The first task of the poet is to create the person who will write the poems. — Stanley Kunitz Copy Share Image
Don't you just love poetry that gives you a crinkly feeling up and down your back? — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Walter Scott has no business to write novels, especially good ones. He has fame and profit enough as a poet, and should… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“I’m looking for you into that silver spoon where I taste my reflection to feel the touch of your untouchables - from… — Munia Khan Copy Share Image
[On writing her first poem at age eight:] An ode to my dead mother and father, who were both alive and pretty… — Judith Viorst Copy Share Image
The specific excellence of verbal expression in poetry is to be clear without being low. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
It would be nice if all the Republicans could put poetry in a little box and put the box under the bed… — Sam Hamill Copy Share Image
The fortitude of a Christian consists in patience, not in enterprises which the poets call heroic, and which are commonly the effects… — John Dryden Copy Share Image
I think music is poetry in the sense that I think the condition of poetry I'm going for has some qualities of… — Kevin Young Copy Share Image
“There are those times when you need to push negative people aside, give fear a swift kick in the ass and fire… — Melody Lee Copy Share Image
I think my work has to do with a sense that we are attempting, all the time, to create a logical, rational… — Billy Collins Copy Share Image
“How did people come to chant rude poems while pulling certain ropes or gathering certain fruit, and why did nobody do anything… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
I love rhymes; I love to write a poem about New York and rhyme 'oysters' with 'The Cloisters.' And 'The lady from… — Garrison Keillor Copy Share Image
That love is a conflict seems to me obvious and natural. There isn't a single worthwhile work in world literature based on… — Michelangelo Antonioni Copy Share Image
Hence poetry is something more philosophic and of graver import than history, since its statements are rather of the nature of universals,… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
When every church becomes a school, every cathedral a university, every clergyman a teacher, and all their hearers brave and honest thinkers,… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
“The artist’s artistic brush stroke of colour... Fractionally exists within the art canvas cover... Unaware of its existence in the art’s totality...… — Hugh Shergill Copy Share Image
It is quite evident that a barrier must be cleared in order to escape the psychologists and enter into a realm which… — Gaston Bachelard Copy Share Image
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