“I like short poems with weird rhyme schemes, because that's what life is like.” — John Green Copy Share Image
I think of my best poems as vessels that I can or hope to fill with everything I have. — Alex Lemon Copy Share Image
“It is such a pity how some people Are dead long before their hearts stop beating.” — Justin Wetch Copy Share Image
“to play a solitary game of chequers, to read, to write – what should I do?” — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
Had enough of my poetry yet? That's why they pay me to fight demons instead. — Charles Stross Copy Share Image
“Tears are shed in my heart like the rain on the town. ( Il pleure dans mon coeur Comme il pleut sur… — Paul Verlaine Copy Share Image
“Don’t go to sleep one night, wrote Rūmī, the thirteenth-century Persian poet. What you most want will come to you then.” — Phil Knight Copy Share Image
Pain is essential. Often I cannot avoid it.Therefore all one can do is redeem it; and the only way to redeem it… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
Creativity is essential to any kind of joyful living. Sometimes I act, sometimes I draw, I paint, I write poems. I can't… — Zephyr Teachout Copy Share Image
I was very committed to the process of composing, working at poems, putting things together and taking them apart like some kind… — David Antin Copy Share Image
As a prose writer, I work with language; and those who work with language turn to poetry for renewal. — Samuel R. Delany Copy Share Image
Once you reach your fifties, you have to stop being interested in the present and write only on Elizabethan poets. — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
Thomas Jefferson was a real poet. He was slick with that 'pursuit' of happiness because the 'pursuit' puts it back on you. — Will Smith Copy Share Image
I hope that the feeling of making poetry is not confined to the people who write it down. There is no luxury… — Stella Benson Copy Share Image
“She will blaze through you like a gypsy wildfire. Igniting you soul and dancing in its flames. And when she is gone,… — Nicole Lyons Copy Share Image
We have a 'now you see Him, now you don't' God. We have Himself clothed in visions, in dreams, in metaphors, in… — Luci Shaw Copy Share Image
What the artist tries to do (either consciously or unconsciously) is to not only capture the essence of something but also to… — Vilayanur S. Ramachandran Copy Share Image
“This reminded him of Alvis Bender's contention that stories were like nations - Italy, a great epic poem, Britain, a thick novel,… — Jess Walter Copy Share Image
“This is poetry, but it is not delicate and fragile, a placid ocean beneath a Bible vese on an inspirational poster. This… — N.D. Wilson Copy Share Image
I had rather be a Kitten, and cry mew, Than one of these same Meeter Ballad-mongers: I had rather heare a Brazen… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
“indeed there are soul realities,” with “mein liebster” at a safe distance. “I have never had one at all like it, and… — Megan Marshall Copy Share Image
We're the artist of our life, we shape things no one else can hear touch smell or see. — Jeremy Limn Copy Share Image
I'm no parasite. I'm a poet who will bring honor and glory to his country. — Joseph Brodsky Copy Share Image
The box was a universe, a poem, frozen on the boundaries of human experience. — William Gibson Copy Share Image
Universe is just a verse of me, I keep it generic and the niggas take it personally. — Drake Copy Share Image
There has never been a great poet who wasn't also a great reader of poetry. — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
I'd rather write poetry than watch TV it allows me to share the wide screen in me. — Stanley Victor Paskavich Copy Share Image
“Can you believe the man rhymed 'Rumplestiltskin' with 'crumpled napkins'?” — Christopher Healy Copy Share Image
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