That’s what i love about poetry. The more abstract, the better. The stuff were your not sure what the poets talking about.… — Jay Asher Copy Share Image
Most of my poetry lies beyond the SF field, yet here I am corralled into 'SF poetry' as part of this poetry… — Brian Aldiss Copy Share Image
When I mention somebody, that doesn't necessarily mean that I identify with him, personally or poetically. I'm extremely happy when I encounter… — Wislawa Szymborska Copy Share Image
I should think that many of our poets, the honest ones, will confess to having no manifesto. It is a painful confession… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
“...the conscious need of the strong poet [defined broadly as the creator of new metaphors]...to come to terms with the blind impress… — Richard Rorty Copy Share Image
As I look over my work, I mean every time I look over my early work, I see, yes, I could do… — Kenneth Koch Copy Share Image
“the more one delves into Rumi's life and his mystical poetry it becomes clear that for him, the issue of faith and… — Rumi Copy Share Image
“I was born into a world full of 'specialists'. I'm not sure whether it's the result of our education system or just… — Martinus Hendrikus Benders Copy Share Image
“Lovers were not, Marina, are not permitted to know destruction so deeply. Must be as if they were new. Only their grave… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
The Gods have meant That I should dance And in some mystic hour I shall move to unheard rhythms Of the cosmic… — Ruth St. Denis Copy Share Image
For me, movies and television are interesting because they are the dominant storytelling form of our time. My first love will always… — Jess Walter Copy Share Image
S is for Smiling, your smile lights up my day A is for Analytical, solving problems with logic M is for Memorable,… — Samaria Allen Copy Share Image
“Recently I've been dreaming of cursing old people with little provocation, because their culture has a long history of enslaving, raping, and… — Matthew Rohrer Copy Share Image
Humanity i love you because you are perpetually putting the secret of life in your pants and forgetting it's there and sitting… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
While guns rumbled in the distance, we sang, painted, made collages and wrote poems with all our might. We were seeking an… — Hans Arp Copy Share Image
I can never plan out what direction my poems will take in terms of either form or content. I wish I could… — Elaine Equi Copy Share Image
Dickinson is my hero because she was a joker, because she would never explain, because as a poet she confronted pain, dread… — Helen Oyeyemi Copy Share Image
I'll never be a poet,' said Amory as he finished. 'I'm not enough of a sensualist really; there are only a few… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“For the poet is a light and winged and holy thing, and there is no invention in him until he has been… — Socrates Copy Share Image
By being fictions and, at the same moment, returning their subjects to us with a compelling fidelity, both photographs and poems work… — Tod Papageorge Copy Share Image
“I believe the poem is a sacramental act, pure devotion to whatever may be revealed only through the music of intuition. The… — Sam Hamill Copy Share Image
“READ. You have no business wanting to be a writer unless you are a reader. You should read fantasies and essays, biographies… — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
“Return, while night clatters and mirrors open and everything tears inside because of your absence. Everything wants to get on with the… — Alejandra Pizarnik Copy Share Image
“It seems to me indisputably true that a good many people, the wide world over, of varying ages, cultures, natural endowments, respond… — J.D. Salinger Copy Share Image
People cannot stand the saddest truth I know about the very nature of reading and writing imaginative literature, which is that poetry… — Harold Bloom Copy Share Image
Composers need words, but they do not necessarily need poetry. The Russian composer, Aleksandr Mossolov, who chose texts from newspaper small ads,… — James Fenton Copy Share Image
He who, in an enlightened and literary society, aspires to be a great poet, must first become a little child. He must… — Thomas B. Macaulay Copy Share Image
“By the sandy water I breathe in the odor of the sea, From there the wind comes and blows over the world,… — Jane Bierhorst Copy Share Image
“it may happen that he sends a letter in verse, a mag-ni-fi-cent one, but which afterward he might wish to bring back… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
There is a set of emotions around money and new technology and advertising and that sort of thing, and there is this… — Alissa Quart Copy Share Image
“In the midst of the ubiquitous dealings with prostituted signs, the thing-poem was capable of opening up the prospect of returning to… — Peter Sloterdijk Copy Share Image
The poet's pen is the true divining rod Which trembles towards the inner founts of feeling; Bringing to light and use, else… — Philip James Bailey Copy Share Image
The earth and everything in it belong to the Lord.1 Cor. 10: 29-31 [v.29]…Well, then, someone asks , why should my freedom… — Silniña Silma Copy Share Image
“But it doesn't even matter how different they are, because all poems begin the same way: from something you feel inside. Like… — Kat Yeh Copy Share Image
We're certainly not perfect, and we're not probably even better than anybody else, except that perhaps we are given to certain kinds… — Sam Hamill Copy Share Image
Now begins to rise in me the familiar rhythm; words that have lain dormant now lift, now toss their crests, and fall… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
One day I wrote her name upon the strand, But came the waves and washèd it away: Again I wrote it with… — Edmund Spenser Copy Share Image
“The thing that makes poetry different from all other arts [is that] you're using language, which is what you use for everything… — W.S. Merwin Copy Share Image
Most songs have bridges in them, to distract listeners from the main verses of a song so they don't get bored. My… — Bob Dylan Copy Share Image
I think a good deal may be said to extenuate the fault of bad Poets. What we call a Genius, is hard… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
![“...the conscious need of the strong poet [defined broadly as the creator of new metaphors]...to come to terms with the blind impress which chance has given him, to make a self for himself by redescribing that impress in terms which are, if only marginally, his own.” quote by Richard Rorty](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/5d6/richard-rorty-13909_poetry_the-conscious-need-of-the-strong-poet-de_2012860.jpg)
![“The earth and everything in it belong to the Lord.1 Cor. 10: 29-31 [v.29]…Well, then, someone asks , why should my freedom to act be limited by another person's conscience? [verse 30 ] If I thank God for my food, why should anyone creticize me about food for which I give thanks? [verse 31]Well…” quote by Silniña Silma](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ae3/silni-a-silma-28670_ethics_the-earth-and-everything-in-it-belong-to_970095.jpg)
![“The thing that makes poetry different from all other arts [is that] you're using language, which is what you use for everything else--telling lies and selling socks, advertising and conducting law. Whereas we don't write little concerti to each other, or paint pictures.” quote by W.S. Merwin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d26/w-s-merwin-2-23725_art_the-thing-that-makes-poetry-different-fr_508289.jpg)
