The few bad poems which occasionally are created during abstinence are of no great interest. — Wilhelm Reich Copy Share Image
Epic poetry exhibits life in some great symbolic attitude. It cannot strictly be said to symbolize life itself, but always some manner… — Lascelles Abercrombie Copy Share Image
“The Daughter of Babylon verses prophesy a destroyed nation with an impotent military (Jeremiah 50:23; 30; 36; 51:3), unable to act after its massive national destruction.” — John Price Copy Share Image
A lot of people, when you ask if they want to read your epic poem, start bolting for the door. — Toby Barlow Copy Share Image
I am still interested in the long or serial poem, but have written a few smaller things. I may start sending to… — George Murray Copy Share Image
Poetry is ordinary language raised to the Nth power. Poetry is boned with ideas, nerved and blooded with emotions, all held together… — Paul Engle Copy Share Image
When I get depressed, I try to get something for the terrible sadness that comes over me and create something in terms… — Spike Milligan Copy Share Image
We like to think we live in daylight, but half the world is always dark, and fantasy, like poetry, speaks the language… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“There is no end of things in the heart. Somebody once told me that. She said it came from a poem she… — Michael Connelly Copy Share Image
I remember how as I kid I would love stories of every kind - whether they were narrated in school or what… — Tahir Raj Bhasin Copy Share Image
I decided that it was not wisdom that enabled poets to write their poetry, but a kind of instinct or inspiration, such… — Socrates Copy Share Image
I keep a notebook on my bedside table and write poetry every night before I go to sleep. It's been something I've… — Lexi Underwood Copy Share Image
“Birthdays are a time when one stock takes, which means, I suppose, a good spineless mope: I scan my horizon and can… — Philip Larkin Copy Share Image
“Well," he said slowly, "sometimes there's a passion that comes in its springtime to ill fate or death. And because it ends… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“Kindness went out to play all on a summer's day. When she went out many smiles came out and joined in sweet… — Sara Loo Copy Share Image
I'm filled with admiration, delight, and gratitude at discovering James Lasdun's poems in A Jump Start. He has wit, speed, intelligence, a… — Anthony Hecht Copy Share Image
“The monsters were never under my bed. Because the monsters were inside my head. I fear no monsters, for no monsters I… — Nikita Gill Copy Share Image
You can even express movies and poetry using video games. For those reasons, I've decided to create stories through video games. — Yoko Taro Copy Share Image
My biggest influence is Tupac. He was a poet, and listening to Tupac is what inspired me to start rapping. — Chanel West Coast Copy Share Image
I testify to rainbow feathers, to the span of heaven and walls of colour, the colonnades of jasper. — Hilda Doolittle Copy Share Image
“An artist must be passionately in love with her art. Obsessed or possessed ― go mad for what you believe in.” — Charlotte Eriksson Copy Share Image
Only truthful hands write true poems. I cannot see any basic difference between a handshake and a poem. — Paul Celan Copy Share Image
“I am sorry this became, a poem I beg you, please do not think as blame Trust me as you trust god… — Santosh Kalwar Copy Share Image
I wouldn't be very happy if a poet read what I had written and said, 'What a peculiar thing to say about… — Helen Vendler Copy Share Image
The prosaic man sees things badly, or with the bodily sense; but the poet sees them clad in beauty, with the spiritual… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Poetry's work is not simply the recording of inner or outer perception; it makes by words and music new possibilities of perceiving — Jane Hirshfield Copy Share Image
For me, poetry has no point in existing if it's not to be a prompt or aid to political and ethical change. — John Kinsella Copy Share Image
The bad poet is usually unconscious where he ought to be conscious, and conscious where he ought to be unconscious. — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
A book can teach you, a conversation can assure you, a poem can seduce you, a genius can inspire you but only… — Anthony Anaxagorou Copy Share Image
It's easy to understand why the most beautiful poems about England in the spring were written by poets living in Italy at… — Philip Dunne Copy Share Image
“...The verses of Byron, Keats or Poe are real whether they are in bootleg form or not. You can still read them… — Jasper Fforde Copy Share Image
“Energy manipulation took place completely in mind,same way believing in telepathy caused telepathic abilities to grow STRONGER.” — Christina Westover Copy Share Image
What I like about prose poems is that they seem to make people uncomfortable - people want to define them, justify them,… — Matthea Harvey Copy Share Image
“(I'm fucking the grave, I thought, I'm bringing the dead back to life, marvelous so marvelous like eating cold olives at 3… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
Garrison Keillor read several of my poems on 'The Writer's Almanac' and I've heard from listeners nationally and internationally. That's one of… — Ellen Bass Copy Share Image
Had any poet adequately described the wretched ugliness of a loved one turned inside out with grief? — Kate Morton Copy Share Image
Creativity has nothing to do with any activity in particular - with painting, poetry, dancing, singing. It has nothing to do with… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
When I really want to be soothed and reminded of why people bother to fiddle with sentences, I often read poetry. — Nicholson Baker Copy Share Image
“I'm colored, I'm scientist, I'm poet, I'm polyglot - coming from zero money, I won the world with words. Try and get… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
For poems are not, as people think, simply emotions (one has emotions early enough)-they are experiences. — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
