“He wondered again at the easy, graceful manner in which the Roman lyricists accepted the fact of death, as if the nothingness… — John Williams Copy Share Image
I always credited my mother with inspiring me to be a writer because she was such a passionate reader. She read poetry… — Judith Viorst Copy Share Image
All poets adore explosions, thunderstorms, tornadoes, conflagrations, ruins, scenes of spectacular carnage. The poetic imagination is not at all a desirable quality… — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
If I can quote myself, I explained whatever it is I'm doing once for No Tell Motel, and I still think it's… — Shane McCrae Copy Share Image
I take a real interest in the possibilities of teaching - including the practice of bringing creative writing, and serious reading, into… — Michael Cadnum Copy Share Image
I had to learn quick, because I was performing in Cinco de Mayo festivals with babies crying and people lifting their beers,… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
“But the detail of the poem shows power akin to genius, and reveals to us that much neglected law of literary history… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
"I know perfectly well that at this moment the whole universe is listening to us," Jean Giraudoux wrote in The Madwoman of… — Frank Drake Copy Share Image
“Do you know who W.H. Auden was, Mr. Iscariot? W.H. Auden was a poet who once said, “God may reduce you on… — Stephen Adly Guirgis Copy Share Image
“Does God know the number of kisses before we fall in love? Yesterday, I was nobody and I believed myself important. Today,… — Kamand Kojouri Copy Share Image
“I primarily use poetry as a purge, a self-medication device when I’m in the depths of loneliness, anxiety or in the throes… — Nicholas Trandahl Copy Share Image
“You know I understand how you feel… the loneliness that sets in…how empty your heart aches wishing you had someone near…to hold...… — N2 Copy Share Image
“She wraps her arms around me and speaks in my ear. Words just for me--the poetry of I love you --to keep… — Ally Condie Copy Share Image
Jean Valentine and Jane Cooper were my professors at Sarah Lawrence College - and they were uncompromised in their art. They gave… — Denise Duhamel Copy Share Image
I've had the good fortune to read a lot of great American writers in translation, and my absolute beloved, for me one… — Wislawa Szymborska Copy Share Image
A poem begins with a lump in the throat; a homesickness or a love sickness. It is a reaching-out toward expression; an… — Robert Frost Copy Share Image
“the many hours Amy and I spent there, she sitting on the bank reading from a book of poems or some dreary… — L.A. Meyer Copy Share Image
Not having finished high school and having been fairly utilitarian in the way I went about college, I didn't have a deep… — Joy Covey Copy Share Image
Men who had poetry in their soul come silently into the world and live quietly down the years, and yet when they… — Carlos Bulosan Copy Share Image
The new king [Alexander the Great] should perform acts so important and glorious as would make the poets and musicians of future… — Plutarch Copy Share Image
If I'm not writing a poem to decompress from my experiences on a movie set, I usually just cook and it's like… — Masiela Lusha Copy Share Image
The main problem with writing in verse is, if your fourth line doesn't come out right, you've got to throw four lines… — Dr. Seuss Copy Share Image
I have a new method of poetry. All you got to do is look over your notebooks... or lay down on a… — Allen Ginsberg Copy Share Image
“Silly little monster” all would say. They’d scratch its head and turn away until it snatched their tiny noses. They couldn’t even… — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
Definitely, some of the artistry and poetry has been lost in modern chess. It's very rare that I play a game where… — Hikaru Nakamura Copy Share Image
Poetry examines an emotional truth. It's an experience filtered through the personality of the poet. We look to poetry for visions, not… — Diane Glancy Copy Share Image
“For the various spiritual forms of the imagination have a natural affinity with certain sensuous forms of art - and to discern… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“the train plunges on through the pitch-black night I never knew I liked the night pitch-black sparks fly from the engine I… — Nazim Hikmet Copy Share Image
“Creativeness is not merely a matter of painting pictures or writing poems, which is good to do, but which is very little… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
It occurred to me that I would like to be a poet. The chief qualification, I understand is that you must be… — Hector Hugh Munro Copy Share Image
“Welcome young poet, in here you are free to follow your star to where you should be. That door of the library… — Bernard Kops Copy Share Image
“But nothing of all that the peoples of Europe have produced is worth the first known poem to have appeared among them.… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
When I was a little girl, I did not listen to music much. I did not think that one day I would… — Sonita Alizadeh Copy Share Image
The world is always somewhat vicious. I take that as a given, but at various times in various circumstances that fact will… — Stephen Dunn Copy Share Image
When younger writers and poets, musicians and painters are weakened by a stemming of funds, they come to me saddened, not as… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
The years rolled their brutal course down the hill of time. Still poor, my clothes still smelling of the horse barn, still… — Paul Engle Copy Share Image
“As I was a stranger in Olondria, I knew nothing of the splendour of its coasts, nor of Bain, the Harbour City,… — Sofia Samatar Copy Share Image
“ The House Was Quiet and the World Was Calm The house was quiet and the world was calm. The reader became… — Wallace Stevens Copy Share Image
And some poets are far better read off the page because they're very bad speakers. I'm thinking of one in particular whom… — Norman MacCaig Copy Share Image
“I Hear the sledges with the bells - Silver bells! What a world of merriment their melody foretells! How they tinkle, tinkle,… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
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