Funny Quote by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Download Open image “Many a poem is marred by a superfluous word.” — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.9 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Funny Inspirational Language Love Poetry Writing
What characterizes a poem is its necessary dependence on words as much as its struggle to transcend them. — Octavio Paz Copy Share Image
Every poem that I write is, in a sense, trying to find adequate words for this unspeakable word, around which my entire life turns. — Kevin Hart Copy Share Image
“The words of a good book may be profuse, but the words of a good poem are profound.” — Gregory John Copy Share Image
A poet should be so crafty with words that he is envied even for his pains. — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
I have felt great advances in my poetry, the main one being a growing victory over word nuances and a superfluity of adjectives. — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
Well, the great thing for me about poetry is that in good poems the dislocation of words, that is to say, the distance between… — Harry Mathews Copy Share Image
“Words in a poem are like petals on a flower, only together, in the right position, at the right time are they seen as… — David McDonald Copy Share Image
“Poetry can be a form of restriction. Lock away tragedy inside pretty words. Quantify pieces of infinite love.” — Cody Edward Lee Miller 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
It is interesting to note that poetry, a literary device whose very construct involves the use of words, is itself the word of choice… — Vanna Bonta Copy Share Image
The spring came suddenly, bursting upon the world as a child bursts into a room, with a laugh and a shout and hands full… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
In old age our bodies are worn-out instruments, on which the soul tries in vain to play the melodies of youth. But because the… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
“ Endymion The rising moon has hid the stars; Her level rays, like golden bars, Lie on the landscape green, With shadows brown between.… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
There's nothing fair nor beautiful, but takes Something from thee, that makes it beautiful. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
Fame comes only when deserved, and then is as inevitable as destiny, for it is destiny. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
Nature paints not; In oils, but frescoes the great dome of heaven; With sunsets, and the lovely forms of clouds; And flying vapors. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
“ Thus dwelt together in love these simple Acadian farmers,— Dwelt in the love of God and of man. Alike were they free from Fear,… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
The trees are white with dust, that o'er their sleep Wave their broad curtains in the south-wind's breath, While underneath such leafy tents they… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
Heights by great men reached and kept were not obtained by sudden flight but, while their companions slept, they were toiling upward in the… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
Ah, how skillful grows the hand That obeyeth Love's command! It is the heart, and not the brain, That to the highest doth attain,… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
Thus departed Hiawatha, Hiawatha the Beloved, In the glory of the sunset, In the purple mists of evening, To the regions of the home-wind,… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
When you step out and do a song in a musical, the easier thing to do is make it funny. But when those transitions… — Kelli O'Hara Copy Share Image
It's a hard thing to describe. It's just this sense that you got something to say. — Jonah Lehrer Copy Share Image
Sometimes I look at my awesome twitter followers & think to myself, What the hell would I do without them :) — Nikhil Saluja Copy Share Image
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If you were to send a werewolf to the moon, would he be a werewolf permanently? — Kristen Schaal Copy Share Image
