At a time when pimpery, lick-spittlery, and picking the public's pocket are the order of the day - indeed, officially proclaimed as… — Studs Terkel Copy Share Image
The object, Truth, or the satisfaction of the intellect, and the object, Passion, or the excitement of the heart, are, although attainable,… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
Performance poetry is not one genre. Some chant, sing and dance. Some stand rooted to the spot and stare. Some chat their… — Michael Rosen Copy Share Image
“A poem needs understaning through the senses. The point of diving in a lake, is not immediately to swim to the shore,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Judge: And what is your occupation in general? Brodsky: Poet, poet-translator. Judge: And who recognized you to be a poet? Who put… — Joseph Brodsky Copy Share Image
I don't write every day, but if I go more than a couple of months without writing, I begin to get a… — Elaine Equi Copy Share Image
What is poetry? Do not enquire. The secret dies by prying. How does the heart beat? I fainted when I saw it… — Elizabeth Smart Copy Share Image
I guess the two Manifesto, Communicating Vessels, Mad Love, and some of his poetry made a significant mark on me but as… — Trevor Dunn Copy Share Image
When I was writing 'The Satanic Verses,' if you had asked me about the phenomenon that we all now know as radical… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
No, life cannot be understood flat on a page. It has to be lived; a person has to get out of his… — Donald Miller Copy Share Image
“And when I stand in the receiving line like Jackie Kennedy without the pillbox hat, if Jackie were fat and had taken… — Kathleen Sheeder Bonanno Copy Share Image
“Snow-flakes By Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Out of the bosom of the Air, Out of the cloud-folds of her garments shaken, Over the… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
“Say to your soul—"Come, soul, wake up: thou art not now about to read the newspaper; thou art not now perusing the… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
Nearly all men and women are poetical, to some extent, but very few can be called poets. There are great poets, small… — Orson F. Whitney Copy Share Image
You told me I wrote that poem because I was afraid of dealing with myself. And I used my mom as an… — Jay Asher Copy Share Image
“Paradoxically, our imperial global Anglo-American language is dull with the glitter of its own decay. In response, the new meta- physical poet… — Peter Abbs Copy Share Image
I wish our clever young poets would remember my homely definitions of prose and poetry; that is, prose = words in their… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
Literary generations come and go, and each generation passeth away and is heard of no more. In the end, simply the making… — Michael Dirda Copy Share Image
“If we surrendered to earth’s intelligence we could rise up rooted, like trees. Instead we entangle ourselves in knots of our own… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
“Urgent Story" When the oracle said, ‘If you keep pigeons you will never lose home.’ I kept pigeons. They flicked their red… — Tess Gallagher Copy Share Image
Laying out grounds... may be considered as a liberal art, in some sort like poetry and painting… it is to assist Nature… — William Wordsworth Copy Share Image
We can die by it, if not live by love, And if unfit for tombs and hearse Our legend be, it will… — John Donne Copy Share Image
Well it is certainly the case that the poems - which were in fact published during Shakespeare's lifetime - are weird if… — Stephen Greenblatt Copy Share Image
That's a rather flippant quote "drinking and writing bad poetry" from me. I mean, I said it, but I was doing other… — Dylan Moran Copy Share Image
Like most of my poems, 'Lie' has several sources: I read a very troubling book called The Sixth Extinction. I took note… — Rae Armantrout Copy Share Image
I've been trekking the hills and lanes of the British countryside for nearly four decades now and I've come to associate my… — Arthur Smith Copy Share Image
“How can the confessor teach/ those who are lost and sick at heart,/ when he himself, among the sinners,/ is worst, and… — Yevgeny Yevtushenko Copy Share Image
I would do musicals in high school where there was dancing, and I would sing my verse, and then they would choreograph… — Betty Gilpin Copy Share Image
The man who invented Eskimo Pie made a million dollars, so one is told, but E.E. Cummings, whose verse has been appearing… — John Dos Passos Copy Share Image
You have a lot to learn, young man. Philosophy. Theology. Literature. Poetry. Drama. History. Archeology. Anthropology. Mythology. Music. These are your tools… — John Logan Copy Share Image
It's different obviously with a song when you're talking about narrative, you're talking about the verse leading into the chorus or whatever… — Shura Copy Share Image
Perhaps the old monks were right when they tried to root love out; perhaps the poets are right when they try to… — Olive Schreiner Copy Share Image
You can publish a poem you think is a very important poem, and you don't hear a word from anyone. [...] You… — Lawrence Ferlinghetti Copy Share Image
“A writer is someone who spends years patiently trying to discover the second being inside him, and the world that makes him… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
(Verse 1) Hey good girl, With your head in the clouds, I bet you I can tell you what you're thinkin' about.… — Carrie Underwood Copy Share Image
The music that really moves me is music that's written by people where there isn't a lot of money and they're really… — Anton Yelchin Copy Share Image
If you can find two poems in a book, it could be a pretty good book for you. You know, two poems… — Ted Kooser Copy Share Image
“her nose was not handsome— it was pretty; neither straight nor curved, neither Italian nor Greek; it was the Parisian nose, that… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Oratory is the masterful art. Poetry, painting, music, sculpture, architecture please, thrill, inspire - but oratory rules. The orator dominates those who… — David Josiah Brewer Copy Share Image
“God, A Poem 'I didn't exist at Creation, I didn't exist at the Flood, And I won't be around for Salvation To… — James Fenton Copy Share Image
![“You can publish a poem you think is a very important poem, and you don't hear a word from anyone. [...] You can publish a book of poetry by dropping it off a cliff and waiting to hear an echo. Quite often, you'll never hear a thing. So doing that, using older work, puts it in a context, and that…” quote by Lawrence Ferlinghetti](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/5ad/lawrence-ferlinghetti-7689_book_you-can-publish-a-poem-you-think-is-a-ve_1235664.jpg)
