“They say she is too much to handle, but when the moon pulls the tide and the wolves howl her name, blessed… — Nicole Lyons Copy Share Image
My earliest poems sing of the absolute necessity of allowing love to invade and pervade one's life. That can make the miracle… — James Broughton Copy Share Image
“...before you, life was desolate - the past hardly worth remembering - and now, each moment a keepsake I can't throw away ...” — John Geddes Copy Share Image
“Thoughts are apples on the tree, Not meant for anyone in particular, But they end up belonging To the one who takes… — Hugo von Hoffmannstahl Copy Share Image
I see no reason to spend your life writing poems unless your goal is to write great poems. — Donald Hall Copy Share Image
“She was learning to treat laws as most people treat poems, making them mean whatever she wanted them to without reference to… — Jane Rule Copy Share Image
The advantage of the one writing about hearts of poets: he can hear them beating even in his sleep. — Mariana Fulger Copy Share Image
“I look at you and you look at me and deep in our hearts babe we know it, that you weren't much… — Nick Cave Copy Share Image
“The Soviet performers felt that every note had to be strictly controlled. They had excellent training, but the result lacked freshness and… — Stuart Isacoff Copy Share Image
“How they are all about, these gentlemen In chamberlains' apparel, stocked and laced, Like night around their order's star and gem And… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
Once an author finishes a poem, he becomes merely another reader. I may remember what I intended to put into a text,… — Dana Gioia Copy Share Image
You ask me where I get my ideas. That I cannot tell you with certainty. They come unsummoned, directly, indirectly - I… — Ludwig van Beethoven Copy Share Image
“But in her web she still delights To weave the mirror’s magic sights, For often thro’ the silent nights A funeral, with… — Alfred Tennyson Copy Share Image
I suggest that what artists do in all media can be summarized as deliberately performing the operations that occur instinctively during a… — Ellen Dissanayake Copy Share Image
“As time passed, I felt especially grateful to my family and friends who continued to check in and show up. On the… — Sheryl Sandberg Copy Share Image
“Humankind’s pathetic life supplies the poetry of our existence. Just as without tragedy comedy would lose its magical qualities, life without pain… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
What we need are poems that interrogate the world of pronouns, open up possibilities of language and life; forms of politics that… — Judith Butler Copy Share Image
“Writing is not a matter of time, but a matter or of space. If you don't keep space in your head for… — Katerina Stoykova Klemer Copy Share Image
Poetry forces a writer to condense and crystallise his thoughts and often represents a short cut to truths unsuspected by the author… — Felix Dennis Copy Share Image
This verse made me realize that I've divorced an entire aspect of my life from God: eating — Matt Cohen Copy Share Image
My poems please the brave: My poems, short and sincere, Have the force of steel Which forges swords. — Jose Marti Copy Share Image
Perhaps no poet is a conscious plagiarist, but there seems to be warrant for suspecting that there is no poet who is… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I do not see how a man can work on the frontiers of physics and write poetry at the same time. They… — Paul Dirac Copy Share Image
“From love's plectrum arises the song of the string of life Love is the light of life love is the fire of… — Allama Iqbal Copy Share Image
“Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard Are sweeter; therefore, ye soft pipes, play on.” — John Keats Copy Share Image
Our planet is poorly equipped for delight. One must snatch gladness from the days that are. In this life it's not difficult… — Vladimir Mayakovsky Copy Share Image
Yeats was the greatest poet of our times . . . certainly the greatest in this language, and so far as I… — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
“The best anthology is the one each reader compiles, personally, according to his or her judgment, pleasure and awe." ~ Robert Pinsky,… — Robert Pinsky Copy Share Image
“There are bones waiting for names in the graveyards. Even the sun above us is dying, one landed repetition of light at… — Cecilia Llompart Copy Share Image
Fiction is in danger of becoming a kind of poetry. Only other poets read it. Only other fiction writers care about it. — John Updike Copy Share Image
We have the words in our pockets, obscure directions. The old ones have taken away the light of their presence. — Denise Levertov Copy Share Image
I was born with the devil in me,' [Holmes] wrote. 'I could not help the fact that I was a murderer, no… — Erik Larson Copy Share Image
“A poet is a person who manages, in a lifetime of standing out in thunderstorms, to be struck by lightening five or… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If any of you are secret poets, the best way to break into print is to run for the presidency, — Eugene McCarthy Copy Share Image
Poetry is a lyrical insinuation. Often, its melodic subtlety kisses the subconscious mind. — Masiela Lusha Copy Share Image
Journalism is concerned with events, poetry with feelings. Journalism is concerned with the look of the world, poetry with the feel of… — Archibald MacLeish Copy Share Image
I love poetry, be it in music or be it in Andrei Tarkovsky, Francesca Woodman or anyone else, I just love poetry. — Graciela Iturbide Copy Share Image
“When you write about what you dream, you become a writer. When you dream about what you write, you become haunted by… — Amal Saleh Copy Share Image
Poetry is not an assertion of truth, but the making of that truth more fully real to us. — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
Time sped. And the poet through sorrow Became like his suffering kind. Again he toiled over his poems To lighten the grief… — Ella Wheeler Wilcox Copy Share Image
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