Poetry Quote by John Collier Download Open image ““Poets can dodge. ("Evening Primrose")”” — John Collier ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.3 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Poetry Poets
Poetry is the arithmetic of the easiest way and the primrose path, matched up with foam-flanked horses, bloody knuckles, and bones, on the hard… — Carl Sandburg Copy Share Image
“Poets always hate those in power. To them perfection is always just behind the last corner, or beyond the next. They escape the present… — Robert E. Howard Copy Share Image
“With poetry, rules are meant to be broken. And that's the beauty of poetry; it's rebellious, like me.” — Melody Lee Copy Share Image
“Don’t be a poet, my darling The taxidermist for ideas and lost dreams” — Erna Grcic Copy Share Image
“If poets have to be in some way criminals, she thinks, nowadays criminals could try being poets.” — Joseph McElroy Copy Share Image
“And so it’s hard for a certain kind of naïve mind at a restless, awakening time of year not to wonder, for example, what… — Lisa R. Spaar Copy Share Image
“There's something to walking with autumnal thoughts through the evening fog. One likes to compose poems at a time like that.” — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
Poets are shameless with their experiences: they exploit them. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
What is it that escapes the observation of poets? What is that act women are incapable of doing? What will drunken people not prate?… — Chanakya Copy Share Image
“I nipped into this sanctuary late this afternoon and soon heard the dying footfalls of closing time. From now on, my only effort will… — John Collier Copy Share Image
“Could we make it our own, there would be an eternally inexhaustible earth and a forever lasting peace.” — John Collier Copy Share Image
“I sometimes marvel that a third-rate writer like me has been able to palm himself off as a second-rate writer.” — John Collier Copy Share Image
“She will want to know all you do," said the old man. "All that has happened to you during the day. Every word of… — John Collier Copy Share Image
“I live with my guns. The world cannot utter its gross libidinous sneers at a girl who lives chastely with her Lee-Enfield, her Ballard,… — John Collier Copy Share Image
The name Phenomenal Woman was inspired by Maya Angelo, who wrote 'Phenomenal Woman', a favorite poem of mine. — Meena Harris Copy Share Image
A poet is wounded into speech, and he examines these wounds, meticulously, to discover how to heal them. The bad poet harangues at the… — Samuel R. Delany Copy Share Image
The poetry from the eighteenth century was prose; the prose from the seventeenth century was poetry. — David Hare Copy Share Image
“It took me years to learn to sit at my desk for more than two minutes at a time, to put up with the… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
The word 'mundane' has come to mean 'boring' and 'dull', and it really shouldn't - it should mean the opposite. Because it comes from… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“In the streets, the children scream, the lovers cried, and the poets dreamed,” he crooned, putting down the metal grill tongs to take my… — Alexandria Clarke Copy Share Image
Some minds corrode and grow inactive under the loss of personal liberty; others grow morbid and irritable; but it is the nature of the… — Washington Irving Copy Share Image
You don’t read or overhear the voice in the poem, you are the voice in the poem. — Helen Vendler Copy Share Image
All lyrical work must, as a whole, be perfectly intelligible, but in some particulars a little unintelligible. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
The world's history is a divine poem, of which the history of every nation is a canto, and every man a word. Its strains… — James A. Garfield Copy Share Image
