“So here, twisted in steel, and spoiled with red your sunlight hide, smelling of death and fear, they crushed out your throat… — Judith Wright Copy Share Image
“But the worst of it was, all the third-rate poets emerged unscathed; being third-rate, they didn't know good poetry from bad and… — Stanisław Lem Copy Share Image
While also, importantly, not wanting to dumb it down or pretend the days of 'difficult' poetry are over, because we live in… — Andrew Motion Copy Share Image
Poems On Love Love adorns itself; it seeks to prove inward joy by outward beauty. Love does not claim possession, but gives… — Rabindranath Tagore Copy Share Image
“You can Lose a child Or a parent, The love of your life, A good job, A game, A deal, A bet,… — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image
“I like how you call homosexuality an abomination." "I don't say homosexuality's an abomination, Mr. President, the bible does." "Yes it does.… — Aaron Sorkin Copy Share Image
To transform a grimace into a sound sounds impossible, yet it is possible to transform a vision into music, to go outside… — Dejan Stojanovic Copy Share Image
A day will come when man will discover an alphabet in the eyes of the chalcedonies, in the marking of the moth,… — Alejo Carpentier Copy Share Image
“It was the means of making it clear that no matter how painful, Muhammad needed to be true to himself, to his… — Lesley Hazleton Copy Share Image
“André Breton (who fled Nazi dominated Europe)told poets of this Caribbean country: 'Surrealism is allied with peoples of colour, first because it… — David Craven Copy Share Image
There's always an added element of a poem when it's read aloud because then you can really hear the rhythm, and the… — Masiela Lusha Copy Share Image
“Lines Written In Early Spring I heard a thousand blended notes, While in a grove I sate reclined, In that sweet mood… — William Wordsworth Copy Share Image
“From childhood's hour I have not been As others were; I have not seen As others saw; I could not bring My… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
I was really drawn to spoken-word style poetry. I loved the rhythms, and for some reason, I was just drawn to this… — Matt de la Pena Copy Share Image
“Know then thyself, presume not God to scan, The proper study of mankind is Man. Placed on this isthmus of a middle… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
The secret of poetry is never explained,— is always new. We have not got farther than mere wonder at the delicacy of… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Poetry is the rhythmic, inevitably narrative, movement from an overclothed blindness to a naked vision that depends in its intensity on the… — Dylan Thomas Copy Share Image
A poet is an unhappy creature whose heart is tortured by deepest suffering but whose lips are so formed that when his… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
“Berryman" I will tell you what he told me in the years just after the war as we then called the second… — W.S. Merwin Copy Share Image
“The white western patriarchal ordering of things requires that we believe there is an inherent conflict between what we feel and what… — Nancy K. Bereano (introduction to Sister Outsider Copy Share Image
I'm not precisely saying that a really good board meeting at the MLA (Museums, Libraries and Archives Coucil) makes me want to… — Andrew Motion Copy Share Image
“…in the twentieth century grief lasts at most a year.’ I have used this quote from the Turkish poet Nazim Hikmet as… — Saeed Akhtar Mirza Copy Share Image
Maybe because I can't even put together an IKEA desk, I've never been tempted to think of my own poems as built… — James Arthur Copy Share Image
“We all grew up, those of us who took On the Road to heart. We came to cringe a little at our… — Sarah Vowell Copy Share Image
“These names mean nothing to Perowne. But he understands how eminent poets, like senior consultants, live in a watchful, jealous world in… — Ian McEwan Copy Share Image
“Insofar as craft and poetics in a poem have a politics, I wanted to avoid that brittle enjambed-prose-sentence-lyric verse, where you have… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In general, I would think that at present prose writers are much in advance of the poets. In the old days, I… — William H. Gass Copy Share Image
...to be a poet, requires a mythology of the self. The self described is the poet self, to which the daily self… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
Like all my poems, 'Negotiations' has several sources. It deals with aging lovers and the often silent deals they make. Thinking about… — Rae Armantrout Copy Share Image
“What if you slept And what if In your sleep You dreamed And what if In your dream You went to heaven… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
Love is everything it's cracked up to be. That's why people are so cynical about it...It really is worth fighting for, risking… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
“Yes, I know what you mean about writing and writers. We seem to have lost the target. Writers seem to write to… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
“She knows he's not the same. He's different now. The eyes that once held too much contain nothing at all. He is… — Alfa H Copy Share Image
“I had often toyed with pictures of the future, dreamed of rôles which might be assigned to me—as a poet, maybe, or… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“As writers we intend to make a difference, to alter people's lives for the greater good. . .this is why we write,… — Lee Gutkind Copy Share Image
“Meridian First daylight on the bittersweet-hung sleeping porch at high summer; dew all over the lawn, sowing diamond- point-highlighted shadows; the hired… — Amy Clampitt Copy Share Image
“This isn't about love and hate," Helen says. It's about control. People don't sit down and read a poem to kill their… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
“Put your arms around my waist, Hold me close for a kiss and savour the taste, I love you now I love… — Michelle Geaney Copy Share Image
Poetry and philosophy are, according to how you take them, different spheres, different forms, or factors of religion. Try to really combine… — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Copy Share Image
Happy the poet who with ease can steer From grave to gay, from lively to severe. [Lat., Heureux qui, dans ses vers,… — Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux Copy Share Image
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