I write... sonnets... and writing sonnets is boring. You have to find rhymes; you have to write hendecasyllables; so after a while,… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
For me, the power of the poetry in 'Milk and Honey' is the feeling you get after finished reading the poem. It's… — Rupi Kaur Copy Share Image
Never the less, at the age of fifteen, having never seen a writer, a poet, a publisher or a magazine editor, and… — Robert E. Howard Copy Share Image
“A poet, any real poet, is simply an alchemist who transmutes his cynicism regarding human beings into an optimism regarding the moon,… — George Jean Nathan Copy Share Image
Often I find that poems predict what I'm going to do later in my own writing, and often I find that poems… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
There's something immediate about the experience of reading a poem. It makes sense in my own mind, but I'm trying to figure… — Kevin Powers Copy Share Image
“If you're a poet, you do something beautiful. I mean you're supposed to leave something beautiful after you get off the page… — J.D. Salinger Copy Share Image
“A few Muslims dissent on this view, and the Ahmadi jamaat is among them. These Muslims argue that if any part of… — Nabeel Qureshi Copy Share Image
A writer who has never explored words, who has never searched, seeded, sieved, sifted through his knowledge and memory...dictiona ries, thesaurus, poems,… — Rumer Godden Copy Share Image
After writing quite a few songs now, I have not a method but a way of being patient with a couple of… — Rory Gallagher Copy Share Image
I think that at a certain age, say fifteen or sixteen, poetry is like masturbation. But later in life good poets burn… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
To design is much more than simply to assemble, to order, or even to edit: it is to add value and meaning,… — Paul Rand Copy Share Image
I drank some coffee and my outlook improved immensely. I was ready to write some poems and, I don’t know, get drunk,… — Michelle Tea Copy Share Image
I never thought I'd be doing poetry books. I never really studied poetry. But the first one I did was after my… — Caroline Kennedy Copy Share Image
And at some point I would like to talk my publisher into doing an anthology of my poetry alongside some teen readers'… — Ellen Hopkins Copy Share Image
Natural, hell! What was it Chaucer Said once about the long toil that goes like blood to the poems making? Leave it… — R. S. Thomas Copy Share Image
It is clear that a poem may be improperly brief. Undue brevity degenerates into mere epigrammatism. A very short poem, while now… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
Part of what we love about poetry is the fact that it seems ancient, that it has an authority of ancient language… — Robert Morgan Copy Share Image
Rem tene, verba sequentur: grasp the subject, and the words will follow. This, I believe, is the opposite of what happens with… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
We all have known good critics, who have stamped out poet's hopes; Good statesmen, who pulled ruin on the state; Good patriots,… — Elizabeth Barrett Browning Copy Share Image
That the mere matter of a poem, for instance--its subject, its given incidents or situation; that the mere matter of a picture--the… — Walter Pater Copy Share Image
“I do not pretend, of course, that I have never done it; mere politeness forces one to it; there are women who… — H.L. Mencken Copy Share Image
One of the effects of modern liberal Protestantism has been gradually to turn religion into poetry and therapy, to make truth vaguer… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
Thanksgiving is the holiday of peace, the celebration of work and the simple life...a true folk-festival that speaks the poetry of the… — Ray Stannard Baker Copy Share Image
The difference between a poet and a philosopher is that the poet sees logically and describes basically the beauty whereas the philosopher… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
All the poets are indebted more or less to those who have gone before them; even Homer's originality has been questioned, and… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Poetic language is singularly appropriate for recounting the life of the king who is traditionally accepted as the author of the poetic… — Robert Pinsky Copy Share Image
You have to learn a few things, which you do along the way, but basically, poetry is a matter of the ear.… — Vikram Seth Copy Share Image
“I have to get them out. It’s the only way I know how to do it. Ever since I was a little… — Greg F. Gifune Copy Share Image
To a Young Poet Time cannot break the bird's wing from the bird. Bird and wing together Go down, one feather. No… — Edna St. Vincent Millay Copy Share Image
I'm no longer religious, but the Bible fascinates me. Hardly anyone reads it anymore, but it's got everything: it's a book of… — Tara Westover Copy Share Image
“Time has transfigured them into Untruth. The stone fidelity They hardly meant has come to be Their final blazon, and to prove… — Philip Larkin Copy Share Image
But most love poetry is awful; nobody knows how to write good love poetry either. But that's not a reason not to… — W. S. Merwin Copy Share Image
Since I have known God in a saving manner, painting, poetry, and music have had charms unknown to me before. I have… — Henry Martyn Copy Share Image
The more we know about this universe, the more mysterious it is. The old world that Job knew was marvelous enough, and… — Harry Emerson Fosdick Copy Share Image
“Once I discovered Robin Hood and the medieval poem “Sir Gawain and the Green Knight,” I realized that I felt a very… — Virginia Chandler Copy Share Image
I don't think that I ever believed that poetry would be a career. I have always thought of poems as something more… — Dana Goodyear Copy Share Image
S. E. Smith's I Live in a Hut has a deceptively simple title, considering that the brain in that hut contains galaxies-worth… — Matthea Harvey Copy Share Image
“The towns and the players are all different. But the game is always the same, its speed and power. Hockey’s grace and… — Richard Wagamese Copy Share Image
If I could catch a rainbow, I would do it just for you. And share with you its beauty, on the days… — The Forgotten Copy Share Image
