I liked to write from the time I was about 12 or 13. I loved to read. And since I only spoke… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
“How we perceive the world and how we act in it are products of how and what we remember...No lasting joke, invention,… — Joshua Foer Copy Share Image
Poetry is creative expression; Prose is constructive expression... by creative I mean original. In Poetry the words are born or reborn in… — Herbert Read Copy Share Image
“We which were Ovids five books, now are three, For these before the rest preferreth he: If reading five thou plainst of… — Christopher Marlowe Copy Share Image
“And again: We fight by faith. Ephesians, sixth chapter, verse sixteen: “Above all, taking the shield of faith, wherewith ye shall be… — D.L. Moody Copy Share Image
“And my Black bird, still not quitting, still is sitting, still is sitting On that pallid bust -- still flitting through my… — Gilbert Adair Copy Share Image
How does the ordinary person come to the transcendent? For a start, I would say, study poetry. Learn how to read a… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
“The Way of heaven takes away where there's abundance and restores where there's want, but the Way of humankind isn't like that:… — Lao Tzu Copy Share Image
To think of writing poetry as a "career" is not only ridiculous, it's dangerous. To the imagination. To the way one thinks… — Cate Marvin Copy Share Image
If poets often commit suicide, it is not because their poems are bad but because they are good. Whoever heard of a… — Walker Percy Copy Share Image
“Four very strange and truly poetic human beings in this century have attained mastery in prose, for which this century was not… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Well, probably I was fed up with concrete poetry. There was a lot of badTo be a part of a championship team,… — Ian Hamilton Finlay Copy Share Image
I grew up around poets and novelists and my dad wrote poems about everything - from a cat sleeping in a window… — Lucinda Williams Copy Share Image
Any extreme political creed brought only darkness in the long run; it lit up nothing. The best politics were those of caution,… — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image
“The greatest poet does not moralize or make applications of morals... he knows the soul. The soul has that measureless pride which… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
Mediocre prose might be read as an escape, might be spoken on television by actors, or mouthed in movies. But mediocre poetry… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
“In fiction, the characters have their own lives. They may start as a gloss on the author’s life, but they move on… — Jane Yolen Copy Share Image
“Hardy’s astonishing technical versatility has won the admiration of major poets from Ezra Pound and Cecil Day Lewis to Philip Larkin. Among… — Geoffrey Harvey Copy Share Image
“I am in danger of wanting my personal absolute to be a demigod of a man, and as there aren't many around,… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
“I believe that poems, sometimes, perhaps most of the time, ignite something into us. They can transform us overnight. Poems can go… — Yash Thakur Copy Share Image
I'm passing on a tradition of which I am part. There's a long line of poets who went before me, and I'm… — Diane Wakoski Copy Share Image
“A poem is a heroic act of integration that binds into rough harmony the chorus of forces within and outside the soul.… — Tony Hoagland Copy Share Image
Smuggling poems out of prison in the soles of mt shoes i'm way past finding salvation in the arms of a woman,… — Raegan Butcher Copy Share Image
I certainly was surprised to be named Poet Laureate of this far-out city on the left side of the world, and I… — Lawrence Ferlinghetti Copy Share Image
“And what is written well and what is written badly...need we ask Lysias or any other poet or orator who ever wrote… — Robert M Pirsig Copy Share Image
“I'd just smashed someone's head in with a cast-iron skillet, and now this gorgeous, enigmatic man was speaking poetry to me. Finding… — Natalie Bennett Copy Share Image
Much of a poet's experience takes place in imagination only; the life he tells is oftenest the life that he strongly desires… — George Edward Woodberry Copy Share Image
In the writing of poetry we never know anything for sure. We will never know if we have 'trained' or 'practised' enough.… — James Fenton Copy Share Image
What has praise and fame to do with poetry? Was not writing poetry a secret transaction, a voice answering a voice? So… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“Shakespeare is above all writers, at least above all modern writers, the poet of nature; the poet that holds up to his… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
What's the function of poetry? It's to express general truths, to connect with the reader and make him think: 'Wow, I've experienced… — Giles Andreae Copy Share Image
“The poet called Miss Liberty's torch 'the lamp beside the golden door.' Well, that was the entrance to America, and it still… — Ronald Regan Copy Share Image
“The greatest poet in the English language found his poetry where poetry is found: in the lives of the people. He could… — James Baldwin Copy Share Image
Everybody is different. Some comedy is more musical like Steven Wright. His is a pillar of comedy to me. He invented a… — Louis C. K Copy Share Image
“Poetry flows from our hearts. It is like that mass of snow we call a glacier and when it starts its slow… — Balroop Singh Copy Share Image
How can I compare such a thing Not a song could explain this love Leave me now and it will forever sting… — Jade Copy Share Image
The literature of Toni Morrison or Jean Tomer - they're the work and images that have stuck with me. The epic banal… — RaMell Ross Copy Share Image
Freud thought that a psychosis was a waking dream, and that poets were daydreamers too, but I wonder if the reverse is… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Paul [ Burwell] and I had also got interested in making books. We'd been working with Bob Cobbing, the sound poet, since… — David Toop Copy Share Image
“A species in which everyone was General Patton would not succeed, any more than would a race in which everyone was Vincent… — Allen Shawn Copy Share Image
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