I once got a postcard from a French poet who wrote - "you don't know me but I'm always very grumpy when… — Michael Graves Copy Share Image
Rich meanings of the prophet-Spring adorn, Unseen, this colourless sky of folded showers, And folded winds; no blossom in the bowers; A… — Alice Meynell Copy Share Image
I have indeed lived and worked to my taste either in art or science. What more could a man desire? Knowledge has… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“At times poetry is the vertigo of bodies and the vertigo of speech and the vertigo of death; the walk with eyes… — Octavio Paz Copy Share Image
“Nothing higher can be accomplished by the epic poet thus interpreting his own time in order to serve the future. (Foreword by… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
You know, there's an economy in lyric-writing that doesn't afford you, or at least me - I usually start off with nine… — J Tillman Copy Share Image
“That night I didn’t say anything. I just watched you leave and in the end, I just stayed sleeping awake. Somewhere between… — robert m drake Copy Share Image
If you are in passionate love and want to celebrate your passion, read poetry. If your ardor has calmed and you want… — Jonathan Haidt Copy Share Image
A play is basically a long, formalistic polemic. You can write it without the poetry, and if you do, you may have… — David Mamet Copy Share Image
A poet is wounded into speech, and he examines these wounds, meticulously, to discover how to heal them. The bad poet harangues… — Samuel R. Delany Copy Share Image
Living here on Earth, we breathe the rhythms of a universe that extends infinitely above us. When resonant harmonies arise between this… — Daisaku Ikeda Copy Share Image
For a lot of people, well-meaning teaching has made poetry seem arcane, difficult, a kind of brown-knotting medicine that might be good… — Robert Pinsky Copy Share Image
Sometimes people come up and they get infatuated with some little brief imagistic poem or something, and they say, "Oh, I really… — Sam Hamill Copy Share Image
“I also remembered Buddy Willard saying in a sinister, knowing way that after I had children I would feel differently, I wouldn't… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
I think Ginsberg has done more harm to the craft that I honor and live by than anybody else by reducing it… — James Dickey Copy Share Image
“... the poetic moment is a static one. It's watching through a window while the action happens elsewhere. And then the poet… — Helen Humphreys Copy Share Image
“I am not a finished poem, and I am not the song you’ve turned me into. I am a detached human being,… — Charlotte Eriksson Copy Share Image
“So for now, I will miss you like I’ll never see you again, And the next time I see you, I will… — Charlotte Eriksson Copy Share Image
“I would clarify regarding these verses as God mentioned in some Swras. In Swra of Al-Nisaa verse 15 says { And those… — Kamaran Ihsan Salih Copy Share Image
Many poets are not poets for the same reason that many religious men are not saints: they never succeed in being themselves.… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
“Someone asked them a question about their poetry, and whether it was hard having to relive their words each time they performed.… — Colleen Hoover Copy Share Image
When you begin to write poems because you love language, because you love poetry. Something happens that makes you write poems. And… — C. K. Williams Copy Share Image
All I knew about Ethiopia was from a few records that I like, as well as what I read about the famine.… — Flea Copy Share Image
When things are going well, you do have the sense that what you’re writing is being fed to you in some way.… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
I do think digital media encourages speed-reading, which can be fine if one is simply seeking information. But a serious novel or… — Michael Dirda Copy Share Image
He was weary of himself, of cold ideas and brain dreams. Life a poem? Not when you went about forever poetizing about… — Jens Peter Jacobsen Copy Share Image
“My name used to be in the papers daily As having dined somewhere, Or traveled somewhere, Or rented a house in Paris,… — Edgar Lee Masters Copy Share Image
Sometimes, when I am tired of so many oscillations, I look for refuge in a word which I begin to love for… — Gaston Bachelard Copy Share Image
Khairani Barokka is a writer, spoken-word poet, visual artist and performer whose work has a strong vein of activism, particularly around disability,… — Deborah Smith Copy Share Image
“Constantly risking absurdity and death whenever he performs above the heads of his audience the poet like an acrobat climbs on rime… — Lawrence Ferlinghetti Copy Share Image
“My town of clouds and river Of terrifying minds and young dreams Streets with some people Good people smiling Train tracks of… — Abhijit Sarmah Copy Share Image
T.S. Eliot was one of the first poets introduced to me when I started studying literature and has felt like a close… — Penelope Mitchell Copy Share Image
“Heart; I named my lass sweetly; She danced to the mundane tunes of daftness; By nature she was midsummer madness; Or rather… — Ranjani Ramachandran Copy Share Image
I know some people might think it odd - unworthy even - for me to have written a cookbook, but I make… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
I think all writing is about writing. All writing is a way of going out and exploring the world, of examining the… — Nick Laird Copy Share Image
The great thing about living until you get a bit older if you are a writer, and especially a poet, is that… — Clive James Copy Share Image
“The first type of man is a follower. He does not have the courage or will to think for himself. The second… — Therone Shellman Copy Share Image
“Time Out To Cry © All alone at the end of the day The time, just a little past ten Evening has… — Shannen Wrass Copy Share Image
Looking back, fire images have been constant in my poetry. As a boy, it was my job to light the fire each… — Tony Harrison Copy Share Image
A poet or philosopher should have no fault to find with his age if it only permits him to do his work… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
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