Poems By Letter

Results

Displaying 226 to 250 of 265 results
<Previous   2    3    4    5    6    7    8    9    10    11    Next>  

Poem Title   Author
French Chocolates
May. 23, 2014
 
French Lesson
Aug. 5, 2012
 
French Toast
Jan. 20, 2011
 
Fresh Oysters & Beer
May. 5, 2003
 
Friendship After Love
Nov. 15, 2001
Nov. 5, 1995
Sep. 28, 1999
 
 
 
Frog Prince, The
Oct. 13, 1994
 
 
From a Bus Window in Central Ohio, Just Before a Thunder Shower
Dec. 13, 2005
Apr. 23, 2009
 
from A Christmas Carol
Dec. 26, 1998
 
From a Country Overlooked
Sep. 17, 2013
 
From Altitude, the Diamonds
Dec. 21, 2001
Apr. 6, 1994
 
From an Autobiography
Jul. 16, 1997
 
 
From Here to There
Aug. 1, 2009
 
From June to December
Jun. 23, 2005
Jun. 17, 1999
 
From out of the Cave
Apr. 30, 1995
 
From Out the Cave
Oct. 18, 2011
 
From The Choice
Jan. 16, 2006
 
 
From the Manifesto of the Selfish
May. 19, 1997
May. 19, 1998
Mar. 4, 1999
 
 
From Woody's Restaurant, Middlebury
Jun. 15, 2013
 
Fronleichman
Feb. 19, 1994
 

<Previous   2    3    4    5    6    7    8    9    10    11    Next>  



«

»

  • “Writers end up writing stories—or rather, stories' shadows—and they're grateful if they can, but it is not enough. Nothing the writer can do is ever enough” —Joy Williams
  • “I want to live other lives. I've never quite believed that one chance is all I get. Writing is my way of making other chances.” —Anne Tyler
  • “Writing is a performance, like singing an aria or dancing a jig” —Stephen Greenblatt
  • “All good writing is swimming under water and holding your breath.” —F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • “Good writing is always about things that are important to you, things that are scary to you, things that eat you up.” —John Edgar Wideman
  • “In certain ways writing is a form of prayer.” —Denise Levertov
  • “Writing is a socially acceptable form of schizophrenia.” —E.L. Doctorow
  • “Writing is like driving at night in the fog. You can only see as far as your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way.” —E.L. Doctorow
  • “Let's face it, writing is hell.” —William Styron
  • “A writer is someone for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.” —Thomas Mann
  • “Writing is 90 percent procrastination: reading magazines, eating cereal out of the box, watching infomercials.” —Paul Rudnick
  • “Writing is a failure. Writing is not only useless, it's spoiled paper.” —Padget Powell
  • “Writing is very hard work and knowing what you're doing the whole time.” —Shelby Foote
  • “I think all writing is a disease. You can't stop it.” —William Carlos Williams
  • “Writing is like getting married. One should never commit oneself until one is amazed at one's luck.” —Iris Murdoch
  • “The less conscious one is of being ‘a writer,’ the better the writing.” —Pico Iyer
  • “Writing is…that oddest of anomalies: an intimate letter to a stranger.” —Pico Iyer
  • “Writing is my dharma.” —Raja Rao
  • “Writing is a combination of intangible creative fantasy and appallingly hard work.” —Anthony Powell
  • “I think writing is, by definition, an optimistic act.” —Michael Cunningham
Current Faves - Learn more about poets featured frequently on the show