I didn't know how to weigh ideas about poetry. Nothing in the life I lived as a student - and later as… — Eavan Boland Copy Share Image
“I've tried to keep pleasant," Mabel went on. "You don't know how I've tried. I have that verse pinned up on my… — Bess Streeter Aldrich Copy Share Image
In the language of poetry, where every word is weighed, nothing is usual or normal. Not a single stone and not a… — Wislawa Szymborska Copy Share Image
I think that when you're writing plays, and I think it's also true with novels, it helps to have an ear for… — Tony Kushner Copy Share Image
“And, day and night, aloof, from the high towers and terraces, the Earth and Ocean seem to sleep in one another's arms,… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
Many people say that I don't know how to draw because I don't draw particular forms. When will they understand that execution,… — Paul Gauguin Copy Share Image
“In pride, in reasoning pride, our error lies; All quit their sphere and rush into the skies. Pride still is aiming at… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
“Be always drunken. Nothing else matters: that is the only question. If you would not feel the horrible burden of Time weighing… — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
There is a certain standard of grace and beauty which consists in a certain relation between our nature, such as it is,… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
“school about it, and one of the girls said it reminded her of the Scripture in Hebrews 13 that says the bed… — Julia C. Loren Copy Share Image
You can be very religious and invoke the name of God and be able to quote lots of verses and be well… — Rob Bell Copy Share Image
The form of my poem rises out of a past that so overwhelms the present with its worth and vision that I'm… — Hart Crane Copy Share Image
I remember that as I was writing a poem on 'Snow' when I was eight, I said aloud, 'I wish I could… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
Under the wide and starry sky, Dig the grave and let me lie. Glad did I live and gladly die, And I… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
The statement of ideas in a poem may have to do with logic. More profoundly, it may be identified with the emotional… — Muriel Rukeyser Copy Share Image
“The last time I had a dick in my mouth I was dying alfalfa withered in rows unable to separate desire from… — Jennifer Givhan Copy Share Image
I lost many literary battles the day I read 'Their Eyes Were Watching God.' I had to concede that occasionally aphorisms have… — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
“Degraded bird, I give you back your eyes forever, ascend now whither you are tossed; Forsake this wrist, forsake this rhyme; Soar,… — Edna St. Vincent Millay Copy Share Image
You want a poem to unsettle something. There's a deep and interesting kind of troubling that poems do, which is to say,… — Tracy K. Smith Copy Share Image
As I began to perform - songs, poems, sketches or conjuring tricks - I began to learn what children run with and… — Michael Rosen Copy Share Image
“I beg for a moment of peace in this flicker, a moment of stopping, one moment of stillness. I beg not to… — Imants Ziedonis Copy Share Image
ELEGY, n. A composition in verse, in which, without employing any of the methods of humor, the writer aims to produce in… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
“I believe in reverencing anything in the life of man which has the testimony of the ages as being unexcelled, whether it… — C.B. MacDonald Copy Share Image
But Carroll's were more convoluted, and they struck me as funny in a new way: 1) Babies are illogical. 2) Nobody is… — Steve Martin Copy Share Image
“trees [-] Inside their wooden samurai armor they are geisha beauties, each one a ‘person-of-the-arts,’ limbs dancing, arranging flowers, carrying the wind’s… — A. A. Attanasio Copy Share Image
“She walked among the stars, The princess of the heavens, Looking for the one who caught her crystal tears That spilled out… — Kallista Pendragon Copy Share Image
After I'd produced about two dozen pen and ink drawings, one evening I decided that they needed poems to accompany them. I… — Jack Prelutsky Copy Share Image
Poetry is not the language we live in. It's not the language of our day-to-day errand-running and obligation-fulfilling, not the language with… — Tracy K. Smith Copy Share Image
“As to her rank, she should be at the very least a princess, seeing that she is my lady and my queen.… — Miguel de Cervantes Copy Share Image
I want to be remembered as an artist that gave you a piece of me, as opposed to some surface bullshit. I… — Drake Copy Share Image
“I believe in being a poet in all moments of life. Being a poet means being human. I know some poets whose… — Forough Farrokhzad Copy Share Image
Robert Frost really started this whole thing rolling. He was, I believe, the first poet who started going to colleges. Before that,… — Billy Collins Copy Share Image
“perhaps you know that Ingeborg Bachmann poem from the last years of her life that begins "I lose my screams" dear Antigone,… — Anne Carson Copy Share Image
I wanted to be a poet when I was 20; I had no interest in fiction or biography and precious little interest… — Peter Ackroyd Copy Share Image
“Falling in love is easy. Staying in love is the challenge. The pursuit of loving another person is a selfless one. Sacrifice… — Jason Versey Copy Share Image
“When you are incapable of speaking, Then words are searching for you. When you are incapable of smiling, Then happiness is searching… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“When I have fears that I may cease to be Before my pen has glean’d my teeming brain, Before high piled books,… — John Keats Copy Share Image
I know that in some ways I operate from a kind of antiquated interest in imagery, while many contemporary poets are not… — Martha Ronk Copy Share Image
“She told her journal about me passing by her in the parking lot, about how on that night I had touched her-literally,… — Alice Sebold Copy Share Image
“ Words Be careful of words, even the miraculous ones. For the miraculous we do our best, sometimes they swarm like insects… — Anne Sexton Copy Share Image
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