Shakespeare - The Early Years
Inspiration for a spot o' Macbeth
'Out, damned spot! out, I say!' - Macbeth Act V, Scene I
QuotaBillsMusic is the poetry of the air. - Jean Paul Richter
Love is the poetry of the senses. - Honore de Balzac
I like Beethoven, especially the poems. - Ringo Starr
A poem begins with a lump in the throat. - Robert Frost
You campaign in poetry; you govern in prose. - Mario Cuomo
A poem begins in delight and ends in wisdom. - Robert Frost
I'm writing an unauthorized autobiography. - Steven Wright
Pure mathematics is the poetry of logical ideas. - Albert Einstein
I write poems like some people sing in the bathroom. - Amit Bhatia
There is creative reading as well as creative writing. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
Writing about music is like dancing about architecture. - Elvis Costello
Fiction writing is great, you can make up almost anything. - Ivana Trump
I'm writing a book. I've got the page numbers done. - Steven Wright
Writing is throwing spaghetti at a wall to see what sticks. - Kelly E. Lindner
If you really want to know yourself, start by writing a book. - Shereen El Feki
The United States themselves are essentially the greatest poem. - Walt Whitman
If the banks are so friendly, how come they chain down the pens? - Alan King
There is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem. - Booker T Washington
People do not deserve good writing, they are so pleased with bad. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
Dreams are illustrations from the book your soul is writing about you. - Marsha Norman
Most people ignore most poetry because most poetry ignores most people. - Adrian Mitchell
I get intrigued by a puzzle, and writing a book is the best way to solve it. - Anthony Storr
I have nature and art and poetry, and if that is not enough, what is enough? - Vincent van Gogh
There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed. - Ernest Hemingway
I write by ear. I tried writing with the typewriter, but I found it too unwieldy. - Groucho Marx
Times are bad. Children no longer obey their parents, and everyone is writing a book. - Cicero
Start writing, no matter what. The water does not flow until the faucet is turned on. - Louis L'Amour
Writing is mentally stimulating; it's like a puzzle that makes you think all the time. - Stephanie Zimbalist
The greatest tragedies were written by the Greeks and Shakespeare... neither knew chocolate. - Sandra Boynton
The writing of more than 75 poems in any fiscal year should be punishable by a fine of $500. - Ed Sanders
Playing Shakespeare is so tiring. You never get a chance to sit down unless you're a king. - Josephine Hull
Early on, if I was alone two or three nights in a row, I'd start writing poems about suicide. - Jack Nicholson
I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman. - Virginia Woolf
I'm a games and theory king of guy. I love puzzles, so it was fun dissecting Shakespeare's prose. - Neil Patrick Harris
I can't understand why you don't get any mail from me. Perhaps it's because I haven't been writing. - Groucho Marx
Children raced outside. She surveyed their trail - traces of sticky fingerprints across everything, like wee poems. - Dr. SunWolf
Originality is not seen in single words or even sentences. Originality is the sum total of a man's thinking and writing. - Isaac B Singer
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
If you would not be forgotten as soon as you are dead and rotten, either write something worth reading or do things worth the writing. - Benjamin Franklin
Stretching the capabilities of my imagination is a crucial aspect of writing fiction; you could think of it as a mental form of athleticism. - Julia Glass