“just waiting is the worst. nothing worse than waiting just waiting. always hated to wait. what’s there about waiting that’s so intolerable?… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
One of the appeals of William Carlos Williams to me is that he was many different kinds of poet. He tried out… — W. S. Di Piero Copy Share Image
The art of writing is mysterious; the opinions we hold are ephemeral , and I prefer the Platonic idea of the Muse… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
As I read more and more - and it was not all verse, by any means - my love for the real… — Dylan Thomas Copy Share Image
Poet, never chase the dream. Laugh yourself and turn away. Mask your hunger, let it seem Small matter if he come or… — Robert Graves Copy Share Image
“Most people in this country are looking for literature that is useful. They feel that just exploring their feelings is good enough… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
Musings The little poets sing of little things: Hope, cheer, and faith, small queens and puppet kings; Lovers who kissed and then… — Robert E. Howard Copy Share Image
No good poetry is ever written in a manner twenty years old, for to write in such a manner shows conclusively that… — Ezra Pound Copy Share Image
“The talked about their messed-up, dysfunctional families, carefully respecting boundaries, never probing too deep in any one sitting. And they always ended… — Andrea Kayne Kaufman Copy Share Image
Surrealism is not a school of poetry but a movement of liberation... A way of rediscovering the language of innocence, a renewal… — Octavio Paz Copy Share Image
It will be hard James but you come from sturdy peasant stock men who picked cotton and dammed rivers and built railroads… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“They say this city can absorb anyone. It does seem that every nationality is here in some part. There are dreamers and… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
“If the incision of our words amounts to nothing but a feeling, a slow motion, it will still cut a better swath… — C.D. Wright Copy Share Image
“As long as the sole ruler and disposer of the universe, the nous , remained excluded from artistic activity, things were mixed… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“In 1983 Colonel Burns wrote a poem in which he envisioned how his fledgling communications network might one day influence the world.… — Jon Ronson Copy Share Image
“One million fifty-one thousand and two hundred minutes That's approximatley how many minutes I've loved you It's how many times i've thought… — Colleen Hoover Copy Share Image
“The Lord your God is with you, he is mighty to save” (Zeph. 3:17). This was the verse that initially brought the… — Jim Reimann Copy Share Image
Everyone is born a poet - a person discovering the way words sound and work, caring and delighting in words. I just… — William Stafford Copy Share Image
“From the shoulders, slowly a pair of wings unfolded, wings made of rainbows, of light upon water, of poetry. Calvin fell to… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
“Alas, I was unable to transcend the simple human fact that whatever spiritual solace I might find, whatever lithophanic eternities might be… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
With a heart that is dark, Like the Feathers of a Raven, Everything hangsin the low light of a dying spark, Like… — Timothy Ashmore Copy Share Image
I had lines inside me, a string of guiding lights. I had language. Fiction and poetry are doses, medicines. What they heal… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
“He spoke to her, though, if only through his verse. One night in the banqueting hall, just before a ball, he responded… — Judith James Copy Share Image
“I love the writers of my thousand books. It pleases me to think how astonished old Homer, whoever he was, would be… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
I got scouted for modeling on the street. I'm such a tomboy - still am. I just never thought about modeling before,… — Anya Taylor-Joy Copy Share Image
I thought a bit of poetry might be interesting - I even write a few lines myself. I composed a short poem… — Iain Dowie Copy Share Image
Poetry is the most informative of all of the arts because everything comes down to poetry. No matter what it is we… — Nikki Giovanni Copy Share Image
And we were Banksy on an overpass in New Orleans spray-painting porch lights on the hurricane. We were welcome mats for the… — Andrea Gibson Copy Share Image
Like a pianist runs her fingers over the keys, I'll search my mind for what to say. Now, the poem may want… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
“I close my eyes Only for a moment, then the moment's gone All my dreams Pass before my eyes, a curiosity... Same… — Kansas Copy Share Image
Twitter -Anette:I just need someone that understands. But no one understands. Zediam:Maybe your teddy? Anette:100% cotton Zediam:to absorb all your problems... Anette:Boneless… — Anette Sandberg Copy Share Image
“to know a country takes all we know of love: some days better than others, but never easy to keep our promise… — Richard Blanco Copy Share Image
We are chained hand and foot by protocol, enslaved to a static, empty world where men and women can’t read, where the… — Catherine Fisher Copy Share Image
“I often repeat repeat myself, I often repeat repeat. I don't don't know why know why, I simply know that I I… — Jack Prelutsky Copy Share Image
I've been trying to write for as long as I can remember. But those first fifteen years didn't produce much of great… — Kingsley Amis Copy Share Image
“From time to time I feel as though my books and figurines were with me still. But how could they be? Are… — Roberto Bolaño Copy Share Image
“Two thousand Sufi poets assembled in Baghdad last night Bullets, rockets and granades flying Allah heard only their wine voices Bursting in… — Gabriel Rosenstock Copy Share Image
“Shared emotions experienced by two souls,empathy on unequivocal level which Davey believed would change entire species of mankind if only secret of… — Christina Westover Copy Share Image
“We don’t know anything about silent sages, buried knowledge, the eye of the mute poet, serene seers, yet how many talkative destroyers,… — Dejan Stojanovic Copy Share Image
“I knew that not by wisdom do poets write poetry, but by a sort of genius and inspiration; they are like diviners… — Plato Copy Share Image
