“If there is anything I love most, in the poems I love, it is the audible braiding of that bravery, that essential empty-handedness, and that willingness to be taken by surprise, all in one voice.” IfsPoetryVoiceTakenEssentialsEmptyBraverySurpriseWillingness Author:Jorie Graham
“Poetry isn't a profession, it's a way of life. It's an empty basket; you put your life into it and make something out of that.” WayPoetryEmptyProfessionBaskets Author:Mary Oliver
“I think that there are empty ecological niches in the literary landscape crying to be filled and when a book more or less fills a niche it's seized on, even when it's a far from perfect fit...” ThinkingBookPoetryLiteraturePerfectCryFitEmptyFilledLandscapeNicheEcologicalPerfect Fit Author:Edmund White
“Love like a phantoms lights but hold in the heart, it builds like the empty smile adorning a statue with sightless eyes.” HeartLightEyePoetryEmptyStatuesPhantoms Author:Dan Fogelberg
“Madonna, she still has not showed, we see this empty cage now corrode, where her cape of the stage once had flowed, the fiddler he now steps to the road, on the back of the fish truck that loads, while my conscience explodes.” StillsPoetryStepsStageConscienceEmptyFishesLoadCagesTruckCapesFiddlers Book:The Lyrics: Since 1962 Source: The Lyrics: Since 1962
“Young and old will sit and judge unfeeling, while the empty churches' bells are pealing. And the green hills lay ignored, untended, lonely watchers remain unbefriended.” YoungPoetryChurchJudgingLonelyEmptyGreenLaysHillsBellsIgnoredWatchersYoung And OldUnfeelingChurch BellsGreen Hills Author:Pete Townshend