The first time I got onstage was when I was about 5 years old. It was at a church social, and I… — Willie Nelson Copy Share Image
“Cause I can love a poem up out of you-like my middle name is Harlem..and my fingerprints are permanent-you ain't gone wash… — Shanica Stewart Copy Share Image
“Children are like poems. They're beautiful -- to their creators -- but to others they're just silly and fucking annoying.” — Doug Stanhope Copy Share Image
“My job as a poet, is not to succumb to despair but to find in words, an antidote for the emptiness of… — Michelle Geaney Copy Share Image
We like to admit to only that which already glows, although it is nobler to support brightness before it glows, not afterwards. — Dejan Stojanovic Copy Share Image
My idea is to bring happiness, respect, vision. poetry, surrealism and magic [to design]. — Philippe Starck Copy Share Image
It always has been and forever will be impossible for slavery or any kind or form of injustice to produce a great… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
“DETCHANT (n.) That part of a hymn (usually a few notes at the end of a verse) where the tune goes so… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
I must study war and politics so that my children shall be free to study commerce, agriculture and other practicalities, so that… — John Adams Copy Share Image
How many chapters have been written about love verses - and how many more might be written! - might, would, could, should,… — Samuel Lover Copy Share Image
To be creative means to be in love with life. You can be creative only if you love life enough that you… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Art is the heart's explosion on the world. Music. Dance. Poetry. Art on cars, on walls, on our skins. There is probably… — Luis J. Rodriguez Copy Share Image
“Jesus, yes. I was educated by nuns. Long ago, when I was a human girl. I learned the Bible, studied the verses,… — Marcus Sakey Copy Share Image
The intelligible forms of ancient poets, The fair humanities of old religion, The power, the beauty, and the majesty That had their… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
Poetry most often communicates emotions, not directly, but by creating imaginatively the grounds for those emotions. It therefore communicates something more than… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
One of the things I'm constantly telling my students is that they're never going to write a poem everyone gets, or if… — Rigoberto Gonzalez Copy Share Image
Most wretched men Are cradled into poetry by wrong: They learn in suffering what they teach in song. — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
It was through poetry I learned just to appreciate my own voice and to not think of my voice in terms of… — Jamila Woods Copy Share Image
When you are old, at evening candlelit, Beside the fire bending to your wool, Read out my verse and murmur, "Ronsard writ… — Pierre de Ronsard Copy Share Image
The Steinway piano - with its beauty and power - is the perfect medium for expressing the performer's art, drama and poetry. — Van Cliburn Copy Share Image
I envy the poet. He is encouraged toward drunkenness and wallows with nubile wenches while the painter must endure wretchedness and pain… — Rembrandt Copy Share Image
No poem, not even Shakespeare or Milton or Chaucer, is ever strong enough to totally exclude every crucial precursor text or poem. — Harold Bloom Copy Share Image
“She wasn't chaos. She was more of a slow burn that caught in your heart... and then you had no choice but… — Alfa H Copy Share Image
A poem in form still has to have voice, gesture, a sense of discovery, a metaphoric connection, as any poetry does. — Robert Morgan Copy Share Image
“I finally understand what the poets have written. In spring, moved to passion; in autumn only regret.” — Lisa See Copy Share Image
Art as a whole is a riddle. Another way of putting this is to say that art expresses something while at the… — Theodor Adorno Copy Share Image
“He will one day meet his true love... A fellow traveler on the road... Her eyes will be his ocean... In her… — Kem Copy Share Image
He who, in an enlightened and literary society, aspires to be a great poet, must first become a little child. — Thomas B. Macaulay Copy Share Image
As to London we must console ourselves with the thought that if life outside is less poetic than it was in the… — Goldwin Smith Copy Share Image
“It could be said that a single person has written all the books in the world such central unity is in them… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The process of writing a poem represents work done on the self of the poet, in order to make form. — Muriel Rukeyser Copy Share Image
I was just reading some poetry, and it talked about how things start as one thing and change into another, and I… — Tommy Lee Copy Share Image
“With one glove off, you trace the heavens, / fingers full of reverence... (from Stargazers on a Winter's Night)” — Robert J. Tiess Copy Share Image
The only thing that can save the world is the reclaiming of the awareness of the world. That's what poetry does. — Allen Ginsberg Copy Share Image
So I really began as a failed poet - although when I first wanted to be a writer, I learned to write… — Nicholson Baker Copy Share Image
His Highness was always confident in his statements, especially about what he viewed for the first time. — Dejan Stojanovic Copy Share Image
Serious poetry deals with the fundamental conflicts that cannot be logically resolved: we can state the conflicts rationally, but reason does not… — Allen Tate Copy Share Image
Neither men, nor gods, nor booksellers' shelves permit ordinary poets to exist. [Lat., Mediocribus esse poetis Non homines, non di, non concessere… — Horace Copy Share Image
and, unlike the celebrated herd in the poem, they were not forty children conducting themselves as one, but every child was conducting… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
It's ridiculous and painful to use the Arabic of an Iraqi poet who lived centuries ago to describe what we in Iraq… — Hassan Blasim Copy Share Image
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