Some of my favorite poets had a tremendous sense of whimsy, so it's a writing style I guess I admire. — Jewel Copy Share Image
“Traps!" he said. "Never in the world! Don't think it! Why, Gower is just a necessary olf bore. Nobody's supposed to know… — Henry Blake Fuller Copy Share Image
“I is for immortality, which for some poets is a necessary compensation. Presumably miserable in this life, they will be remembered when… — Mark Strand Copy Share Image
“Support all singers, musicians, photographers, dancers, painters, poets and writers. We don't fight wars. We spread love in the world.” — Avijeet Das Copy Share Image
“I am Stephanie Lahart! An intelligent, empowered, and confident Black Queen. Purposely Fearless!” — Stephanie Lahart Copy Share Image
“There's no money in poetry, but there's no poetry in money, either.” — Robert Graves Copy Share Image
He lives the poetry that he cannot write. The others write the poetry that they dare not realise. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“I am talking about the responsibility of the poet, who is irresponsible by definition, an anarchist enamored of a solar order and… — Julio Cortázar Copy Share Image
I take a real interest in the possibilities of teaching - including the practice of bringing creative writing, and serious reading, into… — Michael Cadnum Copy Share Image
The trouble with the performance poets is that they don't seem to have read anything. So there is not a real sense… — Peter Davison Copy Share Image
“Some of the most passionately erotic poets have been the most self-contained in their daily lives.” — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
Poets are simply those who have made a profession ans a lifestyle of being in touch with their bliss. — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
“My advice for aspiring writers is simply this: NEVER GIVE UP. Do not let anyone tell you that you cannot achieve your… — Rachel Nicole Wagner Copy Share Image
“Nowadays you have to be a scientist if you want to be a killer. No, no, I was neither. Ladies and gentleman… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
This seems to me a philosophical question, and therefore irrelevant, question. A poet's destiny is to love. — Robert Graves Copy Share Image
“You don’t sound like a scientist, you sound like a poet.” Rey smiled, “Can I be both?” But you’d rather be a… — Daniel Alarcon Copy Share Image
“Poetry is a finikin thing of air That lives uncertainly and not for long Yet radiantly beyond much lustier blurs.” — Wallace Stevens Copy Share Image
“I’m a maker of ballads right pretty I write them right here in the street You can buy them all over the… — Mark Knopfler Copy Share Image
What this country needs is a great poem. John Brown's Body was a step in the right direction. I've read it once,… — Herbert Hoover Copy Share Image
There are countless circles of hell; believers never penetrate the ninth circle. — Dejan Stojanovic Copy Share Image
“I used to know Brian Howard well -- a dazzling young man to my innocent eyes. In later life he became very… — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
