“The amateur has not mastered the technique of his art. Nor does he expose himself to judgment in the real world. If… — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
I've been thinking about it, and that poem, that guy that wrote it, he meant you're gold when you're a kid, like… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Special qualities are required of the essayist. A poem or a novel may spring from the inner consciousness of an author. Reasoning… — Flora Thompson Copy Share Image
I am destructive with brutal force, philosophical with the verse, magical with the voice, remain unfamiliar with loss, a champion in every… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“And God said: Let there be light, and there was light." Lena opened her eyes, feeling as if someone had been reading… — Gala.J Copy Share Image
In poetry you can express almost inexpressible feelings. You can express the pain of loss, you can express love. People always turn… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
We know the surrealist solution: concrete irrationality, objective risk. Poetry is the conquest, the only possible conquest, of the 'supreme position', 'a… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“I don't know if you're alive or dead. Can you on earth be sought, or only when the sunsets fade be mourned… — Anna Akhmatova Copy Share Image
“The half-brained creature to whom books are other than living things may see with the eyes of a bat and draw with… — Algernon Charles Swinburne Copy Share Image
“Poetry was a discipline grounded in experience that drew its life and worth from a source much greater than oneself, and as… — Kathleen Norris Copy Share Image
“If you had told me, though, when I was twenty-four that I would write about Skokie, Illinois, where I grew up, I… — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
To cook, and to do it well, every talent must be used; the strength of a prize-fighter, the imagination of a poet,… — Anne Ellis Copy Share Image
My dad was the baby. When he was born they were already successful. They sent him to business school - he probably… — Bob Balaban Copy Share Image
By virtue of this science the poet is the Namer, or Language-maker, naming things sometimes after their appearance, sometimes after their essence,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
When in public poetry should take off its clothes and wave to the nearest person in sight; it should be seen in… — Brian Patten Copy Share Image
I remember I was very taken with a book called DreamTigers by [Jorge Luis] Borges. He was at the University of Texas,… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
“STONE Let my heart turn to stone. Maybe then I can sleep without nightmares. May be then I can eat without a… — Lisa Schroeder Copy Share Image
“In two of your poems you called that central Passage of womanhood a wound, Instead of a curtain guarding a silken Trail… — Michele Wolf Copy Share Image
Anne Pitkin's poems have such lyrical sweep, such a sensitive eye for the natural world as it touches the human, that reading… — Rosellen Brown Copy Share Image
Therefore we value the poet. All the argument and all the wisdom is not in the encyclopedia, or the treatise on metaphysics,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“I will find you another long-forgotten Queen Mab poem in no time. Depend on it. I refuse to let Cody or anyone… — Martin Millar Copy Share Image
Nas' Illmatic blew my mind when I first heard it. The poetry was done on such a high level that in a… — Erik Parker Copy Share Image
The story of scientific discovery has its own epic unity-a unity of purpose and endeavour-the single torch passing from hand to hand… — Alfred Noyes Copy Share Image
I love to publish new writers, and we do so consistently. But a lot of contemporary American poets sound alike to me.… — Jonathan W. Galassi Copy Share Image
“I went down not long ago to the Mad River, under the willows I knelt and drank from that crumpled flow, call… — Mary Oliver Copy Share Image
Fishing books , lit by emotion recollected in tranquility, are like poetry. .. . We do not think of them as books… — Arthur Ransome Copy Share Image
You might learn as much about how to write by reading Shakespeare, Tolstoy, Wallace Stevens, Raymond Chandler, Saul Bellow, Paul Muldoon or… — David Denby Copy Share Image
“Basil my dear boy puts everything that is charming in him into his work. The consequence is that he has nothing left… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
How does a poet teach himself or herself? I think chiefly by imitation, chiefly by practising it as a deliberate technical exercise… — Derek Walcott Copy Share Image
“La Nebuleuse is a poem of lovely & deep perspective, where, symboloized by artless beings, are seen the successive generations of men… — Remy de Gourmont Copy Share Image
“ Happiness So early it's still almost dark out. I'm near the window with coffee, and the usual early morning stuff that… — Raymond Carver Copy Share Image
“WHAT am I, after all, but a child, pleas’d with the sound of my own name? repeating it over and over; I… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
“If you have a bright idea with such significance, don't pause but push, play and display that concept, it will be recognized… — Ency Bearis Copy Share Image
“He smiles. I sit a few feet away and watch as he unpacks the linen bag. “Torin packed this, not Rayna, so… — Veronica Rossi Copy Share Image
“Making it in poetry The young teller at the credit union asked why so many small checks from universities? Because I write… — Bob Hicok Copy Share Image
It seems an odd idea to my students that poetry, like all art, leads us away from itself, back to the world… — Helen Bevington Copy Share Image
“A Poem for a Trick Roses are red, Violets are blue Dumb ass nigguh I was never in love with U I… — Pamela M Johnson Copy Share Image
When I was learning to write I was surrounded by poets; Brian Blanchfield and Annie Guthrie were always with me as I… — Samantha Hunt Copy Share Image
It starts off like climbing a tree or solving a puzzle - poetry, if nothing else, is just fun to write. But… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
If you would shut your door against the children for an hour a day and say: 'Mother is working on her five-act… — Brenda Ueland Copy Share Image
![“Poetry was a discipline grounded in experience that drew its life and worth from a source much greater than oneself, and as it realized its potential to touch others in their innermost being, what [Kathleen] Fraser has termed their "yearning side," it could be a profoundly communal act. Poetry…” quote by Kathleen Norris](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/aee/kathleen-norris-7283_discipline_poetry-was-a-discipline-grounded-in-expe_449388.jpg)
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