“She knows he's not the same. He's different now. The eyes that once held too much contain nothing at all. He is… — Alfa H Copy Share Image
“I had often toyed with pictures of the future, dreamed of rôles which might be assigned to me—as a poet, maybe, or… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
...to be a poet, requires a mythology of the self. The self described is the poet self, to which the daily self… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
Like all my poems, 'Negotiations' has several sources. It deals with aging lovers and the often silent deals they make. Thinking about… — Rae Armantrout Copy Share Image
“What if you slept And what if In your sleep You dreamed And what if In your dream You went to heaven… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
“Insofar as craft and poetics in a poem have a politics, I wanted to avoid that brittle enjambed-prose-sentence-lyric verse, where you have… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“These names mean nothing to Perowne. But he understands how eminent poets, like senior consultants, live in a watchful, jealous world in… — Ian McEwan Copy Share Image
In general, I would think that at present prose writers are much in advance of the poets. In the old days, I… — William H. Gass Copy Share Image
“…in the twentieth century grief lasts at most a year.’ I have used this quote from the Turkish poet Nazim Hikmet as… — Saeed Akhtar Mirza Copy Share Image
Maybe because I can't even put together an IKEA desk, I've never been tempted to think of my own poems as built… — James Arthur Copy Share Image
“We all grew up, those of us who took On the Road to heart. We came to cringe a little at our… — Sarah Vowell Copy Share Image
A poet is an unhappy creature whose heart is tortured by deepest suffering but whose lips are so formed that when his… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
“Berryman" I will tell you what he told me in the years just after the war as we then called the second… — W.S. Merwin Copy Share Image
“The white western patriarchal ordering of things requires that we believe there is an inherent conflict between what we feel and what… — Nancy K. Bereano (introduction to Sister Outsider Copy Share Image
I'm not precisely saying that a really good board meeting at the MLA (Museums, Libraries and Archives Coucil) makes me want to… — Andrew Motion Copy Share Image
“back in the middle ages they burned unruly women at the stake and out of the ashes of their bones and flesh… — Leah Harris Copy Share Image
The idea of how to read a poem is based on the idea that poetry needs you as a reader. That the… — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
My life all-around is really different than a lot of other poets. Not poets that are parents, too, but just that I… — Victoria Chang Copy Share Image
Like hungry guests, a sitting audience looks / Plays are like suppers; poets are the cooks / The founder's you; the table… — George Farquhar Copy Share Image
Works of art are not so much finished as abandoned. Perhaps poems can be perfect. A short-short story might even be perfectible,… — Bruce Holland Rogers Copy Share Image
It is certain that satirical poems were common at Rome from a very early period. The rustics, who lived at a distance… — Thomas B. Macaulay Copy Share Image
I can cite a chapter and verse of literature at the times saying Italians don't speak our language, these folks coming from… — Chris Hayes Copy Share Image
“The day before yesterday, in the woods of Touques, in a charming spot beside a spring, I found old cigar butts and… — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
“And the truth is that I'm not , Ed, is what I wanted to tell you. I'm not arty like everyone says… — Daniel Handler Copy Share Image
“KINGDOM OF THE WOMB From her thighs, she gives you life And how you treat she who gives you life Shows how… — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image
“Here the children have a custom. After the celebration of evil they take those vacant heads that shone once with such anguish… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
There is this tendency to think that if you could only find the magic way, then you could become a poet. "Tell… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
Do you wanna be a poet and write? Do you wanna be an actor up in lights? Do you wanna be soldier,… — Jo Dee Messina Copy Share Image
“Mallarmé described this agony as a battle that took place on God's "boney wing". "I struggled with that creature of ancient and… — Maggie Nelson Copy Share Image
When I am writing poetry, I try to make my mind go a little lazy, to not think too much, as a… — Dawn Lundy Martin Copy Share Image
“These words are my mother’s, my father’s, my brother’s, my lender’s, my garbage man’s—the poem runs like oil on fire beneath this… — BJ Ward Copy Share Image
“The white woman across the aisle from me says 'Look, look at all the history, that house on the hill there is… — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
“ Invitation to Eternity Say, wilt thou go with me, sweet maid, Say, maiden, wilt thou go with me Through the valley-depths… — John Clare Copy Share Image
I think you can have the greatest lyrics in the world and if it doesn't have the best tune in the world… — Julian Cope Copy Share Image
[The publication of his first poem] was wonderful ... but it taught me early on that the only thing that really matters… — Dan Beachy-Quick Copy Share Image
“I do not sit down at my desk to put into verse something that is already clear in my mind. If it… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Love is a fiction, a fable, an ode spun by poets and drunks, a fantastical tale told across one thousand and one… — Lauren Blakely Copy Share Image
The poet is never inspired, because he is the master of that which appears to others as inspiration. He does not wait… — Raymond Queneau Copy Share Image
Galway Kinnell came out with that wonderful big, breathy, hollow voice of his and read, for the first time in public, "The… — Sam Hamill Copy Share Image
You have made me a better person by loving me for who I am. Happy anniversary, An Anniversary message by poem, Your… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
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