“Don't shrink your standards, link yourself with those who think and ink like you.” — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
I was very lucky to have a mother who encouraged me to become a poet. — Philip Levine Copy Share Image
“His relentless lust Failed to accept the demands of love, He got back his senses And responded to her But, just too… — Jyoti Patel Copy Share Image
For what is the program of the bourgeois parties? A bad poem on springtime, filled to bursting with metaphors. — Walter Benjamin Copy Share Image
Music and religion are as intimately related as poetry and love; the deepest emotions require for their civilized expression the most emotional… — Will Durant Copy Share Image
For my best poems were all written when I felt the worst. When I was happy, I didn't write anything. — Langston Hughes Copy Share Image
I keep the drafts of each poem in color-coded folders. I pick up the folders according to how I feel about that… — Rita Dove Copy Share Image
I believe in the popularizing of art. But when you get right down to it, it's a bit of an elitist world.… — Larry Gagosian Copy Share Image
“The poet Lord Byron famously proclaimed that lobster salad and champagne were the only things a woman should ever be seen eating.” — Tilar Mazzeo Copy Share Image
“A poet is intensely in love with live and passionately wants to express his or her experience with love and beauty.” — Debasish Mridha Copy Share Image
I wanted a perfect ending. Now I've learned the hard way that some poems don't rhyme, and some stories don't have a… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
You have to give your art everything you can - I don't mean only writing, but studying other poets and poetics, thinking,… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
Nothing is done. Everything in the world remains to be done or done over. The greatest picture is not yet painted, the… — Lincoln Steffens Copy Share Image
But most men regard their life as a poem that women threaten. They may not have two spondees to rub together but… — Alan Bennett Copy Share Image
Though it does seem like I have written an immense amount of work, over the years I have pushed the pause button.… — Denise Duhamel Copy Share Image
“Here was a thing he wanted: for singers to pause in their singing to laugh during a verse. Here was a thing… — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
When a man makes a poem, makes it, mind you, he takes words as he finds them interrelated about him and composes… — William Carlos Williams Copy Share Image
By denying people's sense of visual beauty in painting and sculpture , melody in music , meter and rhyme in poetry ,… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
