“The poet doesn’t know what the poem, finally, will be “about” when he uses the word’s etymology as a starting point before… — Natasha Sajé Copy Share Image
“Cut off from the land that bore us, Betrayed by the land we find, Where the brightest have gone before us, And… — Capt. Bartholomew Dowling Copy Share Image
“Lyric poets are always corrupting the young, making them choke in self-pity and indulge in reverie. Dirty sex and direspect for authority… — Charles Simic Copy Share Image
One of the things I've always thought is that if I were to write a poetics, it would have to do with… — Martha Ronk Copy Share Image
“Be silent and safe — silence never betrays you; Be true to your word and your work and your friend; Put least… — John Boyle O'Reilly Copy Share Image
“Shall I speak of the consequence One, that your attention causes? Words you utter keep me stunned, My heart stops up at… — Zubair Ahsan Copy Share Image
... imaginary gardens with real toads in them ... ... if you demand on one hand, the raw material of poetry in… — Marianne Moore Copy Share Image
Poetry, at least the kind I write, is written out of immediate need; it is written out of pain, joy, and experience… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
Imagining is in itself the very height and life of poetry, which, by a kind of enthusiasm or extraordinary emotion of the… — John Dryden Copy Share Image
“For centuries poets, some poets, have tried to give a voice to the animals, and readers, some readers, have felt empathy and… — Joy Williams Copy Share Image
I can hear the library humming in the night, a choir of authors murmuring inside their books along the unlit, alphabetical shelves,… — Billy Collins Copy Share Image
“A true Lutheran pulpit cannot be a sensational pulpit, for discoursing wordly wisdom, philosophy, poetry, or politics. It must expound the Word,… — G.H. Gerberding Copy Share Image
“He will forget me. He will leave my letters lying about among guns and dogs unanswered. I shall send him poems and… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“I denied it, this new land. But love, I’ll concede this: whatever state you are, I’ll be that state’s bird, the loud,… — Ada Limon Copy Share Image
Why do comparisons of words and tone poems (poetry and music) never take into consideration that the word is a mere signifier,… — Franz Grillparzer Copy Share Image
How fast we learn in the day of sorrow! Scripture shines out in a new effulgence; every verse seems to contain a… — Horatius Bonar Copy Share Image
“ He is a type of our best — our rarest. Electrical, I was going to say, beyond anyone, perhaps, ever was:… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
“Death has a body like a model, the clothes of a poet and the smile of your best friend. She wears a… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“Then, as a single snowflake flares and flickers upon voicing its final breath, so two eyes make silent conversation with mine. A… — Craig Froman Copy Share Image
Those who say we should dismantle the role of Poet Laureate altogether, the trick they miss is that being called this thing,… — Andrew Motion Copy Share Image
When I was a kid I would write songs, little plays, and poetry in school. If you're an adult and you're a… — Mike Birbiglia Copy Share Image
“We could not swim, but now we are swimming— We have to swim. It is not fair. It is never fair. We… — Alberto Ríos Copy Share Image
“Welcome to America, a Wall Street Corporation Where the stockholders are rich and own this nation Where cubicle preparation masquerades as education… — Justin Wetch Copy Share Image
Your life is full of shit, No one takes care of you not by a bit. Finally go and open your eyes,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“WHAT KIND OF TIMES ARE THESE There’s a place between two stands of trees where the grass grows uphill and the old… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
All those authors there, most of whom of course I've never met. That's the poetry side, that's the prose side, that's the… — Norman MacCaig Copy Share Image
“i've been reading whitman, you know what he says, cheer up slaves, and horrify foreign despots, he means that's the attitude for… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
I haven't seen any poet in this country behave nearly as rudely as Newt Gingrich or Bill O'Reilly. I'm not asking these… — Sam Hamill Copy Share Image
“In most cases the name is unpoetical, although the fact is poetical. In the case of Smith, the name is so poetical… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
I wish to suggest that a man may be very industrious, and yet not spend his time well. There is no more… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“No,” Jason said. “No ban.” The idea that Vale might write poems about him was deliriously wonderful. His heart squeezed and jolted.… — Leta Blake Copy Share Image
When you set about your composing, it may be necessary for your ease, and better distillation of wit, to put on your… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
Without touching my subject I want to come to the moment when, through pure concentration of seeing, the composed picture becomes more… — Ernst Haas Copy Share Image
“A people that doesn't live at the center of the world, as defined and described by its poets and storytellers, is in… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
It is not unusual to hear a religious leader, a philosopher, or a poet refer to man as having a divine spark… — Ezra Taft Benson Copy Share Image
According to its doctors, my one intransigent desire is to have been a Confederate general, and because I could not or would… — Allen Tate Copy Share Image
Being in love is something like poetry. Certainly, you can analyze and expound its various senses and intentions, but there is always… — Muriel Spark Copy Share Image
There's something immediate about the experience of reading a poem - whether it's the music or some other element of it -… — Kevin Powers Copy Share Image
One hundred percent, all your Shakespeare training serves you in the work in musical theater today: specifically in modern musical theater, our… — Renee Elise Goldsberry Copy Share Image
Is there an aesthetic "fit" in my work between God and the world? The "I' in my poems has from the beginning… — Lawrence Joseph Copy Share Image
