The function of a book or a poem or a story is to delight, to enchant, to beguile. — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
“I loved him... much more than I liked him. And therein was the beginning of the end.” — Alfa H Copy Share Image
Prose, narratives, etcetera, can carry healing. Poetry does it more intensely. — Ted Hughes Copy Share Image
I want to be a poet. I don't want to talk about genies in bottles anymore. — Christina Aguilera Copy Share Image
The poet is one who is able to keep the fresh vision of the child alive. — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
“Today is Sunday It will be Sunday forever Black birds fly over In this one instance May we never recover From this… — Lourd Ernest H. de Veyra Copy Share Image
People go on quarrelling and fancying this and that, and thinking that the world is full of romance and poetry. When they… — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
“Time is in essence separation; separation produces pain; pain poesis; and poesis is what constitutes the unending stream of human life in… — Ananya Vajpeyi Copy Share Image
“For if my poems have always been about survival--and I believe they have been--then survival too keeps revealing itself as an art… — Jane Cooper Copy Share Image
“As if you can measure literary excellence with precise instruments; as if there were a science of writing, governed by equations that… — Justine Picardie Copy Share Image
Poetry is most just to its divine origin, when it administers the comforts and breathes the thoughts of religion. — William Wordsworth Copy Share Image
Then read from the treasured volume the poem of thy choice, and lend to the rhyme of the poet the beauty of… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
“The one who can draw your widest smile is also the one who can throw you to the farthest exile” — Sam Haidy Copy Share Image
Music is the purest form of art... therefore true poets, they who are seers, seek to express the universe in terms of… — Rabindranath Tagore Copy Share Image
“I wasn’t sure whether he was a grad student, poet, actor, stripper, or brilliant combination of all those things. But the man… — Chloe Neill Copy Share Image
If you are ambitious of climbing up to the difficult, and in a manner inaccessible, summit of the Temple of Fame, your… — Miguel de Cervantes Copy Share Image
“Yes; the poem goes something like this: 'Bamboo without mind, yet sends thoughts soaring among clouds. Standing on the lone mountain, quiet,… — Audrey Niffenegger Copy Share Image
“The stars stare back In that deep, Soul-shattering blackness And from the depths of existence Comes a cruel, icy wind Raising the… — Justin Wetch Copy Share Image
“In the old days a poet once said" In the old days a poet once said our nation is destroyed yet the… — Ko Un Copy Share Image
While I was in school, trying to figure out how to write an essay that could both satisfy my nonfiction workshops and… — John D'Agata Copy Share Image
“Once in a while, though, he went on binges. He would sneak into bookstores or libraries, lurk around the racks where the… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
