Creative Quote by Carol Ann Duffy

“poetry is not—except in a very limited sense—a form of self-expression. Who on earth supposes that the pearl expresses the oyster?”

— Cecil Day-Lewis

No good poem, however confessional it may be, is just a self-expression. Who on earth would claim that the pearl expresses the oyster?

— Anonymous

“It was as if I were an oyster and somebody forced a grain of sand into my shell -- a grain of sand that…

— Truman Capote

If there is poetry in my book about the sea, it is not because I deliberately put it there, but because no one could…

— Rachel Carson

“Through the mind like an oyster labors on and on, / A grain of sand is all we have”

— Sylvia Plath

“Real poetry is like a sail at the open sea.”

— Eva Sonenberg

“The winds, the sea, and the moving tides are what they are. If there is wonder and beauty and majesty in them, science will…

— Rachel Carson

So the physicality of that and the just the sheer lack of urban noise and machinery - just the wind, the water and your…

— DJ Spooky

“[...] real poetry must hurt, as if you'd forgotten you wrapped a razor blade in your handkerchief and you blow your nose, no book…

— Bohumil Hrabal

The secret of poetry is cruelty.

— Jon Anderson

“A poem is a skeletal shape. When I say it to you, I am dropping the empty shell of a crab into your warm,…

— Jeffrey L. Hollman

“little more than a whimpering oyster led to be devoured on the sands of a Southern sea by the artful walrus, Circumstance, and the…

— O. Henry