If it were thought that anything I wrote was influenced by Robert Frost, I would take that particular piece of mine, shred… — James Dickey Copy Share Image
Ice cubes makes your water cold, but it can't make your water wetter. Straws make it easy to drink, but can't make… — Ty Boyland Copy Share Image
“You better ignore this. You better staple your eyes shut and put pot-lids over your ears and pinch your nose with vice… — B.J. Ward Copy Share Image
“I squatted by the water as it flowed over the tumbled rocks, thought how far they must've come to have settled in… — Janet Fitch Copy Share Image
“DeLois lived up the block on 142nd Street and never had her hair done, and all the neighbourhood women sucked their teeth… — Audre Lorde Copy Share Image
Past and future monopolize the poet’s sensory and intellectual faculties, detached from the immediate spectacle. These two philtres become utterly clear the… — Andre Breton Copy Share Image
“I've never met anyone who loves in the same way. But that's the beauty of finding the heart meant for yours. The… — Alfa H Copy Share Image
“Having set its mark on the generation before Cocteau’s, symbolism expressed a form of inner dissidence confronting the narrow-minded materialism and utilitarian… — Claude Arnaud Copy Share Image
The programmer, like the poet, works only slightly removed from pure thought-stuff. He builds his castles in the air, from air, creating… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The view of the highway was so bad that you could not even see the next viaduct. Te moment it loomed out… — Janet Fitch Copy Share Image
“Their ghosts are gagged, their books are library flotsam, Some of their names - not all - we learnt in school But,… — Louis MacNeice Copy Share Image
“Human beings are members of a whole, In creation of one essence and soul. If one member is afflicted with pain, Other… — Muslih Al-Din Mushrif Ibn Abd Allah Al Saadi 1184 1283 Copy Share Image
“The perfect person does not exist. There is no woman or man you would meet who would make you write poetry. So… — Avijeet Das Copy Share Image
I know not that there is anything in nature more soothing to the mind than the contemplation of the moon, sailing, like… — William Gilmore Simms Copy Share Image
I always like to think that I make movies that are like Nirvana songs. They have a slow verse, and then they… — James Gunn Copy Share Image
Sentences are not different enough to hold the attention unless they are dramatic. No ingenuity of varying structure will do. All that… — Robert Frost Copy Share Image
“What I would say is this: writing poems doesn't make you a poet. … It is only with poetry, for some reason,… — Franz Wright Copy Share Image
“Blossom In April the ponds open like black blossoms, the moon swims in every one; there’s fire everywhere: frogs shouting their desire,… — Mary Oliver Copy Share Image
Everybody nose dive, hold your breath, count to five. Back slap, booby trap, cover it up in bubble wrap. Room shake, earth… — Peter Gabriel Copy Share Image
“Very Like a Whale One thing that literature would be greatly the better for Would be a more restricted employment by authors… — Ogden Nash Copy Share Image
“I Imagine Them turning some dog-eared page tapping out a drum beat on the dash sorting the laundry digging for a matching… — Nancy Boutilier Copy Share Image
“I know you are reading this poem in a room where too much has happened for you to bear where the bedclothes… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
“That to the adolescent is the authentic poetic note and whoever is the first in his life to strike it, whether Tennyson,… — W.H. Auden Copy Share Image
Bryan [Iguchi] had this beautiful philosophy about our connection with these incredible cycles. There's a line from one of his poems that… — Travis Rice Copy Share Image
“The campus, an academy of trees, under which some hand, the wind's I guess, had scattered the pale light of thousands of… — Ruth Stone Copy Share Image
I write first drafts with only the good angel on my shoulder, the voice that approves of everything I write. This voice… — Georgia Heard Copy Share Image
“All the same, we ought to point out that if the kinds of poetry and representation which are designed merely to give… — Plato Copy Share Image
I began to write poetry again in 1975, when I fell in love with another woman. I returned to poetry not because… — Minnie Bruce Pratt Copy Share Image
I invented animals and birds - I had about two dozen. After working on them for six months, I sat down and… — Jack Prelutsky Copy Share Image
Any place you love is the world to you”, explained the pensive Catherine Wheel, who had been attached to an old deal… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“July 4th fireworks exhale over the Hudson sadly. It is beautiful that they have to disappear. It's like the time you said… — Frederick Seidel 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
“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
“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
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
When I encountered "The Lady of Shallot" (to take a "for instance" allusion from the many in the book, this one from… — Laura Mullen Copy Share Image
“How surely gravity's law, strong as an ocean current, takes hold of the smallest thing and pulls it toward the heart of… — Rainer Maria Rilke 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
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
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