“Diving into new spaces, meeting all sorts of faces. Depths of madness or souls of abounding love. Time isn't irreplaceable, so isn't… — honeste Copy Share Image
The tadpole poet will never grow into anything bigger than a frog; not though in that stage of development he should puff… — Algernon Charles Swinburne Copy Share Image
[My poems] of course, it's symbolic, in the way that things in a poem can be - that is, pointing to something… — Matthew Zapruder Copy Share Image
Words are what sticks to the real. We use them to push the real, to drag the real into the poem. They… — Jack Spicer Copy Share Image
The Romantic poets were the prototype ramblers, and I've often found myself following in their footsteps - although perhaps not all of… — Arthur Smith Copy Share Image
So much of our lives depends on accidents of birth, time, and geography. This haunts me. In some lives, few "or"s are… — Jane Hirshfield Copy Share Image
She was sitting cross-legged on her bed in her white kimono, writing in a notebook with an ink pen she dipped in… — Janet Fitch Copy Share Image
... woman is frequently praised as the more "creative" sex. She does not need to make poems, it is argued; she has… — Cynthia Ozick Copy Share Image
Even if I die my love for you will never say goodbye it might hurt the pain you feel the broken bones… — Jeremy Mark Limn Copy Share Image
“Consequently, to form the experience, the length of the line for a haiku thought must have the same length as the duration… — Kenneth Yasuda Copy Share Image
“Good artists exist simply in what they make, and consequently are perfectly uninteresting in what they are. A great poet, a really… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“For if it is rash to walk into a lion's den unarmed, rash to navigate the Atlantic in a rowing boat, rash… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
What did you expect? That he'd send you flowers and write you bad poetry? That dead Nemean prowler is pretty much as… — Jennifer Estep Copy Share Image
“...often referred to herself as a bitch. It was a way of insulting herself and asserting herself simultaneously. She acted like a… — Ruth Harris Copy Share Image
“They say: I love you. But in poetry, I say: In your soul, I see a moonrise in the dark nights of… — Jayita Bhattacharjee Copy Share Image
My dream right now is - and I don't know how to do it, and I don't know if it will work… — Eef Barzelay Copy Share Image
“I’m here for the show” the man said looking under Frank’s shirt for the door “I’m no theater” Frank said a line… — CAConrad Copy Share Image
I have always thought of poems as stepping stones in one's own sense of oneself. Every now and again, you write a… — Seamus Heaney Copy Share Image
“my mouth was shut for so long that my teeth decayed. you complained that my lips were always dry and chapped; you… — Mecca-Amirah Jackson Copy Share Image
“What would you have me do? Seek for the patronage of some great man, And like a creeping vine on a tall… — Edmond Rostand Copy Share Image
“Poets to Come POETS to come! orators, singers, musicians to come! Not to-day is to justify me, and answer what I am… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
“Man understood in the end what man is. He renounces the analysis of God, penetrating the impalpable, in which he has not… — José Rizal Copy Share Image
I find great consolation in having a lot of poetry books around. I believe that writing poetry and reading it are deeply… — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
“Government property. Trespassers will be prosecuted." The sweetest poetry is written on the signs you walk up to from the back, and… — Vironika Tugaleva Copy Share Image
“Christ, it's embarrassing--I start thinking about this goddam poem I sent her when we first started goin' around together. 'Rose my color… — J.D. Salinger Copy Share Image
“The desire to lift, the willingness to help, and the graciousness to give come from a heart filled with love. The poet… — Thomas S. Monson Copy Share Image
“My mother had to abandon her quest, but managed to extract from the restriction itself a further delicate thought, like good poets… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
Not every gay person recites poetry or has read Keats. You can get readers through anything if the characters are complicated. You… — Marlon James Copy Share Image
I create my subjects somehow visualizing them in my style. I start as a poet, put the colors and composition down on… — Fernando Botero Copy Share Image
“In times of old when I was new And Hogwarts barely started The founders of our noble school Thought never to be… — J.K. Rowling Copy Share Image
Prose is not to be read aloud but to oneself alone at night, and it is not quick as poetry but rather… — Henry Green Copy Share Image
“…Preserve my eyes, which are irreplaceable. Preserve my heart, veins, bones, Against the slow death building in them like hornets until the… — W.S. Merwin Copy Share Image
Poems On Life: Life is given to us, we earn it by giving it. Let the dead have the immortality of fame,… — Rabindranath Tagore Copy Share Image
“At times like this you desperately need Art. You seek to reconnect with your spiritual illusions, and you wish fervently that something… — Muriel Barbery Copy Share Image
“I am glad it cannot happen twice, the fever of first love. For it is a fever, and a burden, too, whatever… — Daphne du Maurier Copy Share Image
Science and art, or by the same token, poetry and prose differ from one another like a journey and an excursion. The… — Franz Grillparzer Copy Share Image
“he shewed himself so intimately acquainted with all the tenderest songs of the one poet, and all the impassioned descriptions of hopeless… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
When you are writing literary writing, you are communicating something subtextual with emotions and poetry. The prose has to have a voice;… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
“Poetry has an immediate effect on the mind. The simple act of reading poetry alters thought patterns and the shuttle of the… — Ivan M. Granger Copy Share Image
“MY FATHER If I have to write a poem about my father it has to be about integrity and kindness — the… — Neena H Brar Copy Share Image
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