“This creative tension between wonderful and terrible is named so well by Gerard Manley Hopkins, as only poets can. Even the long… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
“Certainly not! I didn't build a machine to solve ridiculous crossword puzzles! That's hack work, not Great Art! Just give it a… — Stanisław Lem Copy Share Image
I don’t think ‘science fiction’ is a very good name for it, but it’s the name that we’ve got. It is different… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
For a while he'd tried molding himself into the tragic Romantic hero, brooding and staring clench-jawed off into space as he composed… — Christopher Moore Copy Share Image
It is certainly true that writers take a stance at some variance from organized religion. This has not always been true. But… — Eavan Boland Copy Share Image
In the beginning was the myth . God , in his search for self -expression, invested the souls of Hindus , Greeks… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
You only had widespread literacy and books that people could afford in the middle of the 19th century. Did more people read… — Robert Hass Copy Share Image
“If anyone comes to the gates of poetry and expects to become an adequate poet by acquiring expert knowledge of the subject… — Plato Copy Share Image
“History is a cookbook. The tyrants are chefs. The philosophers write menus. The priests are waiters. The military men are bouncers. The… — Charles Simic Copy Share Image
If I begin writing a poem that means I'm intrigued in some way by whatever it's about and that if I'm not… — Rita Dove Copy Share Image
In Advance of All Parting is a tough, unsentimental examination of marital grief. Musically elegant and inventive, understated and passionate, the poems… — Chase Twichell Copy Share Image
“I searched modern fiction and poetry for clues to how we confronted and evaded reality, how we articulated our experience and turned… — Azar Nafisi Copy Share Image
“Dreams that last hold secrets from the past. Out of reach. Impossible to breach. Fragile to clutch. Fleeting to touch. Like stars… — JoDee Neathery Copy Share Image
When you begin to read a poem you are entering a foreign country whose laws and language and life are a kind… — Randall Jarrell Copy Share Image
I read the other day some verses written by an eminent painter which were original and not conventional. The soul always hears… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“her choice to be, not only a poet but a woman who explored her own mind, without any of the guidelines of… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
I'm the happy one who writes dark poems. I'm the hyper, crazy one who breaks down at night. I'm the one who… — Leila Copy Share Image
And I knew in my bones that Emily Dickinson wouldn't have written even one poem if she'd had two howling babies, a… — Jennifer Donnelly Copy Share Image
No longer do we accept the 'sublimation model' according to which 'the function of art is to sublimate or transform experience, raising… — Rosalind E. Krauss Copy Share Image
“There's a better way. There has to be education, and the education has to come from the poets and musicians, because it… — Robert Hunter Copy Share Image
Walt Whitman's poem, This Is What You Shall Do is another one that helps me burn bgithrer This is what you shall… — Adam Copy Share Image
In England, we'd leave school at 15 and go on to a college, and I went to further education in a town… — Donovan Copy Share Image
“When someone tries to put you back into a box from which you’ve already escaped, you might recall a line from the… — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
I am attracted to ellipsis, to the unsaid, to suggestion, to eloquent, deliberate silence. The unsaid, for me, exerts great power: often… — Louise Glück Copy Share Image
Through my former experiences, writing poetry and learning other languages leading up to English I find ways to stitch words together that… — Masiela Lusha Copy Share Image
“I’m charming and handsome. They take my pen. I buy the poem from the garden of bees for one euro. A touch… — Matthew Rohrer Copy Share Image
“The kind of poem I produced in those days was hardly anything more than a sign I made of being alive, of… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
“Let not my love be called idolatry, Nor my beloved as an idol show, Since all alike my songs and praises be… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
“I don't know where I find the air and I keep getting the words wrong: From out our bourne of death and… — Ally Condie Copy Share Image
His [Death] voice is cold at first, John. It seems unfeeling. But if you listen without fear, you find that when he… — Martine Leavitt Copy Share Image
“Dancing on Dewdrops" was written to be a pleasant reading experience that flows from one section to the next. It expresses the… — Mark John Terranova Copy Share Image
I once was asked to contribute to a mushroom poem anthology. I didn't have anything, and so instead ended up writing the… — Jane Hirshfield Copy Share Image
“I know not love' quoth he, 'nor will not know it, Unless it be a boar, and then I chase it. 'Tis… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
If you're writing a song, you have to write something that can be understood serially. When you're reading a poem that's written… — James Fenton Copy Share Image
“I Am The Genre (Sonnet 2629) There is no time, only I am. There is no society, only I am. There is… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
Pound had argued - and Eliot had helped him prove - that a poem could be sustained by memorable moments. Olson proved… — Clive James Copy Share Image
“Have you ever wondered What happens to all the poems people write? The poems they never let anyone else read? Perhaps they… — Shaun Tan Copy Share Image
It is absurd and anti-life to be part of a system that compels you to listen to a stranger reading poetry when… — John Taylor Gatto Copy Share Image
Being a poet in the States is quite different from being one in China, because in the States poetry depends on the… — Bei Dao Copy Share Image
I found poetry at 12 and 13 and, lo and behold, learned that my attorney father had a background in poetry -… — Omari Hardwick Copy Share Image
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