Shakespeare |
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Shakespeare's Sonnets by the numbers |
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Gunga Din by Rudyard Kipling |
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Paradise Lost: (1674 version) |
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The Voluble Poet ●
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T.S. Eliot - "The Love Song of J. Alfred Purfrock" |
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Patrick Stewart Reads Shakespeare |
French Poetry |
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Rhyme Zone |
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Lord Byron ● Robert Frost |
Urban Dictionary |
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Merriam-Webster |
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Poets & Writers ● poetry soup ● Poets.org |
Wordnik |
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Realistic Poetry ● Every Poet ● Tarzana Joe |
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Original Poetry |
Chase Twichell - Drafting and Revising |
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@Carrie_Etter |
Books |
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| The Triggering Town: Lectures and Essays on Poetry and Writing | |||
Poetry Foundation |
The Poet's Companion: A Guide to the Pleasures of Writing Poetry |
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● Fish Bones Poetry Review ● |
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A Brief Guide to Confessional Poetry |
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Boyle poetry |
Daddy ~ By Sylvia Plath | ||
| In Celebration of My Uterus ~ By Anne Sexton | |||
Poetic Form: Villanelle |
Skunk Hour ~ By Robert Lowell | ||
| A Locked House ~ By W. D. Snodgrass | |||
Poetic Form: Pantoum |
The Song of the Demented Priest~ By John Berryman | ||
| Poetry Slam - 10.08.17 | Having It out with Melancholy ~ By Jane Kenyon | ||
| Suitcase Song ~ by Albert Goldbarth | |||
The Negro Speaks of Rivers by Langston Hughes - (1902-1967) |
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| W.S. Merwin: “The Nails” A long-lost meditation on heartbreak and pain. | Hafizah Geter |
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Fungi from Yuggoth |
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| James Merrill, Mirror | |||
| No artist is pleased. There is no satisfaction whatever at any time. There is only a queer, divine dissatisfaction; a blessed unrest that keeps us marching and makes us more alive than the others. ~ Martha Graham |
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Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words. |
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| The truest poetry is the most feiging. ~ William Shakespeare |
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| You explain nothing, O poet, but thanks to you all things become explicable. ~ Paul Claudel |
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| There is a pleasure in poetic pains which only poets know. ~ William Cowper |
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Poetry is finer and more philosphical than history; for poetry expresses the univeral, and history only the particular. |
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| In poetry, everything which must be said is almost impossible to say well. ~ Paul Valery |
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Poetry lies its way to the truth |
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| [I]f you looked up the word, “fastidious” and try to apply it to my actions and tried to realize this is why I am in this class, it is because of poems and their fastidious nature. ~ Paul Ruggeri |
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| You learn to write the same way you learn to play golf. You do it, and keep doing it until you get it right. A lot of people think something mystical happens to you, that maybe the muse kisses you on the ear. But writing isn’t divinely inspired—it's hard work. ~ Tom Clancy |
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| Nothing is as real as a dream. The world can change around you, but your dream will not. Responsibilities need not erase it. Duties need not obscure it. Because the dream is within you, no one can take it away. ~ Tom Clancy |
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| You must keep sending work out; you must never let a manuscript do nothing but eat its head off in a drawer. You send that work out again and again, while you're working on another one. If you have talent, you will receive some measure of success - but only if you persist. ~ Isaac Asimov |
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| And the trouble is, if you don't risk anything, you risk even more. ~ Erica Jong |
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| Keep away from people who try to belittle your dreams. Small people always do that, but the really great ones make you feel that you too, can become great. ~ Mark Twain |
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When asked, 'How do you write?' I invariably answer, 'one word at a time. |
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| There is real magic in enthusiasm. It spells the difference between mediocrity and accomplishment. ~ Anonymous |
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Talent is cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work. |
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| There is no agony like having an untold story inside you. ~ Zora Neale Hurston |
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| TV ... really is about the last thing an aspiring writer needs. If you feel you must have the news analyst blowhards on CNN while you exercise, or the stock market blowhards on MSNBC, or the sports blowhards on ESPN, it's time for you to question how serious you really are about becoming a writer. You must be prepared to do some serious turning inward toward the life of the imagination, and that means, I'm afraid, that Geraldo, Keith Obermann, and Jay Leno must go. Reading takes time, and the glass teat takes too much. ~ Stephen King |
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| Imagination is more important than knowledge. ~ Albert Einstein |
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The beautiful part of writing |
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| Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful people with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. The slogan 'press on' has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race. ~ Calvin Coolidge |
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| You don't find time to write. You make time. It's my job. ~ Nora Roberts |
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| Success is a finished book, a stack of pages each of which is filled with words. If you reach that point, you have won a victory over yourself no less impressive than sailing single-handed around the world. ~ Tom Clancy |
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| If you're a voracious reader and you write something that you want to read, odds are other people will want to read it, too. ~ Tim Maleeny |
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Books aren't written -- they're rewritten. |
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| The quickest, easiest way to produce something beautiful and lasting is to risk making something horribly crappy. ~ Chris Baty |
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| Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up. ~ Thomas Edison |
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The main rule of writing is that, if you do it with enough assurance and confidence, you're allowed to do whatever you like. (That may be a rule for life as well as for writing. But it's definitely true for writing.) |
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| “The biggest thing separating people from their artistic ambitions is not a lack of talent. It's the lack of a DEADLINE. ~ Chris Baty |
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| Create a character who is both proactive and sympathetic, someone with a hole in her life, but who is willing to risk all for her goal. When readers care, you can get away with almost anything. ~ Bonnie Hearn Hill |
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| But I work harder now because I have so much more exposure. And actually the harder you work as a writer, the better you get at it. It's like anything else. It's a muscle you have to exercise. I write more now than ever. ~ Ron White | |||
| Progress comes to those who train and train; reliance on secret techniques will get you nowhere. ~ Morihei Ueshiba |
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