“He feeds upon her face by day and night, And she with true kind eyes looks back on him, Fair as the… — Christina Rossetti Copy Share Image
I started then to try and shape something rather than just express it and when I started to shape something and to… — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
When composing a verse let there not be a hair's breath separating your mind from what you write; composition of a poem… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Genius everywhere is one. In the Orient and in the Occident the deep thinkers are kin, the poets are cousins, the pioneers… — Ameen Rihani Copy Share Image
“I had another reason for seeking Him, for trying to espy His face, a professional one. God and literature are conflated in… — Paul Quarrington Copy Share Image
"So we'd get in a horse and buggy and we would go and park under a tree and we'd read poetry to… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
You cannot lecture on really pure poetry any more than you can talk about the ingredients of pure water-it is adulterated, methylated,… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Each story, novel, poem and play presents a vision of the world that illuminates the dark cave of life we stumble through.… — Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Copy Share Image
“But what you’re calling poetry is what everything is. It’s not even poetry — it’s seeing. These materialists are blind. You told… — Álvaro de Campos Copy Share Image
“Fall in love with the energy of the mornings trace your fingers along the lull of the afternoons take the spirit of… — Sanober Khan Copy Share Image
“I. Those of us born by water are never afraid enough of drowning. Bruises used to trophy my knees from my death-defying… — Clementine von Radics Copy Share Image
“And one gathers from this enormous modern literature of confes- 11 sion and self- analysis that to write a work of genius… — Lee A. Jacobus Copy Share Image
“somewhere there is a women in China holding a black umbrella so she won’t taste the salt of the rain when the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Poems come from ordinary experiences and objects, I think. Out of memory - a dress I lent my daughter on her way… — Sharon Olds Copy Share Image
“It was a saying about noble figures in old Irish poems—he would give his hawk to any man that asked for it,… — Ted Hughes Copy Share Image
“He was almost a poet in his old age and his notion of what happened took a poetic turn. 'I had come… — Sherwood Anderson Copy Share Image
“The reason for the existence of the perfection conjured up in these fourteen lines is that it possesses ... the authorization to… — Peter Sloterdijk Copy Share Image
“Why did the poor poet of Tennessee, upon suddenly receiving two handfuls of silver, deliberate whether to buy him a coat, which… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
If you put a real leaf and a silk leaf side by side, youll see something of the difference between Homers poetry… — Alice Oswald Copy Share Image
My brother and I were brought up sort of thinking that we were English. I remember hearing the poet Roy Campbell on… — Justin Cartwright Copy Share Image
“The poet makes himself a seer through a long, tremendous, planned detachment of all his senses. All the forms of love, of… — Arthur Rimbauld Copy Share Image
Mab Jones' poetry is suffused with a cool wit and a wisdom beyond her years. She is a superb performance poet in… — Phill Jupitus Copy Share Image
If any art form can accommodate contemporary culture, it's the novel. It's so malleable - it can incorporate essays, poetry, film. Maybe… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
I don't think one can accurately measure the historical effectiveness of a poem; but one does know, of course, that books influence… — Denise Levertov Copy Share Image
“Being human, we struggle constantly to stay with the miracle of what is and not to fall constantly into the black hole… — Mark Nepo Copy Share Image
When I was young, I overheard a Brit say Canada wasn't a real country because it doesn't have any poets. Even then,… — David McFadden Copy Share Image
Our suicidal poets (Plath, Berryman, Lowell, Jarrell, et al.) spent too much of their lives inside rooms and classrooms when they should… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
Eliot said that "genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood." What he meant by that is, the emotional understanding comes before… — Fred D'Aguiar Copy Share Image
“You’ll have to take me to some museums,” he said. He was being the young man on the road, following the sun… — Francesca Lia Block Copy Share Image
“Say you could view a time lapse film of our planet: what would you see? Transparent images moving through light, “an infinite… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
A Senegalese poet said 'In the end we will conserve only what we love. We love only what we understand, and we… — Yo-Yo Ma Copy Share Image
“My uncle read me Omar Khayyam. In Arabic. Not Turkish or even English. I tried so hard to understand it. I would… — Miranda Emmerson Copy Share Image
Sing in the shower. Dance to the radio. Tell stories. Write a poem to a friend, even a lousy poem. Do it… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
And why should any man who writes, even if he writes things immortal, nurse anger at the world's neglect? Who asked him… — George Gissing Copy Share Image
“TO FOREIGN LANDS. I heard that you ask’d for something to prove this puzzle the New World, And to define America, her… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
A poet might die at twenty-one, a revolutionary or a rock star at twenty four. But after that you assume everything’s going… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Poetry's the speech of kings. You're one of those Shakespeare gives the comic bits to: prose! All poetry (even Cockney Keats?) you… — Tony Harrison Copy Share Image
Comic strips introduced me to metaphors. They are pure metaphor, so you learn how to tell a story with symbols, which is… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“I fell in love with your strength and your heart. I fell in love with your quirks and your stories. I fell… — Liz Newman Copy Share Image
Writing is performative - and while, yes, the words in essence will be there "forever," poems are often about ecstatic moments rather… — Denise Duhamel Copy Share Image
![“Poetry's the speech of kings. You're one of those Shakespeare gives the comic bits to: prose! All poetry (even Cockney Keats?) you see 's been dubbed by [Us] into RP, Received Pronunciation, please believe [Us] your speech is in the hands of the Receivers.” quote by Tony Harrison](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/85f/tony-harrison-11449_communication_poetry-s-the-speech-of-kings-you-re-one_2680169.jpg)
