The poets have familiarized more people with history than have the historians. — Barbara Tuchman Copy Share Image
The poem is a little myth of man's capacity of making life meaningful. — Robert Penn Warren Copy Share Image
“The "I" in the poem is not you but someone who knows a lot about you.” — Marvin Bell Copy Share Image
Fiction is in danger of becoming a kind of poetry. Only other poets read it. Only other fiction writers care about it. — John Updike Copy Share Image
“There are bones waiting for names in the graveyards. Even the sun above us is dying, one landed repetition of light at… — Cecilia Llompart Copy Share Image
“From love's plectrum arises the song of the string of life Love is the light of life love is the fire of… — Allama Iqbal Copy Share Image
Yeats was the greatest poet of our times . . . certainly the greatest in this language, and so far as I… — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
Our planet is poorly equipped for delight. One must snatch gladness from the days that are. In this life it's not difficult… — Vladimir Mayakovsky Copy Share Image
“Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard Are sweeter; therefore, ye soft pipes, play on.” — John Keats Copy Share Image
And as to experience-well, think how little some good poets have had, or how much some bad ones have. — Elizabeth Bishop Copy Share Image
If you want to see mankind fully, look at a family. Within the family minds become organically one, and for this reason… — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Copy Share Image
“Being also a poet, he put Francis Bacon into doggerel: You glorify Nature and meditate on her; Why not domesticate her and… — Will Durant Copy Share Image
In all my work, in the movies I write, the lyrics, the poetry, the prose, the essays, I am saying that we… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
The art has to have a life of its own and not merely illustrate. I've always felt a great illustration can make… — Douglas Florian Copy Share Image
“But the truth is, I can't sip from an hour-long church service on Sunday morning or dash off a hasty prayer or… — Lynn Austin Copy Share Image
There is poetry in fiction. If you cannot see it and feel it when you write, you need to step back and… — Terry Brooks Copy Share Image
“Supporting God's Scriptural ability to give or restrain man's desires, Jerry Bridges points to an amazing verse tucked away in Exodus 34:24.… — Jerry Bridges Copy Share Image
A poem is a place where the conditions of beyondness and withinness are made palpable, where to imagine is to feel what… — Mark Strand Copy Share Image
“Leaves will fall, cold will creep in A circle of life that ends where it begins It may take a thousand years… — Ryan Winfield Copy Share Image
