Shakespeare - The Early Years

Music 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