Content tagged poetry
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US$100m was recently bequeathed to Poetry, which currently operates with four staff and an annual budget of US$600,000. One writer quips, “That’s … gulfstream/975
Poetry like “The Mouse’s Tail.” gulfstream/2015
The little Virgina Quarterly Review scored six nominations in the National Magazine Awards (only the Atlantic got more). “What makes VQR distinctive … gulfstream/2028
Quotes Collected
My own prescription for making poetry popular in the schools would be to ban it--with possession treated as a serious misdemeanor, and dealing as a felony--but … quotes/404
The truth is, that if you're working on a piece at three in the morning, you're not Keats; you're just late. The glitch in this argument is that I'm not … quotes/279
[Harold] Bloom is famous for his memory and his reading speed. He has memorized a large proportion of canonical poetry written in English; once, when … quotes/256
A word about fact checking. Several hindsight artists have been quoted in the press saying that the New Republic's fact checkers should have caught Glass. … quotes/193
But whatever his weight in pounds, shillings and ounces, He always seems bigger because of his bounces. "And that's the whole poem," he said. … pooh/48
All our days are so unprofitable while they pass, that 'tis wonderful where or when we ever got anything of this which we call wisdom, poetry, virtue. … emerson/22
"Is it very long?" Alice asked, for she had heard a good deal of poetry that day. "It's long," said the Knight, "but it's very, _very_ beautiful. Everybody … alice/52
Of a man's abilities first comes knowledge of the teachings of the sages, by a clear understanding of literature. Next is hand-writing, which should … kenko/15
