“Blame the poets. It’s easier to stir people to rebellion if they think they’re on the side of a demigod or some… — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
Every Night and every Morn Some to Misery are born. Every Morn and every Night Some are born to Sweet Delight, Some… — William Blake Copy Share Image
“I have waltzed with wolves and howled at the moon. But my heart will always remember the slow-dance that ended much too… — Alfa H Copy Share Image
Cannery Row in Monterey in California is a poem, a stink, a grating noise, a quality of light, a tone, a habit,… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
Mathematics is the art of giving the same name to different things. [As opposed to the quotation: Poetry is the art of… — Henri Poincare Copy Share Image
The reader is the content of any poem or of the language he employs, and in order to use any of these… — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
“I want to tie one thousand balloons around my neck and float up while slowly dying of happiness.” — Matthew Donahoo Copy Share Image
and for the first time in my life I understand the end of that poem. And I never wanted to. You have… — Stephen Chbosky Copy Share Image
“We have the divinity of our great misery. And our solitude, with its toilsome ideas, tears and laughter, is fatally divine. However… — Henri Barbusse Copy Share Image
I wonder if I ever thought of an ideal reader... I guess when I was in my 20s and in New York… — Kenneth Koch Copy Share Image
Though the cross of Christ has been beautified by the poet and the artist, the avid seeker after God is likely to… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
Now that I am in my forties, she [my mother] tells me I'm beautiful; now that I am in my forties, she… — Marge Piercy Copy Share Image
I'm happy to be a writer - of prose, poetry, every kind of writing. Every person in the world who isn't a… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
“Prophecy is a poetry of change, social, political, moral, spiritual. It was with the prophetic model in mind that Shelley wrote of… — Allegra Goodman Copy Share Image
The poet Amanda Nadelberg puts it nicely in an interview when she says "often what I listen for in poems is a… — Charles D'Ambrosio Copy Share Image
“So he said, 'What would you like to do? What is your desire really?' I said, 'Doctor, I don't think you're going… — Allen Ginsberg Copy Share Image
In Latin America in general, and Cuba in particular, poets have been the inspiration behind struggles for independence, struggles for freedom of… — Margarita Engle Copy Share Image
“Mini cat poem for ISF kids: William went high Into the air Furly had stepped On the edge of The board” — Debby Feo Copy Share Image
“There is something perfect to be found in the imperfect: the law keeps balance through the juxtaposition of beauty, which gains perfection… — Dejan Stojanovic Copy Share Image
Criticism starts - it has to start - with a real passion for reading. It can come in adolescence, even in your… — Harold Bloom Copy Share Image
Like the musician, the painter, the poet and the rest, the true lover of flowers is born, not made. — Celia Thaxter Copy Share Image
Poets may be delightful creatures in the meadow or the garret, but they are menaces on the assembly line. — Rollo May Copy Share Image
I've always had a love for poetry and when I got signed to a record label I thought, 'How odd that I'm… — Jewel Copy Share Image
Earth, receive an honored guest; William Yeats is laid to rest. Let the Irish vessel lie Emptied of its poetry. — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
I just sit down and write. I never know when. The most recent one is 'Sarah Still,' which is about our life,… — Shelley Berman Copy Share Image
“...I'm constantly agitated, restless - I work moments like worry beads until I see your face...” — John Geddes Copy Share Image
I could I trust starve like a gentleman. It's listed as part of the poetic training, you know. — Ezra Pound Copy Share Image
“You have the power to overcome. You have the power to persist. You have the power to be hurting and scared and… — Liz Newman Copy Share Image
“All shadows of clouds the sun cannot hide like the moon cannot stop oceanic tide; but a hidden star can still be… — Munia Khan Copy Share Image
A despot doesn't fear eloquent writers preaching freedom- he fears a drunken poet who may crack a joke that will take hold. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The best poetry will be found to have a power of forming, sustaining, and delighting us, as nothing else can. — Matthew Arnold Copy Share Image
To the question always asked, 'why do you write?' the response of the poet will always be the briefest 'In order to… — Ash Sweeney Copy Share Image
The purpose of poetry is to remind us / how difficult it is to remain just one person... — Czeslaw Milosz Copy Share Image
The Western poet and writer of romance has exactly the same kind of difficulty in comprehending Eastern subjects as you have in… — Lafcadio Hearn Copy Share Image
“When you find your twin flame you also find your freedom, for there is nothing more exhilarating, wild and free than absolute… — Melody Lee Copy Share Image
This will be a good time for poetry, you know, when things get darker and stranger and your very speech is being… — Anne Waldman Copy Share Image
Poetry is not only the most concise way of conveying the human experience; it also offers the highest possible standards for any… — Joseph Brodsky Copy Share Image
I have heard that hysterical women say They are sick of the palette and fiddle-bow, Of poets that are always gay — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
The poet sees things as they look. Is this having a faculty the less? or a sense the more? — Augustus William Hare Copy Share Image
Many attempts have been made by writers on art and poetry to define beauty in the abstract, to express it in the… — Walter Pater Copy Share Image
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