The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning and a lightning bug. ~Mark Twain
It is necessary to write, if the days are not to slip emptily by. How else, indeed, to clap the net over the butterfly of the moment? For the moment passes, it is forgotten; the mood is gone; life itself is gone. That is where the writer scores over his fellows: he catches the changes of his mind on the hop. ~Vita Sackville-West
The wastebasket is a writer's best friend. ~Isaac Bashevis Singer
There's nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and open a vein. ~Walter Wellesley "Red" Smith
Don't tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass. ~Anton Chekhov
Poetry is just the evidence of life. If your life is burning well, poetry is just the ash. ~Leonard Cohen
Poetry is a deal of joy and pain and wonder, with a dash of the dictionary. ~Kahlil Gibran
Always be a poet, even in prose. ~Charles Baudelaire, "My Heart Laid Bare," Intimate Journals, 1864
Poetry is the journal of the sea animal living on land, wanting to fly in the air. Poetry is a search for syllables to shoot at the barriers of the unknown and the unknowable. Poetry is a phantom script telling how rainbows are made and why they go away. ~Carl Sandburg, Poetry Considered
The distinction between historian and poet is not in the one writing prose and the other verse... the one describes the thing that has been, and the other a kind of thing that might be. Hence poetry is something more philosophic and of graver import than history, since its statements are of the nature rather of universals, whereas those of history are singulars. ~Aristotle, On Poetics
Poetry is a packsack of invisible keepsakes. ~Carl Sandburg
Poetry should... should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost a remembrance. ~John Keats
Poetry is an echo, asking a shadow to dance. ~Carl Sandburg
God is the perfect poet. ~Robert Browning
It is necessary to write, if the days are not to slip emptily by. How else, indeed, to clap the net over the butterfly of the moment? For the moment passes, it is forgotten; the mood is gone; life itself is gone. That is where the writer scores over his fellows: he catches the changes of his mind on the hop. ~Vita Sackville-West
The wastebasket is a writer's best friend. ~Isaac Bashevis Singer
There's nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and open a vein. ~Walter Wellesley "Red" Smith
Don't tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass. ~Anton Chekhov
Poetry is just the evidence of life. If your life is burning well, poetry is just the ash. ~Leonard Cohen
Poetry is a deal of joy and pain and wonder, with a dash of the dictionary. ~Kahlil Gibran
Always be a poet, even in prose. ~Charles Baudelaire, "My Heart Laid Bare," Intimate Journals, 1864
Poetry is the journal of the sea animal living on land, wanting to fly in the air. Poetry is a search for syllables to shoot at the barriers of the unknown and the unknowable. Poetry is a phantom script telling how rainbows are made and why they go away. ~Carl Sandburg, Poetry Considered
The distinction between historian and poet is not in the one writing prose and the other verse... the one describes the thing that has been, and the other a kind of thing that might be. Hence poetry is something more philosophic and of graver import than history, since its statements are of the nature rather of universals, whereas those of history are singulars. ~Aristotle, On Poetics
Poetry is a packsack of invisible keepsakes. ~Carl Sandburg
Poetry should... should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost a remembrance. ~John Keats
Poetry is an echo, asking a shadow to dance. ~Carl Sandburg
God is the perfect poet. ~Robert Browning
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- I'm a tigereye texture poet for 1,231 comments.
- I am a 28 year old girl (England)
- When I'm not writing, I'm wishing I was writing. .
- I have 1,231 comments, 2 contests, 249 poems
My Poetry
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Cast in exact duplicate, they edge the beach
in terse, diagonal regiment. Tin-nippled, sunk12 lines, 11 comments, May 27. In Contemporary, Personal -
Polished stones gleam in the late sun. Gilt lettering,
coloured cellophane, roses crisped to a dark mottling.28 lines, 16 comments, May 14. In Contemporary -
Dignified, you weave your decadent shroud,
embroidering each stitch with queenly calm.49 lines, 6 comments, January 27 -
Gone the grey water with its yellowish foam: ice
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whoudini : i like your site and famous people with on May 25a good saying is good
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Mulefa on January 26oohhhh also good new manchester new writing website - www.nastysafari.com - have a peek and see if you'd like to submit something. it's not quite fully working yet but we're getting there. not going to stay a dull website either - we're going to set up open mics and stuff and have live events. it'd be great if you wanted to submit some lovely poetry xxxx
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Mulefa on January 26There's a tiny bit of me that's thinking of doing a phd but only if I can get a full scholarship and be able to teach first years to make enough money to live on. I've applied to teach first too. Eeeeeeeeeeeep. not sure not sure. I have dreams of being an eternal student but I doubt it cam happen. Your plans sound brill. Let me know if you want to know anything about the creative writing department here by the way x
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Mulefa on January 19Your plans sound lovely. I'd love to go to Thailand. I can't wait to go travelling again.
I'm doing it at manchester because I love this city and I was lucky to get a scholarship so it made sense to stay here where my friends are and where I know most the drama department if I need to steal actors to put a play on. I'm doing my masters in poetry which is very lovely. I'm enjoying it so so much even it's very tweedy and geeky.
So where have you applied to? x
