I'm partial to epic poetry, which might be surprising given that I don't write poetry at all. The combination of rollicking storytelling… — Jennifer Egan Copy Share Image
“Jerome doesn't have a clue. He in fact avoids the poets, with their petty feuds and righteous poverty. Endlessly competitive and introspective,… — Chris Kraus Copy Share Image
Mandelstam is the sort of poet who comes along very, very rarely. Even the two Russian poets whose work is often linked… — Christian Wiman Copy Share Image
“A skillful literary artist has constructed a tale. If wise, he has not fashioned his thoughts to accommodate his incidents; but having… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
“Love was a word that poets and songwriters used. They vested the emotion with tremendous powers over the human heart and mind,… — Sandra Brown Copy Share Image
“بسم اللە الرحمن الرحیم إِنَّ رَبَّكُمْ اللَّهُ الَّذِي خَلَقَ السَّمَاوَاتِ وَالأَرْضَ (فِي سِتَّةِ أَيَّامٍ) ثُمَّ اسْتَوَى عَلَى الْعَرْشِ يُغْشِي اللَّيْلَ النَّهَارَ يَطْلُبُهُ… — Kamaran Ihsan Salih Copy Share Image
“imagine your heart is just a ball you learned to dribble up and down the length of your driveway back home. slow… — Brionne Janae Copy Share Image
“Listen, we’ll come visit you. Okay? I’ll dress up as William Shakespeare, Lucent as Emily Dickinson, and beautiful ‘Ray’ as someone dashing… — Tim Cummings Copy Share Image
In Bonn, where I studied for a year, I changed from classical to Romance philology, taught there by its great founder, F.… — Paul Heyse Copy Share Image
“I have been the meaning of rape I have been the problem everyone seeks to eliminate by forced penetration with or without… — June Jordan Copy Share Image
“It commenced — ‘“Can I view thee panting, lying On thy stomach, without sighing; Can I unmoved see thee dying On a… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
One of my favorite poets, Neruda, writes close to the bone. Though I know only a little Spanish, I like to compare… — Anita Diament Copy Share Image
“Nexus I wrote stubbornly into the evening. At the window, a giant praying mantis rubbed his monkey wrench head against the glass,… — Rita Dove Copy Share Image
I think of something quite different from a snapshot. I know of a lot of poems, some very fine ones, that are… — Robert Bringhurst Copy Share Image
Short stories and some short novels are close to poetry--with the fewest words they capture the essence of a situation, of a… — Gina Berriault Copy Share Image
I've had people explain to me what one of my poems meant, and I've been surprised that it means that to them.… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
Buzzing at the Sill is from a Theodore Roethke poem called "In a Dark Time." I'd heard a small part of it… — Peter van Agtmael Copy Share Image
Everything that is dead quivers. Not only the things of poetry, stars, moon, wood, flowers, but even a white trouser button glittering… — Wassily Kandinsky Copy Share Image
Poetry always runs away from you - it's very difficult to grasp it, and every time you read it, depending on your… — Abbas Kiarostami Copy Share Image
In my own prejudice.. I would have of a poet...whose worlds would not be too esoteric..fond of talking…capable of pity and laughter..appreciative… — Louis MacNeice Copy Share Image
One of my graduate school professors, to whom I started sending poems when I started writing again after a 10-year hiatus, suggested… — Marilyn Nelson Copy Share Image
“My silence knot is tied up in my hair; as if to keep my love out of my eyes. I cannot speak… — Lemony Snicket Copy Share Image
Short fiction is the medium I love the most, because it requires that I bring everything I've learned about poetry - the… — Ron Rash Copy Share Image
“That poem was not by me. It is among the things which quite overpower me; I have never been able to read… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
My obsession with time informs my poetry so completely it is hard for me to summarize it. We want time to pass,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I do many kinds of work, and if you forbid me from binding books, from gardening, from writing poetry, from practicing walking… — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
Rhime being no necessary Adjunct or true Ornament of Poem or good Verse, in longer Works especially, but the Invention of a… — John Milton Copy Share Image
Language is a theme in the whole book, no? I mean it ends with the title poem about words are all we… — Gregory Orr Copy Share Image
The best argument for teaching poetry is to put a three-year-old or a four-year-old and read Dr. Seuss, or Robert Louis Stevenson,… — Robert Pinsky Copy Share Image
“...at a luncheon, I sat next to a green-eyed young woman, a poet, who declared loftily that you learned nothing from books,… — James Salter Copy Share Image
“Our tragedy today is a general and universal physical fear so long sustained by now that we can even bear it. There… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
“Am I making something worth while? I’m not sure. I write and I sing and I hear words from time to time… — Charlotte Eriksson Copy Share Image
“Dear Heavenly Father, I thank You for the Bible verses that teach me how important my words are. My words can cause… — Glenn Langohr Copy Share Image
A sentence is like a tune. A memorable sentence gives its emotion a melodic shape. You want to hear it again, say… — Robert Pinsky Copy Share Image
“Я не знаю, зачем упрекают меня, Что в созданьях моих слишком много огня, Что стремлюсь я навстречу живому лучу И наветам унынья… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Well, the world has a million writers. One would think, then, that good thought would be as familiar as air and water,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I think the way poems are taught to high school students is completely counterintuitive; it sets up this sense of being the… — Tracy K. Smith Copy Share Image
“Let us go then, you and I, When the evening is spread out against the sky Like a patient etherized upon a… — T.S. Eliot Copy Share Image
“Aristocracy naturally leads the human mind to the contemplation of the past, and fixes it there. Democracy, on the contrary, gives men… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
My own personal task is not simply that of poet and writer (still less commentator, pseudo-prophet); it is basically to praise God… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
