I believe in fiction and the power of stories because that way we speak in tongues. We are not silenced. All of… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
The invention of photography has dealt a mortal blow to the old modes of expression, in painting as well as in poetry,… — Andre Breton Copy Share Image
“My true-love hath my heart and I have his, By just exchange one for the other given: I hold his dear, and… — Philip Sidney Copy Share Image
Now, I like a church service, but this was one of those write-your-own-vows sorts of things. Neither of them had ever picked… — David Sedaris Copy Share Image
“But my research had taught me that the tissue of contradictions that was my personality was itself, at best, a poem, where… — Ben Lerner Copy Share Image
“We've inherited many ideas about writing that emerged in the eighteenth century, especially an interest in literature as both an expression and… — James Shapiro Copy Share Image
“ Her Kind I have gone out, a possessed witch, haunting the black air, braver at night; dreaming evil, I have done… — Anne Sexton Copy Share Image
Hallo _ hi-moving air in the wretched / hand forgot to introduce you to the heart !! say what is yours: So… — Mak_786 Copy Share Image
Women are very different to men, and that hasn't been respected. So when people say there's never been a good woman painter… — Joanna Lumley Copy Share Image
I think that there are fiction writers for whom that works well. I could never do it. I feel as if, by… — Sharon Olds Copy Share Image
Some of the finest Shakespeare has been done recently by college theater programs. I'll tell you what these young kids have: They… — Roger Rees Copy Share Image
I worked privately, and sometimes I feel that might be better for poets than the kind of social workshop gathering. My school… — Mary Oliver Copy Share Image
The field is a halfway house, halfway between the detail of those intimately known places and the ignorance of a landscape view… — Adam Nicolson Copy Share Image
“He is the Way. Follow Him through the Land of Unlikeness; You will see rare beasts, and have unique adventures. He is… — W.H. Auden Copy Share Image
“An artist is identical with an anarchist,' he cried. 'You might transpose the words anywhere. An anarchist is an artist. The man… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“Dolor I have known the inexorable sadness of pencils, Neat in their boxes, dolor of pad and paper weight, All the misery… — Theodore Roethke Copy Share Image
“If words allow themselves to be handled, it is with the help of infinite carefulness. One has to welcome them, listen to… — Paul Nouge Copy Share Image
The best poetry has its roots in the subconscious to a great degree. Youth, naivety, reliance on instinct more than learning and… — May Swenson Copy Share Image
“I miss her | & not the type of missing when you’re alone, not the type when you’re broken down half drunk,… — Brandon Villasenor Copy Share Image
“ The Last Toast I drink to our demolished hose, to all this wickedness, to you, our loneliness together, I raise my… — Anna Akhmatova Copy Share Image
I like to write, I like to reflect, and not just poetry, I like to write my thoughts down. I think it's… — J. J. Redick Copy Share Image
“Extreme civilization robs crime of its frightful poetry, and prevents the writer from restoring it. That would be too dreadful, say those… — Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly Copy Share Image
“What an incredible amount of poetry, of novels, of sociological solutions to the ills of the world! One supposes that poetry is… — Augusto Monterroso Copy Share Image
“When he came back, I hid my face within my hands. He said: "Fear nothing. Who has seen our kiss? --Who saw… — Pierre Louÿs Copy Share Image
I believed even then that if I could transform my experience into poetry I would give it the value and dignity it… — Philip Levine Copy Share Image
Poetry is not Irish or any other nationality; and when writers such as Messrs. Clarke, Farren and the late F. R. Higgins… — Patrick Kavanagh Copy Share Image
The experiment of the poem is mostly intuitive. I write the first draft, pulling in the various elements that interest me, in… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Love Was Love Will Be But Most of All, Love is. Life Cannot Be Without It It is found in the Womb… — Cindy Martinusen-Coloma Copy Share Image
My colleagues knew I was writing poems. I never hid it from them. I don't think they ever thought I was cheating… — Ted Kooser Copy Share Image
“Creed by Abigail Carroll, p.196-197 I believe in the life of the word, the diplomacy of food. I believe in salt-thick ancient… — Sarah Arthur Copy Share Image
Just as a poet often has license from the rules of grammar and pronunciation, we should like to ask for 'physicists' license… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
In Náhuatl, the language of the Aztec world, one key word for poet was 'tlamatine,' meaning 'the one who knows,' or 'he… — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
From the beginning I felt that I didn't ever want to leave the impression that the process of writing a poem is… — Pattiann Rogers Copy Share Image
Oh, most magnificent and noble Nature! Have I not worshipped thee with such a love As never mortal man before displayed? Adored… — Humphry Davy Copy Share Image
“Up the still, glistening beaches, Up the creeks we will hie, Over banks of bright seaweed The ebb-tide leaves dry. We will… — Matthew Arnold Copy Share Image
With Head Off & Split, Nikky Finney establishes herself as one of the most eloquent, urgent, fearless and necessary poets writing in… — Kwame Dawes Copy Share Image
“Solitude of this kind makes me unaware. The roots that bind my person, makes me yearn for freedom and more. I wish… — Pooja Subramanian Copy Share Image
Prose-it might be speculated-is discourse; poetry ellipsis. Prose is spoken aloud; poetry overheard. The one is presumably articulate and social, a shared… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
“Sovegna vos. Here are the years that walk between, bearing Away the fiddles and the flutes, restoring One who moves in the… — T.S. Eliot Copy Share Image
The poet is never inspired, because he is the master of that which appears to others as inspiration. He does not wait… — Raymond Queneau Copy Share Image
