Is there a parson much bemused in beer, a maudlin poetess, a rhyming peer, a clerk foredoom'd his father's soul to cross,… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
“It's easy to hide behind a smile, that's why it is so important to search instead inside the eyes.” — Melody Lee Copy Share Image
“How is it that hearts hold on to memories with the strength of hope and possibilities.” — Alfa H Copy Share Image
“This poem is endless, the odds against us are endless, our chances of being alive together statistically nonexistent;” — Lisel Mueller Copy Share Image
Whatever my passions demand of me, I become for the time being - musician, poet, director, author, lecturer or anything else. — Richard Wagner Copy Share Image
In its youth a people produce mythology and poetry; in its decadence, philosophy and logic. — Will Durant Copy Share Image
“{...]I began to feel tears of frustration build up in my eyes, yearning to free themselves from their glandular prisons.” — Andrea Bouchaud Copy Share Image
Don't poets know it Better than others? God can't be always everywhere: and, so, Invented Mothers — Edwin Arnold Copy Share Image
The secret of poetry is never explained - is always new. We have not got farther than mere wonder at the delicacy… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The purpose of poetry is to remind us how difficult it is to remain just one person, for our house is open,… — Czeslaw Milosz Copy Share Image
“Walt Whitman (1819–1892). Leaves of Grass. 1900. To You WHOEVER you are, I fear you are walking the walks of dreams, I… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
I can't imagine ever writing anything of any kind on a machine. I never tried to write either poetry or prose on… — W. S. Merwin Copy Share Image
I began writing and became attached to writing at an early age. I began by writing poetry and experimenting with dialogues: modest… — Hassan Blasim Copy Share Image
“A ring-whorled prow rode in the harbour, ice-clad, outbound, a craft for a prince. They stretched their beloved lord in his boat,… — Seamus Heaney Copy Share Image
“Practical advice.—People who read much must always keep it in mind that life is one thing, literature another. Not that authors invariably… — Lev Shestov Copy Share Image
“The healing power of art is not a rhetorical fantasy. Fighting to keep language, language became my sanity and my strength. It… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
Your response to literature is to do with maturity; if you don't respond to a book or a poem when you are… — Tim Pigott-Smith Copy Share Image
The violinist is that peculiarly human phenomenon distilled to a rare potency---half tiger,half poet. — Yehudi Menuhin Copy Share Image
I started out as a poet. I've always been a poet since I was 7 or 8. And so I feel myself… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
Sometimes poetry, it is incomprehensible. But we need incomprehensible stuff! It is very healthy to talk about incomprehensible things! It is very… — Roberto Benigni Copy Share Image
“There’s a Heartrender at the Little Palace who can recite epic poetry for hours. Then you’d wish you had died.” — Leigh Bardugo Copy Share Image
The Odyssey is, indeed, one of the greatest of all stories, it is the original romance of the West; but the Iliad,… — George Saintsbury Copy Share Image
“Nothing is as endearing as a handwritten letter scribed by the person who holds your heart spellbound.” — Alfa H Copy Share Image
“There are no good tights, Rare they are, a rare sight. You roll and roll Inside a new hole, They´re only good… — Ana Claudia Antunes Copy Share Image
You wanted to destroy philosophy and poetry in order to make room for religion and morality which you misunderstood: but you wereable… — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Copy Share Image
“What I know is nothing but that we are a spring path of autumn light carved into a river of ancient singing.” — Heather K. O'Hara Copy Share Image
In my experience poetry speaks to you either at first sight or not at all. A flash of revelation and a flash… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The spirit of poetry, like all other living powers, must of necessity circumscribe itself by rules, were it only to unite power… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
Writing poetry, which for me was then saying how I felt about this and that, didn't help me to understand the world… — Grace Paley Copy Share Image
“I must say my prayers today whether I feel devout or not; but that is only as I must learn my grammar… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
There is nothing we should be quite so grateful for as the last line of the poem that goes, 'When your own… — Yamamoto Tsunetomo Copy Share Image
There is probably nothing wrong with art for art's sake if we take the phrase seriously, and not take it to mean… — Allen Tate Copy Share Image
Everything that's prose isn't verse and everything that isn't verse is prose. Now you see what it is to be a scholar! — Moliere Copy Share Image
“Solitude favors the original, the daringly and otherworldly beautiful, the poem. But it also favors the wrongful, the extreme, the absurd, and… — Thomas Mann Copy Share Image
It does not matter whether one paints a picture, writes a poem, or carves a statue - simplicity is the mark of… — Elsie de Wolfe Copy Share Image
“No matter how hard I try to forget you, you always come back to my thoughts When you hear me singing I… — Jane Bierhorst Copy Share Image
“A message from Love: Write my name in silent script upon your heart; and then… go anywhere, and be what you have… — Heather K. O'Hara Copy Share Image
“The writing talent of Edinburgh is textured - we have poets, novelists, non-fiction writers, dramatists and more.” — Sara Sheridan Copy Share Image
All that is best in the great poets of all countries is not what is national in them, but what is universal. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
Your life is a stage and you are the poet so pour your heart out, let them listen and be heard. Let… — Pamela Matongo Copy Share Image
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