“There is a pleasure in the pathless woods, There is a rapture on the lonely shore, There is society, where none intrudes,… — Lord Byron Copy Share Image
When I'm actually writing by hand, I get more of a sense of the rhythm of sentences, of syntax. The switch to… — Natasha Trethewey Copy Share Image
Listeners are kind of ambushed... if a poem just happens to be said when they're listening to the radio. The listener doesn't… — Billy Collins Copy Share Image
I listen to music as if it's spoken-word poetry. I'm a lyric-driven songwriter, so it's been a learning process to focus on… — Olivia Rodrigo Copy Share Image
When you recite you're giving a performance, in the way that an actor or a singer performs, and some poets are not… — James Arthur Copy Share Image
“Every given commodity fights for itself, cannot acknowledge the others, and attempts to impose itself everywhere as if it were the only… — Guy Debord Copy Share Image
The craftless anarchy of the Beat poets on the one hand, and the extreme control of Henry James on the other, suggest… — Mark Helprin Copy Share Image
“Does God know the number of kisses before we fall in love? Yesterday, I was nobody and I believed myself important. Today,… — Kamand Kojouri Copy Share Image
“Do you know who W.H. Auden was, Mr. Iscariot? W.H. Auden was a poet who once said, “God may reduce you on… — Stephen Adly Guirgis Copy Share Image
“She wraps her arms around me and speaks in my ear. Words just for me--the poetry of I love you --to keep… — Ally Condie Copy Share Image
“You know I understand how you feel… the loneliness that sets in…how empty your heart aches wishing you had someone near…to hold...… — N2 Copy Share Image
“I primarily use poetry as a purge, a self-medication device when I’m in the depths of loneliness, anxiety or in the throes… — Nicholas Trandahl Copy Share Image
A poem begins with a lump in the throat; a homesickness or a love sickness. It is a reaching-out toward expression; an… — Robert Frost Copy Share Image
I've had the good fortune to read a lot of great American writers in translation, and my absolute beloved, for me one… — Wislawa Szymborska Copy Share Image
Jean Valentine and Jane Cooper were my professors at Sarah Lawrence College - and they were uncompromised in their art. They gave… — Denise Duhamel Copy Share Image
Not having finished high school and having been fairly utilitarian in the way I went about college, I didn't have a deep… — Joy Covey Copy Share Image
“the many hours Amy and I spent there, she sitting on the bank reading from a book of poems or some dreary… — L.A. Meyer Copy Share Image
“Silly little monster” all would say. They’d scratch its head and turn away until it snatched their tiny noses. They couldn’t even… — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
I have a new method of poetry. All you got to do is look over your notebooks... or lay down on a… — Allen Ginsberg Copy Share Image
The main problem with writing in verse is, if your fourth line doesn't come out right, you've got to throw four lines… — Dr. Seuss Copy Share Image
If I'm not writing a poem to decompress from my experiences on a movie set, I usually just cook and it's like… — Masiela Lusha Copy Share Image
The new king [Alexander the Great] should perform acts so important and glorious as would make the poets and musicians of future… — Plutarch Copy Share Image
Men who had poetry in their soul come silently into the world and live quietly down the years, and yet when they… — Carlos Bulosan Copy Share Image
“the train plunges on through the pitch-black night I never knew I liked the night pitch-black sparks fly from the engine I… — Nazim Hikmet Copy Share Image
“For the various spiritual forms of the imagination have a natural affinity with certain sensuous forms of art - and to discern… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Poetry examines an emotional truth. It's an experience filtered through the personality of the poet. We look to poetry for visions, not… — Diane Glancy Copy Share Image
Definitely, some of the artistry and poetry has been lost in modern chess. It's very rare that I play a game where… — Hikaru Nakamura Copy Share Image
The world is always somewhat vicious. I take that as a given, but at various times in various circumstances that fact will… — Stephen Dunn Copy Share Image
When I was a little girl, I did not listen to music much. I did not think that one day I would… — Sonita Alizadeh Copy Share Image
“But nothing of all that the peoples of Europe have produced is worth the first known poem to have appeared among them.… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
It occurred to me that I would like to be a poet. The chief qualification, I understand is that you must be… — Hector Hugh Munro Copy Share Image
“Welcome young poet, in here you are free to follow your star to where you should be. That door of the library… — Bernard Kops Copy Share Image
“Creativeness is not merely a matter of painting pictures or writing poems, which is good to do, but which is very little… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
“As I was a stranger in Olondria, I knew nothing of the splendour of its coasts, nor of Bain, the Harbour City,… — Sofia Samatar Copy Share Image
When younger writers and poets, musicians and painters are weakened by a stemming of funds, they come to me saddened, not as… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
The years rolled their brutal course down the hill of time. Still poor, my clothes still smelling of the horse barn, still… — Paul Engle Copy Share Image
Slowly I would get to pen and paper, Make my poems for others unseen and unborn. In the day I would be… — Muriel Rukeyser Copy Share Image
“There are three lessons I would write- Three words, as with a burning pen, In tracings of eternal light, Upon the heart… — Friedrich Von Schiller Copy Share Image
“At the round earth's imagined corners blow Your trumpets, angels, and arise, arise From death, you numberless infinities Of souls, and to… — John Donne Copy Share Image
Another power I don't have," said Lissa ruefully. I grinned. "Hey, I have yet to meet any spirit user who can throw… — Richelle Mead Copy Share Image
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