Poetry isn't an efficient tool for preserving experience, any more than it's an efficient mode of communication, but who says that it… — James Arthur Copy Share Image
Love is the reduction of the universe to the single being, and the expansion of a single being, even to God — Anonymous Copy Share Image
You're shadowed by your own dream, especially as you get older, of trying to create something that will last in poetry. And… — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
“ Facerea lumii Şi a fost seară. Şi a fost dimineaţă. Dar asta a fost demult. Şi o singură dată.” — Ion Mureşan Copy Share Image
You searched through all my poets, From Sappho through to Auden, I saw the book fall from your hands, As you slowly… — Nick Cave Copy Share Image
“You will never know how to tarnish the devotion Of my passion for the beauty of women, that my verse acclaims” — Renée Vivien Copy Share Image
One attraction of Latin is that you can immerse yourself in the poems of Horace and Catullus without fretting over how to… — Peter Brodie Copy Share Image
“You are the sick prince of my cerise innovations and in your drowning caresses I walk the sea” — Frank O'Hara Copy Share Image
“Bird of Paradise, feather among leaves, To the earthy soil I am bound and tied. Anchored by claws of roots and weighty… — Marie Helen Abramyan Copy Share Image
“Perhaps it's my destiny to remain a book-keeper for ever and for poetry and literature to remain simply butterflies that alight on… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
I like art; if I could just draw pictures all day, I would, but I can't; I'm horrible. I practiced at it,… — Iman Shumpert Copy Share Image
“It is incomprehensible that he should want to have these futile people here, and still more incomprehensible that he should be able… — Pär Lagerkvist Copy Share Image
Let the snake wait under his weed and the writing be of words, slow and quick, sharp to strike, quiet to wait,… — William Carlos Williams Copy Share Image
“Once upon a time the world was a realm of unanswered questions and there was room in it for poetry. Man stood… — James Cameron Copy Share Image
“Prague is far more than the sum of its physical parts or its history. It is a city of the mind and… — Paul Wilson Copy Share Image
“Poem in October" It was my thirtieth year to heaven Woke to my hearing from harbour and neighbour wood And the mussel… — Dylan Thomas Copy Share Image
“The remedy is to read, re-read, deeply ponder and learn to live out of the truths of verses 18-30!” — Timothy J. Keller Copy Share Image
If Galileo had said in verse that the world moved, the inquisition might have let him alone. — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
Yes, the work comes out more beautiful from a material that resists the process, verse, marble, onyx, or enamel. — Theophile Gautier Copy Share Image
I went to Princeton to major in comparative literature. I never went to film school, but I studied storytelling across mediums -… — Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi Copy Share Image
“You and those shot-glass eyes, deep swirling pools of 80-proof firewater, with the depth and profundity of Saturn’s spinning pulsars…” — Brandi L. Bates Copy Share Image
But where are the snows of last year? That was the greatest concern of Villon, the Parisian poet. — Francois Rabelais Copy Share Image
“...take off your sweater in the darkness and static flares as a tiny lightning storm - I am the same at the… — John Geddes Copy Share Image
“Baby girl, You tried, You tried so hard, Don't you worry? You have all the right, To sleep tight at night!” — Jyoti Patel Copy Share Image
“A poet can imagine an iceberg singing a melancholic song while the world leaders find it difficult to imagine proper solution to… — Munia Khan Copy Share Image
“what if you split the world into pieces and called them countries declared ownership on what never belonged to you and left… — Rupi Kaur Copy Share Image
For what I have publish'd, I can only hope to be pardon'd; but for what I have burned, I deserve to be… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
“She stood. He Stood. They stood on different corners with cardboard signs. Signs that read "Why lie? I need love." signs. ©… — Antonia Perdu Millie Farquoix Copy Share Image
“I want to believe in prophecies more than policies. I want to listen to poets rather than pollsters.” — Carolina De Robertis Copy Share Image
Poetry is very crafted. You can't have too many words. It needs compression. It has to be spare, just the right number… — Barbara Feldon Copy Share Image
“Do you think it's ready?" I [Silenus, The Poet] asked. "It's perfect... a masterpiece." "Do you think it'll sell?" I asked. "No… — Dan Simmons Copy Share Image
In poetry compromise is fatal. In action of any cooperative sort it is inevitable. The thing is to find the balance. — May Sarton Copy Share Image
But the divinest poem, or the life of a great man, is the severest satire… The greater the genius, the keener the… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
We've seen violent responses to 'Satanic Verses.' We've seen violent responses to the cartoons depicting the Prophet Mohammed in an evil way. — Susan Rice Copy Share Image
As a great master once observed: "There are two methods of becoming god, the upright or the averse." Let the mind become… — Peter J. Carroll Copy Share Image
What is the poem, after it is written? That is the question. Not where it came from or why. — Allen Tate Copy Share Image
I love John Ashbery. He's the - really the poet laureate of English language poetry, whether he's given that or not, he… — Jim Jarmusch Copy Share Image
“We became poets before we learned to walk Our roots dug deep with the slight touch of love Our leaves sprouted after… — Avijeet Das Copy Share Image
The heroes of our youth grow old - 'the boys of summer in their ruin,' in Dylan Thomas's verse - yet we… — John Thorn Copy Share Image
If I had my life to live over again, I would have made a rule to read some poetry and listen to… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
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