“Occasionally you can hear her howl, when the sky is black and the moon is full.” — Melody Lee Copy Share Image
For even bad poetry has relevance for what it does not say for what it leaves out. — Lawrence Ferlinghetti Copy Share Image
The function of poetry is to point out that the sign is not identical to the referent. — Roman Jakobson Copy Share Image
I think there's one thing which distinguishes our art - we don't consider. We don't think. We write a little verse because… — Howard Nemerov Copy Share Image
“The tide was a poem that only time could create, and I watched it stream and brim and makes its steady dash… — Pat Conroy Copy Share Image
True love ennobles and dignifies the material labors of life; and homely services rendered for love's sake have in them a poetry… — Harriet Beecher Stowe Copy Share Image
“...some say Twitter seems trite and lacks weightiness - but in actuality, it lends itself to poetry - it can be very… — John Geddes Copy Share Image
I spent my days waiting for you, searching the crowds for your face. I stopped breathing the moment you recognized me, as… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I admire the poetic relationship to place as enacted in Wallace Stevens' poems; his poetics strikes me as an argument against the… — Cate Marvin Copy Share Image
I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman. — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Still the question remains of what actually speaks in a poem, if not subjectivity as historically constructed. — Thomas Harrison Copy Share Image
“The first discipline is the realization that there is a discipline—-that all art begins and ends with discipline, that any art is… — Archibald MacLeish Copy Share Image
“Defining moment in new telepathist's life, moment when intuitive individual learns most of society isn't telepathic, doesn't see auras,doesn't know what life… — Christina Westover Copy Share Image
“It was a mistake… I made a lot of them. When it came to me and you. I expected you to read… — Kasie West Copy Share Image
Poets are being pursued by the philosophers today, out of the poverty of philosophy. God damn it, you might think a man… — William Carlos Williams Copy Share Image
“He ate and drank the precious words, His spirit grew robust; He knew no more that he was poor, Nor that his… — Emily Dickinson Copy Share Image
A great biography should, like the close of a great drama, leave behind it a feeling of serenity. We collect into a… — Andre Maurois Copy Share Image
“Janitorial" All morning he drifts the spacious lawns like a gleaner, picking up this and that, the summer clouds immense and building… — George Bilgere Copy Share Image
Somewhere back a whiskey or so ago I wrote that thinking was a real thing in the world, just like anything else.… — Matthew Zapruder Copy Share Image
