I say sometimes that I'm a poet but I work in the novel form. That's what I do. That's what makes sense… — Douglas A. Martin Copy Share Image
A play's an interpretation. It is not a report. And that is the beginning of its poetry because, in order to interpret,… — Arthur Miller Copy Share Image
Just as the good actor perform well whatever role the poet assigns, so too must the good man perform whatever Fortune assigns.… — Bion of Borysthenes Copy Share Image
My father was a fun guy and a good poet and singer, had friends in the film industry and was so generous… — Arshad Warsi Copy Share Image
I was shy at school, but not at home. We had a boiler that had tiles around it, so if my sister… — Sarah Millican Copy Share Image
“I hit on something I believe when I wrote that I meant to be a Poet and a Poem. It may be… — A.S. Byatt Copy Share Image
“...Eugene Sue's The Mysteries of Paris, a brilliant reenvisioning of one's own city as an exotic locale. Sue, who was too poor… — Andrei Codrescu Copy Share Image
“[H]e initially conceived of Olivier as a man of the greatest promise destroyed by a fatal flaw, the unreasoning passion for a… — Iain Pears Copy Share Image
Every time we equip the church with a verse, chapter or a story from the Bible, we're really placing another weapon in… — Max Lucado Copy Share Image
“The Estate of Solemnity By right, it reigns in its places- in long beards Of spanish moss hanging from a live oak… — Pattiann Rogers Copy Share Image
The greatest thing a human soul ever does in this world is to see something and tell what it saw in a… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
“There was a poem, she said, by Beckett that he had written twice, once in French and once in English, as if… — Rachel Cusk Copy Share Image
How would you paint me? If you were a artist how would you paint me? With deep solid strokes or your brush… — Christy Ann Martine Copy Share Image
“Numb to the words you have left heavy on my skin. Dipped with malice and edged with regret, it's within these shadows… — A.Y. Greyson Copy Share Image
“all the pretty woman thought the poems i wrote on love were meant for them. and i always felt badly about having… — Orhan Veli Kanık Copy Share Image
“He's always had a nameless, unanchored longing; and when, at critical points in his life, a period of intense longing coincided with… — Josephine Humphreys Copy Share Image
“We don't read and write poetry because it's cute. We read and write poetry because we are members of the human race.… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
“I’ve reached the vanishing point without you. Here my heartache begins with your pain trying to find an unborn start in this… — Munia Khan Copy Share Image
There is a real formula to writing music, verse, chorus, verse, chorus, bridge. It's very formulaic. The subject matter that you can… — Edgar Winter Copy Share Image
“Insomnia & So On" Fat bed, lick the black cat in my mouth each morning. Unfasten all the bones that make a… — Malachi Black Copy Share Image
We fall into the old stuff of textuality, and almost everything becomes safe because nobody wants to talk about what is not… — Fady Joudah Copy Share Image
My earlier poems were sadder than my poems are today, perhaps because I wrote them in confusion or when I was unhappy.… — Anne Stevenson Copy Share Image
Poetry is probably the last gift economy. Part of the negotiation is to understand that you're going to do something you really… — Claudia Rankine Copy Share Image
If a thing can be said in ten words, I may be relied upon to take a hundred to say it. I… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
“She was sunshine on a rainy day, a rainbow against gray clouds, hope in a Catholic school uniform. She was why poetry… — S.L. Scott Copy Share Image
And some poets are far better read off the page because they're very bad speakers. I'm thinking of one in particular whom… — Norman MacCaig Copy Share Image
“ The House Was Quiet and the World Was Calm The house was quiet and the world was calm. The reader became… — Wallace Stevens Copy Share Image
“...As long as they let me just talk to the kids, about stuff like, I don't know, knife usage, field medicine for… — Terry Pratchett Stephen Baxter Copy Share Image
“This for That What will I have for breakfast? I wish I had some plums like the ones in Williams’s poem. He… — Ron Padgett Copy Share Image
“I Hear the sledges with the bells - Silver bells! What a world of merriment their melody foretells! How they tinkle, tinkle,… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
“Always the seer is a sayer. Somehow his dream is told; somehow he publishes it with solemn joy: sometimes with pencil on… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
London perpetually attracts, stimulates, gives me a play and a story and a poem, without any trouble, save that of moving my… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
The historian must be a poet; not to find, but to find again; not to breathe life into beings, into imaginary deeds,… — Philibert Joseph Roux Copy Share Image
"Work" does not exist in a nonliterate world. The primitive hunter or fisherman did no work, any more than does the poet,… — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
“The story of that first ascent to Leh from Manali is in this verse that I wrote after that terrible drive. To… — Rishad Saam Mehta Copy Share Image
The poet needs a ground in popular tradition on which he may work, and which, again, may restrain his art within the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I love the best of all the traditions. My discipline is the take-no-prisoners language of good poetry, but a language that actually… — David Whyte Copy Share Image
I'm primarily a poet, so I'd have to say in my case I'd investigate the mystery in poetry in a different way… — Pattiann Rogers Copy Share Image
“And I have some poetry that I would like to recite to you in honor of the recent, um, transformations in your… — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
“Sometimes when I open my Bible to read, a verse leaps off the page and I know God is speaking to me.… — Anne Graham Lotz Copy Share Image
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