“ After a Retreat What hast thou learnt today? Hast thou sounded awful mysteries, Hast pierced the veiled skies, Climbed to the… — Robert Hugh Benson Copy Share Image
I read everything. I'll read a John Grisham novel, I'll sit and read a whole book of poems by Maya Angelou, or… — Jessye Norman Copy Share Image
I'm trying to create a collection of stories - the 'U.F.O.W.A.V.E.' songs are all stories. I haven't really taken direct lyrical influence… — King Krule Copy Share Image
Reading Ngo Tu Lap's poems, terrible nostalgia wells up in me- nostalgia for a lost time and a far-gone country, nostalgia for… — Maxine Hong Kingston Copy Share Image
“Twas noontide of summer, And mid-time of night; And stars, in their orbits, Shone pale, thro' the light Of the brighter, cold… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
“The Ph.D is one of the chosen who know that some things can never be fathomed, no matter how hard you try.… — Elfriede Jelinek Copy Share Image
“The Weaver My life is but a weaving between my Lord and me; I cannot choose the colors He worketh steadily. Oft… — Benjamin Malachi Franklin Copy Share Image
“She (my mother) could still recite them (the poems) in full when she was lying helpless and nearly blind, in her bed,… — Eudora Welty Copy Share Image
“How could I live above the water or breathe under it. How could I swim in darkness consumed in an ocean of… — robert m drake Copy Share Image
“Twenty-two poems covered the period from Lev’s first serious efforts to his arrest in 1948 at the age of nineteen. Very Mandelstamian,… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
If you move on then I have to go but I swear I wont be ok, but I know you will be… — Megannn Copy Share Image
“O Sailor! It’s the way I want to be It’s beyond the pale for me It’s what being unknown is all about… — Tapan Ghosh Copy Share Image
To me, writing is a matter of voice. I think like that. The expression I sometimes use to myself is 'actual song.'… — Robert Pinsky Copy Share Image
“Although I've written a few (a very few) poems over the years, I am not a natural poet...and I remain in awe… — Terri Windling Copy Share Image
“ O Deus Ego Amo Te Oh God, I love Thee mightily, Not only for Thy saving me, Nor yet because who… — Robert Hugh Benson Copy Share Image
One of my latest sensations was going to Lady Airlie's to hear Browning read his own poems - with the comport of… — Henry James Copy Share Image
If I were to die thinking that I'd written three poems that people might read after me, I would feel that I… — Andrew Motion Copy Share Image
I think what life experience has brought to my poems is compassion. When you work hard to make a living, raise a… — Dorianne Laux Copy Share Image
“If you were not so gentle, If you were hard to please, If you were never patient And always ill at ease,… — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
“Don’t pack out! To some people, you make life bright When you decide to dim your light Their lives will be full… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
“You must be kidding." She says, "Having the power of life and death isn't enough. You must wonder what other poems are… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
“My uncle read me Omar Khayyam. In Arabic. Not Turkish or even English. I tried so hard to understand it. I would… — Miranda Emmerson Copy Share Image
I tread through the black ice, covered in the feathers of yesterday. Ages pass, I've seen the muddy water. To be alone,… — Jeremy Limn Copy Share Image
One Christmas I had no money, and so I went home and just, like, wrote a poem; I mean, I didn't write… — June Diane Raphael Copy Share Image
Mournfully I gaze into bright blazoned sky's, illuminating with haze of death's eye's, the sudden flash of blazon fire decimates the worlds… — Johnny Luckett Copy Share Image
Poems come from ordinary experiences and objects, I think. Out of memory - a dress I lent my daughter on her way… — Sharon Olds Copy Share Image
“Better Associations: If you associate yourself with a change maker, Your life will by all means become better. You will wink at… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
Most of the poems I write go through forty versions and then stay in a file on my computer. I'm not very… — Nick Laird Copy Share Image
“She reads his poems gratefully in her small Mississippi town. It's an undramatic life, yet these past months she seems to have… — Beth Ann Fennelly Copy Share Image
“The world you are in – Is the true hell. The journey to Truth itself Is what quickens the heart to become… — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image
I went to West Texas and started writing a cycle of Americana poems after the space conjured images that, as a child,… — Nathalie Handal Copy Share Image
“The poems which touched her heart most, suffusing her with exalted emotion, so that she felt she could gather everything to her,… — halldor laxness Copy Share Image
“There is dew on these poems in the morning, and at night a cool breeze may rise from them. In the winter… — Kabir Copy Share Image
Well, it's a badge of honour for any self-respecting poet to be criticized by Auberon Waugh. But in a lot of ways… — Andrew Motion Copy Share Image
“All stories are about battles, of one kind or another, which end in victory and defeat. Everything moves toward the end, when… — John Berger Copy Share Image
“just then a little black ant struggles by alone, alone. And in that moment, I want us to give ourselves over to… — Michael Kleber-Diggs Copy Share Image
Today is such a strange day. The news is out about the Russians and mini-Donald. This seems like a turning point, but… — Matthew Zapruder Copy Share Image
“Poetry was not meant to be a workhorse; it was not designed to paint pretty moral pictures of life; it was not… — Francis Beauchesne Thornton Copy Share Image
The poems ... are moments when I had the intensity to see, and the energy to build, some careful analog that completed… — Samuel R. Delany Copy Share Image
“I wanted to write some words you'd remember. Words so alert they'd leap from the paper, crawl up your shoulder, lie by… — C.L. Foster Copy Share Image
![“The Ph.D is one of the chosen who know that some things can never be fathomed, no matter how hard you try. What good are explanations? There is no possibility of explaining how such a work [Mozart's Requiem, in the instance] could ever have come into being. (The same holds true for certain poems…” quote by Elfriede Jelinek](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/a95/elfriede-jelinek-4485_analysis_the-ph-d-is-one-of-the-chosen-who-know-t_1802299.jpg)
