Lyres are placid in the hands of poets; but the true lyre is the poet himself. – Alexandre Vinet (1797–1847) Category: Poetry
I think poetry has lost an awful lot of its muscle because nobody knows any. Nobody has to memorize poetry. – Peter Davison Category: Poetry
You dont go after poetry, you take what comes. Maybe the gods do it through me but I certainly do a hell of a lot of the work. – Phyllis Gotlieb Category: Poetry
For me, poetry is a situation – a state of being, a way of facing life and facing history. – Tahar Ben Jelloun Category: Poetry
Still, language is resilient, and poetry when it is pressured simply goes underground. – Diane Wakoski Category: Poetry
Billy Crystal knows how to make people laugh. Hes got 30 years on stage… theres no telling him whats funny. – Harold Ramis Category: funny
No matter what you study, the thing that you know best is what you grew up with. – Maria Sharapova Category: best
