Poetry is the arithmetic of the easiest way and the primrose path, matched up with foam-flanked horses, bloody knuckles, and bones, on… — Carl Sandburg Copy Share Image
“The poem was called “Goblin Market,” and the book whose proof pages were on the desk was titled Goblin Market and Other… — Tim Powers Copy Share Image
“That kiss, I cannot describe. It was like a poem, a prayer, a homecoming unlooked-for. It was like dungeon walls crumbling to… — Jacqueline Carey Copy Share Image
The way I process things, they way I express myself, is in comics, just as poets process things that they are trying… — Ellen Forney Copy Share Image
“These are the woes of Slaves; They glare from the abyss; They cry, from unknown graves, "We are the Witnesses!” — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
“You will be my thunder. I'll be your lightning. Even the heavens will rage with jealousy.” — Melody Lee Copy Share Image
“And when next I feel the dawn’s light, I open my hand and set the butterfly free, Knowing she does not appear… — Natalie Miller Copy Share Image
Once your poems are completed, you send them into the world. You don't write for a coterie of other writers - you… — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
“A writer is someone who spends years patiently trying to discover the second being inside him, and the world that makes him… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
“In the end he became as fragmentary as the poems of Sappho he never succeeded in restoring, and finally one morning he… — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
“Is there a sound? There is a forest. What is the word? The word is wilderness. What is the answer? The answer… — Bin Ramke Copy Share Image
“These are men whose minds the Dead have ravished. Memory fingers in their hair of murders Multitudinous murders they once witnessed. Wading… — Wilfred Owen Copy Share Image
When you know the lyrics to a tune, you have some kind of insight as to it's composition. If you don't understand… — Dexter Gordon Copy Share Image
“He read me another poem, and another one - and he explained the true history of poetry, which is a kind of… — Aravind Adiga Copy Share Image
“Sometimes the pagan spirit of Roman poetry arouses qualms. Guibert of Nogent confesses in his autobiography that early in his monastic life… — Joseph Gies Copy Share Image
“And it didn’t matter how many songs or poems had already been written about them, because whenever he thought about the girl,… — Stephanie Perkins Copy Share Image
For every half, there is a whole. For every hand, there's one to hold. For every poem, there is a meaning. And… — Murali Iyengar Copy Share Image
Compose aloud: poetry is a sound. Never explain- your reader is as smart as you. Your reader is not just any reader,… — Basil Bunting Copy Share Image
“Her skin smelled like the twilight moon and her eyes looked primal, like a hungry animal. She was darkness – dangerous, beautiful darkness.” — Melody Lee Copy Share Image
Poetry at its best is the language your soul would speak if you could teach your soul to speak. — Jim Harrison Copy Share Image
In every age poets and social reformers have tried to stimulate the people of their own time to a nobler life by… — Alfred Marshall Copy Share Image
Do you know what would hold me together on a battlefield? The sense that I was perpetuating the language in which Keats… — Wilfred Owen Copy Share Image
“What was hard was discovering the true life of the poem inside its technical scaffolding.” — Linda Wagner-Martin Copy Share Image
“Today I introduced myself to my very own Heart, In silent agony, after all these years it bled apart.” — Ankita Singhal Copy Share Image
“Poetry provides a vehicle that takes me to places that logic won't go. It is a way of understanding the incomprehensible.” — John A. Vanek Copy Share Image
“Life goes on in the same manner, evil wins and peace is slaughtered. Change the channel, change the view, tired of the… — Susie Clevenger Copy Share Image
As men advance in life, all passions resolve themselves into money. Love, ambition, even poetry, end in this. — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
“The Bible says, ‘If any would not work, neither should he eat.’ Saint Paul wrote that, in Second Thessalonians, chapter three, verse… — Ken Follett Copy Share Image
“Eagle's flight of loneliness soars so high Around its sigh, no more alone the sky Other birds remain away, clouds pass by… — Munia Khan Copy Share Image
I have heard the mermaids singing, each to each. I do not think that they will sing to me. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“If you don't look before the dusk and beyond the dawn, you won't be able to see the sun. (Soar)” — Soar Soaring-Words.com Copy Share Image
“You fell because you were looking to fall, You fell because you’re kind. Your humans called you Daydreamer girl, but you fell… — F.K. Preston Copy Share Image
If we're gonna progress as a people we are going to realise that, as one of my favourite poets says, the other… — Saul Williams Copy Share Image
“Gardens are poems Where you stroll with your hands in your pockets. (Les jardins sont des poemes Ou l'on se promene les… — Pierre Albert-Birot Copy Share Image
“level, they use this as a poor excuse to disregard the rules of the sharia. Drinking, dancing, music, poetry, and painting” — Elif Shafak Copy Share Image
You can feel greatness in the ring. You can get two guys that gel together and it's just like poetry or a… — Ricky Steamboat Copy Share Image
I never meant to be a full-time poet: I started out as a gardener, an ideal job for a poet because your… — Alice Oswald Copy Share Image
When you finish a poem, it clicks shut like the top of a jewel box, but prose is endless. I haven't experienced… — Kenneth Koch Copy Share Image
It ["The Ancient Mariner"] is marvellous in its mastery over that delightfully fortuitous inconsequence that is the adamantine logic of dreamland. — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
“Watch carefully the magic that occurs when you give a person enough comfort to just be themselves.” — Atticus Poetry Copy Share Image
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