Like a poem poorly written we are verses out of rhythm, couplets out of rhyme in syncopated time. — Simon And Garfunkel Copy Share Image
Elizabeth Barrett Browning could write a poem two pages long. Could she have brought it to a music publisher? — Dorothy Fields Copy Share Image
“. . .criticism is to poetry as air is to a noise: it allows it to be heard; and even if we… — Annie Finch Copy Share Image
If the poem has no obvious destination, there's a chance that we'll be all setting off on an interesting ride. — Paul Muldoon Copy Share Image
“We both knew something wasn't quite right, but we clung on, used each other like cigarettes: casual, habitual, slow death. Why?” — Vironika Wilde Copy Share Image
Behold, A ram caught in a thicket by its horns; Offer the Ram of Pride instead of him. But the old man… — Wilfred Owen Copy Share Image
“Silver bullets and a stake in the heart But the cross still awakens my heart I'm the freak of nature that's all… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
“How Poetry Comes to Me It comes blundering over the Boulders at night, it stays Frightened outside the Range of my campfire… — Gary Snyder Copy Share Image
“I'm sorry," Billy says, "but I felt it was too organized. I like ellipses and teeny jottings and spontaneous poems and particularly… — Edmund White Copy Share Image
“Or Trump will become president and make things so awful we will have to hide in the woods and make a fort… — Justin Grimbol Copy Share Image
“The Gross National Product does not include the beauty of our poetry or the intelligence of our public debate. It measures neither… — Erik Brynjolfsson Copy Share Image
I'd never really been content with just churning out these slim volumes every three or four years. I've always tried to think… — Simon Armitage Copy Share Image
'Are 'Friends' Electric?' was two songs: the verse part and the talking part. Two different songs I couldn't finish. One day I… — Gary Numan Copy Share Image
“I hate seeing poetry in everything I touch. I hate that I can no longer love you without turning you into a… — Shinji Moon Copy Share Image
“Mismatch between English’s pronunciation and its orthography is something that everyone, native speaker and learner alike, harps on. It feels like a… — Kory Stamper Copy Share Image
“Lichilai, a Sung poet, has sadly remarked that there were three most deplorable things in the world: the spoiling of fine youths… — Kakuzō Okakura Copy Share Image
The only thing I remember writing in prison is a couple of poems for an inmate magazine they did once a year. — Patricia McConnell Copy Share Image
The critic lives at second hand. He writes about. The poem, the novel, or the play must be given to him; criticism… — George Steiner Copy Share Image
I just write verses. I don't write all day long. When I have something that needs to be said, I just write… — Iman Shumpert Copy Share Image
“One day I might feel Mean, And squinched up inside, Like a mouth sucking on a Lemon. The next day I could… — Mary Neville Copy Share Image
In our period, they say there is free speech. They say there is no penalty for poets, There is no penalty for… — Muriel Rukeyser Copy Share Image
Great wine requires a mad man to grow the vine, a wise man to watch over it, a lucid poet to make… — Salvador Dali Copy Share Image
What will they say about my poetry who never touched my blood? Que diran de mi poesia los que no tocaron mi… — Pablo Neruda Copy Share Image
There was a time when poetry often made its way to vinyl; take a deep dive, for example, into the beat poets'… — Elizabeth Flock Copy Share Image
“The esoteric finds the Absolute within the traditions, as poets find poetry within the poems.” — Frithjof Schuon Copy Share Image
The manifestation of poetry in external life is formal perfection. True sentiment grows within, and art must represent internal phenomena externally. — Franz Grillparzer Copy Share Image
For men may prove and use their friends, as the poet expresses it, usque ad aras, meaning that a friend should not… — Miguel de Cervantes Copy Share Image
“…[O]n a poem of a bridge I contemplate the boundless silence of a slender girl our ills flow together and how, borne… — Giuseppe Ungaretti Copy Share Image
Memory and poetry go together, absolutely. It is a matter of preserving and of remembering things. — Lisel Mueller Copy Share Image
The mind is the great poem ofwinter, the man, Who, to find what will suffice, Destroys romantic tenements Of rose and ice… — Wallace Stevens Copy Share Image
Without poetry our science will appear incomplete, and most of what now passes with us for religion and philosophy will be replaced… — Matthew Arnold Copy Share Image
I know that I shall meet my fate somewhere among the clouds above; those that I fight I do not hate, those… — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
To desire to write poems that endure-we undertake such a goal certain of two things: that in all likelihood we will fail,… — Donald Hall Copy Share Image
I was intoxicated by the romantic poetry of our great writers. I arranged the world according to my private use, looking at… — Wladyslaw Stanislaw Reymont Copy Share Image
“I think poets are people who are like this; for whatever reason you feel psychological exile because you’re always an outsider...” — Natasha Trethewey Copy Share Image
None but a poet can write a tragedy. For tragedy is nothing less than pain transmuted into exaltation by the alchemy of… — Edith Hamilton Copy Share Image
A poet's work is to name the unnamable, to point at frauds, to take sides, start arguments, shape the world, and stop… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
“never trust anyone who says they do not see color. this means to them you are invisible. – is” — Nayyirah Waheed Copy Share Image
“poet convinced both of his own talent and of the need to be self-indulgent in order to be a great artist.” — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
“It was just a game for you-your flames blazed brighter And with my sizzling coals, I mistakenly thought I was the strong… — Maddy Kobar Copy Share Image
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