“We'd all like to see our poems walking alone in the world. Like children reared to be independent adults. Some parents raise… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The reader reads aloud, with a sing-song up … then down … then down again cadence. My mood shifts from merely reluctant… — Gabrielle Hamilton Copy Share Image
The poet's other readers are the ancient poets, who look upon the freshly written pages from an incorruptible distance. Their poetic forms… — Salvatore Quasimodo Copy Share Image
“I like flaws and I feel more comfortable around those who have them.. The perfect people make me nervous. I don't trust… — Lokesh Tuli Copy Share Image
There is no piece of guitar music that has the formal beauty of a piano sonata by Mozart, or the richly worked… — Julian Bream Copy Share Image
I was walking every morning, and I'd take my iPod and paper and pen. As I walked, I wrote a poem, and then… — Shirley Geok-lin Lim Copy Share Image
In a poem, the words happen; they just come. I let them. Otherwise, I wouldn't write. To interfere with what is happening… — Louis Dudek Copy Share Image
“I will have poetry in my life. And adventure. And love. Love above all. No... not the artful postures of love, not… — Marc Norman Copy Share Image
My child, you have a flawed grasp of the nature of myth-making. I am a poet and storyteller, a creator of ballads… — Frances Hardinge Copy Share Image
Nobody grasped you by the shoulder while there was still time. Now the clay of which you were shaped has dried and… — Antoine de Saint-Exupery Copy Share Image
For the critic, criticism is a form of natural self-expression, as poetry is to the poet. So, for a critic, criticism is… — Helen Vendler Copy Share Image
In the first few pages, Kundera discusses several abstract historical figures: Robespierre, Nietzsche, Hitler. For Eunice's sake, I wanted him to get… — Gary Shteyngart Copy Share Image
I suppose it's useful in designating writing that tends to come from personal experience, work that delineates an "I," but it's a… — Matthea Harvey Copy Share Image
Now I would say at any given moment in American life, there are probably 45 poets in airplanes vectoring across the country… — Billy Collins Copy Share Image
“Benedick sat down on a bench. He would write a love poem to Beatrice. The god of love… He made up a… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
If someone said, I want to translate your novel into Igbo, I would say, Go ahead. But when I write in the… — Chinua Achebe Copy Share Image
“A poem's what you think it is,' Arunava said and laughed. He held up his empty glass and said, 'Now that is… — Bhaskar Ghose Copy Share Image
Most of the verses written about praise in God’s Word were voiced by people who were faced with crushing heartaches, injustice, treachery,… — Joni Eareckson Tada Copy Share Image
Forget what you learned about poetry in school. (That it's complex, opaque, a problem to be solved in 1500 words by tomorrow.)… — Garrison Keillor Copy Share Image
“Ozymandias" I met a traveller from an antique land Who said: "Two vast and trunkless legs of stone Stand in the desert.… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
When I began, poetry was very academic. You published little pamphlets from fancy presses. It was rather... chaste. There wasn't much public… — John Fuller Copy Share Image
There are those who say that poets should use her and his art to change the world. I'd agree with that, but… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
When people decide to talk publicly about poetry as an art form and how it's received, they often get very abject about… — Eileen Myles Copy Share Image
“This town of churches and dreams; this town I thought I would lose myself in, with its backward ways and winding roads… — Kellie Elmore Copy Share Image
“Don't tell a girl with fire in her veins and hurricane bones what she should and shouldn't do. In the blink of… — Melody Lee Copy Share Image
“The . . . the one about Colin Eversea! I learned a new verse from a young lady at school. It’s very… — Julie Anne Long Copy Share Image
There is still a popular fantasy, long since disproved by both psychoanalysis and science, and never believed by any poet or mystic,… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
“Mute in that golden silence hung with green, Come down from heaven and bring me in your eyes Remembrance of all beauty… — Siegfried Sassoon Copy Share Image
“Sing these songs, and they will renew you from head to toe, from heart to mind. Pray these poems, and they will… — N.T. Wright Copy Share Image
“Round these men stories tended to group themselves, sometimes deserting more ancient heroes for the purpose. Round poets have they gathered especially,… — W.B. Yeats Copy Share Image
“Sittin’ in a café in dark glasses sippin’ coffee dunkin’ doughnuts while it’s sunny thinking guns guns guns and I’ve got pockets… — Alan Martin Copy Share Image
Drill in exact translation is an excellent way of disposing the mind against that looseness and exaggeration with which the sensationalists have… — Richard M. Weaver Copy Share Image
Each genre has its own process. I'm very intuitive about poetry. I usually write first and second drafts out by hand. The… — Achy Obejas Copy Share Image
I think of it this way: When you hear that people have downloaded your comic, appreciate that thousands are eager to hear… — Mark Waid Copy Share Image
“We—are we not formed, as notes of music are, For one another, though dissimilar; Such difference without discord, as can make Those… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
“And with light lips yet full of their swift smile, And hands that wist not though they dug a grave, Undid the… — Algernon Charles Swinburne Copy Share Image
Poetry connects us to what is deepest in ourselves. It gives us access to our own feelings, which are often shadowy, and… — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
“Poetry, music, forests, oceans, solitude—they were what developed enormous spiritual strength. I came to realize that spirit, as much or more than… — Christopher McDougall Copy Share Image
In [The New Poetry] I had attacked the British poets' nervous preference for gentility above all else, and their avoidance of the… — Al Alvarez Copy Share Image
“SOWING LIGHTNING Seize Bolts of lightning from the sky And plant them in fields of life. They will grow like tender sprouts… — Visar Zhiti Copy Share Image
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