Shakespeare - The Early Years
Inspiration for a spot o' Macbeth
'Out, damned spot! out, I say!' - Macbeth Act V, Scene I
QuotaBillsDancing is silent poetry. - Simonides
Reverse: Repeating poetry - Daffynitions joe-ks.com
Vigorous writing is concise. - William Strunk, Jr.
Easy reading is damn hard writing. - Nathaniel Hawthorne
Poetry should only occupy the idle. - Lord Byron
I am a drinker with writing problems. - Brendan Behan
I like Beethoven, especially the poems. - Ringo Starr
A poem begins with a lump in the throat. - Robert Frost
This poem will never reach its destination. - Voltaire
You campaign in poetry; you govern in prose. - Mario Cuomo
A poem begins in delight and ends in wisdom. - Robert Frost
Journal writing is a voyage to the interior. - Christina Baldwin
Poetry is a way of taking life by the throat. - Robert Frost
Pure mathematics is the poetry of logical ideas. - Albert Einstein
My poems are hymns of praise to the glory of life. - Edith Sitwell
I see the poem or the novel ending with an open door. - Michael Ondaatje
The United States themselves are essentially the greatest poem. - Walt Whitman
People do not deserve good writing, they are so pleased with bad. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
Poetry is the statement of a relation between a man and the world. - Wallace Stevens
Writing is only the frosting on my cake. I'm whole without it. - Tabitha King
Proper names are poetry in the raw. Like all poetry they are untranslatable. - W H Auden
I have never started a poem yet whose end I knew. Writing a poem is discovering. - Robert Frost
The dark night was the first book of poetry, and the constellations were the poems. - Chet Raymo
Poetry spills from the cracks of a broken heart, but flows from one which is loved. - Christopher P. Rubero
There are three rules for writing a novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are. - W Somerset Maugham
I can write the saddest poem of all tonight. I loved her, and sometimes she loved me too. - Pablo Neruda
We are all pencils in the hand of a writing God, who is sending love letters to the world. - Mother Teresa
Writing is very much a playground - an artistic playground. It's the most fun thing I do. - Shania Twain
Some people will tell you there is a great deal of poetry and fine sentiment in a chest of tea. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
Of all the useless things a person can do, limerick writing is right up there with golf and fishing. - Garrison Keillor
I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman. - Virginia Woolf
Shakespeare said pretty well everything and what he left out, James Joyce, with a judge from meself, put in. - Brendan Behan
Writing is easy: All you do is sit staring at a blank piece of paper until drops of blood form on your forehead. - Gene Fowler
I was working on the proof of one of my poems all the morning, and took out a comma. In the afternoon I put it back again. - Oscar Wilde
The best way to become a successful writer is to read good writing, remember it, and then forget where you remember it from. - Gene Fowler
Doing well with blogging is not about writing one key post, it is about performing day after day and helping a few people at a time. - Aaron Wall
Deals are my art form. Other people paint beautifully on canvas or write wonderful poetry. I like making deals, preferably big deals. - Donald Trump
I love writing for women. The willingness to go from laughter to tears in a moment is the greatest palette you can paint with as a writer. - Michael P King
When my wife says she'll be ready in 5 minutes, I know I have just enough time to fly to space and write a poem on the moon before we go. - Mike Vanatta
Think while walking, walk while thinking, and let writing be but the light pause, as the body on a walk rests in contemplation of wide open spaces. - Frederic Gros