“From morn to noon he fell, from noon to dewy eve, a summer's day; and with the setting sun dropped from the… — John Milton Copy Share Image
“My pond life with hydra is over; now I’m into the ocean world of poetry to dive deeper..” — Munia Khan Copy Share Image
“NEW HAIKU One breathy vowel mists the glass warming window panes crystalled with snow Robin Glasser” — Robin Glasser Copy Share Image
Music straightjackets a poem and prevents it from breathing on its own, whereas it liberates a lyric. Poetry doesn't need music; lyrics… — Stephen Sondheim Copy Share Image
“She’s mischief and madness waiting to catch fire and set souls ablaze; fluttering in the wind, impishly making violet love under a… — Melody Lee Copy Share Image
Usually a poem takes shape accoustically - a line or a pair of lines will repeat itself in my ear. — Thomas Lynch Copy Share Image
Commemoration of John Donne, Priest, Poet, 1631 He was the Word that spake it; He took the bread and brake it; And… — John Donne Copy Share Image
Bringing science into poetry is one way of acknowledging some of the richest stuff that is in my cultural moment. — Alison Hawthorne Deming Copy Share Image
Of course, you would have to be insane to hope your child grows up to be a playwright or poet. Given the… — Mark Helprin Copy Share Image
I just know from experience that reading a funny poem aloud, especially at the beginning of a public reading, can have a… — Matthew Zapruder Copy Share Image
“The fountains mingle with the river, And the rivers with the ocean; The winds of heaven mix forever, With a sweet emotion;… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
I did know Ted Hughes and I partly wrote the book to explain to myself and others the complexities of a marriage… — Anne Stevenson Copy Share Image
“Poetry proper is never merely a higher mode (melos) of everyday language. It is rather the reverse: everyday language is a forgotten… — Bruce Chatwin Copy Share Image
“Of all the conceptions of pure bliss that people and poets have dreamed of, listening to the harmony of the spheres always… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
I sometimes wish I had been educated a Catholic, in order to unite the poetry of religion with its higher principles. Are… — James Fenimore Cooper Copy Share Image
“I love it when you meet an angel on Earth and they have no idea that's what they are; a human angel,… — Melody Lee Copy Share Image
I still believe in this country, that it can fulfill the destiny Blake and Whitman envisioned. I still believe in American poetry. — Philip Levine Copy Share Image
Prizes aren't essential. What is essential is poetry itself, it's what is said, it is clarity, it's loyalty, those are the essential… — Maria Teresa Horta Copy Share Image
Atque in pepetuum, frater, ave atque vale,” he whispered. The words of the poem had never seemed so fitting: Forever and ever,… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
The other side of it is that, despite all that, people reach out to poetry at the key moments in their lives. — Paul Muldoon Copy Share Image
“When twilight sleeps holding the night In your arms you embrace me tight Runaway hours clenched by kisses More of your love… — Munia Khan Copy Share Image
Everytime I try, it opens up my eyes. These verses are a chance to be remembered and reprised — Drake Copy Share Image
Listen to these young poets and you'll discover the voice of the present and hear the voice of the future before the… — Philip Levine Copy Share Image
I'm very conscious that people dear to me are alive in my imagination - poets in particular. — Seamus Heaney Copy Share Image
Our hospital was famous and housed many great poets and singers. Did the hospital specialize in poets and singers or was it… — Susanna Kaysen Copy Share Image
“The wind is made of haunting souls that moan and groan in whistles and whispers. This ghostly choir chills the breeze and… — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
I cannot marry the facts of William Shakespeare to his verse: Other men had led lives in some sort of keeping with… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“And these are the same type of people who kill the innocent and justify it by saying “They’ve gone to be with… — Volatalistic Phil Copy Share Image
The actors I admire always have something to say, or a level of poetry, belief, activism or intelligence about what they do… — Zawe Ashton Copy Share Image
I'm perfectly happy when I look out at an audience and it's all women. I always think it's kind of odd, but… — Diane Wakoski Copy Share Image
One of the most powerful devices of poetry is the use of distortions. You can go from talking about the way a… — Robert Morgan Copy Share Image
When critics are waiting to pounce upon poetic style on exactly the same grounds as if it were prose, the poets tremble. — John Crowe Ransom Copy Share Image
People write me from all over the country, asking me, and sometimes even telling me, what they think a poet laureate should… — Rita Dove Copy Share Image
Take 7 emcees put em in a line And add 7 more brothers who think they can rhyme It'll take 7 more… — Rakim Copy Share Image
My hobbies are playing piano and guitar, pining for girls, worrying about climate change, pining for girls, and the poetry of John… — James Veitch Copy Share Image
“forsan et haec olim meminisse iuvabit. and perhaps it will be pleasing to have remembered these things one day” — Virgil Copy Share Image
Dr Blair . . . asked . . . whether he thought any man of a modern age could have written such… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
The Irish believed that gods, druids, poets, and others in touch with the magical world could be literal shape-shifters — Thomas Cahill Copy Share Image
ð¶ð¤ðð¬ Life's A Bitch And Then Ya DIE Thats Why I Get High, Cause Ya Never Know When Your Gonna Go! — Michael Copy Share Image
Do not flatter yourselves with the belief that a mere recital of that celebrated verse in St. John makes a man a… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
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