“I was going to write a happy poem, but then I watched a Scottish drama.” — Kelvin Fowler Copy Share Image
“You and I are poets, Mrs. Osgood. Our job is to raise questions, not to answer them.” — Lynn Cullen Copy Share Image
So I really began as a failed poet - although when I first wanted to be a writer, I learned to write… — Nicholson Baker Copy Share Image
The only thing that can save the world is the reclaiming of the awareness of the world. That's what poetry does. — Allen Ginsberg Copy Share Image
He who, in an enlightened and literary society, aspires to be a great poet, must first become a little child. — Thomas B. Macaulay Copy Share Image
“He will one day meet his true love... A fellow traveler on the road... Her eyes will be his ocean... In her… — Kem Copy Share Image
Art as a whole is a riddle. Another way of putting this is to say that art expresses something while at the… — Theodor Adorno Copy Share Image
The process of writing a poem represents work done on the self of the poet, in order to make form. — Muriel Rukeyser Copy Share Image
“It could be said that a single person has written all the books in the world such central unity is in them… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I was just reading some poetry, and it talked about how things start as one thing and change into another, and I… — Tommy Lee Copy Share Image
“Henceforth an individual solace dear; Part of my Soul I seek thee, and thee claim My other half: with that thy gentle… — John Milton Copy Share Image
Paraphrase, in the sense of summary, is as indispensable to the novel-critic as close analysis is to the critic of lyric poetry.… — David Lodge Copy Share Image
My favorite subject probably was math. I love math. I think figures just intrigue me. I was really good at math. English… — Herschel Walker Copy Share Image
“I feel at home, choosing to live inside my own imagination, savage and natural, yet I also long to be honest about… — Margarita Engle Copy Share Image
“In fact, unconscious scanning goes on all the time. It seems more than ever that what we know as the visionary or… — Peter Redgrove Copy Share Image
In Relationship there comes lot of Ups and Downs but that does not mean you will just let things happen expecting it… — Insane & Insomniac Copy Share Image
So writing about love or having it infuse the poems that I'm writing has never been something I've set myself to do,… — Ron Padgett Copy Share Image
“You know that book of poems I’m always carrying around? [...] In one of her poems, she calls hope the ‘thing with… — Roshani Chokshi Copy Share Image
![“You know that book of poems I’m always carrying around? [...] In one of her poems, she calls hope the ‘thing with feathers,’ and I always think about that…. Maybe when we hope for something, the hope flies off to find whatever it is we’re thinking about…and then it brings it back to us. And when…” quote by Roshani Chokshi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/bb4/roshani-chokshi-14822_books_you-know-that-book-of-poems-i-m-always-c_2173726.jpg)
