Oetry Quotes

#1. [P]oetry resembles metaphysics: one does not mind one's own, but one does not like anyone else's.

Samuel Butler

#2. There are no laws by which we can write Iliads.

John Ruskin

#3. You have to love with an open hand. The heart is like a bird and you have to let this bird fly freely, you cannot possess it.

Brandon Bays

#4. We have to wake up early and make songs everyday. I run my record label. You work at hours where your body isn't designed to work. But it's fun.

A-Trak

#5. Protested Mrs. Featherstone, a lady in her thirties, whose violently compressed figure suggested that she was engaged in a perpetual struggle to compute her weight in terms of the first syllables of her name rather than the last.

Dorothy L. Sayers

#6. You get it; you're the fuck-em-and-leave-em guy, remember? What's the big deal?" Hawk narrowed his eyes and his jaw twitched. "Yeah, no big deal, babe. You were a great fuck, now on to the next slut.

Chiah Wilder

#7. The blank space can be humbling. But I've faced it my whole professional life. It's my job. It's also my calling. Bottom line: Filling this empty space constitutes my identity.

Twyla Tharp

#8. It's very hard to stop doing things you're used to doing. You almost have to dismantle yourself and scatter it all around and then put a blindfold on and put it back together so that you avoid old habits.

Tom Waits