“There is a wonderful place where flowers grow in colors beyond the words of poets... trees sing with the songs of butterflies. And mythical tigresses look at you with fiery golden eyes... open your heart and feel the colors of magic blooming inside you.” FeelsLooksHeartEyeSongGrowsWonderfulMagicTreeColorPoetFlowerGoldenButterflyFieryBloomingOpen Your HeartWonderful PlacesGolden EyeTigress Author:Laurel Burch
“I am an ordinary human being who is impelled to write poetry. ... I still do feel that a poet has a duty to words, and that words can do wonderful things, and it's too bad to just let them lie there without doing anything with and for them.” FeelsWritingHumansStillsLyingCan DoHuman BeingsWonderfulPoetDutyOrdinaryWonderful Things Author:Gwendolyn Brooks
“I am a great admirer of Robert Vavra and love his beautiful photographs and books. He is a wonderful artist, a poet.” BookBeautifulArtistWonderfulPoetAnd LovePhotographAdmirer Author:Leni Riefenstahl
“Virtually every beginning poet hurts himself by an addiction to adjectives. Verbs are by far the most important things for poems-especially wonderful tough monosyllables like "gasp" and "cry." Nouns are the next most important. Adjectives tend to be useless.” ImportantNextHurtWonderfulCryPoetToughImportant ThingsAddictionUselessVerbsAdjectivesNouns Author:Donald Hall
“One of my favorite artists is Tom Waits, whom most people think of as a wonderful singer-songwriter and a great poet. I certainly think of him that way, but I also know him as a terrific actor. You know, that persona that he puts on when he's doing his music comes from being an actor, figuring out a persona.” PeopleThinkingKnowsWayArtistActorsWaitingWonderfulPoetMy FavoriteSingersTomsSongwritersTerrificPersonaSinger SongwritersGreat PoetFavorite Artist Author:Jeff Bridges
“It was when I was on the set of Dead Poets Society.There was actor,his name was Norman Lloyd. One day he took us all aside and said, "You guys don't even understand what a powerful experience you're having. You don't really understand what a gift this is." We were going, "What does he mean?" It was that really wonderful opportunities aren't to be taken for granted. I often found that it had embedded itself in my memory.” MeanDoeSaidGuyActorsFoundOpportunityNamesMemoriesPowerfulTakenWonderfulPoetOne DayGrantedEmbeddedTaken For GrantedDead Poets SocietyDead Poets Author:Ethan Hawke
“I have a wonderful editor who believes in fiction and poetry. She herself is a novelist and poet.” BelieveFictionWonderfulPoetNovelistsEditors Author:Frederick Busch
“There's a Welsh poet, R.S. Thomas. He was a very crotchety, strange man, but his poems are wonderful. He was nominated for the Nobel in the 1990s but never won.” MenWonderfulStrangePoetNobelWelshStrange Man Author:Stephen Dobyns
“I do feel that now and I feel that this development of recording poems, of speaking poems at readings, of having records of poets, I think this is a wonderful thing. I'm very excited by it. In a sense, there's a return, isn't there, to the old role of the poet, which was to speak to a group of people, to come across.” PeopleThinkingFeelsReadingSpeakRolesRecordsWonderfulGroupsPoetDevelopmentReturnExcitedWonderful Things Author:Sylvia Plath
“The formal stuff feels old and windy. Not to say you shouldn't know prosody. But it's a wonderful time for exploratory poetics. Contemporary poets are inventing all kinds of wild, complex shapes for poetry, as we see. It's a wonderful time, less ego-centered.” KnowsFeelsKindStuffWonderfulPoetShapesEgoComplexesContemporaryAll KindsFormalInventingWindyWonderful TimesProsody Author:Anne Waldman
“Working with artists and other poets has made me aware that there was a bigger "me" that I hadn't been quite aware of. Plus we had a good time. It's so much fun to write, for example, with a big brush on a giant piece of paper and to help create visually attractive and surprising objects, which is not what you normally do when you're writing a poem. It's wonderful to create these pieces with artists.” WritingHelpingArtistFunWonderfulPoetAttractiveGood TimesHad A Good Time Author:Ron Padgett
“Géza Röhrig is just incredible because he's not an actor, he's a Hungarian poet. He also happens to be a brilliant actor. He's totally unusual, the way he talks and thinks and operates isn't in the same language as you're used to from actors who've been in a lot of things before. It brings this completely bizarre and fresh, wonderful way of approaching everything that I love being around. Not where I'm, as a producer, having to interact with him as an artist, but as somebody who can stand back and admire what he's bringing to this thing that I've nurtured to create a stage for him.” ThinkingArtistLanguageLove IsWonderfulPoetIncrediblesBrilliantAdmireProducersUnusualBizarre Author:Alessandro Nivola
“There are reviews that are clearly wrong. Dr. Johnson's famous Life of Savage, he's clearly wrong about the value of Savage. But it's one of the great works in English literature. You can learn more about the artistic expression and what the poet does and how to write about art from that than any number of guys who are terrible writers, who have no original ideas, but who say yes, "Hamlet" is a wonderful play. It's a meaningless statement.” WritingArtGuyValuesLiteratureWonderfulPoetTerribleArtisticMeaninglessGreat WorkEnglish Literature Author:Gary Giddins