My poems always begin with a metaphor, but my way into the metaphor may be a word, an image, even a sound. And I rarely know the nature of the... →
Stephen Dobyns
I can't believe there is a poet who hasn't eagerly put down a word one day, only to erase it the next day deciding it was sheer lunacy.... →
All Bridget Jones did was give us a word for it - singleton - which was the worst possible thing.
Daisy Donovan
Although by 1851 tales of adventure had begun to seem antiquated, they had rendered a large service to the course of literature: they had removed the... →
Carl Clinton Van Doren
We sometimes encounter people, even perfect strangers, who begin to interest us at first sight, somehow suddenly, all at once, before a word has been... →
Fyodor Dostoevsky
The word that best sums up this team is sacrifice.
Hugh Douglas
Conservation is now a dead word.
Marjory Stoneman Douglas
Your word is your bond.
Melvyn Douglas
We who have the final word can speak softly or angrily. We can seek to challenge and annoy, as we need not stay docile and quiet.
William O. Douglas
When the poet makes his perfect selection of a word, he is endowing the word with life.
John Drinkwater