“Even in their reading, More charged, too many women were prone to superficiality. In search of a passing knowledge of books and… — Karen Swallow Prior Copy Share Image
“It was about how men walk into a forest afraid because they know all the things that can happen. They might wake… — Laura Anderson Kurk Copy Share Image
I think the poet is the last person who is still speaking the truth when no one else dares to. I think… — Diane di Prima Copy Share Image
When I rap, I get to express myself in a way where putting words together is like poetry, and sometimes it's better… — Wyclef Jean Copy Share Image
“This week in live current events: your eyes. All power can be dangerous: Direct or alternating, you, socket to me. Plugged in… — Daphne Gottlieb Copy Share Image
In America, where you'd have thought the country's so huge it couldn't happen quite so cosily, everyone's giving his imprimatur to everyone… — Michael Longley Copy Share Image
Have you ever noticed the way you always fall in love with the wrong people. When your chatting with friends and they… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I've always written poetry but I didn't realise it was a therapy for me until I was maybe 15. That's when my… — Amy Winehouse Copy Share Image
I was reading poetry to my girlfriends, and they were like, 'You're really good. You should go to some poetry readings or… — Jill Scott Copy Share Image
I do not see how a man can work on the frontiers of physics and write poetry at the same time. They… — Paul Dirac Copy Share Image
“One UniVerse for the Living While palaces attest to the power of men, And monuments mark their wars, Little remains of the… — Nancy Boutilier Copy Share Image
A poet is a painter in his way, he draws to the life, but in another kind; we draw the nobler part,… — Aphra Behn Copy Share Image
“ Magic Words " " Silly words cause trills because they're ludicrous and funny. Happy words paint endless smiles and swallow troubles… — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
“My anthology continues to sell & the critics get more & more angry. When I excluded Wilfred Owen, whom I consider unworthy… — W.B. Yeats Copy Share Image
Some of what we read in classical literature is not relative to our condition, but then many women novelists and poets have… — Margaret Drabble Copy Share Image
The viewer who sees only a study in the picture of the glass jug illuminated from behind fails to appreciate the masterly… — Alexander Rodchenko Copy Share Image
Jorge Luis Borges wrote a poem when he was in his 80s about one day writing the book that would justify him.… — Theodora Goss Copy Share Image
“If I were a poet, that’s what I’d write about. People who worked in the middle of the night. They knew how… — Janet Fitch Copy Share Image
It is a curious thing how poets tend to become ascetics… Even a debauch for them is a self-flagellation. They go on… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
“That life is simply a collection of little lives, each lived one day at a time. That each day should be spent… — Nicholas Sparks Copy Share Image
“As a poet there is something about joy I find hard to express, whereas every other emotion is rather simple. For instance,… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
I'm not sure about prizes. I don't know how far you can seriously raise public consciousness about poetry. Having a 'National Poetry… — John Fuller Copy Share Image
A poet is no rattlebrain, saying what comes uppermost, and, because he says every thing, saying, at last, something good; but a… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
As far as I was concerned, it was the absence of women in the poetic tradition which allowed women in the poems… — Eavan Boland Copy Share Image
“To have touched the feet of Christ is no excuse for mistakes in punctuation. If a man writes well only when he's… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
“Oh,' said a very white body as it threw a wrist watch to the ground which broke without attracting anyone's attention, 'Oh,… — Robert Desnos Copy Share Image
“You are not disposable. I know you feel that way when people choose to walk out of your life, but their emptiness… — Alfa H Copy Share Image
“Plenty of times I've seen writers, famous novelists and essayists, even poets, with names you'd recognize and whose work I admire, drift… — Richard Ford Copy Share Image
“Taylor sighed. Going head-to-head with Sharpay on a school assignment was really beneath her. But the more Taylor considered it, the more… — Alice Alfonsi Copy Share Image
He asked if he could recite a poem he had written that morning: 'You speak,' he said, 'the language of shooting stars,… — Amy Tan Copy Share Image
Some people can't go into church any longer to feel this longing, but they still have the longing, so what do they… — Robert Bly Copy Share Image
“The rhythm," said Goethe, "is an unconscious result of the poetic mood. If one should stop to consider it mechanically, when about… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
“George Washington was in love with one girl after another during his youth, but for some reason he was unsuccessful in all… — Sterling North Copy Share Image
“Don't say it doesn't make sense then tell me you feel your spine curve and chill humps rise all over your skin.… — Melody Lee Copy Share Image
You have to be always drunk. That's all there is to it-it's the only way. So as not to feel the horrible… — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
I wrote the poems in Charms Against Lightning one by one, over almost a decade, and I did not write them toward… — James Arthur Copy Share Image
In real life, having your poetry criticized by T.S. Eliot could cause you to doubt your poetic gifts. But imagining it in… — Maria Konnikova Copy Share Image
“ First Love I ne’er was struck before that hour With love so sudden and so sweet, Her face it bloomed like… — John Clare Copy Share Image
I like to write about things that are dark or twisted. Where the poetry seems to be is when you start in… — Joshua Homme Copy Share Image
“I believe that this example demonstrates how great science and great poetry are both visionary, and may even arrive at the same… — Carlo Rovelli Copy Share Image
