I meet kids now who become novelists, poets, write for the theater and movies, who were simply inspired by what they saw… — Pat Conroy Copy Share Image
The poet is someone, I think, who's interested in registering experience immediately or giving you the sense of immediacy and directness. — Amiri Baraka Copy Share Image
When I turned 18, my mom, my nana and I all went and had tattoos of our favorite Bible verses put on… — Jordin Sparks Copy Share Image
“Dreams. They start in your beautiful mind. Think of beautiful things and it will manifest into actions because your body will listen… — Happy Positivity Copy Share Image
“O wayfarer! Yearn finds quench, not in meadows, seashores or altitude of mountain peaks; but when being and dance are one.” — Shah Asad Rizvi Copy Share Image
They who in folly or mere greed Enslaved religion, markets, laws, Borrow our language now and bid Us to speak up in… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“And round about there is a rabble Of the filthy, sturdy, unkillable infants of the very poor. They shall inherit the earth.” — Ezra Pound Copy Share Image
The headmaster asked to read one of my poems at some celebration or other when I was about 10. When I look… — Derek Walcott Copy Share Image
“...prose unfolds in time; and time contains both obstacles and revelations. Prose develops, the way characters and situations do. It requires a… — Molly Peacock Copy Share Image
“It pained him that he did not know well what politics meant and that he did not know where the universe ended.… — James Joyce Copy Share Image
“In 1881, being on a visit to Boston, my wife and I found ourselves in the Parker House with the Ingersoll 's,… — Moncure Daniel Conway Copy Share Image
“The United States themselves are essentially the greatest poem. In the history of the earth hitherto the largest and most stirring appear… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
“You only care about the things that you can use, and therefore arrange them in the following order: Money, supremely useful; intellect,… — E.M. Forster Copy Share Image
“And I love the beauty that anger provokes, it’s a sort of poetry, a violence of the mind that explodes expectations and… — Djibril al-Ayad Copy Share Image
“Bengali poem by Ram Mohun Roy which bears on the subject matter of this essay.* Roy explains what is really dreadful about… — Amartya Sen Copy Share Image
I remember, in fifth grade, doing a report on the Russian poet Alexander Pushkin as a rap. It was just an easy… — Lil Dicky Copy Share Image
“My mind feels in philosophical form. My heart thinks in poetic verse. My soul loses everything in translation.” — Cody Edward Lee Miller Copy Share Image
I wouldn't be happy about being considered a love poet or an environmental - I don't want any of those tags. — W. S. Merwin Copy Share Image
There's a fierce practicality and empiricism which the whole imaginative, lyrical aspect of poetry comes from. — David Whyte Copy Share Image
Every individual ought to know at least one poet from cover to cover: if not as a guide through the world, then… — Joseph Brodsky Copy Share Image
“O my Homunculus, I am ill. I have taken a pill to kill The thin Papery feeling. From the poem "Cut", 24 October 1962” — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
How far we are going to read a poet when we can read about a poet is a problem to lay before… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Poetry does not consist of words alone; there must be sentiment and fancy, combination and arrangement. — Samuel Prout Copy Share Image
“Many would have disliked to live, if possessed of the peculiar features of Arthur Jermyn, but he had been a poet and… — H.P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
Friends are like poems, you may never fully understand them, but you will always love them. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Any work that is not rooted in myth and poetry or that does not partake of the depth and essence of the… — Hans Arp Copy Share Image
We've always had a tradition in America of hounding our artists to death. Look at the list of our great artists, you… — James Dickey Copy Share Image
Language and poetry are endlessly fascinating. The most brilliant work can be so sparse yet so full of meaning. That's what I'm… — Corinne Bailey Rae Copy Share Image
“THREE BASIC TRUTHS THREE BASIC TRUTHS Three things have a limited threshold: Time, pain, and death. While truth, love, and knowledge –… — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image
The condition of mankind is, and always has been, so miserable and depraved that, if anyone were to say to the poet:… — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
The sort of poetry I seek only resides in objects Man can't touch - like England 's grass network of lanes 100… — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
Without poets, without artists... everything would fall apart into chaos. There would be no more seasons, no more civilizations, no more thought,… — Guillaume Apollinaire Copy Share Image
You've read some of the poems in this new unpublished book [Walker's Alphabet], e.g., the poem "C." I have a number of… — Shirley Geok-lin Lim Copy Share Image
I will not leave a corner of my consciousness covered up, but saturate myself with the strange and extraordinary new conditions of… — Isaac Rosenberg Copy Share Image
I began as a poet, moved to short fiction, then to novel writing, and, for the past twelve years, back to stories.… — Jack Driscoll Copy Share Image
[Children] use up the same part of my head as poetry does. To deal with children is a matter of terrific imaginative… — Libby Houston Copy Share Image
By the time I was 12, I had memorised hundreds of couplets. I could recite for hours poems written by others. I… — Javed Akhtar Copy Share Image
Poetry is a special use of language that opens onto the real. The business of the poet is truth telling, which is… — Huston Smith Copy Share Image
“To Wallace Stevens' post-Nietzschean formula 'God and the imagination are one,' these women poets would add a crucial third element: God and… — Alicia Ostriker Copy Share Image
“On December 25, 1968, a day after the photograph was taken, the poet Archibald MacLeish wrote in the New York Times :… — Emily Esfahani Smith Copy Share Image
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