The higher Greek poetry did not make up fictitious plots; its business was to express the heroic saga, the myths. — Gilbert Murray Copy Share Image
“This was what the poets couldn't put in their poetry, she thought dumbly, the rush of desire so fierce and pure it… — Lauren Willig Copy Share Image
I wanted to be a composer for a while, and for a while, and maybe still, I found writing music much easier… — Shane McCrae Copy Share Image
“Mungkin seseorang masih tak tahu lirih perih dalam rintik rindu ini. Selamat malam, kamu yg berlalu dalam gerimis.” — Helvy Tiana Rosa Copy Share Image
EPIGRAM, n. A short, sharp saying in prose or verse, frequently characterize by acidity or acerbity and sometimes by wisdom. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
Maybe that is the power of poetry. It somehow transcends news cycles, and becomes a part of our collective imagination. That is… — Kwame Dawes Copy Share Image
“I will only let you touch me if your hands are so full of intention that every brush of your palms feels… — Azra. T Copy Share Image
When science drove the gods out of nature, they took refuge in poetry and the porticos of civic buildings. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
“I dreamt of you last night, vivid and consuming and gone as I woke up faded from memory before I had the… — Abby Rosmarin Copy Share Image
“Meditation is when you sit down, let's say that, and don't do anything. Poetry is when you get up and do something.… — Norman Fischer Copy Share Image
Still, no one finally knows what a poet is supposed either to be or to do. Especially in this country, one takes… — Robert Creeley Copy Share Image
“If he's a poet, why's he in jail?" demanded a suspicious voice. Madam Chairwoman shrugged velvet shoulders. "Perhaps he writes free verse,"… — Margery Sharp Copy Share Image
Everybody is writing, writing, writing - worst of all, writing poetry. It'd be better if the whole tribe of the scribblers -… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
There is another old poet whose name I do not now remember who said Truth is the daughter of Time. [Lat., Alius… — Aulus Gellius Copy Share Image
“When I think of it as happening to somebody else, it seems that the idea of me soaked to the skin, surrounded… — Sōseki Natsume Copy Share Image
I think of my poems as personal and public at the same time. You could say they serve as psychological overlays. One… — Yusef Komunyakaa Copy Share Image
I did literature at university, so I had a real relationship with poetry, but they don't make many films about the world… — Alice Eve Copy Share Image
Do-gooders are easily overlooked. We're supposed to be soft, touchy-feely types, who wear Birkenstocks, compost everything, and write poetry by candlelight. — Nancy Lublin Copy Share Image
“ Second Fig Safe upon the solid rock the ugly houses stand: Come and see my shining palace built upon the sand!” — Edna St. Vincent Millay Copy Share Image
“A poem is never a put-up job, so to speak. It begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong,… — Robert Frost Copy Share Image
Poetry is something I love to do. Good poetry has an amazing ability to be communicative before it's even understood. I get… — Daniel Radcliffe Copy Share Image
I never wrote poetry, just prose. I don't really consider songwriting a form of poetry either. The words are important, of course,… — Michael Gira Copy Share Image
'Sunshine Superman' was a pioneering work that for the first time presented a fusion of Celtic, jazz, folk, rock, and Indian music… — Donovan Copy Share Image
A writer's heart, a poet's heart, an artist's heart, a musician's heart is always breaking. It is through that broken window that… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
I see people who talk about America, and then undermine it by not paying attention to its soul, to its poetry. I… — Azar Nafisi Copy Share Image
“I grew into my hips when I was seventeen years old I learned from my mother She used hers like a boat… — Hannah V. Sawyerr Copy Share Image
Re-examine all you have been told in school or church or in any book, and dismiss whatever insults your own soul; and… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
“I did not willingly let half of my soul leave my body. It was torn from me. I still hear the ransomed… — Alfa H Copy Share Image
“On the walk home a Jeep roars past; the driver calls you a fucking towelhead. One of the ex-sucias publishes a poem… — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
“What! have you no poems by heart, no great songs, no verses from the Bible, no speeches from Shakespeare? Then you have… — John Macy Copy Share Image
You say to yourself, Well, this poem isn't going to be any good, but I'll write it anyway. — Robert Bly Copy Share Image
A poet who is a bad man is a degraded being, baser and more culpable than a bad man who is not… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
It's easier to teach a poet how to read a balance sheet than it is to teach an accountant how to write. — Henry R. Luce Copy Share Image
Gather ye rose-buds while ye may, Old Time is still a flying: And this same flower that smiles to day, Tomorrow will… — Robert Herrick Copy Share Image
All is fish that comes to the literary net. Goethe puts his joys and sorrows into poems, I turn my adventures into… — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
I read the other day some verses written by an eminent painter which were original and not conventional. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“& lord knows I have been called by what I look like more than I have been called by what I actually am” — Hanif Abdurraqib Copy Share Image
“In crime and enmity they lie Who sin and tell us love can die, Who say to us in slander's breath That… — John Clare Copy Share Image
I love you so much my heart is sure. As time goes on I love you more, your happy smile, your loving… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Poets are simply those who have made a profession ans a lifestyle of being in touch with their bliss. — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
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