“How is it that hearts hold on to memories with the strength of hope and possibilities.” — Alfa H 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
“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
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
When science drove the gods out of nature, they took refuge in poetry and the porticos of civic buildings. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
“We turn now to T. S. Eliot," said Mr Varriale, my 11th-grade English teacher, "the most difficult poet in the English language."… — Peter S. Hawkins Copy Share Image
“At the end of the fifteenth century, the poet Thomas Hoccleve declared in The Regiment of Princes, “Allas, wher ys this worldes… — Richard Sennett Copy Share Image
“I entered the fire and could have quit- Could have turned and walked away, Weeping each step for passed pain. I chose,… — Adam Scott Campbell Copy Share Image
There is a certain poetic value, and that a genuine one, in this sense of having missed the full meaning of things.… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
But in the dying world I come from quotation is a national vice. No one would think of making an after-dinner speech… — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
Let not a single day pass without your learning a verse, half a verse, or a fourth of it, or even one… — Chanakya Copy Share Image
And we must beg Homer and the other poets not to be angry if we strike out these and similar passages, not… — Plato Copy Share Image
One: whose shoulders do you stand on? And two: what do you stand for? These are two questions that I always begin… — Amanda Gorman 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
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
“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
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
“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
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
“Mungkin seseorang masih tak tahu lirih perih dalam rintik rindu ini. Selamat malam, kamu yg berlalu dalam gerimis.” — Helvy Tiana Rosa 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
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
there is a poetry in making preserves; the housewife has caught duration in the snare of sugar, she has enclosed life in… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
How can the poem and the stink and the grating noise - the quality of light, the tone, the habit and the… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
In a meadow full of flowers, you cannot walk through and breathe those smells and see all those colors and remain angry.… — Jonas Mekas Copy Share Image
“[On Jason Mashak's “I Was Trained to See Shadows”, in his poetry book SALTY AS A LIP:] A nice bit of smooth,… — John Bennett Copy Share Image
Teach your children poetry; it opens the mind, lends grace to wisdom and makes the heroic virtues hereditary. — Walter Scott Copy Share Image
As a poet Maria Terrone lives, like the rest of us, in a world of questions marks-but what shines through them is… — Eamon Grennan Copy Share Image
Poetry comes with anger, hunger and dismay; it does not often visit groups of citizens sitting down to be literary together, and… — Christopher Morley Copy Share Image
Time is, after all, the greatest of poets; and the sons of Memory stand a better chance of being the heirs of… — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
There comes a period of the imagination to each--a later youth--the power of beauty, the power of looks, of poetry. — Ralph Waldo Emerson 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
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