“he world looks like something God had just imagined for His own pleasure. This isn't poetry but it makes me feel the… — L.M. Montgomery Copy Share Image
He repeated until his dying day that there was no one with more common sense, no stonecutter more obstinate, no manager more… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share Image
Poetry, above all is a series of intense moments its power is not in narrative. I'm not dealing with facts, I'm dealing… — Carol Ann Duffy Copy Share Image
Honest criticism and sensible appreciation are directed not upon the poet but upon the poetry. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Some, they didn't make it. The temptation just too strong. How can darkness cloud the mind To what I know as wrong?” — Kimberly Nalen Copy Share Image
Walter Scott has no business to write novels, especially good ones. He has fame and profit enough as a poet, and should… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“I’m looking for you into that silver spoon where I taste my reflection to feel the touch of your untouchables - from… — Munia Khan Copy Share Image
“There are those times when you need to push negative people aside, give fear a swift kick in the ass and fire… — Melody Lee Copy Share Image
My faith, my hermeneutics does not demand that I correlate every verse. In other words, there are often verses that appear, I'm… — Rick Warren Copy Share Image
“You become a house where the wind blows straight through, because no one bothers the crack in the window or lock on… — Charlotte Eriksson Copy Share Image
It is commonly asserted and accepted that Paradise Lost is among the two or three greatest English poems; it may justly be… — John Drinkwater Copy Share Image
A Friend Like You. A friend like you is like no other friend. A friend like you is a friend I don't… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“He squinted up at the straining muscular backs of the stone men supporing the dome. "You'll have to take me to some… — Francesca Lia Block Copy Share Image
The more serious poetry of the race has a philosophical structure of thought. It contains beliefs and conceptions in regard to the… — Joseph Alexander Leighton Copy Share Image
“We are born adventurers, and the love of adventures never leaves us till we are very old; old, timid men, in whose… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
Of Nature itself upon the soul; the sunrise, the haze of autumn, the winter starlight seem interlocutors; the prevailing sense is that… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Happiness is to take up the struggle in the midst of the raging storm and not to pluck the lute in the… — Ding Ling Copy Share Image
[On writing her first poem at age eight:] An ode to my dead mother and father, who were both alive and pretty… — Judith Viorst Copy Share Image
It would be nice if all the Republicans could put poetry in a little box and put the box under the bed… — Sam Hamill Copy Share Image
The specific excellence of verbal expression in poetry is to be clear without being low. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
The fortitude of a Christian consists in patience, not in enterprises which the poets call heroic, and which are commonly the effects… — John Dryden Copy Share Image
I think music is poetry in the sense that I think the condition of poetry I'm going for has some qualities of… — Kevin Young Copy Share Image
Do not Christians and Heathens, Jews and Gentiles, poets and philosophers, unite in allowing the starry influences? — Walter Scott Copy Share Image
Poems are a dance of language that comes out when my body taps into the rhythm of language. Rhythm gets us naked… — Kim Hyesoon Copy Share Image
“If this world is a poem, it is not because we see the meaning of it at first but on the strength… — Maurice Merleau-Ponty Copy Share Image
For my best poems were all written when I felt the worst. When I was happy, I didn't write anything. — Langston Hughes Copy Share Image
What dance achieves, what play and sex achieve are the same thing that poetry achieves. They transform the ordinary into the extraordinary. — Jamake Highwater Copy Share Image
For what is the program of the bourgeois parties? A bad poem on springtime, filled to bursting with metaphors. — Walter Benjamin Copy Share Image
Music and religion are as intimately related as poetry and love; the deepest emotions require for their civilized expression the most emotional… — Will Durant Copy Share Image
“His relentless lust Failed to accept the demands of love, He got back his senses And responded to her But, just too… — Jyoti Patel Copy Share Image
I believe in the popularizing of art. But when you get right down to it, it's a bit of an elitist world.… — Larry Gagosian Copy Share Image
“The poet Lord Byron famously proclaimed that lobster salad and champagne were the only things a woman should ever be seen eating.” — Tilar Mazzeo Copy Share Image
I keep the drafts of each poem in color-coded folders. I pick up the folders according to how I feel about that… — Rita Dove Copy Share Image
“If you are a dreamer, come sit by my fire. For we have some flax-golden tales to spin; come in! Come in!” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“the worst thing that ever happened to the world was the white man coming across gun powder. –– the end of the… — Nayyirah Waheed Copy Share Image
“A poet is intensely in love with live and passionately wants to express his or her experience with love and beauty.” — Debasish Mridha Copy Share Image
For now the poet cannot die, Nor leave his music as of old, But round him ere he scarce be cold Begins… — Alfred Lord Tennyson Copy Share Image
“[poems are] crystals deposited after the effervescent contact of the spirit with reality. (cristaux deposes apres l'effervescent contact de l'esprit avec la… — Pierre Reverdy Copy Share Image
There has been a vast output of critical studies in contemporary poetry, some of them first rate, but I do not think… — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
Language is so inherent to humanity, so necessary for even basic thinking, that stories and poetry are available to anyone who can… — Aleksandar Hemon Copy Share Image
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