Black people Quote by Richard Carl Evans

In the language of poetry, where every word is weighed, nothing is usual or normal. Not a single stone and not a single cloud…

— Wislawa Szymborska

An acquired taste, this dense Jabberwocky-ish word salad is a political allegory about a populace that's been pharmaceutically duped into believing its wretched world…

— Manohla Dargis

“I have worked locked psych wards and had patients give me stories they wrote or poems and this reminded me of that... Word salad!”

— Montzalee Wittmann

Two girls discover the secret of life in a sudden line of poetry.

— Denise Levertov

“In the shadow of skyscrapers, half-nude men in dugouts cast nets into the lagoon. The work of arms and shoulders. I think of Auden’s…

— Teju Cole

If a line of poetry strays into my memory, my skin bristles so that the razor ceases to act.

— A. E. Housman

I've always felt that a really good joke, a really good one-liner, is a really good line of poetry. It's imagistic, it's compact, there…

— Kate Clinton

He who improvises can never make a perfect line of poetry.

— Titian

“Midway between the too soiled ground and the too-sublime vaults, at the level of the air, entering the skin of the role, poetry plays…

— Michel Leiris

“The appropriation of the creativity-procreativity metaphor by women is a conscious challenge to traditional poetics and beyond that to traditional metaphysics, for the gynocentric…

— Alicia Ostriker

“To Wallace Stevens' post-Nietzschean formula 'God and the imagination are one,' these women poets would add a crucial third element: God and the imagination…

— Alicia Ostriker

“The novel has accompanied man uninterruptedly and faithfully since the beginning of the Modern Era. It was then that the "passion to know," which…

— Milan Kundera