Beautiful Quote by Helen Mirren

Like speaks to like only; labor to labor, philosophy to philosophy, criticism to criticism, poetry to poetry. Literature speaks how much still to the…

— Henry David Thoreau

My wife has a beastly habit of comparing poetry -- all literature in fact -- to the droppings of the goats among the rocks…

— D. H. Lawrence

“I wasn’t reading poetry because my aim was to work my way through English Literature in Prose A–Z. But this was different. I read…

— Jeanette Winterson

I had no one to help me, but the T. S. Eliot helped me. So when people say that poetry is a luxury, or…

— Jeanette Winterson

“A tough life needs a tough language—and that is what poetry is. That is what literature offers—a language powerful enough to say how it…

— Jeanette Winterson

Romance is the poetry of literature.

— Suzanne Curchod

“When I write poetry, I’ll write it down, or a tiny bit of it, and then have to depend on the reader to bring…

— William Anderson

In general, in poetry and literature, I am among those people who believe that too much is indispensable.

— Yevgeny Yevtushenko

We go to poetry, we go to literature in general, to be forwarded within ourselves.

— Seamus Heaney

I don't differentiate in the way that the genre creators want differentiation to be made. I feel that I have never written children's or…

— Robin McKinley

I still feel like if I can get a song to work with, say, a basic beat, a rhythm, some chord changes, and a…

— David Byrne

Sometimes you read the script and you feel that this is a challenging role but at times you feel that this one was written…

— Rasika Dugal

“Sometimes I’ll read a book and feel it was written just for me. Then I’ll flip the book over to look at the cover…

— Jarod Kintz

A writer, or at least a poet, is always being asked by people who should know better: “Whom do you write for?” The question…

— Anonymous

Strange, I feel as if up to now I had written no more than a few notes.

— Ludwig van Beethoven