“This is how we were meant for each other. How we make our living. The lives of frustrated poets and imposters. This,… — Chang-rae Lee Copy Share Image
“On the far horizon waved some flicker of light My heart, a city of suffering, awoke in a state of dream My… — Faiz Ahmed Faiz Copy Share Image
“Love is nothing out of the ordinary, even if we think it is; even if we idealise it, celebrate it in poetry,… — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image
“To the person in my future...I hope you're ready, because I'm going to love you... fiercely. You'll never have to suffer for… — Alfa H Copy Share Image
Collect all the facts that can be collected about the life of Racine and you will never learn from them the art… — Paul Valery Copy Share Image
“The End of World War One Out of the scraped surface of the land men began to emerge, like puppies from the… — Sharon Olds Copy Share Image
The light beyond my eyes flashflashflashes with a hundred futures for me. Doctor. Ship's captain. Forest ranger. Librarian. Beloved of that man… — Laurie Halse Anderson Copy Share Image
“and anyway it’s just the same old story -- a few people just trying, one way or another, to survive. Mostly, I… — Mary Oliver Copy Share Image
“I wish to try my hand at a novel," he said. "Just scribbling, I assure you, but it strikes me as such… — Kyle Muntz Copy Share Image
“It doesn't matter if people are playing jazz or writing poetry -- if they want to be successful, they need to learn… — Jonah Lehrer Copy Share Image
“Go and catch a falling star, Get with child a mandrake root, Tell me where all past years are, Or who cleft… — John Donne Copy Share Image
I knew that I wanted to be a singer/songwriter when I was much younger and, um, I've been able to, you know,… — Annie Lennox Copy Share Image
I see no marks of Wordsworths style of writing or style of thinking in my own work, yet Wordsworth is a constant… — J. M. Coetzee Copy Share Image
I think that the dark side of MFA programs is that they're generating more poets than the culture can absorb and there… — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
“Maybe it's animalness that will make the world right again: the wisdom of elephants, the enthusiasm of canines, the grace of snakes,… — Carol Emshwiller Copy Share Image
“Of course! the path to heaven doesn't lie down in flat miles. It's in the imagination with which you perceive this world,… — Mary Oliver Copy Share Image
“ A Psalm of Life Tell me not in mournful numbers, Life is but an empty dream! For the soul is dead… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
The problem with writing a book in verse is, to be successful, it has to sound like you knocked it off on… — Dr. Seuss Copy Share Image
“I can’t help but notice that you keep writing love poetry to my wife. Well, you see, I married her, which makes… — A.J. Jacobs Copy Share Image
“Too lazy to be ambitious, I let the world take care of itself. Ten days' worth of rice in my bag; a… — Ryokan Copy Share Image
For the flowers are great blessings. For the Lord made a Nosegay in the meadow with his disciples and preached upon the… — Christopher Smart Copy Share Image
When I finished high school, I didn't have much direction - I was a Deadhead kid who ended up bumming around London… — Elizabeth Marvel Copy Share Image
“But often it's the inexact, the awful, the mistaken linguistic turn that manages to say the right thing because it unmoors us… — Tin House Books Copy Share Image
My poems are certainly in the lyric tradition, but perhaps a reader can tell me more precisely who I am as a… — Connie Wanek Copy Share Image
The advice I continually give to young writers is this, "Learn to paint pictures with words." Not just once upon a time,… — Brian Jacques Copy Share Image
'Two Voices,' from my album with Peter Schwalm, is an intact dream-poem. I awoke one night with an image of a piece… — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
One of the interesting things about the history of poetry in the 16th, 17th, and 18th centuries is that people who read… — Robert Hass Copy Share Image
The "truth" is the poem itself. Just because someone writes a poem about a feeling she has does not mean that the… — Denise Duhamel Copy Share Image
I agree that comedy does a good job - and is often about - stepping over the line - Lenny Bruce, etc.… — Rachel Zucker Copy Share Image
“take my words read my poetry make my thoughts breathe life why should distances matter? between us there may be oceans there… — Avijeet Das Copy Share Image
She knew the intensity of adolescence, and knew no cure for it except growing up. And then one has age and experience,… — Sara Paretsky Copy Share Image
Eroticism is first and foremost a thirst for otherness. And the supernatural is the supreme otherness. This is perhaps the most noble… — Octavio Paz Copy Share Image
“I have emotions that are like newspapers that read themselves. I go for days at a time trapped in the want ads.… — Richard Brautigan Copy Share Image
“There are all kinds of pedants around with more time to read and imitate Lynne Truss and John Humphrys than to write… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
Part of what made the Macintosh great was that the people working on it were musicians, poets, and artists, and zoologists, and… — Steve Jobs Copy Share Image
Has the painter not always gone to an art school, or at least to an established master, for instruction? And the composer,… — Paul Engle Copy Share Image
The dreamer whose dreams are non-utilitarian has no place in this world. In this world the poet is anathema, the thinker a… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
The mathematical question is "Why?" It's always why. And the only way we know how to answer such questions is to come… — Paul Lockhart Copy Share Image
I write poems from dreams pretty frequently. It's limiting to think the poem has to come from a sensical lyric "I" stating… — Matthea Harvey Copy Share Image
Of all the art forms, poetry is the most economical. It is the one which is the most secret, which requires the… — Audre Lorde Copy Share Image
