Image
“From love's plectrum arises the song of the string of life Love is the light of life love is the fire of… — Allama Iqbal Copy Share Image
Fiction is in danger of becoming a kind of poetry. Only other poets read it. Only other fiction writers care about it. — John Updike Copy Share Image
“There are bones waiting for names in the graveyards. Even the sun above us is dying, one landed repetition of light at… — Cecilia Llompart Copy Share Image
“The best anthology is the one each reader compiles, personally, according to his or her judgment, pleasure and awe." ~ Robert Pinsky,… — Robert Pinsky Copy Share Image
And as to experience-well, think how little some good poets have had, or how much some bad ones have. — Elizabeth Bishop Copy Share Image
If you want to see mankind fully, look at a family. Within the family minds become organically one, and for this reason… — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Copy Share Image
“all they want to do is tie the poem to a chair with rope and torture a confession out of it. They… — Billy Collins Copy Share Image
“When you write about what you dream, you become a writer. When you dream about what you write, you become haunted by… — Amal Saleh Copy Share Image
I love poetry, be it in music or be it in Andrei Tarkovsky, Francesca Woodman or anyone else, I just love poetry. — Graciela Iturbide Copy Share Image
Poetry affords us a respite in which we may gather renewed strength for the old struggle to adapt ourselves to reality. — Robert Haven Schauffler Copy Share Image
Poetry is not an assertion of truth, but the making of that truth more fully real to us. — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
Time sped. And the poet through sorrow Became like his suffering kind. Again he toiled over his poems To lighten the grief… — Ella Wheeler Wilcox Copy Share Image
“I look at you and you look at me and deep in our hearts babe we know it, that you weren't much… — Nick Cave Copy Share Image
The advantage of the one writing about hearts of poets: he can hear them beating even in his sleep. — Mariana Fulger Copy Share Image
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