I was born in a world of opera, theatre, films, poetry, art, and therefore, out of the wire, I made a stage.… — Philippe Petit Copy Share Image
“I don't think all writers are sad, she said. I think it's the other way around- all sad people write.” — Lang Leav Copy Share Image
The dance can reveal everything mysterious that is hidden in music, and it has the additional merit of being human and palpable.… — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
Babies are like poems. They're beautiful to their creator, but to other people, they're silly and they're irritating. — Doug Stanhope Copy Share Image
“All were merged into one smoothly working machine; they were, in fact, a poem of motion, a symphony of swinging blades.” — Daniel James Brown Copy Share Image
Neither is a dictionary a bad book to read. There is no can't in it, no excess of explanation, and it is… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I said, the poets are there I hear them singing and lying around their round table and around me still. — Anne Sexton Copy Share Image
“I hold it true, whate'er befall; I feel it when I sorrow most; 'Tis better to have loved and lost Than never… — Alfred Lord Tennyson Copy Share Image
“listen girl,’ Medea says, ‘you are not the first person in the world to suffer from a broken heart. but i will… — Salma Deera Copy Share Image
“When I think of the meaning of food, I always remember these lines by the poet William Carlos Williams, which seem to… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
“Well-wrought poems and works of imaginative literature can do for us what stone-cold prose can never do. They can help us grasp… — James W. Sire Copy Share Image
“Thoughtful for Winter’s future sorrow, Its gloom and scarcity; Prescient to-day, of want to-morrow, Toiled quiet Memory. ’Tis she that from each… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
“...when a good poet is confronted with difficult facts that he knows to be true but also are inimical to poetry, he… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
“Suddenly, I was stopped by a quiet song . . Somebody stood, swaying slowly on the road, In the darkest shadow by… — Oleh Lysheha Copy Share Image
The Baathist state did two things extremely well. One was create information-gathering intelligence networks and a filing system. There's actually a lot… — Elliott Colla Copy Share Image
“How young I seem; I am exceptional; I think of all I have. But really no one is exceptional, No one has… — Randall Jarell Copy Share Image
The reality of a poem is a very ghostly one. It suggests, it suggests, it suggests again. — Mark Strand Copy Share Image
“The same hand that can write a beautiful poem, can knock you out with one punch—that's Poetic Justice.” — Irish" Wayne Kelly Copy Share Image
One of the things I took from the show was emotional possibility. I never thought I would type that I learned how… — Adrian Matejka Copy Share Image
“You will face hard times in life. Sometimes they are supposed to come, sometimes not. Get through them no matter what, 'cause… — F.c Copy Share Image
It's necessary to start most work alone. But I'm tickled to death when I can pull somebody in or join someone, whether… — Jenny Holzer Copy Share Image
Our poets have sung of wine, the product of a foreign plant which commonly they never saw, as if our own plants… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“We're only lucky enough to see the wonders of nature's canyons because they're gracious enough to show us the places they've been… — Curtis Tyrone Jones Copy Share Image
How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.I love thee to the depth and breadth and height My soul can… — Elizabeth Barrett Browning Copy Share Image
I think most good poetry is about suffering; I think that's what underlies the love in these landays pieces - suffering and… — Eliza Griswold Copy Share Image
I wasn't quite used to writing a diary - I didn't understand why people did it - but I wrote down notes… — Benjamin Clementine Copy Share Image
In the original novel [ Anthem], the story unfolds in the mind of a single character. Maybe that's why Ayn Rand called… — Jeff Britting Copy Share Image
The deity on purpose [sings] the liveliest of all lyrics through the most miserable poet. — Plato Copy Share Image
“When I am sad and weary When I think all hope has gone When I walk along High Holborn I think of… — Adrian Mitchell Copy Share Image
“That’s the thing about love It can take you up to the mountaintop and can drop you And the impact will either… — Kehinde Sonola Copy Share Image
An experienced reader uses the poem as an agent of inquiry. This makes poetry very exciting, unstable, and interactive. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The more poetry you have in the head, the more poetry you will understand because you will be getting to the roots… — Peter Davison Copy Share Image
Oft morning dreams presage approaching fate, For morning dreams, as poets tell, are true. — Michael Bruce Copy Share Image
“When I am old I shall become an itinerant poet and wear a straw hat and never worry about love again. Tuesday,” — Zen Cho Copy Share Image
It gives a man character as a poet to have a daily contact with a job. I doubt whether I've lost a… — Wallace Stevens Copy Share Image
I thought I'd begin by reading a poem by Shakespeare, but then I thought, why should I? He never reads any of… — Spike Milligan Copy Share Image
Rap is the pulsation given by some, usually an electronic rhythm section, without any tonality, and you have someone reading high-school poetry. — Frank Sinatra Jr Copy Share Image
In working on a poem, I love to revise. Lots of younger poets don't enjoy this, but in the process of revision… — Rita Dove Copy Share Image
My verses stand gawping a bit. I never get used to this. They've lived here long enough. — Hugo Claus Copy Share Image
You need to have a God, a lover, and an enemy, says the poet. Exactly: you need to have three enemies. — Jose Bergamin Copy Share Image
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