It is futile to spend time telling stories about the fleetness of each day. — Dejan Stojanovic Copy Share Image
“Whatever has the nature of arising has the nature of ceasing. (The Buddha)” — Alex Fan Moniz Copy Share Image
I read poetry every day. I look at it as an exercise, a kind of T'ai Chi for writers. It teaches economy… — Roger Zelazny Copy Share Image
“And so it was that the Poet, through an excess of theological refinement, was unable to satisfy his coarse carnal passion.” — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
When I was 3, I recited a poem at a festival in Passaic, New Jersey. The applause was tremendous, and it hit… — Nina Arianda Copy Share Image
The Soul of a Warrior. Cries out for Battle. The Soul of a Poet, Screams out for Love. I stand between them,… — Eric Nickel Copy Share Image
As Aristotle said, you have to be an aristocrat or a reactionary to write a good proletarian poem. — Kenneth Rexroth Copy Share Image
“God has it in for the poets, that's obvious, but the Bombaywallahs hold a special place in his dispensation.” — Jeet Thayil Copy Share Image
“This is the kind of room poets are supposed to work in, the kind of room that threatens to break your spirit… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
“And you know what the worst thing was? The worst thing was that nobody ever believed how hard we tried.” — Jack McCarthy Copy Share Image
I feel that music on the screen can seek out and intensify the inner thoughts of the characters. It can invest a… — Bernard Herrmann Copy Share Image
One day, out of irritation, I said, you know all of those years with the Royal Shakespeare Company, all those years of… — Patrick Stewart Copy Share Image
I can't go on flying apart just for those who want the benefit of a few verbal kicks. My God, do you… — Theodore Roethke Copy Share Image
“I can see prose has taken an unfortunate turn toward utility in the past century,” he said with obvious regret. “I’m afraid… — D. Nathan Hilliard Copy Share Image
I feel that, every day, God molds me into someone that He wants me to be. So if that means just, like,… — Laurie Hernandez Copy Share Image
I don't know anything about chemistry, but I know that there's a whole world of chemistry, of professional chemists. They have their… — Barbara Hamby Copy Share Image
The poet only desires exaltation and expansion. The poet only asks to get his head into the heavens. It is the logician… — G K Chesterton Copy Share Image
“Ni jedan javni trg Imenom moga oca nikad se neće zvati Ni jedan javni trg, ja to znam, on je samo Parkete… — Luko Paljetak Copy Share Image
“just another poem's male / diagnosis dancing the corpses of womenspeaking” — Carrie Lorig Copy Share Image
I've always had the wish, the need, and the obsession to become a public poet. — Tony Harrison Copy Share Image
“Please lift your snowy skies off my soul - Your diamond dreams slice through my veins” — Else Lasker-Schüler Copy Share Image
Poets are like proverbs: you can always find one to contradict another. — Jules Verne Copy Share Image
“You are poetry in perpetual motion capturing my heart with centrifugal force.” — Truth Devour Copy Share Image
“The success of my rule does not rely on my ability to recite obscure Latin verse.” — Sherry Thomas Copy Share Image
Luxury rap, the Hermes of verses. Sophisticated ignorance, write my curses in cursive. — Kanye West Copy Share Image
About no subject are poets tempted to lie so much as about their own lives. — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
