Categories Quote by Marianne Moore

I see no reason for calling my work poetry except that there is no other category in which to put it.

— Marianne Moore

I aspire to write what are called 'familiar essays.' They begin in the personal and end in the universal. It's not for me to…

— David Rakoff

Why do I write? I have been called a writer of catastrophes, but that isn't true. I am always looking for words of love.…

— Svetlana Alexievich

My sister Tiffany told me years ago, 'You can never write about me.' Then she called six months ago and said she wanted to…

— David Sedaris

“Once again, Whittemore escapes what might be a fatal mistake in another author. Far from the funhouse hall of mirrors one might expect from…

— Edward Whittemore

When you think intensely and beautifully, something happens. That something is called poetry. If you think that way and speak at the same time,…

— Robert Bringhurst

“OMG! I DESIGNED THIS NEW SOCIAL MEDIA PLATFORM! IT'S CALLED "POETRY" - YOU HAVE TO READ AMY KING'S POEMS TO GET AN INVITE ~”

— Amy King

I was surprised recently to find a book called "Poetry in Persons" that's coming out about visit to poets to a class that Pearl…

— Edward Hirsch

Ted Hughes is dead. That's a fact, OK. Then there's something called the poetry of Ted Hughes. The poetry of Ted Hughes is more…

— Derek Walcott

I told the truth about the Miami life. It's a nice place to visit, but you don't want to live here. I lived through…

— Trick Daddy

The key factor in the vodka category is smoothness, and smoothness is what our vodka has.

— Fuzzy Zoeller

When I was at AOL, I was always on the web media side while much of the company was focused on the ISP business.…

— Jim Bankoff