“You'd think hindsight would do us some good But all it does sometimes Is add glass to the kaleidoscope” — J.D. Estrada Copy Share Image
“She lends her pen, to thoughts of him, that flow from it, in her solitary. For she is his poet, And he… — Lang Leav Copy Share Image
That sense of a life in natural objects, which in most poetry is but a rhetorical artifice, was, then, in Wordsworth the… — Walter Pater Copy Share Image
Longfellow has his popularity, in the main, because he tells his story or his idea so that one needs nothing but his… — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
“Ocean waves gently rock the boat, As if to the tune of a lullaby. She sits still as the boat silently floats… — Rachel Lewis Copy Share Image
A lot of the shadow self is the home of poetry, story, prayer. My deepest understandings are often released from the part… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
I was kind of influenced by, for example, the meaning of words in songs, that's kind of my poetry that gives me… — Steve Wozniak Copy Share Image
Do you know Difference between poetry n lecture? anything said by girlfriend is poetry and anything by wife is lecture...:P — Ritu Ghatourey Copy Share Image
“Dante is the first Christian poet, the first one whose whole system of thought is colored by a pure Christian theology. But… — Matthew Pearl Copy Share Image
“when i first saw him i thought he was as beautiful as a knight from the romances, like a troubadour, like a… — philippa gregory Copy Share Image
Poetry, being supremely useless, by its very existence represents a protest against the so-called 'real world' of busy-ness and moneymaking, so we… — Tom Hodgkinson Copy Share Image
Poetry, the best of it, is lunar and is concerned with the essential insanities. Journalism is solar (there are numerous newspapers named… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
“I wondered what this odd, well-spoken man was doing on Cairnholm, with his pleated slacks and half-baked poems, looking more like a… — Ransom Riggs Copy Share Image
When I came back to New York, it was such a joke because I was always referred to as the pure young… — Jim Carroll Copy Share Image
There is a particular quality of quietude and stillness that suffuses these painterly poems of Carol Ann Davis, so involved with loss,… — August Kleinzahler Copy Share Image
“I shall be your poet! I do not want to be a poet for others; make your appearance, and I shall be… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
Accordingly, the poet should prefer probable impossibilities to improbable possibilities. The tragic plot must not be composed of irrational parts. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Take [Stéphane] Mallarme. I hold him to be the greatest of French poets, and I have taken some time to understand him… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
“Allow this poem to carry you beyond yourself, transcending your mortal flesh as you wed yourself with the potentially infinite.” — Peter Davis Copy Share Image
We want poems that kill assassin poems, poems that shoot guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys. And take their weapon, leaving… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I need you like the roses need the rain. Like the poet needs the pain. I just can't live without you. My… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
One of my favorite passages in 'Leaves of Grass,' that breathless, exuberant poem so rich and full of innocence and joy and… — Cathleen Schine Copy Share Image
There are men who can write poetry, and there are men who can read balance sheets. The men who can read balance… — Henry R. Luce Copy Share Image
“My friends often state in the midst of otherwise loving group chat missives that life is trash, though we all keep trying… — Joshua Bennett Copy Share Image
Fine natures are like fine poems; a glance at the first two lines suffices for a guess into the beauty that waits… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
No poem is intended for the reader, no picture for the beholder, no symphony for the listener. — Walter Benjamin Copy Share Image
“In your sky, you are the brightest star. Without you light, it’s dark like tar. So love yourself to enlighten others.” — Debasish Mridha Copy Share Image
Back then, I was an acoustically-oriented artist. Honestly, 'Poetry Man' wouldn't have been my first choice. — Phoebe Snow Copy Share Image
There is no question that the language of "felt thought" must be quarried from our personal depths. Like the best gold, it… — Jacques Maritain Copy Share Image
“Poetry is inspired by the elements of random thoughts, an overflow of gazing at the unseen.” — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
My whole life has been a twenty years struggle between poetry and prose, or, if you like to call it so, Music… — Robert Schumann Copy Share Image
Poetry, whose material is language, is perhaps the most human and least worldly of the arts, the one in which the end… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
“Don't call what isn't prophecy "prophecy." Don't say "the Lord told me" if you're not about to quote a Bible verse.” — Dan Phillips Copy Share Image
“Well, let them seize on all they can;— One treasure still is mine,— A heart that loves to think on thee, And… — Anne Brontë Copy Share Image
“...yes, I am your priest, your magician, your lover - I make charms to incant your presence...” — John Geddes Copy Share Image
I adore Pasolini. His films are poetic and I consume a lot of poetry. It's very important to me. I want my… — Alice Rohrwacher Copy Share Image
I wrote poetry, journals, and, especially, plays for the neighborhood kids to perform. I had an ordinary, happy childhood. Nothing much was… — Alex Flinn Copy Share Image
I wrote some serious stuff in high school; however, I hadn't been exposed to any of the major poets, not even the… — Anne Sexton Copy Share Image
“I found no oceans in your eyes, no windy storms or starry skies. Neither a pearl nor an ember I could see,… — Akash Mandal Copy Share Image
“I held love to my cheeks like a soft blanket on a babe yet, the east wind blew and away with it,… — Yefon Isabelle Copy Share Image
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