“Before John could even get through the first verse, who bursts through the door and jumps right into the fray, lips a'kissin'… — Alan Goldsher Copy Share Image
In seventh grade I had a magical teacher, her name was Mrs. Fried. She wore only pink, she drove a pink Mustang,… — Darren Aronofsky Copy Share Image
I was always interested in French poetry sort of as a sideline to my own work, I was translating contemporary French poets.… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
I don't know where the shape of a poem comes from. I certainly don't impose it. I write out of a jumble… — Michael Longley Copy Share Image
“Although I had intended to consider the impossibility of returning to those places we’ve come from—not because the places are gone or… — Natasha Trethewey Copy Share Image
“ALI He was butterfly and bee. In the ring, he floated and stung. In 1967, Muhammad Ali, born Cassius Clay, refused to… — Eduardo Galeano Copy Share Image
[Rhyme is] but the invention of a barbarous age, to set off wretched matter and lame Meter; ... Not without cause therefore… — John Milton Copy Share Image
I always was interested in prose. As a teenager, I published short stories. And I always wanted to write the long short… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
“The moose will perhaps one day become extinct; but how naturally then, when it exists only as a fossil relic, and unseen… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“He was rowed down from the north in a leather skiff manned by a crew of trolls. His fur cape was caked… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
Wasn't it his right to listen to opera, read poetry and adventure novels, go to Europe every couple of months for some… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
Theology is-- or should be-- a species of poetry,which read quickly or encountered in a hubbub of noise makes no sense. You… — Karen Armstrong Copy Share Image
“Love, is it morning risen or night deceased That makes the mirth of this triumphant east? Is it bliss given or bitterness… — Algernon Charles Swinburne Copy Share Image
“Then, since all great poets are strange in their speech and actions, he must have achieved great fame, for his actions and… — Robert E. Howard Copy Share Image
“Someone I loved once told me that there are fragments within us that are the same age as the universe, and because… — nikitta gill Copy Share Image
A song, you know, you've got a tempo. You know,you've got something that is moving swiftly. You can't stop it, you know?… — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
I think it's really hard to move between genres, and I think, especially in Britain, we're very judgmental about it - me… — Andrea Riseborough Copy Share Image
And New York is the most beautiful city in the world? It is not far from it. No urban night is like… — Ezra Pound Copy Share Image
“my mouth was shut for so long that my teeth decayed. you complained that my lips were always dry and chapped; you… — Mecca-Amirah Jackson Copy Share Image
I have always thought of poems as stepping stones in one's own sense of oneself. Every now and again, you write a… — Seamus Heaney Copy Share Image
“I’m here for the show” the man said looking under Frank’s shirt for the door “I’m no theater” Frank said a line… — CAConrad Copy Share Image
My dream right now is - and I don't know how to do it, and I don't know if it will work… — Eef Barzelay Copy Share Image
“They say: I love you. But in poetry, I say: In your soul, I see a moonrise in the dark nights of… — Jayita Bhattacharjee Copy Share Image
“...often referred to herself as a bitch. It was a way of insulting herself and asserting herself simultaneously. She acted like a… — Ruth Harris Copy Share Image
What did you expect? That he'd send you flowers and write you bad poetry? That dead Nemean prowler is pretty much as… — Jennifer Estep Copy Share Image
“For if it is rash to walk into a lion's den unarmed, rash to navigate the Atlantic in a rowing boat, rash… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“Good artists exist simply in what they make, and consequently are perfectly uninteresting in what they are. A great poet, a really… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“Consequently, to form the experience, the length of the line for a haiku thought must have the same length as the duration… — Kenneth Yasuda Copy Share Image
Even if I die my love for you will never say goodbye it might hurt the pain you feel the broken bones… — Jeremy Mark Limn Copy Share Image
... woman is frequently praised as the more "creative" sex. She does not need to make poems, it is argued; she has… — Cynthia Ozick Copy Share Image
She was sitting cross-legged on her bed in her white kimono, writing in a notebook with an ink pen she dipped in… — Janet Fitch Copy Share Image
So much of our lives depends on accidents of birth, time, and geography. This haunts me. In some lives, few "or"s are… — Jane Hirshfield Copy Share Image
The Romantic poets were the prototype ramblers, and I've often found myself following in their footsteps - although perhaps not all of… — Arthur Smith Copy Share Image
Words are what sticks to the real. We use them to push the real, to drag the real into the poem. They… — Jack Spicer Copy Share Image
[My poems] of course, it's symbolic, in the way that things in a poem can be - that is, pointing to something… — Matthew Zapruder Copy Share Image
The tadpole poet will never grow into anything bigger than a frog; not though in that stage of development he should puff… — Algernon Charles Swinburne Copy Share Image
“Diving into new spaces, meeting all sorts of faces. Depths of madness or souls of abounding love. Time isn't irreplaceable, so isn't… — honeste Copy Share Image
“Self-love isn’t always so poetic; sometimes it’s a nice big triple back flip kick in the ass. You’ve got to call yourself… — Steve Maraboli Copy Share Image
When the sun shouts and people abound One thinks there were the ages of stone and the age of bronze And the… — Robinson Jeffers Copy Share Image
“Love. Because of you, in gardens of blossoming Flowers I ache from the perfumes of spring. I have forgotten your face, I… — Pablo Neruda Copy Share Image
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