Watch out for intellect, because it knows so much it knows nothing and leaves you hanging upside down, mouthing knowledge as your… — Anne Sexton Copy Share Image
I always wanted to be some kind of writer - I wrote plays and songs and "books" before I realized living and… — Denise Duhamel Copy Share Image
“Transcend the terrestrial; surpass the celestial, from nature’s hands when you receive the sublime pleasures of dance.” — Shah Asad Rizvi Copy Share Image
“like god's stray eyelashes the stars are falling—more light! more! god has no time to make a wish all he can do… — Valzhyna Mort Copy Share Image
I loved everything. I read everything. Art and poetry and literature and trash and sci fi. I didn't know what I would… — Margaret Cho Copy Share Image
“She dances under a glistening golden sky Dangerous and wild! Her hair smells of fire and ashes, while her eyes are full… — Melody Lee Copy Share Image
I think Whitman more than any other poet possessed the gift of revealing to others the beauty of everything around us, the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I can write the saddest poem of all tonight. I loved her, and sometimes she loved me too. — Pablo Neruda Copy Share Image
This artistic uprising we had the other night in Washington Square park: there was poetry, there was dance, there was song, there… — Eve Ensler Copy Share Image
I should attempt to write a love song, I have written lots of poetry about love so I could turn those into… — Drew Barrymore Copy Share Image
What was love, really? Flowers, chocolate, and poetry? Or was it something else? Was it being able to finish someone's jokes? Was… — Richelle Mead Copy Share Image
“Life is about choices. Choose your influences carefully. Be selective of everything you see, hear, read, and say. The very things we… — Jason Versey Copy Share Image
“How to live as divided cells — voilà! Something always eludes the scientists, the poets, the stargazers, the biologists, the anthropologists. Something… — Anaïs Nin Copy Share Image
“Humanity i love you because you would rather black the boots of success than enquire whose soul dangles from his watch-chain which… — E.E. Cummings Copy Share Image
Whereas there are lots of good novels out there; there are a few good movies out there. People have been writing great… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
The fact that there are so many weak, poor and boring stories and novels written and published in America has been ascribed… — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
“He had to remind himself that the work of a surgeon is poetry of a kind, in which blood is the meaning… — Kathleen Winter Copy Share Image
“With one perfect kiss on one perfect English summer afternoon, we understand the meaning of all the colors of every rainbow, forevermore.” — Hunter S. Jones Copy Share Image
“You dance inside my chest, where no one sees you, but sometimes I do, and that sight becomes this art.” — Rumi Copy Share Image
Poems, unlike songs, are written to be read and, thus, come equipped with their own rhythms and melodies; they're self-contained entities, the… — Jonathan Miles Copy Share Image
You can make poems out of anger as well as tenderness. You can make poetry out of anything. It can be the… — Tony Harrison Copy Share Image
“Love starts as a feeling, But to continue is a choice; And I find myself choosing you More and more every day.” — Justin Wetch Copy Share Image
Poets say science takes away from the beauty of the stars - mere globs of gas atoms. I, too, can see the… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
Tis true among fields and woods I sing, Aloof from cities--that my poor strains Were born, like the simple flowers you bring,… — Alfred Austin Copy Share Image
“Put the two of us together and we become like moonlight and fireflies... all burning and glowing and lighting up the night.” — Melody Lee Copy Share Image
“The pulpit is beautifully furnished and bright But it's rotted in places not seen by the light” — Justin Wetch Copy Share Image
Islamic culture has given us majestic arches and soaring spires; timeless poetry and cherished music; elegant calligraphy and places of peaceful contemplation. — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
You can't be wrong in journalism. Take a wrong turn in journalism, and you are writing fiction. You can take a wrong… — Eliza Griswold Copy Share Image
“When the lover goes, the vow though broken remains, that trace of eternity love brings down among us stays, to give dignity… — Galway Kinnell Copy Share Image
In her love I am the hero, the king, the poet; and alive without her love, I am nothing at all, not… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Between my finger and my thumb The squat pen rests; snug as a gun. ~from the poem "Digging — Seamus Heaney Copy Share Image
What is Friendship, Definition of Friend, True Friendship - All about the meaning of true friends, what friendship means, meaning of friendship… — Mark Vernon Copy Share Image
“[Poetry] strips the veil of familiarity from the world, and lays bear the naked and sleeping beauty which is the spirit of… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
“the best poems it seems to me are written out of an ultimate need. and once the poem is written, the only… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
“I am that I am a Goddess, a God entitled to the deepest and most beautiful sensations offered by Heaven and Earth… — Ramon Ravenswood Copy Share Image
The true philosopher and the true poet are one, and a beauty, which is truth, and a truth, which is beauty, is… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“noone knows and noone sees we lovers doing what we please but people stop and point at these ten milk bottles a-turning… — Roger McGough Copy Share Image
“The poet is a faker / Who's so good at his act / He even fakes the pain / Of pain he feels in fact.” — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
So for whatever reason those short lines just felt right to me, in my physical self. They were right for the movement… — Matthew Zapruder Copy Share Image
“A good poem doesn't need to rhyme or have fancy words. It needs to touch the reader, hug them when arms cannot… — Goldie Nanwani Copy Share Image
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