“I like flaws and I feel more comfortable around those who have them.. The perfect people make me nervous. I don't trust… — Lokesh Tuli Copy Share Image
The poet's other readers are the ancient poets, who look upon the freshly written pages from an incorruptible distance. Their poetic forms… — Salvatore Quasimodo Copy Share Image
I just submitted what I had to the 'Octopus Books' contest open reading period, and they said they wanted to publish my… — Jenny Zhang Copy Share Image
“This poem is very long So long, in fact, that your attention span May be stretched to its very limits But that’s… — Colleen Hoover Copy Share Image
But to do its noticing and judging, poetry balances itself on the pinprick of the moment. Slowing down, stopping yourself completely, to… — Ian Mcewan Copy Share Image
One of the hardest things for me to do is be fully open in a poem. By that I mean, honest and… — Adrian Matejka Copy Share Image
There are but three beings worthy of respect: the priest, the warrior and the poet. To know, to kill and to create.… — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
“I believe in love at first sight but I will always believe that the people we love we have loved before. Many,… — Tyler Knott Gregson Copy Share Image
I have always been musically inclined, whether it's been playing the santoor from a young age or writing poetry that has now… — Ananya Birla Copy Share Image
That, lad," he said proudly, "was some of the worst poetry I have heard for a long time. It was offensive to… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“The poetry of mother earth is truly alive! When we open our ears...we hear it. When we open our hearts...we can feel… — Timothy Pina Copy Share Image
There's this place I've been stuck in for awhile and it seems I can't get out Every time I try to leave… — Black_Monster Copy Share Image
[The popular impression about some chemists is that] the aquafortis and the chlorine of the laboratories have as effectually bleached the poetry… — George Wilson Copy Share Image
The genius of poetry must work out its own salvation in a man; it cannot be matured by law and precept, but… — John Keats Copy Share Image
I always find time to read novels and poetry as well as scripts; I like to enjoy different kinds of storytelling. I… — Rose McIver Copy Share Image
“A voice that had traversed the centuries, so heavy it broke what it touched, so heavy I feared it would ring in… — Anaïs Nin Copy Share Image
“It was the answer to the wrong mystery--the mystery I didn't ever want to solve. And so we sat there in the… — Robyn Schneider Copy Share Image
I had started writing as a poet in a closed, post-Revival, claustrophobic world, where the shadows of the national upheaval and the… — Eavan Boland Copy Share Image
If I'm working on a poem, it's at the forefront of my mind; I'm working on it when I'm cooking dinner or… — Maxine Kumin Copy Share Image
Primitives of our own species, even today are historically shallow in their knowledge of the past. Only the poet who writes speaks… — Loren Eiseley Copy Share Image
First tweet, best tweet, I always think. I try not to work them too much or else they get Pie Dough Disease,… — Patricia Lockwood Copy Share Image
The secret of poetry is never explained,— is always new. We have not got farther than mere wonder at the delicacy of… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Poetry is the rhythmic, inevitably narrative, movement from an overclothed blindness to a naked vision that depends in its intensity on the… — Dylan Thomas Copy Share Image
There's always an added element of a poem when it's read aloud because then you can really hear the rhythm, and the… — Masiela Lusha Copy Share Image
“Lines Written In Early Spring I heard a thousand blended notes, While in a grove I sate reclined, In that sweet mood… — William Wordsworth Copy Share Image
“From childhood's hour I have not been As others were; I have not seen As others saw; I could not bring My… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
“Know then thyself, presume not God to scan, The proper study of mankind is Man. Placed on this isthmus of a middle… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
I was really drawn to spoken-word style poetry. I loved the rhythms, and for some reason, I was just drawn to this… — Matt de la Pena Copy Share Image
“I like how you call homosexuality an abomination." "I don't say homosexuality's an abomination, Mr. President, the bible does." "Yes it does.… — Aaron Sorkin Copy Share Image
To transform a grimace into a sound sounds impossible, yet it is possible to transform a vision into music, to go outside… — Dejan Stojanovic Copy Share Image
“It was the means of making it clear that no matter how painful, Muhammad needed to be true to himself, to his… — Lesley Hazleton Copy Share Image
A day will come when man will discover an alphabet in the eyes of the chalcedonies, in the marking of the moth,… — Alejo Carpentier Copy Share Image
“André Breton (who fled Nazi dominated Europe)told poets of this Caribbean country: 'Surrealism is allied with peoples of colour, first because it… — David Craven Copy Share Image
“You can Lose a child Or a parent, The love of your life, A good job, A game, A deal, A bet,… — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image
Poems On Love Love adorns itself; it seeks to prove inward joy by outward beauty. Love does not claim possession, but gives… — Rabindranath Tagore Copy Share Image
“So here, twisted in steel, and spoiled with red your sunlight hide, smelling of death and fear, they crushed out your throat… — Judith Wright Copy Share Image
“But the worst of it was, all the third-rate poets emerged unscathed; being third-rate, they didn't know good poetry from bad and… — Stanisław Lem Copy Share Image
While also, importantly, not wanting to dumb it down or pretend the days of 'difficult' poetry are over, because we live in… — Andrew Motion Copy Share Image
In [The New Poetry] I had attacked the British poets' nervous preference for gentility above all else, and their avoidance of the… — Al Alvarez Copy Share Image
“SOWING LIGHTNING Seize Bolts of lightning from the sky And plant them in fields of life. They will grow like tender sprouts… — Visar Zhiti Copy Share Image
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