Cutting Quote by Muriel Rukeyser

I don't think I am cut out for reality shows.

— Mukul Dev

People normally cut reality into compartments, and so are unable to see the interdependence of all phenomena. To see one in all and all…

— Nhat Hanh

The things we fear about poetry are the things that are good about poetry.

— Jake Adam York

“Children delight in poetry if they are not frightened away by adults' fear of poetry.”

— Mary Crow

I also could see myself as a stand-up comedian, a fashion designer (for people of all sizes), a hairdresser, an earnest and eventually burnt-out…

— Denise Duhamel

The statement of ideas in a poem may have to do with logic. More profoundly, it may be identified with the emotional progression of…

— Muriel Rukeyser

I started inventing things, and then I couldn't stop, like beavers, which I know about. People think they cut down trees so they can…

— Jonathan Safran Foer

It's good news that he is proposing to restore budget cuts that he made, but the reality is that he is still proposing a…

— James Rosapepe

Many people become bankrupt through having invested too heavily in the prose of life. To have ruined one's self over poetry is an honor.

— Oscar Wilde

Poetry is the memory of language

— Jacques Roubaud

Poetry is the dark side of the moon,

— Charles Wright

As to London we must console ourselves with the thought that if life outside is less poetic than it was in the days of…

— Goldwin Smith

All poetry is misrepresentation.

— Jeremy Bentham

What I search for continuously in my art is adequate language, language I hope can stand beyond any particular occasion. What I'm finding is…

— Adrienne Rich

I think that at a certain age, say fifteen or sixteen, poetry is like masturbation. But later in life good poets burn their early…

— Umberto Eco