Poetry Quote by Joshua Beckman Download Open image ““Leave New York or the poem will kill you.”” — Joshua Beckman ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.6 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Poetry
“New York was always so beautiful in the very crux of parting with it.” — Hannah Lillith Assadi Copy Share Image
“Everyone has their own New York in the heart, place where there is hope for everybody.” — T.A Copy Share Image
“New York always brings out the serial killer in me. It’s a great city to kill in. The best. You've got something like fifteen… — Stephen Leather Copy Share Image
“. . . New York doesn't leave a lot of time for pondering forks in the road. People who have paused to gather their… — Josh Kilmer-Purcell Copy Share Image
“People come to New York to find fame and fortune. I found both, so I left.” — Nancy Seligsohn Copy Share Image
“That is what New York teaches: beginnings and endings; how to start a scene, and how to escape it.” — John Weir Copy Share Image
“Everything was going to kill you, poetry as well, and the last was the most deadly.” — Brian Castro Copy Share Image
“I hear children screaming I want to awaken them to show them the hog's blood and make them start screaming” — Joshua Beckman 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
