The wisdom of literature is quite antithetical to having opinions. 'Nothing is my last word about anything,' said Henry James. Furnishing opinions,… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
Identifying Israel with Jewry obscures the existence of the small but important post-Zionist movement in Israel, including the philosophers Adi Ophir and… — Judith Butler Copy Share Image
There is such a place as fairyland - but only children can find the way to it...until they have grown so old… — Lucy Maud Montgomery Copy Share Image
“Aviation in air, in water and in spirit. Its laws are different in all three cases. The spirit soars the more it… — César Vallejo Copy Share Image
The musician - if he be a good one - finds his own perception prompted by the poet's perception, and he translates… — John Drinkwater Copy Share Image
“I breathe in... The sights and smells Of this city I’ve come to know... So well I gaze... Across the turquoise ocean… — Sanober Khan Copy Share Image
There were moments of despondency when Shakespeare thought himself no poet, and Raphael no painter; when the greatest wits have doubted the… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
I sing in languages that I speak. So when I'm singing a Schubert song, I know precisely what every word means and,… — Jessye Norman Copy Share Image
Poetry itself is music. I'm just lucky that I can convert it into music. William Blake is my favorite poet of all… — Benjamin Clementine Copy Share Image
“ I wish I were a poet. I've never confessed that to anyone, and I'm confessing it to you, because you've given… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
I think the music reflects the state that the society is in. It doesn't suggest the state. I think the poets and… — John Lennon Copy Share Image
Ovid lies here, the poet, skilled in love's gentle sport; By his own talents he worked his undoing. Oh, you who pass… — Ovid Copy Share Image
I'm of the opinion that poetry is always political, and cannot help but be so, regardless of the poet's intent, given that… — Andre Naffis-Sahely Copy Share Image
Embellish the soul with simplicity, with prudence, and everything which is neither virtuous nor vicious. Love all men. Walk according to God;… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
That perhaps is your task--to find the relation between things that seem incompatible yet have a mysterious affinity, to absorb every experience… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
In the 1970s, for example, I found myself learning to relish the poetry of Andrew Marvell and Sir Thomas Wyatt, and getting… — Adam Kirsch Copy Share Image
I always hesitate to call myself a children's poet, and I always hesitate to call what I write for children poetry. Though… — Mary Ann Hoberman Copy Share Image
We must cultivate and defend particularity, individuality, and irregularity-life. Human beings do not have a future in the collectivism of bureaucratic states… — Octavio Paz Copy Share Image
Words too familiar, or too remote, defeat the purpose of a poet. From those sounds which we hear on small or on… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
I cannot say I'm a poet. That's for someone when they take in consideration where they can bestow 'poet' on. I can't… — Rodney Crowell Copy Share Image
The judges who awarded the 1980 Commonwealth Poetry Prize to my first collection of poems, Crossing the Peninsula and Other Poems, cited… — Shirley Geok-lin Lim Copy Share Image
I don't spend time thinking about an aesthetic out of which I create or an ideal toward which my body of work… — Albert Goldbarth Copy Share Image
The philosophic mind inclines always to an elaborate life--the life of Goethe or of Leonardo da Vinci; but the life of the… — James Joyce Copy Share Image
Wake! For the Sun, who scatter'd into flight The Stars before him from the Field of Night, Drives Night along with them… — Omar Khayyam Copy Share Image
You can't argue with someone who believes, or just passionately suspects, that the poet's function is not to write what he must… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Schoolchildren all over America are told to write to authors-often to authors whom they have never before heard of, whose work they… — Conrad Aiken Copy Share Image
Poets need be in no degree jealous of the geologists. The stony science, with buried creations for its domains, and half an… — Hugh Miller Copy Share Image
“Lovers and madmen have such seething brains, Such shaping fantasies, that apprehend More than cool reason ever comprehends. The lunatic, the lover… — Shakespeare William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Universities are filled with poets and novelists conducting demure and careful lives in imitation of Eliot and Forster and those others who… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
When American poet Alice Notley was very young, she used to sit in front of the radio and just listen. When she… — Elizabeth Flock Copy Share Image
If I knew what I was doing, I'd be doing it right now. I would be the best damn poet, silver words… — Keith Urban Copy Share Image
You can recollect the sayings of great men, you treasure up verse of renowned poets; ought you not be equally profound in… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
The being who, for most men, is the source of the most lively, and even, be it said, to the shame of… — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
Great is the art, Great be the manners, of the bard. He shall not his brain encumber With the coil of rhythm… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Janice Gould is one of our best poets. The music of her poetry will delight you, and her gentle courageous accounts of… — Leslie Marmon Silko Copy Share Image
The first thing that strikes you about Timothy Murphys verse is the palpable texture of his line - that sound of sense… — Michael Donaghy Copy Share Image
“A poet makes himself a visionary through a long, boundless, and systematized disorganization of all the senses. All forms of love, of… — Arthur Rimbaud Copy Share Image
I wouldn't be happy to be a specialist. There are some very interesting artists in history who refused to be nailed down… — Robert Lepage Copy Share Image
The inspiration of a single book has made preachers, poets, philosophers, authors, and statesmen. On the other hand, the demoralization of a… — Orison Swett Marden Copy Share Image
By adherence to a special set of rules, the child of the shabby-genteel can sometimes leap across the time which has passed… — Murray Kempton Copy Share Image
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