Poetry can explain individuals to ourselves, and change our attitudes, and help us see the complexity of the world, but the kind… — Stephen Burt Copy Share Image
“Well," the Marsh King pursed his beak politely, "at any rate, your manliness need only last for a relatively brief period. I… — Catherynne M. Valente Copy Share Image
I don't think all poems need to be written in conversational language - those are often great poems but there should also… — Matthea Harvey Copy Share Image
“Have you ever noticed that all four of the greatest poets in the world are Muslim? And yet all the Muslims you… — Aravind Adiga Copy Share Image
Sometimes I just start humming something, find a melody I like a lot, and if it sticks around for a couple days,… — Jack Johnson Copy Share Image
Kill what you can't save what you can't eat throw out what you can't throw out bury What you can't bury give… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
I was the audience he wanted to reach. Gram Parsons' writing brought his own personal generations poetry and vision into the very… — Emmylou Harris Copy Share Image
There's an old poem by Neruda that I've always been captivated by, and one of the lines in it has stuck with… — Taylor Swift 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
“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
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
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
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
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
“But oh, mesdames, if you are not allowed to touch the heart sometimes in spite of syntax, and are not to be… — William Makepeace Thackeray Copy Share Image
When I was 15 or 16 playing in groups, we used to sit in the car and try to write the lyrics… — Tom Petty Copy Share Image
“From the first note I knew it was different from anything I had ever heard… It began simply, but with an arresting… — Deanna Raybourn 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
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
“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
“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
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
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
“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
'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
“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
According to energy medicine, we are all living history books. Our bodies contain our histories- every chapter, line and verse of every… — Caroline Myss Copy Share Image
“ The following year the house was substantially remodeled, and the conservatory removed. As the walls of the now crumbling wall were… — Jamie Fuller Copy Share Image
I don't see my artist friends as any more neurotic or addiction-prone than the others. The roommates I have had who were… — Russell Smith Copy Share Image
