I mean, in the history of poetry there have been a lot poetries where you have to inherit the position of poet… — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
I approach writing a poem in a much different state than when I am writing prose. It's almost as if I were… — Pattiann Rogers Copy Share Image
When we look at the arts and letters in America, especially if we look at poetry, and poetry set to music, this… — Thomas Hampson Copy Share Image
I know it might sound strange to some people, but I really do need The Word with me and if I don't… — Liz Mitchell Copy Share Image
“A man who knows how little he knows is well, a man who knows how much he knows is sick. If, when… — Lao Tzu Copy Share Image
Poetry cannot be translated; and, therefore, it is the poets that preserve the languages; for we would not be at the trouble… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
And my father was a comic. He could play any musical instrument. He loved to perform. He was a wonderfully comedic character.… — Lynn Johnston Copy Share Image
In writing 'The Satanic Verses,' I think I was writing for the first time from the whole of myself. The English part,… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
“it were as wise to cast a violet into a crucible that you might discover the formal principle of its color and… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
A poet is a combination of an instrument and a human being in one person, with the former gradually taking over the… — Joseph Brodsky Copy Share Image
“I consider the most terrifying verse in all Scripture to be Matthew 12:36: “But I say to you that for every idle… — Dick Brogden Copy Share Image
It is the characteristic of great poems that they will yield of their sense in due proportion to the hasty and the… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The cult of individuality and personality, which promotes painters and poets only to promote itself, is really a business. The greater the… — George Grosz Copy Share Image
Say what some poets will, Nature is not so much her own ever-sweet interpreter, as the mere supplier of that cunning alphabet,… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
It was less a literary thing than a linguistic, philosophical preoccupation... discovering how far you can go with language to create immediate,… — Robert Morgan Copy Share Image
Poets do not go mad; but chess-players do. Mathematicians go mad, and cashiers; but creative artists very seldom. I am not, as… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
The only band I was really over-into was Cream. And the only thing I really liked about them was their live stuff… — Eddie Van Halen Copy Share Image
“Time ain’t nothing, but time. It’s a verse with no rhyme, And it all come down to you.(«El tiempo solo es tiempo.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Definition, like poetry, is the project of revivifying the familiar. Making things we think we know seem newly strange. To estrange, according… — Alena Graedon Copy Share Image
I'm not going to tell people how to write, but we do have a skill set, and the more we put ourselves… — David Biespiel Copy Share Image
Tennyson and Browning are poets, and they think; but they do not feel their thought as immediately as the odour of a… — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
“Could any State on Earth Immortall be, Venice by Her rare Goverment is She; Venice Great Neptunes Minion, still a Mayd, Though… — James Howell Copy Share Image
I would come to understand there is no poem separable from its source. I began to see that poems are not just… — Eavan Boland Copy Share Image
“leads to Bear Down-- Bear Down gives way to little crown-- Crown concedes the Head-- then Head produces All-- Snip the fruity… — B.J. Ward Copy Share Image
The poems were the only thing I wrote that was not for everyone else. Then my editors at Penguin, who were also… — Guy Gavriel Kay Copy Share Image
love wasn't the soft, silky words the poets spoke of. Love,with it's twin edges, was the one factor that weakened so many… — Nora Roberts Copy Share Image
“Freud could never be certain, he said, in view of his wide and early reading, whether what seemed like a new creation… — Peter Cole Copy Share Image
Some poems present themselves as cliffs that need to be climbed. Others are so defensive that when you approach their enclosure you… — Stanley Kunitz Copy Share Image
During the Gulf War, I remember two little third grade girls saying to me - after I read them some poems by… — Naomi Shihab Nye Copy Share Image
“If Shakespeare be considered as a MAN born in a rude age and educated in the lowest manner, without any instruction either… — David Hume Copy Share Image
“Let a man leave anger, let him forsake pride, let him overcome all bondage! No sufferings befall the man who is not… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Life consists Of propositions about life. The human Revery is a solitude in which We compose these propositions, torn by dreams, By… — Wallace Stevens Copy Share Image
“To be a poet, I realized, a true poet, was to become the Avatar of humanity incarnate; to accept the mantle of… — Dan Simmons Copy Share Image
“Avraham Najeri’s fingers slid over the receiver of the Galil assault rifle with the intimate touch of a lover. He sighed. Guns… — Stephen England Copy Share Image
When you're looking that far out, you're giving people their place in the universe, it touches people. Science is often visual, so… — Story Musgrave Copy Share Image
I stalk certain words... I catch them in mid-flight, as they buzz past, I trap them, clean them, peel them, I set… — Pablo Neruda Copy Share Image
My father, Eric Trethewey, is a poet, so I had one right inside the house. And on long trips, he'd tell me,… — Natasha Trethewey Copy Share Image
For poetry was all written before time was, and whenever we are so finely organized that we can penetrate into that region… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“Nearly all our older poetry was written and read by men to whom the distinction between poetry and rhetoric, in its modern… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“What property is left to dreamers when every idea has been tamed and conquered? What about the poet who dreams of embracing… — Roshani Chokshi Copy Share Image
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