At college, I wanted to be a poet. I liked the extremely concentrated language, the atmosphere of otherworldliness. — Walter Kirn Copy Share Image
“Reversed Thunder," as the poet George Herbert put it. "Reversed Thunder" -- the coming of judgement in response to the cry, "How… — Darrell Johnson Copy Share Image
“To be alive is to be open in some way, to take in and to release. To pass through life and to… — Alyssa Skyes Copy Share Image
As a story teller I have used characters, epic tales, poetry and rasa in my performances. — Shobana Copy Share Image
“You were the stray cat who wandered into my verses and finally found your way home—dumpster diving deep within yourself.” — Curtis Tyrone Jones Copy Share Image
“Poetry is sometimes cryptic because we don’t always want things easily understood. Painful truth is hard enough as it is, but sometimes… — Cody Edward Lee Miller Copy Share Image
“My past self would've hated who I am today And I still feel that hatred in the parts of him that stayed” — Justin Wetch Copy Share Image
Poetry should be written the way adultery is committed: on the run, on the sly, during the time not accounted for. And… — Vera Pavlova Copy Share Image
Milton says, that the lyric poet may drink wine and live generously, but the epic poet, he who shall sing of the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I not only wanted to write when I was 7 and 8, but I sent stuff out when I was 7 and… — Judith Viorst Copy Share Image
At the beginning I wasn't really rapping. I had poetry, so it was a spoken word vibe. Then I found beats that… — Arlo Parks Copy Share Image
A work can do many things at once, and it doesn't have to be just about the world, it could also be… — Stephen Shore Copy Share Image
“I keep telling myself That you’re just a girl. Another leaf blown across my path Destined to pass on And shrivel into… — Kelly Creagh Copy Share Image
“Here is a story that’s stranger than strange. Before we begin you may want to arrange: a blanket, a cushion, a comfortable… — Robert Paul Weston Copy Share Image
“I want to die young, neither loving nor grieving for anyone; to burst like a golden falling star, to shed my petals… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“1. Write like you’ll live forever — fear is a bad editor. 2. Write like you’ll croak today — death is the… — Ron Dakron Copy Share Image
I remember writing these terrible poems when I was, like, nine and discovered alliteration. — Karen Russell Copy Share Image
“Dear Hands, I get it. You like writing poetry. But you can’t bring a metaphor to a gunfight.” — Rudy Francisco Copy Share Image
Drawing is a way of coming upon the connection between things, just like metaphor in poetry reconnects what has become separated. — John Berger Copy Share Image
I've forgotten lines all the time. Sometimes I switch verses in a song. It's just hard not to when you're doing the… — Josh Young Copy Share Image
“Practice teaching others the 'unsearchable riches' of Christ. Each week, explain a verse from a section of Scripture to another person.” — Henry Hon Copy Share Image
These capacities for randomness may have been amplified into human creativity through sexual and social selection. — Geoffrey Miller Copy Share Image
“Knowing that you knew everything about us before we were born Lord, your love is amazing” — April Nichole Copy Share Image
“I clearly understand, first, that the real human being is a poet and, second, that [the tyrant] is the incarnate negation of… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
“What liars poets and everybody were! They made one think one wanted sentiment. When what one supremely wanted was this piercing, consuming,… — D.H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
“[The poet] is no arguer . . . he is judgment. He judges not as the judge judges but as the sun… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
“It's very difficult to look at the World and into your heart at the same time. In between, a life has passed.” — Jim Harrison Copy Share Image
I've had trouble with criticism, I guess. It's hard to know what role criticism plays in either encouraging poets or in getting… — Kenneth Koch Copy Share Image
Prose is a poor thing, a poor inadequate thing, compared with poetry which says so much more in shorter time. — Vita Sackville-West Copy Share Image
“You hate him for turning you inside of yourself. You are still getting used to looking at your body in the light.” — Kristina Haynes Copy Share Image
“brave love, dream not of staunching such strict flame, but come, lean to my wound; burn on, burn on.” — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
“Nature, it seems, is the popular name for milliards and milliards and milliards of particles playing their infinite game of billiards and… — Piet Hein Copy Share Image
Poetry demands a different material than prose. It uses another facet of the same fact … the spontaneous conformation of language as… — William Carlos Williams Copy Share Image
“Time is the real emperor and there is no space for any pride since time flies and blows away anything.” — Neel Preet Copy Share Image
A writer's work often reflects what he or she has been exposed to in life; experiences which are the groundwork of a… — Eyvind Johnson Copy Share Image
Death most resembles a prophet who is without honor in his own land or a poet who is a stranger among his… — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
My poetry had the same functional origin and the same formal configuration as teenage acne. — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
“She, however, stood and said nothing. / Small, unnoticed, she stood in the crowd, listened, and said / nothing.” — Gertrud Kolmar Copy Share Image
I didn't really like confessional poetry or things. They seemed sort of dated to me, or just corny. — Stephen Malkmus Copy Share Image
Poets can't worry about popularity since loving life and humanity involves saying what some people don't want to hear. — Vanna Bonta Copy Share Image
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