“I clearly understand, first, that the real human being is a poet and, second, that [the tyrant] is the incarnate negation of… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
“What liars poets and everybody were! They made one think one wanted sentiment. When what one supremely wanted was this piercing, consuming,… — D.H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
“Knowing that you knew everything about us before we were born Lord, your love is amazing” — April Nichole Copy Share Image
“Practice teaching others the 'unsearchable riches' of Christ. Each week, explain a verse from a section of Scripture to another person.” — Henry Hon Copy Share Image
These capacities for randomness may have been amplified into human creativity through sexual and social selection. — Geoffrey Miller Copy Share Image
I've forgotten lines all the time. Sometimes I switch verses in a song. It's just hard not to when you're doing the… — Josh Young Copy Share Image
Drawing is a way of coming upon the connection between things, just like metaphor in poetry reconnects what has become separated. — John Berger Copy Share Image
“Nature, it seems, is the popular name for milliards and milliards and milliards of particles playing their infinite game of billiards and… — Piet Hein Copy Share Image
When I speak of poetry I am not thinking of it as a genre. Poetry is an awareness of the world, a… — Andrei Tarkovsky Copy Share Image
The mistake we make is to turn upon our past with angry wholesale negation. … The way of wisdom is to treat… — John Cowper Powys Copy Share Image
The similarity between Van Gogh, Haiku poetry, and good photography is the concern for mortality. That things are very fleeting, that there… — Dennis Stock Copy Share Image
“What is a course of history, or philosophy, or poetry, no matter how well selected, or the best society, or the most… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“It never occurred to me that you were beginning to spin the web of one great tear, muddle and mesh, the blame… — George Korolog Copy Share Image
Everything Brecht wrote—plays, dialogues, and poetry—was his attempt to clarify the inner contradictions not only of the capitalism and fascism of his… — Richard Foreman Copy Share Image
“Let no one reduce to tears or reproach This statement of the mastery of God, Who, with magnificent irony, gave Me at… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
Jesus refers to the poor over and over again. There are 2,000 verses of Scripture that call upon us to respond to… — Tony Campolo Copy Share Image
“brave love, dream not of staunching such strict flame, but come, lean to my wound; burn on, burn on.” — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
Prose is a poor thing, a poor inadequate thing, compared with poetry which says so much more in shorter time. — Vita Sackville-West Copy Share Image
“You hate him for turning you inside of yourself. You are still getting used to looking at your body in the light.” — Kristina Haynes Copy Share Image
Poetry should be written the way adultery is committed: on the run, on the sly, during the time not accounted for. And… — Vera Pavlova Copy Share Image
I remember writing these terrible poems when I was, like, nine and discovered alliteration. — Karen Russell Copy Share Image
“Poetry is sometimes cryptic because we don’t always want things easily understood. Painful truth is hard enough as it is, but sometimes… — Cody Edward Lee Miller Copy Share Image
“My past self would've hated who I am today And I still feel that hatred in the parts of him that stayed” — Justin Wetch Copy Share Image
“You were the stray cat who wandered into my verses and finally found your way home—dumpster diving deep within yourself.” — Curtis Tyrone Jones Copy Share Image
As a story teller I have used characters, epic tales, poetry and rasa in my performances. — Shobana Copy Share Image
“To be alive is to be open in some way, to take in and to release. To pass through life and to… — Alyssa Skyes Copy Share Image
“Dear Hands, I get it. You like writing poetry. But you can’t bring a metaphor to a gunfight.” — Rudy Francisco Copy Share Image
We like to think we live in daylight, but half the world is always dark, and fantasy, like poetry, speaks the language… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The monsters were never under my bed. Because the monsters were inside my head. I fear no monsters, for no monsters I… — Nikita Gill Copy Share Image
When I get depressed, I try to get something for the terrible sadness that comes over me and create something in terms… — Spike Milligan Copy Share Image
Poetry is ordinary language raised to the Nth power. Poetry is boned with ideas, nerved and blooded with emotions, all held together… — Paul Engle Copy Share Image
“The Daughter of Babylon verses prophesy a destroyed nation with an impotent military (Jeremiah 50:23; 30; 36; 51:3), unable to act after its massive national destruction.” — John Price Copy Share Image
A lot of people, when you ask if they want to read your epic poem, start bolting for the door. — Toby Barlow Copy Share Image
I am still interested in the long or serial poem, but have written a few smaller things. I may start sending to… — George Murray Copy Share Image
I wouldn't be very happy if a poet read what I had written and said, 'What a peculiar thing to say about… — Helen Vendler Copy Share Image
“I am sorry this became, a poem I beg you, please do not think as blame Trust me as you trust god… — Santosh Kalwar Copy Share Image
“An artist must be passionately in love with her art. Obsessed or possessed ― go mad for what you believe in.” — Charlotte Eriksson Copy Share Image
Only truthful hands write true poems. I cannot see any basic difference between a handshake and a poem. — Paul Celan Copy Share Image
I testify to rainbow feathers, to the span of heaven and walls of colour, the colonnades of jasper. — Hilda Doolittle Copy Share Image
My biggest influence is Tupac. He was a poet, and listening to Tupac is what inspired me to start rapping. — Chanel West Coast Copy Share Image
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