Perhaps the efforts of the true poets, founders, religions, literatures, all ages, have been, and ever will be, our time and times… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
“The dead, Your Honor, do not agonize over their crimes and do not long to be happy, as you know. If from… — Hassan Blasim Copy Share Image
“Blaisedell, the poet, had said to him, 'You love beer so much. I'll bet some day you'll go in and order a… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“Science has discovered that, like any work of literature, the human genome is a text in need of commentary, for what Eliot… — Jonah Lehrer Copy Share Image
Freud thought that a psychosis was a waking dream, and that poets were daydreamers too, but I wonder if the reverse is… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Paul [ Burwell] and I had also got interested in making books. We'd been working with Bob Cobbing, the sound poet, since… — David Toop Copy Share Image
The literature of Toni Morrison or Jean Tomer - they're the work and images that have stuck with me. The epic banal… — RaMell Ross Copy Share Image
“And while he compared all these things which he was seeing with his eyes to the mental pictures he had painted of… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“A species in which everyone was General Patton would not succeed, any more than would a race in which everyone was Vincent… — Allen Shawn Copy Share Image
Imagination in a poet is a faculty so wild and lawless that, like a high ranging spaniel, it must have clogs tied… — John Dryden Copy Share Image
“At the height of the Cultural Revolution, rather than risk having to face dire consequences for his accumulated writings, he burned several… — Gao Xingjian Copy Share Image
When you think intensely and beautifully, something happens. That something is called poetry. If you think that way and speak at the… — Robert Bringhurst Copy Share Image
Sunlight 's a thing that needs a window Before it enter a dark room. Windows don't happen." So two old poets, Hunched… — R. S. Thomas Copy Share Image
Look at Allen Ginsberg. In poems like 'Kaddish' and 'Howl,' you can hear a cantor between the lines. It's fully alive, and… — Derek Walcott Copy Share Image
“...Nature becomes your teacher, and from her you will learn what is beautiful and who you are and what is your special… — Stephen Graham Copy Share Image
I'm very fortunate in that my parents are artists. My mom is a brilliant poet... She still is a great visual artist.… — Ari Aster Copy Share Image
Does a firm persuasion that a thing is so, make it so?" He replied, "All poets believe it does. And in ages… — William Blake Copy Share Image
“HIS chosen comrades thought at school He must grow a famous man; He thought the same and lived by rule, All his… — W.B. Yeats Copy Share Image
“In the great snowfall before the bomb" In the great snowfall before the bomb colored yule tree lights windows, the only glow… — Lorine Niedecker Copy Share Image
“For my part, I love to give myself up to the illusion of poetry. A hero of fiction that never existed is… — Washington Irving Copy Share Image
“I was not prepared: sunset, end of summer. Demonstrations of time as a continuum, as something coming to an end, not a… — Louise Glück Copy Share Image
As anyone who has the slightest knowledge of my work knows, I have little in common with Larkin, who was tall, taciturn… — Carol Ann Duffy Copy Share Image
“The greatest poet in the English language found his poetry where poetry is found: in the lives of the people. He could… — James Baldwin Copy Share Image
Everybody is different. Some comedy is more musical like Steven Wright. His is a pillar of comedy to me. He invented a… — Louis C. K Copy Share Image
“Poetry flows from our hearts. It is like that mass of snow we call a glacier and when it starts its slow… — Balroop Singh Copy Share Image
How can I compare such a thing Not a song could explain this love Leave me now and it will forever sting… — Jade Copy Share Image
I certainly was surprised to be named Poet Laureate of this far-out city on the left side of the world, and I… — Lawrence Ferlinghetti Copy Share Image
“I'd just smashed someone's head in with a cast-iron skillet, and now this gorgeous, enigmatic man was speaking poetry to me. Finding… — Natalie Bennett Copy Share Image
“And what is written well and what is written badly...need we ask Lysias or any other poet or orator who ever wrote… — Robert M Pirsig Copy Share Image
In the writing of poetry we never know anything for sure. We will never know if we have 'trained' or 'practised' enough.… — James Fenton Copy Share Image
Much of a poet's experience takes place in imagination only; the life he tells is oftenest the life that he strongly desires… — George Edward Woodberry Copy Share Image
What has praise and fame to do with poetry? Was not writing poetry a secret transaction, a voice answering a voice? So… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“Shakespeare is above all writers, at least above all modern writers, the poet of nature; the poet that holds up to his… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“The poet called Miss Liberty's torch 'the lamp beside the golden door.' Well, that was the entrance to America, and it still… — Ronald Regan Copy Share Image
What's the function of poetry? It's to express general truths, to connect with the reader and make him think: 'Wow, I've experienced… — Giles Andreae Copy Share Image
I grew up around poets and novelists and my dad wrote poems about everything - from a cat sleeping in a window… — Lucinda Williams Copy Share Image
“The greatest poet does not moralize or make applications of morals... he knows the soul. The soul has that measureless pride which… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
Any extreme political creed brought only darkness in the long run; it lit up nothing. The best politics were those of caution,… — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image
Mediocre prose might be read as an escape, might be spoken on television by actors, or mouthed in movies. But mediocre poetry… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
“Four very strange and truly poetic human beings in this century have attained mastery in prose, for which this century was not… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
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