Famous Quotes & Sayings

Tony Buzan

In 1971, when I was 29, I wrote my first volume of poetry. I am a poet, and I have published four books of my poems.

Chang-Rae Lee

I think book clubs should read more contemporary poetry.

Umberto Eco

For Mallarmé naming an object meant suppressing three-quarters of its poetic pleasure (which consists in the joy of guessing bit by bit - "le suggérer, voilà le rêve!").

William Wordsworth

poetry is the breath and finer spirit of knowledge

Jose Marti

Terrible times in which priests no longer merit the praise of poets and in which poets have not yet begun to be priests.

Jose Ortega y Gasset

Poetry has become the higher algebra of metaphors.

Jose Bergamin

The novel is born of disillusionment; the poem, of despair.

Jonathan Swift

From not the gravest of Divines, Accept for once some serious Lines.

Hartley Coleridge

A bard whom there were none to praise, And very few to read.

Matt Groening

I know all those words, but that sentence makes no sense to me.

Kathy Ireland

I was 40 before I learned that 'No' was a complete sentence.

Amy Poehler

Make no a complete sentence.

Anatole France

The best sentence? The shortest.

Per Petterson

I do not think of literature as something confessional or therapeutic. I make sentences in order to be precise about experiences and things. I am urged by many things and no things in particular.

Michelle Green

There are a lot of things you can be doing with your kids. We want them to write sentences by the end of kindergarten.

Ursula K. Le Guin

Prose writers are interested mostly in life and commas.

Patti Smith

I've written a lot of prose. I just haven't published it.

James Payn

And what holds good of verse holds infinitely better in respect to prose.

Randall Upshaw

It's surprising to me that the prosecutor would even think about charging (Etheridge) in this case.

Andrei Tarkovsky

I have to say from the outset that not all prose can be transferred to the screen.

John Hughes

My early prose style - this is so embarrassing - was sort of a suburban, Presbyterian knockoff of Woody Allen.

Ernest Hemingway

it wasn't by accident that the Gettysburg address was so short.