“Nobody reads poetry, we are told at every inopportune moment. I read poetry. I am somebody. I am the people, too. It… — C.D. Wright Copy Share Image
The word 'mundane' has come to mean 'boring' and 'dull', and it really shouldn't - it should mean the opposite. Because it… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
The true spirit of delight, the exaltation, the sense of being more than Man, which is the touchstone of the highest excellence,… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
I always feel vulnerable talking about the poetry aspect of my career because it's little diary entries that I need to sometimes… — Masiela Lusha Copy Share Image
Your friend's poetry is terrible," he said. Clary blinked, caught momentarily off guard. "What?" "I said his poetry was terrible. It sounds… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
I think the occupation of my poetry is akin to this desire to be many things at once - things that sometimes… — Dawn Lundy Martin Copy Share Image
“My relationship stays strong because I serenade her with my actions and I write poetry in her heart with my deeds. My… — Steve Maraboli Copy Share Image
It is not possible, for a poet, writing in any language, to protect himself from the tragic elements in human life… [ellipsis… — Louise Bogan Copy Share Image
“from 'Incident Light Poem' And all surprisingly without outrage without gunshot without a call of timber with/out bleak rows to fall: Light… — Andrea Strudensky Copy Share Image
I use three main tools in writing: instinct, hard work and dumb luck. Dumb luck is missing a train and, while you… — David Massengill Copy Share Image
English literature, from the days of the minstrels to the Lake Poets,--Chaucer and Spenser and Milton, and even Shakespeare, included,--breathes no quite… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Poets say science takes away from the beauty of stars-mere globs of gas atoms. Nothing is "mere". I too see the stars… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
There have always been great defenses of poetry, and I've tried to write mine, and I think all of my work and… — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
“Like as the waves make towards the pebbled shore, So do our minutes hasten to their end; Each changing place with that… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
“Once upon a time, there was a man named Jack Gilbert, who was not related to me—unfortunately for me. Jack Gilbert was… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
“Oh, lady bright! can it be right- The window open to the night? The wanton airs, from the tree-top, Laughingly through the… — Edgar Allen Poe Copy Share Image
The closer you get to death, the more alive you feel. Dylan Thomas wrote, Do not go gentle into that good night.… — Christopher Titus Copy Share Image
There are real facts in my poems, but facts mixed up in the perverse stubborn stew of imagination, add a pinch or… — Philip Schultz Copy Share Image
You know what I do? I listen to other people, stumbling about with their half thoughts and half sentences and their clumsy… — Samuel R. Delany Copy Share Image
Some of my pictures are poem-like in the sense that they are very condensed, haiku-lik. There are others that, if they were… — Sally Mann Copy Share Image
Re-examine all you have been told at school or church or in any book, dismiss whatever insults your own soul; and your… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
“Restraint: “There are three things that must always act restrained. Even five that should not use violence as their final word: The… — D.J. Kenny Copy Share Image
I thought poetry could change everything, could change history and could humanize, and I think that the illusion is very necessary to… — Mahmoud Darwish Copy Share Image
“As for all your latest Mayan discoveries and poems, I want to hear every word of it if you want to transmit… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
I have tried to remember throughout that poetry is made by flesh-and-blood human beings. It is a bloody art. It lives on… — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
“And sincerely we're seeing When 'sinternally' seeking In a manner of speaking There, in the eve of Eden Wreaked a sea that… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
Now, I do say, "It's possible. You might be the first. I'm not saying it's impossible, but the odds are very much… — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
Every poet has a certain amount of "stuff." That's what you draw from for imagery. The more stuff you know well, not… — Marge Piercy Copy Share Image
As a poet and writer, I deeply love and I deeply hate words. I love the infinite evidence and change and requirements… — June Jordan Copy Share Image
“What could my mother be to yours? What kin is my father to yours anyway? And how did you and I meet… — Vikram Chandra Copy Share Image
This book is not about heroes. English poetry is not yet fit to speak of them. Nor is it about deeds, or… — Wilfred Owen Copy Share Image
Against my better judgment I feel certain that somewhere very near here—the first house down the road, maybe—there's a good poet dying,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Do not fear to put novels into the hands of young people as an occasional holiday experiment, but above all, good poetry… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“I don't have a poetry section in the bookshop. (Don't have but should have, I have begun to think. The poetry, like… — Claudia Fitzherbert Copy Share Image
All of our lives are enriched by our culture, from blockbuster films, best-selling video games, independent music, and internationally-renowned museums and art… — Luciana Berger Copy Share Image
“When I get kind of low, I’d think about a verse I learned at one time, when everybody was fighting me. It… — Studs Terkel Copy Share Image
“ The Layers I have walked through many lives, some of them my own, and I am not who I was, though… — Stanley Kunitz Copy Share Image
“She thought men were saviors... ...And she looked for more in them than what they were... Only to rescue herself from those… — Merrit Malloy Copy Share Image
Often I'm struck by something that I read; then I go and research it a little more, especially if I begin a… — Pattiann Rogers Copy Share Image
I don't think you get to good writing unless you expose yourself and your feelings. Deep songs don't come from the surface;… — Judy Collins Copy Share Image
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