"Humour is a fine line to walk in poetry, as in fiction. I just think it's harder to write. It's harder to keep the respect of the reader too."

Poetry, Fiction, Respect

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"Humour is a fine line to walk in poetry, as in fiction. I just think it's harder to write. It's harder to keep the respect of the reader too."

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"Women do not have as great a need for poetry because their own essence is poetry."

Karl Schlegel, German Philosopher

Poetry, Women

"One could do worse than be a swinger of birches."

Robert Frost, American Poet

Poetry, Nature, Metaphor, Life

"Now begins to rise in me the familiar rhythm; words that have lain dormant now lift, now toss their crests, and fall and rise, and falls again. I am a poet, yes. Surely I am a great poet."

Virginia Woolf, British Author

Poetry, Creativity, Identity, Words

"Death, like a host, comes smiling to the door;Smiling, he greets us, on that tranquil shoreWhere neither piping bird nor peeping dawnDisturbs the eternal sleep,But in the stillness far withdrawnOur dreamless rest for evermore we keep."

Robert Louis Stevenson, Scottish Writer

Poetry, Death, Peace, Rest, Eternity

"Poetry. i am not writing it.(make way for me please)it is my skin. dripping with light."

Sanober Khan, Indian Businessman

Poetry, Light, Skin, Expression

"Here the frailest leaves of me and yet my strongest lasting, Here I shade and hide my thoughts, I myself do not expose them, And yet they expose me more than all my other poems."

Walt Whitman, American Poet

Poetry, Expression, Identity, Reflection

"Justice is not Healing. Healing cometh only by suffering and patience, and maketh no demand, not even for Justice. Justice worketh only within the bonds of things as they are... and therefore though Justice is itself good and desireth no further evil, it can but perpetuate the evil that was, and doth not prevent it from the bearing of fruit in sorrow."

J. R. R. Tolkien, English Novelist

Poetry, Peace, Beauty, Truth, Hope

"My love is a winter's mistgently dissolvingthrough the windowat the nape of your neck."

Sanober Khan, Indian Businessman

Poetry, Love, Winter, Emotion

"I tried to discover, in the rumor of forests and waves, words that other men could not hear, and I pricked up my ears to listen to the revelation of their harmony."

Gustave Flaubert, French Novelist

Poetry, Nature, Sound, Discovery

"The crown of literature is poetry."

W. Somerset Maugham, British Playwright

Poetry, Literature

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"I was writing notes, but not composing poems. The Hunter began to develop out of this fragmented process."

Poems

"With 'Carousel' I had an idea and it all came out quickly."

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"It's a bit of a crapshoot out there with young writers right now anyway."

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"I think the main influence has been living in New York City. Aside from all the crap around 9/11, I find it very demanding to think amid all the noise and visual pollution."

Influence

"I still write the occasional short story, and poked at a novel once, but it's just not what I want to do."

Want

"I've often entertained paranoid suspicions about my fridge and what it's been doing to my poetry when I'm not looking, but I never even considered that my fan was thinking about me."

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"Women do not have as great a need for poetry because their own essence is poetry."

"One could do worse than be a swinger of birches."

"Now begins to rise in me the familiar rhythm; words that have lain dormant now lift, now toss their crests, and fall and rise, and falls again. I am a poet, yes. Surely I am a great poet."

"Death, like a host, comes smiling to the door;Smiling, he greets us, on that tranquil shoreWhere neither piping bird nor peeping dawnDisturbs the eternal sleep,But in the stillness far withdrawnOur dreamless rest for evermore we keep."

"Poetry. i am not writing it.(make way for me please)it is my skin. dripping with light."

"Here the frailest leaves of me and yet my strongest lasting, Here I shade and hide my thoughts, I myself do not expose them, And yet they expose me more than all my other poems."

"My love is a winter's mistgently dissolvingthrough the windowat the nape of your neck."

"I tried to discover, in the rumor of forests and waves, words that other men could not hear, and I pricked up my ears to listen to the revelation of their harmony."

"The crown of literature is poetry."

Explore more quotes by George Murray

"I was writing notes, but not composing poems. The Hunter began to develop out of this fragmented process."

"With 'Carousel' I had an idea and it all came out quickly."

"It's a bit of a crapshoot out there with young writers right now anyway."

"I think the main influence has been living in New York City. Aside from all the crap around 9/11, I find it very demanding to think amid all the noise and visual pollution."

"The poetry community here has been extraordinarily welcoming."

"I am certainly suffering from a modicum of performance anxiety."

"I think, for me, humour needs to be used like a strong spice - sparingly."

"My self-editing process is intense."

"I still write the occasional short story, and poked at a novel once, but it's just not what I want to do."

"I've often entertained paranoid suspicions about my fridge and what it's been doing to my poetry when I'm not looking, but I never even considered that my fan was thinking about me."