“Letting go I can have a firm foundation To honor you And hold you in my heart” — April Nichole Copy Share Image
“There is no hope for the hopeless but there is always some love for the loveless.” — Santosh Kalwar Copy Share Image
“Prose: words in their best order; poetry: the best words in the best order.” — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
“poetry melts my bones. enters my blood. and changes its composition.” — Sanober Khan Copy Share Image
“Sharing one umbrella, We have to hold each other, Round the waist to keep together, You ask me why I'm smiling- It's… — Vicki Feaver Copy Share Image
How something important happens is the business of historians and newspapers, the effect it has is the business of philosophers and writers… — Karl Shapiro Copy Share Image
My poems... the ones that start out as jokes become these big ponderous things and the ones that start out ponderous devolve… — Jess Walter Copy Share Image
“Why spend our time searching to feel reality, when it’s the times that don’t feel real that we remember forever?” — Michael Biondi Copy Share Image
“I said his poetry was terrible. It sounds like he ate a dictionary and started vomiting up words at random.” — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
If the art of poetry is?the art of making sense of the chaos of human experience, it's not a bad thing to… — Archibald MacLeish Copy Share Image
'Rather You Than Me' just speaks for my natural instinct to survive, but it's also me being a writer, me being a… — Rick Ross Copy Share Image
“The morality of the poet's radiant and productive atmosphere is the morality of the right sensation.” — Wallace Stevens Copy Share Image
“I want words which are scalpel sharp and shiny; poems keen enough to gut a fish and clean it. Poems labelled not… — Catherine Bateson Copy Share Image
“After I consumed Frost in his entirety, my days of exploration began. I read The Diving Comedy while leafing through E. E.… — Spencer Gordon Copy Share Image
“In a sermon I heard recently, the minister claimed that the portrait of God as a storm god (a literary motif that… — Leland Ryken Copy Share Image
“You shall not twist my bones into a star’s shape, nor plant my hair as roots for the dreams of the living;… — Lisel Mueller Copy Share Image
So far as I am concerned, poetry and every other art was and is and forever will be strictly and distinctly a… — e. e. cummings Copy Share Image
Music is storming, driving, relentless, devotional, slinky, subtle, heartbreakingly-beautiful sounds that, lyrically, switch from the cynical to the sanguine, the defeated to… — Nick Cave Copy Share Image
How can one express the indefinable sensations that one experiences while writing an instrumental composition that has no definite subject? It is… — Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky Copy Share Image
Poems infatuated with their own smarts and detached from any emotional grounding can leave the reader feeling lonely, empty and ashamed for… — Tracy K. Smith Copy Share Image
“the worst thing," he told me, "is bitterness, people end up so bitter.” — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
“To wander solitary there: Two paradises ‘twere in one To live in paradise alone.” — Andrew Marvell Copy Share Image
A poem can provide testimony. A poem can provide solace. It can provide a connection. — Kevin Young Copy Share Image
Mathematics may, like poetry or music, "promote and sustain a lofty habit of mind." — G. H. Hardy Copy Share Image
“To touch my person to some one else's is about as much as I can stand,” — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
He who knows no foreign languages knows nothing of his own. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Poetry is the power of defining the indefinable in terms of the unforgettable. — Louis Untermeyer Copy Share Image
One can't write for all readers. A poet cannot write for people who don't like poetry. — Nathalie Sarraute Copy Share Image
“I’ve learned to lick my own foul wounds and prize the taste of ache.” — Chila Woychik Copy Share Image
