Poetry Quote by Ralph Fletcher Download Open image ““The real meaning of a poem is to stop time.”” — Ralph Fletcher ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.3 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Poetry Real Stop time Time
“My poetry lives in the spaces of time, in between time, in time out. It is not a constant vibe; I catch it like… — Tonny Brown Copy Share Image
My obsession with time informs my poetry so completely it is hard for me to summarize it. We want time to pass, for new… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Poetry is the perpetual endeavor to express the spirit of the thing, to pass the brute body and search the life and reason which… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
It may very well be that we have entered another time when most poets will feel compelled to use poetry to stop things from… — Matthew Zapruder Copy Share Image
By making us stop for a moment, poetry gives us an opportunity to think about ourselves as human beings on this planet and what… — Rita Dove Copy Share Image
If you want to write poetry, you must have poems that deeply move you. Poems you can't live without. I think of a poem… — Ralph Fletcher Copy Share Image
You don't learn to write by going through a series of preset writing exercises. You learn to write by grappling with a real subject… — Ralph Fletcher Copy Share Image
“When students write from experience, they can breathe those specifics into their writing- dialect, odd smells, precise names of plants- that can animate even… — Ralph Fletcher Copy Share Image
Poems are the 'daredevil' of writing because a poem will say what nobody else wants to say. — Ralph Fletcher Copy Share Image
Good writing happens when human beings follow particular steps to take control of their sentences-to make their words do what they want them to… — Ralph Fletcher Copy Share Image
It's misleading to think of writers as special creatures, word sorcerers who possess some sort of magical knowledge hidden from everyone else. Writers are… — Ralph Fletcher Copy Share Image
G.K. Chesterton once said: If something is worth doing, it is worth doing badly. I live by this philosophy when I teach writing. It… — Ralph Fletcher Copy Share Image
“When someone you love dies, you get a big bowl of sadness put down in front of you, steaming hot. You can start eating… — Ralph Fletcher Copy Share Image
A notebook can be a clearing in the forest of your life, a place where you can be alone and content as you play… — Ralph Fletcher 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
