If there is any verse that you would like left out of the Bible, that is the verse that ought to stick… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
“She was a beautiful dreamer. The kind of girl, who kept her head in the clouds, loved above the stars and left… — robert m drake Copy Share Image
“Poetry isn’t an island, it is the bridge. Poetry isn’t a ship, it is the lifeboat. Poetry isn’t swimming. Poetry is water.” — Kamand Kojouri Copy Share Image
My stories are sometimes closer to poems or meditations, but often there is at least a little narrative in them. — Lydia Davis Copy Share Image
'Alphabet' by the late Danish poet Inger Christensen. It's a book-length abecedarian poem. It's an activist text but also a portal to… — Jenny Zhang Copy Share Image
Don’t you love the Oxford Dictionary? When I first read it, I thought it was a really really long poem about everything. — David Bowie Copy Share Image
I had nothing but time on my hands. That's when it became, 'Quan, what are you good at?' Poetry... I read a… — Rich Homie Quan Copy Share Image
A bell is not a bell until someone rings it, a song is not a song until someone sings it. Love wasn't… — Senora Roy Copy Share Image
Otherwise I got out of bed on two strong legs. It might have been otherwise. I ate cereal, sweet milk, ripe, flawless… — Jane Kenyon Copy Share Image
“The good historian, then, must be thus described: he must be fearless, uncorrupted, free, the friend of truth and of liberty; one… — Lucian of Samosata Copy Share Image
The poet is in the end probably more afraid of the dogmatist who wants to extract the message from the poem and… — Robert Penn Warren Copy Share Image
Regarding R. H. Blyth: Blyth's four volume Haiku became especially popular at this time [1950's] because his translations were based on the… — Reginald Horace Blyth Copy Share Image
That's all there was in our house: poetry and choir rehearsal and duets and so forth; I listened to Dad and Mother… — Chuck Berry Copy Share Image
Such a small, pure object a poem could be, made of nothing but air a tiny string of letters, maybe small enough… — Mary Karr Copy Share Image
I've always been - as a teacher, as graduate student, as a student, and I think, really, as a child - I've… — David Ferry Copy Share Image
“MOTHER IS WATER I wish I could Shower your head with flowers And anoint your feet with my tears, For I know… — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image
You have to really dive deep back into yourself and get rid of so much modern analytical categorization. It's one of the… — Robert Morgan Copy Share Image
“If you are looking for verses with which to oppress women, you will find them. If you are looking for verses with… — Rachel Held Evans Copy Share Image
“I think of love, and you, and my heart grows full and warm, and my breath stands still.” — Emily Dickinson Copy Share Image
The iambic line, with its characteristic forward movement from short to long, or light to heavy, or unstressed to stressed, is the… — James Fenton Copy Share Image
The poet sees better than other mortals. I do not see things as they are, but according to my own subjective impression,… — Robert Schumann Copy Share Image
“love me get lost in me but beware side effects include a lot of shivering, baby a lot of drinking, maybe a… — Casey Renee Kiser Copy Share Image
“So what are your poems about? They're about ... how nothing is about, they're not about about. --Heather McHugh, 20-200 on 747” — Heather McHugh Copy Share Image
He fertilizes a phrase or a line of poetry for weeks and then gives birth to it in a speech. — John Colville Copy Share Image
I don't think I've ever had more fun doing anything in my life than trading verses with Daryl Hall on 'Private Eyes.'… — Mayer Hawthorne Copy Share Image
“It was never about the world being too big, it was more like she was too much for the world to handle.” — robert m drake Copy Share Image
“The Pressure- Maybe one day, after centuries, we can become brilliant gems in crystal caves and we will be immortal after all.” — Keelie Breanna Copy Share Image
Poetry and painting continue to be companions: they cast their shadow and light, their silences and tones, at the edges of each… — Pierre Coupey Copy Share Image
“Sweet hour, blessed hour, to carry me to you, and to bring you back to me, long enough to snatch one kiss,… — Emily Dickinson Copy Share Image
The poet must work with brush and paper,but this is not what makes the poem. A man does not go in search… — Yang Wanli Copy Share Image
I don't want to turn any of this into poetry / but / you're so beautiful / flowers turn their heads to smell you — Shane Koyczan Copy Share Image
Poetry is the most mistaught subject in any school because we teach poetry by form and not by content. — Nikki Giovanni Copy Share Image
A line is a fuse that's lit. The line smolders, the rhyme explodes— and by a stanza a city is blown to… — Vladimir Mayakovsky Copy Share Image
I've never read a political poem that's accomplished anything. Poetry makes things happen, but rarely what the poet wants. — Howard Nemerov Copy Share Image
“You like that poet, Bukowski?” “Yeah,” I answered, confused. “Don’t try.” “I don’t understand.” “That’s what it says, on Bukowski’s grave.” — Kami Garcia Copy Share Image
She knows more of love than the poets can say, and her eyes offer something that won't go away. — Harry Chapin Copy Share Image
“Don't ask me any questions. I've seen how things that seek their way find their void instead.” — Federico García Lorca Copy Share Image
Freedom is poetry, taking liberties with words, breaking the rules of normal speech, violating common sense. Freedom is violence. — Norman O. Brown Copy Share Image
A sculptor is a person who is interested in the shape of things, a poet in words, a musician by sounds. — Henry Moore Copy Share Image
“ONE WORD One word — one stone in a cold river. One more stone— I'll need many stones if I'm going to… — Olav H. Hauge Copy Share Image
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