this is thy hour o soul, thy free flight into the wordless, away from books, away from art, the day erased, the… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
On sighting mathematicians poetry should unhook the algebra from their minds and replace it with poetry; on sighting poets it should unhook… — Brian Patten Copy Share Image
Paradoxically, the simpler poetry is, the more difficult it becomes for a critic to discuss intelligently. Trained to explicate, the critic often… — Dana Gioia Copy Share Image
'Dead Poets Society' was a very influential film on me and so talking about that movie with him, he just inspired me… — Dante Basco Copy Share Image
Everyone sort of sees his own life and times as being ephemeral. One thinks that everything good or important that happened, happened… — Vikram Seth Copy Share Image
“You have to believe that your voice can mean something. You have to believe that what you do matters. And you have… — Charlotte Eriksson Copy Share Image
He felt himself in suspension between the two worlds, the warm, neat civilization behind his back, the cool, dark mystery outside. We… — John Fowles Copy Share Image
The kind of poetry that interests me is intellectual and moral and political and sexual and sensual - all of that fermenting… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
“Jonathan Swift (November 30, 1667 – October 19, 1745) was an Irish cleric, satirist, essayist, political pamphleteer (first for Whigs then for… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
You have to keep the promise that you have made! Even if the world stops you. You have to come! My longing,… — Glen Rambharack Copy Share Image
There's always been what I would call the William Carlos Williams strain, in which poems of simplicity and clarity are valued by… — Ted Kooser Copy Share Image
“For more than half a century I have tried to confront greatness directly, hardly a fashionable stance, but I see no other… — Harold Bloom Copy Share Image
It is a tremendous honor to be named poet laureate, but one that I find humbling as well, because it's the kind… — Natasha Trethewey Copy Share Image
“i hugged myself as a child & told Myself that everything was perfect in the petrichor The smell of pure innocence &… — Jay Sheets Copy Share Image
Let us first say what photography is not. A photograph is not a painting, a poem, a symphony, a dance. It is… — Berenice Abbott Copy Share Image
Once you do a piece on the stage, you become that poem or you become that piece. That's really who you are.… — Clinton D. Powell Copy Share Image
For better or worse, I tend to do a lot of thinking in my poems. But lately I've been trying to pay… — Jennifer Grotz Copy Share Image
Even the best critical writing on Emily Dickinson underestimates her. She is frightening. To come to her directly from Dante, Spenser, Blake,… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
Poetry is poetry. My process is I try to write the best poem I can, in the best way to communicate whatever… — Bao Phi Copy Share Image
On July 26, 1916, I announced to all my friends in America that from now on I resolved to write no more… — Hu Shih Copy Share Image
My favourite room in my house is easily the top room, which is a bedroom but also a bathroom, with a big,… — Deborah Moggach Copy Share Image
Girl with the burning golden eyes, And red-bird song, and snowy throat: I bring you gold and silver moons, And diamond stars,… — Grace Noll Crowell Copy Share Image
I wrote poetry in middle school and high school and even through college. It was bad. I just don't think I'm very… — Jesmyn Ward Copy Share Image
“She bleeds poetry. She is an old soul. She has already existed since the day the Earth gave birth to nature. She… — Verliza Gajeles Copy Share Image
“Cut lose your ties with expectation. Your dreams are charlatans, your memories, stalemating quarks. Listen only to the pull of your atoms… — Virginia Petrucci Copy Share Image
“Poetry is like truth: on one level it simply is, and as such it is available to anyone. Anyone, that is, who… — Philip Levine Copy Share Image
I suppose every one must have reflected how primeval and how poetical are the things that one carries in one's pocket; the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
You have killed my love. You used to stir my imagination. Now you don't even stir my curiosity. You simply produce no… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“Ô, the wine of a woman from heaven is sent, more perfect than all that a man can invent. When she came… — Roman Payne Copy Share Image
It is one thing to write as poet and another to write as a historian: the poet can recount or sing about… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“breath, life after seven decades plus three years is a lot of breathing. seventy three years on this earth is a lot… — Haki R. Madhubuti Copy Share Image
“It may well be on such a night of clouds and cruel colors that there is brought forth upon the earth such… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Poetry is a river; many voices travel in it; poem after poem moves along in the exciting crests and falls of the… — Mary Oliver Copy Share Image
I say that democracy can never prove itself beyond cavil, until it founds and luxuriantly grows its own forms of art, poems,… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
“I felt the threads of connection between us—fragile filaments, so easily snapped. Like the poem at shift into his side, we were… — Tammara Webber Copy Share Image
I know my curiosity as a writer and as a person makes me really interested in moving to parts of the country… — Tracy K. Smith Copy Share Image
“And blessed be the first sweet suffering that I felt in being conjoined with love and the bow and the shafts with… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
“Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting: The Soul that rises with us, our life's Star, Hath had elsewhere its… — William Wordsworth Copy Share Image
“right now, I am a rough draft; I am here to be revisited and revised. hard as I try, I am not… — Caroline Kaufman Copy Share Image
“We strove for a name, while the light of the lamps burnt thin and the outer dawn came in, a ghost, the… — Hilda Doolittle Copy Share Image
