What we had went so much deeper than a kiss. When we were together, she turned me completely inside out. It didn't… — Kami Garcia Copy Share Image
Photography is painting with light! The blurs, the spots, those are errors! But the errors are part of it, they give it… — Miroslav Tichy Copy Share Image
All of the arts are kin - music and sculpture and dance, those are wordless art forms. But poetry is defined by… — Campbell McGrath Copy Share Image
“I don’t need your praise to survive. I was here first, before you were here, before you ever planted a garden. And… — Louise Glück Copy Share Image
Some men are one thing on the surface and another underneath. The true poet shows not just the exterior of his subject,… — Steven Saylor Copy Share Image
Of all the arts, abstract painting is the most difficult. It demands that you know how to draw well, that you have… — Wassily Kandinsky Copy Share Image
A poem is like a person. The more you know someone, the more you realize there is always something more to know… — Matthew Zapruder Copy Share Image
“I liked to call myself a poet and had affected a habit of reading classical texts (in translation, of course – I… — Mary Karr Copy Share Image
“Equally, the surrealists consider words as witnesses of life acting in a direct way in human affairs. To use words properly it… — Michael Richardson Copy Share Image
A poem doesn't do everything for you. You are supposed to go on with your thinking. You are supposed to enrich the… — Gwendolyn Brooks Copy Share Image
The dream is not a map. A poem is not the territory. The dreamer reclines in a barbershop carpeted with Afro turf.… — Harryette Mullen Copy Share Image
I was well acquainted with the Calcutta literary circle since I was 17, when I lived in Bangladesh and published and edited… — Taslima Nasrin Copy Share Image
Poetry is my understanding with the world, my intimacy with things, my participation in what is real, my engagement with voices and… — Sophia de Mello Breyner Andresen Copy Share Image
“As Sandy and his wife warmed to the tale, one tripping up another in their eagerness to tell everything, it gradually developed… — Margaret Oliphant Copy Share Image
We have heard much about the poetry of mathematics, but very little of it has as yet been sung. The ancients had… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Time is an enormous, long river, and I’m standing in it, just as you’re standing in it. My elders are the tributaries,… — Utah Phillips Copy Share Image
It's difficult to put your own bare ass out on the limb every time you sit down to write a poem. But… — Sam Hamill Copy Share Image
“You brought me to places I’d have never thought to go To a trail near the river Where the water runs slow;… — Justin Wetch Copy Share Image
My father died and left me his blessing and his business. His blessing brought no money into my pocket, and as to… — Washington Irving Copy Share Image
“Why didn't you write all this time? Did you not remember us in a song? A dance? In the skies littered with… — Kamand Kojouri Copy Share Image
The greatest poets are those with memories so great that they extend beyond their strongest experiences to their minutest observations of people… — Stephen Spender Copy Share Image
I certainly derived my skills as a prose writer from my scrutiny of poetry and of the individual word. But schools don't… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
“That time I thought I could not go any closer to grief without dying I went closer, and I did not die.… — Mary Oliver Copy Share Image
... the radical deficiency of imagist verse, as such, is in its lack of general ideas. Much of it might have been… — Bliss Perry Copy Share Image
“Ill love you with every little bit of everything that has ever consumed me and I will forever love you and forever… — robert m drake Copy Share Image
“English: Ô, take this eager dance you fool, don’t brandish your stick at me. I have several reasons to travel on, on… — Roman Payne Copy Share Image
Men have jobs, while women have Roles: Mother, Wife, Goddess, Temptress, etc. That's probably why it's so hard for women to rewrite… — Caryl Rivers Copy Share Image
“O friend unseen, unborn, unknown, Student of our sweet English tongue, Read out my words at night, alone: I was a poet,… — James Elroy Flecker Copy Share Image
On occasions, after drinking a pint of beer at luncheon, there would be a flow into my mind with sudden and unaccountable… — A. E. Housman Copy Share Image
“A battle, as relayed by a poet, is a glorious thing, full of heroic stands, daring charges, and valiant sacrifice. But a… — Nicholas Eames Copy Share Image
I need to be able to write a poem after every film and to kind of cleanse myself from the character because… — Masiela Lusha Copy Share Image
“I look in the mirror and see myself, and yet I really don’t. Only an image is perceived, not things I will… — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
Who speaks of art speaks of poetry. There is not art without a poetic aim. There is a species of emotion particular… — Edouard Vuillard Copy Share Image
Robert Frost had a house in Bennington, Vermont, and I had a friend, the poet Mary Ruefle, who was the caretaker of… — Doug Stanton Copy Share Image
God is nothing but creativity. So wherever there is a sign of creativity, God has a signature there. He has already been… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
The charge frequently leveled against poetry - that it is difficult, obscure, hermetic and whatnot - indicates not the state of poetry… — Joseph Brodsky Copy Share Image
The kind of poetry I write, lyric poetry, I think is really concerned with intimacy, with mystery. That needn't be religious mystery,… — Kevin Hart Copy Share Image
“To me at least, poetry like love- implies a magical approach to life, quite different from the presently accepted rational way of… — Jane Roberts Copy Share Image
I did not always know I would be a writer. Until I had a room of my own, I did not write… — Marge Piercy Copy Share Image
“ My Love Is Like To Ice, And I To Fire My love is like to ice, and I to fire; How… — Edmund Spenser Copy Share Image
