“To be held in his arms I long for that day The da that I get to see more wonderful things” — April Nichole Copy Share Image
The poets and philosophers before me discovered the unconscious; what I discovered was the scientific method by which the unconscious can be… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
“Do not think about failure. Remember that even stars fall sometimes, and when they do people wish on them.” — Maddie Godfrey Copy Share Image
“I hope that someday when I am gone, someone, somewhere, picks my soul up off of these pages and thinks, "I would… — Nicole Lyons Copy Share Image
Prose is in fact the museum where the dead images of verse are preserved. In 'Notes', prose is 'a museum where all… — T. E. Hulme Copy Share Image
The poet is a brother speaking to a brother of "a moment of their other lives"-a moment that had been buried beneath… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In college I studied essays with a poet, and so I think my interpretation of the genre was always going to be… — John D'Agata Copy Share Image
Artists and writers have to deal with the element that makes the real real and the dream real while you are dreaming… — Ben Okri Copy Share Image
“Love. Because of you, in gardens of blossoming Flowers I ache from the perfumes of spring. I have forgotten your face, I… — Pablo Neruda Copy Share Image
Remember picture books are the closest form of writing to a poem. Even though they don't have to rhyme, they must be… — Kirby Larson Copy Share Image
Besides the actual reading in class of many poems, I would suggest you do two things: first, while teaching everything you can… — A. R. Ammons Copy Share Image
If the grain were separated from the chaff, which fills the works of our national poets, what is truly valuable would be… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
“Harvest Do not let a woman with a sexy rump deceive you with wheedling and coaxing words; she is after your barn.… — Nancy Boutilier Copy Share Image
“The element of craftsmanship in poetry is obscured by the fact that all men are taught to speak and most to read… — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
And the poets will tell you to do things with passion, do everything with passion-mediocre is your enemy...but what they forget to… — Kiki Copy Share Image
I don't like to have a calm, orderly, quiet place to work. I often compose while driving, compose in my head. It… — Robert Pinsky Copy Share Image
Many men of science and poets have in their own manner, by various ways and means, and aided by others, sought unceasingly… — Eyvind Johnson Copy Share Image
He is a lyric poet . . . aloof from the swirling currents in which many of his colleagues are immersed. — Samuel Barber Copy Share Image
“ A Man Said to the Universe A man said to the universe: “Sir, I exist!” “However,” replied the universe, “The fact… — Stephen Crane Copy Share Image
If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can ever warm me, I know that… — Emily Dickinson Copy Share Image
“A poem is a revelation, and it is by the brink of running water that poetry is revealed to the mind.” — James Stephens Copy Share Image
Technological prescience in science fiction usually requires an author with luck. Societal prescience requires a poet. — Heidi Hammel Copy Share Image
Madman drummers, bummers, Indians in the summer with a teenage diplomat. In the dumps with the mumps as the adolescent pumps his… — Bruce Springsteen Copy Share Image
Poetry is a rhythmical piece of writing that leaves the reader feeling that life is a little richer than before, a little… — Aileen Fisher Copy Share Image
Gene Wolfe has produced a work of art that can satisfy adult appetites and in which even the most fantastical elements register… — Thomas M. Disch Copy Share Image
“I tell you, my idea of a ghost is something quite different. Dead men rise up never – read even your poets.… — Leland Hall Copy Share Image
One travels so as to learn once more how to marvel at life in the way a child does. And blessed be… — Ella Maillart Copy Share Image
One of the remarkable things about love is that, despite very irritating people writing poems and songs about how pleasant it is,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Rocks, like louseworts and snail darters and pupfish and 3rdworld black, lesbian, feminist, militant poets, have rights, too. Especially the right to… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
“I don't want comfort. I want poetry. I want danger. I want freedom. I want goodness. I want sin.” — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“A young gratuitous smile; trust and distrust; Promiscuities of bed and board and road; The one assured treasure A life, in recollection,… — Robert Wells Copy Share Image
I use rock and jazz and blues rhythms because I love that music. I hope my poetry has a relationship with good-time… — Adrian Mitchell Copy Share Image
“With you as an inspiration, a painter will create his best painting, a writer will write his best literature and a poet… — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
Life's full of loss, who knows the cost, living in the memory of the love that never was. — Linda Ronstadt Copy Share Image
“The names of the dwarves in The Hobbit were taken from verses of a very ancient Norse poem called Voluspà.” — J.R.R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
Some good, some so-so, and lots plain bad: that's how a book of poems is made, my Friend. — Martial Copy Share Image
Chekhov is this poet of melancholy and isolation and of wishing you were somewhere else than where you are. — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
The wheel of Time wrote the first half of the poetry of mass destruction on the black board of the ashes of… — Manmohan Acharya Copy Share Image
“Grief brought to numbers cannot be so fierce, For, he tames it, that fetters it in verse.” — John Donne Copy Share Image
“Don't blame my heart's appetite for how it chooses to feast, for my heart is a wild lover, an all-consuming beast.” — Melody Lee Copy Share Image
