One Christmas I had no money, and so I went home and just, like, wrote a poem; I mean, I didn't write… — June Diane Raphael Copy Share Image
The laureateship [of U.S. Children's Poet] has brought me a couple of appealing contracts, including my first anthology, the 200-poem The National… — J. Patrick Lewis Copy Share Image
When these idiot rightwingers start complaining about poetry being political, I'm fond of reciting Sappho to them, who excluded men from her… — Sam Hamill Copy Share Image
It is a mistake to suppose, with some philosophers of aesthetics, that art and poetry aim to deal with the general and… — Ernest Fenollosa Copy Share Image
“Standing upright in the solitude of his room, he vowed that he would be the first poet of his race and bring… — Orlando Virginia Dalloway Copy Share Image
I think a good poem should have some inscrutable part. You can't quite explain it. The poem can only explain itself to… — Billy Collins Copy Share Image
“Poem of the Song About Hope" I. Give me lilies, lilies, And roses too. But if you have no lilies Or roses… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
“...He bade his heart go to her, When the owls called out no more; In a red and quivering garment It sang… — W.B. Yeats Copy Share Image
“To write poetry and to commit suicide, apparently so contradictory, had really been the same, attempts at escape. And my feelings, at… — John Fowles Copy Share Image
“Idols of the injury, dug in behind the least understood motor plan information. The vile abomination temporal lobes and The four loathsome… — Bill Ectric Copy Share Image
“These are shows designed for the underground artists, painters, philosophers, thinkers, musicians, visual artists, poets, set designers––it’s a creative community that’s coming… — HXS Arthouse Director Amish Darr Copy Share Image
When you find it you become the secret addressee of a literary text and I felt that their reader had been left… — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
I was thinking a little bit about this very thing - poetry and music - the other day when I was listening… — Matthew Zapruder Copy Share Image
“in the afterglow of an evening rain i lay down in the grass and think of you my body aches like an… — Sanober Khan Copy Share Image
“Crossing lines that can never be uncrossed. Clangoring out words that can never be forgot. Leaving welts behind with their lashing tongues.… — A.Y. Greyson Copy Share Image
A writer is someone who spends years patiently trying to discover the second being inside him, and the world that makes him… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
“For your sake poets sequester themselves, gather images to churn the mind, journey forth, ripening with metaphor, and all their lives they… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
My question is "when did other people give up the idea of being a poet?" You know, when we are kids we… — William Stafford Copy Share Image
My first spoken word poem, packed with all the wisdom of a 14-year-old, was about the injustice of being seen as unfeminine.… — Sarah Kay Copy Share Image
Dragons are more dangerous, and a good deal commoner, than bears. Fantasy is nearer to poetry, to mysticism, and to insanity than… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
The bible is very resonant. It has everything, creation, betrayal, lust, poetry, prophecy, sacrifice. All great things are in the bible and… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
For me, form is something I locate in the process of writing the poems. What I mean is, I start scribbling, and… — Matthew Zapruder Copy Share Image
Written poetry is worth reading once, and then should be destroyed. Let the dead poets make way for others. Then we might… — Antonin Artaud Copy Share Image
“I can't understand how a man who seems never to read imaginative writing of any kind (novels, poetry, short stories, high-brow, middle-brow,… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
“ I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud I wandered lonely as a cloud That floats on high o'er vales and hills, When… — William Wordsworth Copy Share Image
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