“Leave the comfort of your dark cocoon... Allow your imagination to take flight. Embrace those marvelous magical wings and soar!” — Melody Lee Copy Share Image
No other human being, no woman, no poem or music, book or painting can replace alcohol in its power to give man… — Marguerite Duras Copy Share Image
Poetry must speak of others, in order to speak for the poet's imagination, in order to speak of itself; it is slowed… — Shirley Geok-lin Lim Copy Share Image
A poet, to whom no one cruel and imposing listens, / Disdained by senates, whispers to your dust, — Carolyn Kizer Copy Share Image
The way a small child might dream of visiting Disneyland, I dreamed of writing books. Never did I think my poems would… — Rupi Kaur Copy Share Image
Katherine Sedley was the only daughter and heiress to the libertine poet Sir Charles Sedley, and grew into a thoroughly scandalous lady… — Susan Holloway Scott Copy Share Image
“I feel like shredded paper thrown to the wind, each poet took a piece of me and wrote a word or phrase...” — Luis Alexandre Ribeiro Branco Copy Share Image
Arranging a bowl of flowers in the morning can give a sense of quiet in a crowded day - like writing a… — Anne Morrow Lindbergh Copy Share Image
“Verse 11 teaches us to use whatever gifts the Lord has graciously given us to make others stronger in their faith. Verse… — Timothy J. Keller Copy Share Image
I think of myself as a writer who photographs. Images, for me, can be considered poems, short stories or essays. And I've… — Sam Abell Copy Share Image
Adrienne Rich was one of the most widely-read and influential poets of her time, a leading feminist, known especially for her politically-engaged… — Earl Scruggs Copy Share Image
... mathematics is very much like poetry ... what makes a good poem -- a great poem -- is that there is… — Lipman Bers Copy Share Image
I read a poem once, about a girl who had a crush on a guy that died. She imagined him up in… — Peyton Sawyer Copy Share Image
“Another time somebody gave a talk about poetry. He talked about the structure of the poem and the emotions that come with… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
“You burn with the flames of desire for someone that doesn’t notice or pay attention. Your love affair has not even begun… — RJ Intindola - - 1977 Copy Share Image
For something to be useful to the spirit is not very valuable to get your covered wagon across the desert. We have… — Miller Williams Copy Share Image
“In everyone’s life, there is a line between reality and dreams; but poets don’t have that line.” — M.F. Moonzajer Copy Share Image
Poetry is an affair of sanity, of seeing things as they are, to recreate the familiar, eternalizing the poet's own perception in… — Philip Larkin Copy Share Image
I tend to integrate poet and scholar is by ironizing the scholarship. My hope is to disturb that space between the two… — Gregory Pardlo Copy Share Image
“I give the command and adhere to the impulses arising from the same power that balances the stars and spins the earth… — Rhys Blanco Copy Share Image
Nearly everybody is looking for something brave to do. I don't know why people shouldn't write poetry. That's brave. — Robert Frost Copy Share Image
“For all but the sliver of poetry fans, over the past forty years popular song lyrics have been the nation’s poetry.” — John McWhorter Copy Share Image
Poetry expands the senses and keeps them in prime condition. It keeps you aware of your nose, your eye, your ear, your… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
Everyday begins like a blank chalkboard, on which each one of us can write the poem of our present and our dreams… — Ricky Martin Copy Share Image
You even called me stupid in your verse, and I'm almost agreeing, for where stupidity is involved, you are quite an expert,… — Franz Grillparzer Copy Share Image
Of course the other and more serious way in which it all happens is that one finds in poems and language some… — Robert Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
I didn't start off as a journalist; I started off as a poet. My ambition was to practise poetry. Then I found… — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
“Annant is Pickwick paperless, the hunter of wisdom and due to Lovelace heart, a budding poet-ass.” — Aporva Kala Copy Share Image
Lyrics have to be underwritten. That's why poets generally make poor lyric writers because the language is too rich. You get drowned… — Stephen Sondheim Copy Share Image
... what is great poetry, after all, but the continuation of the human voice after death? — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
Hopefully I can inspire lots of people to learn about [Patti Smith], to read poetry or learn about William Blake or Arthur… — Steven Sebring Copy Share Image
A poem records emotions and moods that lie beyond normal language, that can only be patched together and hinted at metaphorically. — Diane Ackerman Copy Share Image
“Poetry is not the books in the library. Poetry is the encounter of the reader with the book, the discovery of the… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
“And fourthly, what need hardly be said twice, That good but rarely came from good advice.” — George Gordon Byron Copy Share Image
The real challenge of writing songs isn't just writing a bunch of parts - like a verse, chorus, verse - but making… — James Mercer Copy Share Image
I believe God is a poet; every religion in our history was made of poems and songs, and not a few of… — Luis Alberto Urrea Copy Share Image
I would love to write a script, for sure. I write poetry and songs. But writing a script needs a lot of… — Ayushmann Khurrana Copy Share Image
I'm moved by people who see the world differently than others. People who see the world with a longing for its poetry… — Laura Dern Copy Share Image
“But love of one kind will never duplicate itself. Love has its variety...which possibly makes it as a great as all the… — Dan Skinner Copy Share Image
Poetry is the gate through which I enter the land of enchantment. Once inside the flaming wall, my limitations fall from me,… — Helen Keller Copy Share Image
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