The epic poet collaborates with the spirit of his time in the composition of his work. That is, if he is successful;… — Lascelles Abercrombie Copy Share Image
“It seems important to me that beginning writers ponder this—that since 1964, I have never had a book, story or poem rejected… — Joseph Hansen Copy Share Image
Though we do not have many poets, we certainly have more than we deserve, for we deserve none at all. It is… — Elizabeth Janeway Copy Share Image
Like speaks to like only; labor to labor, philosophy to philosophy, criticism to criticism, poetry to poetry. Literature speaks how much still… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“Imaginatively she is of the highest importance; practically she is completely insignificant. She pervades poetry from cover to cover; she is all… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
I try to, at least once or twice a week, have someone over and model, usually a dancer friend or a poet… — Eric Drooker Copy Share Image
“Meditation is when you sit down, let's say that, and don't do anything. Poetry is when you get up and do something.… — Norman Fischer Copy Share Image
“Practical advice.—People who read much must always keep it in mind that life is one thing, literature another. Not that authors invariably… — Lev Shestov Copy Share Image
“I dreamt of you last night, vivid and consuming and gone as I woke up faded from memory before I had the… — Abby Rosmarin Copy Share Image
“The healing power of art is not a rhetorical fantasy. Fighting to keep language, language became my sanity and my strength. It… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
“A ring-whorled prow rode in the harbour, ice-clad, outbound, a craft for a prince. They stretched their beloved lord in his boat,… — Seamus Heaney Copy Share Image
I can't imagine ever writing anything of any kind on a machine. I never tried to write either poetry or prose on… — W. S. Merwin Copy Share Image
I began writing and became attached to writing at an early age. I began by writing poetry and experimenting with dialogues: modest… — Hassan Blasim Copy Share Image
I think of my poems as personal and public at the same time. You could say they serve as psychological overlays. One… — Yusef Komunyakaa Copy Share Image
“If he's a poet, why's he in jail?" demanded a suspicious voice. Madam Chairwoman shrugged velvet shoulders. "Perhaps he writes free verse,"… — Margery Sharp Copy Share Image
There is another old poet whose name I do not now remember who said Truth is the daughter of Time. [Lat., Alius… — Aulus Gellius Copy Share Image
Everybody is writing, writing, writing - worst of all, writing poetry. It'd be better if the whole tribe of the scribblers -… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
“When I think of it as happening to somebody else, it seems that the idea of me soaked to the skin, surrounded… — Sōseki Natsume Copy Share Image
Still, no one finally knows what a poet is supposed either to be or to do. Especially in this country, one takes… — Robert Creeley Copy Share Image
One of the things women poets have been engaged in - among the other things they've been doing - is revising parts… — Eavan Boland Copy Share Image
“So the first thing about the history of rhyme . . . is that it’s all happened before. It’s all part of… — Nicholson Baker Copy Share Image
People want poetry and need it - we need what's not honored by the corporate mentality that has taken over. It gives… — Joan Larkin Copy Share Image
“One weekend it rained for 48 hours without stopping. The rain beat like bony fingers against the window panes. Tap. Tap. Tap.… — Alice Jamieson Copy Share Image
“The world is too much with us; late and soon, Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers; Little we see in… — William Wordsworth Copy Share Image
“Some thirty inches from my nose The frontier of my Person goes, And all the untilled air between Is private pagus or… — W.H. Auden Copy Share Image
“dan brown\The televangelist began quoting verses from the Bible describing hierarchy of angels, demons, and spirits that ruled in heaven and hell.… — Dan Brown Copy Share Image
“She adored fairy tales, yet derived great reward rewriting them to the melody of her own warrior soul. Her fairytales weren’t made… — Melody Lee Copy Share Image
We got quiet. The garden was combing her hair and putting on earrings. The house was full of dancing creatures, not male… — Francesca Lia Block Copy Share Image
“Old McDonald had a restaurant, E, I, E, I, O, And in that restaurant was some beef, E, I, E, I, O,… — Harry Whitewolf Copy Share Image
“one day, when tenderness has become the single rule of the morning,/ I will wake in your arms. perhaps your skin will… — José Luís Peixoto Copy Share Image
“When he asks you why you chose alone all these years. Tell him that it’s because you love with all claws and… — Danabelle Gutierrez Copy Share Image
“The English were fascinated with the Italian people and their amazing Epicurean culture. Italian poetry, painting, pornography, music, drama, fashion, wine, women,… — Mark Lamonica Copy Share Image
Poetry is simply literature reduced to the essence of its active principle. It is purged of idols of every kind, of realistic… — Paul Valery Copy Share Image
A poet needs to keep his wilderness alive inside him. To remain a poet after forty requires an awareness of your darkest… — Stanley Kunitz Copy Share Image
One can say that the disaffection is still a lingering naiveté about, not the place of poetry in the world, but -… — Fady Joudah Copy Share Image
“Borderline means you’re one of those girls… …who walk around wearing long sleeves in the summer because you’ve carved up your forearms… — Stacy Pershall Copy Share Image
I think there was a revolution in poetry, associated chiefly with Eliot and Pound; but maybe it is of the nature of… — Howard Nemerov Copy Share Image
“There was a distinct class of these gentlemen tramps, young men no longer young, who wouldn't settle down, who disliked polite society… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
I think it's often assumed that the role of poetry is to comfort, but for me, poetry is the great unsettler. It… — Alice Oswald Copy Share Image
“PLEASE TELL ME YOU KNOW OF SYLVIA PLATH Conventions bleed my soul squeeze me old wear me grey like a headstone in… — Chila Woychik Copy Share Image
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