I take pictures, and they are there for the taking. I'll tell you a quote that I have always thought about. Arthur… — Jay Maisel Copy Share Image
Paul Valery speaks of the 'une ligne donnee' of a poem. One line is given to the poet by God or by… — Stephen Spender Copy Share Image
“. . . On a sandbar sunlight stretches out its limbs, or is it a sycamore, so brazen, so clean and bold?” — William Stafford Copy Share Image
“Every word on every page, represents a love that captured this heart... fully, and never set it free.” — Alfa H Copy Share Image
“This man has talent, that man genius And here's the strange and cruel difference: Talent gives pence and his reward is gold,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Poetry can have varied and useful functions; and seduction is apparently something worth writing poetry for.” — Shira Wolosky Copy Share Image
“Bí ann nó as táimse ag triall Ort agus má tá cuirim geasa Ort mé a shábháil ón dream a deir gur… — Caitlín Maude Copy Share Image
“[Walt] Whitman would never get in the way of a boy trying to get off with another boy. Bros before prose.” — Lisa Henry Copy Share Image
“At the top of the heap is poetry,at least as it used to be written.Nothing else goes far,nothing goes as deep n… — Jeffrey Moore Copy Share Image
“The poet is just like the fabled hunter who naps beside a tree, waiting for hares to break their skulls by running… — Gu Cheng Copy Share Image
Have endless patterns and repetitions accompanying your thoughtlessness, as if to say let go of that other more linear story, with its… — Lidia Yuknavitch Copy Share Image
When I read Spencer Madsen’s poetry, I not only feel awe because he’s so good, one of the best, but I also… — Dennis Cooper Copy Share Image
Let me just say that the politics that I have are never the politics of poetics. I am not interested in politics.… — Lucie Brock-Broido Copy Share Image
“More important for Chime were the ballads that my father sang me. I think that all of those ballads, the structure of… — Franny Billingsley Copy Share Image
Life as a poet and actor truly became full circle as I stood on stage as host of 'Verses & Flow' and… — Omari Hardwick Copy Share Image
“But at my back I always hear Time’s wingèd chariot hurrying near; And yonder all before us lie Deserts of vast eternity.… — Andrew Marvell Copy Share Image
“You ask how it is possible to be your own father and son. You should seek answers, although it is better to… — Dejan Stojanovic Copy Share Image
The true novelist is one who understands the work as a continuous poem, is a myth-maker, and the wonder of the art… — Muriel Spark Copy Share Image
“When a dancer performs, melody transforms into a carriage, expressions turn into fuel and spirit experiences a journey to a world where… — Shah Asad Rizvi Copy Share Image
A poet's mission is to make others confound fiction and reality in order to render them, for an hour, mysteriously happy. — Isak Dinesen Copy Share Image
“I am often asked what made me the way I am. And my answer is always this: I've always been me. It… — Alfa H Copy Share Image
I'm not the kind of poet who arranges treasure-hunts to please the academics and keep them busy. Poetry should be surprising in… — Michael Longley Copy Share Image
“It is as vital to know where you no longer belong as it is to know where you do belong.” — Gin Love Thompsonson Copy Share Image
“The fun and fame do not last, while the memory of a real helper is kept green long after poetry is forgotten… — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
Theodore Roethke was a poet I was raised with so he has a lot of sentimental value for me. — Krist Novoselic Copy Share Image
“motives are like little flies flying around in my room. I believe I've killed most of them” — Dmitry Dyatlov Copy Share Image
“Poems should be like pins which prick the skin of boredom and leave a glow equal in its pride to the gate… — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
All poets, all writers are political. They either maintain the status quo, or they say, 'Something's wrong, let's change it for the… — Sonia Sanchez Copy Share Image
“If war is the test of reality, then all poetry is unreal; but in that case unreality is a virtue.” — Louis MacNeice Copy Share Image
A poem is good if it contains a new analogy and startles the reader out of the habit of treating words as… — T. E. Hulme Copy Share Image
You can't read to yourself. It's your inner ear that hears a poem. If you hear a poet read his own work,… — Derek Walcott Copy Share Image
“Sun shines above making diamonds of light Tink-tinkling, tap dancing and bright. from Atlantic Ocean, My Old Friend by Mommy Moo Moo” — Mommy Moo Moo Copy Share Image
The world is yours, express yourself in poetry, life is beautiful, let it flow between your veins. — Ash Sweeney Copy Share Image
“I have stitched life into me like a rare organ --from "Three Women: A Poem for Three Voices", written 1962” — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
Americans are not brought up with meter. They're not brought up with poetry. If you try to get them to recite, they're… — Derek Walcott Copy Share Image
Suffering has as much right to be expressed as a martyr has to cry out. So it may have been false to… — Theodor Adorno Copy Share Image
Every poet and musician and artist, but for grace, is drawn away from love of the things he tells to love of… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“The day she realized they were never meant to be, is the day she now calls her - Birthday.” — Alfa H Copy Share Image
somewhere within sight of the tree of poetry that is eternity wearing the green leaves of time . — R. S. Thomas Copy Share Image
“Poetry is a finikin thing of air That lives uncertainly and not for long Yet radiantly beyond much lustier blurs.” — Wallace Stevens Copy Share Image
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