Each speech having its own character, the poetry it engenders will be peculiar to that speech also in its own intrinsic form.… — William Carlos Williams Copy Share Image
You pile of stones, you waste, you desolation, I'll stuff you with misery till it comes out of your eyes. I'll change… — Peter S. Beagle Copy Share Image
“Sometimes, a child will go under while their parent is watching, and they don’t even know anything is wrong. My mom asks… — Brenna Twohy Copy Share Image
At university, I had been obsessed with reading about the lives of Rimbaud and Baudelaire, and I was steeped in the crazy… — Iggy Pop Copy Share Image
“I'm the girl that goes backwards, takes wrong turns, stumbles in the dark. I'm also the girl that finds gold where others… — Melody Lee Copy Share Image
If I wrote in a sonnet form, I would be distorting. Or if I had some great new idea for line breaks… — Sharon Olds Copy Share Image
“I make so many plans but fail at follow-through. Gemini mind once a mat for you to wipe your feet. I’d beg… — Donato DiCristino Copy Share Image
But that so many scholars are barbarians does not much matter so long as a few of them are ready to help… — Robert Graves Copy Share Image
The poem is lonely. It is lonely and en route. Its author stays with it. Does this very fact not place the… — Paul Celan Copy Share Image
There is the question of language. Although the play [Candid] is not written in strict verse form, there is an underlying beat… — Mark Ravenhill Copy Share Image
There are Behan experts in international universities, but we seem to have forgotten him here in Ireland. He was an extraordinarily gifted… — Adrian Dunbar Copy Share Image
I like to do from racing my radio control cars to doing work at the zoo to poems to the TV show.… — Dhani Jones Copy Share Image
“We have, then, three Books wholly and one partially written before, and two after, the Preface; and only one of the first… — Janet Spens Copy Share Image
There are things which some people never attempt during their whole lives, but one of these is not poetry. Poetry attacks all… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“You shall no longer take things at second or third hand… nor look through the eyes of the dead… nor feed on… — John Green Copy Share Image
At Dresden on the Elbe, that handsome city, Where straw hats, verses, and cigars are made, They've built (it well may make… — Heinrich Heine Copy Share Image
I know I'll keep writing poems. That's the constant. I don't know about novels. They're hard. It takes so much concentrated effort.… — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
“In some ways Coleridge committed a form of artistic suicide attempting to solve the complicated mystery he saw in the flocking starlings.… — David Whyte Copy Share Image
Conquering matter is to understand it, and understanding matter is necessary to understanding the universe and ourselves: and that therefore Mendeleev's Periodic… — Primo Levi Copy Share Image
“Charles Simic, when asked what he thought of Slam Poetry events: "They are fun, but they have as much to do with… — Charles Simic Copy Share Image
“But usually not. Usually she thinks of the path to his house, whether deer had eaten the tops of the fiddleheads, why… — Robert Hass Copy Share Image
And, I mean, I think poetry does need to be met to some extent, especially, I guess, 19th century poetry, and for… — Jane Campion Copy Share Image
People in Ireland take in the whole song. After a long history of great singers and songwriters and poets, they are able… — Mary Gauthier Copy Share Image
“I was rooting about among the things for sale when I came on some old books—cheap, well-thumbed copies of the Greek and… — Erich Maria Remarque Copy Share Image
“The whole thing starts with a single knot and needles. A word and pen. Tie a loop in nothing. Look at it.… — Gwyneth Lewis Copy Share Image
“Although he had changed his name, his history came with him, even to his writing. The rhythm of his rain-soaked childhood became… — Pam Muñoz Ryan Copy Share Image
The media has outright lied on me. They reported that I called myself Osama's [Bin Laden] 'sex slave,' apparently unaware that sex… — Kola Boof Copy Share Image
“When he was in college, a famous poet made a useful distinction for him. He had drunk enough in the poet's company… — John Crowley Copy Share Image
“My Father Still Sleeping After Surgery In spite of himself, my father loved me. In spite of the hands that beat me,… — Toi Derricotte Copy Share Image
In your arms I forget what the yarn knows of sweaters. I forget how to hold myself together. So if I unfold… — Andrea Gibson Copy Share Image
Contemporary poetry ... tries to transform the sign back into meaning: its ideal, ultimately, would be to reach not the meaning of… — Roland Barthes Copy Share Image
“JASON: 'Intended wings.' How depressing. MICHAEL: Yes. Makes them into suicides, really, the pigeons. JASON: No - no, it doesn't. It could… — Simon Gray Copy Share Image
THE THOUGHTFUL LOVER Deny yourself all half things. Have it or leave it. But it will keep—or it is not worth the… — William Carlos Williams Copy Share Image
Poetry and code - and mathematics - make us read differently from other forms of writing. Written poetry makes the silent reader… — Stephanie Strickland Copy Share Image
Ornate rhetorick taught out of the rule of Plato… To which poetry would be made subsequent, or indeed rather precedent, as being… — John Milton Copy Share Image
Learning, traveling and comparing the world, writing outraged poetry, producing revolutionary art, demonstrating, holding the older generation-including their own parents and grandparents,… — Andre Vltchek Copy Share Image
“my mine , I searching for you .. long time in the trip time walls, searching you in was me.. I never… — Ridwan Nurwansyah Copy Share Image
“Ease this knot, Lord. I beg You, make it all stop. Songs, stop playing. Poetry, stop reciting. Planes, stop flying. I implore… — Claudia Serrano Copy Share Image
“To deny that there are sorrows and rewards after death is to deny the existence of God; since God exists, it must… — Collin de Plancy Copy Share Image
“Thirsty for being, the poet ceaselessly reaches out to reality, seeking with the indefatigable harpoon of the poem a reality that is… — Julio Cortázar Copy Share Image
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