“A voice from the dark called out, "The poets must give us imagination of peace, to oust the intense, familiar imagination of… — Denise Levertov Copy Share Image
“Already that morning missus had taken her cane stick to me once cross my backside for falling asleep during her devotions. Every… — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
“I really don't know who has it worse: The heartbreaker who guiltily draws the line-- The heartbroken convinced they are cursed-- Or… — Karl Kristian Flores Copy Share Image
“I want a marriage of companions—one of shared lives and shared poems,' he murmured. 'If we were husband and wife, we would… — Lisa See Copy Share Image
“One night they walked while the moon rose and poured a great burden of glory over the garden until it seemed fairyland… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“The gift that isn't big enough to make a mark, but is too big to leave the possessor in peace. And so… — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
The truest and greatest Poetry, (while subtly and necessarily always rhythmic, and distinguishable easily enough) can never again, in the English language,… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
“She asked me why I never came, said she had heard all sorts of stories about me. This was only to gain… — James Joyce Copy Share Image
One of the things I love about translation is it obliterates the self. When I'm trying to figure out what Tu Fu… — Sam Hamill Copy Share Image
“One day when we feel less embarrassed about it all, the next generation's great poet will write an elegy for the despair… — Jay Caspian Kang Copy Share Image
Whether we are poets or parents or teachers or artists or gardeners, we must start where we are and use what we… — Luci Shaw Copy Share Image
“This is a Personal Poem My self's self is thinking about itself. Trying to sell its self a new self. Don't worry,… — Alex Dimitrov Copy Share Image
“The most significant events, Bishop seems to argue, are destined to remain outside the scope of description. It is perhaps their very… — Dan Chiasson Copy Share Image
“What If God Is a Creep? What if God is a creep who wishes He was taller who didn't get the girl… — Nancy Boutilier Copy Share Image
“The practice of buying off the Vikings will always be associated with Æthelred in particular… [but] it was not something which proceeded… — Simon Keynes Copy Share Image
“Thanks for the heavenly message brought by thee, Child of the wandering sea, Cast from her lap, forlorn! From thy dead lips… — Oliver Wendell Holmes Copy Share Image
“I am not sure that the best way to make a boy love the English poets might not be forbid him to… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“Of course, a single verse of the Holy Qur'an or a hadith moves the faithful to good actions, but volumes of books… — Muhammad Zakariyya Kandhalvi Copy Share Image
“Now therefore, while the youthful hue Sits on thy skin like morning dew, And while thy willing soul transpires At every pore… — Andrew Marvell Copy Share Image
“call “stuplimity” through a literature of exhausting repetitions and permutations, paranoia through a transcription-based poetry that continually raises the question of whether… — Sianne Ngai Copy Share Image
A man should have a farm or a mechanical craft for his culture. We must have a basis for our higher accomplishments,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Since the age of 15 poetry has been my ruling passion and I have never intentionally undertaken any task or formed any… — Robert Graves Copy Share Image
Well, the great thing for me about poetry is that in good poems the dislocation of words, that is to say, the… — Harry Mathews Copy Share Image
Delicate, gracious, and eloquent, John Brandi's poems reveal that he remains an extraordinary profound poet of prayer and praise. His is the… — David St. John Copy Share Image
I developed a definition - which I think becomes less and less accurate as poetry moves into the world - that poetry… — Grace Paley Copy Share Image
“When the Italian poet Dante described the center of hell in his poem The Divine Comedy, he got it wrong. The epicenter… — Steve Dublanica Copy Share Image
“from the poem Holographic Personality Disgrace : Some people are such assholes that saying, "Look, again, I'm sorry I cut off my… — Sam Pink Copy Share Image
“I will use my special sight! I will quiet myself right here and now and I will get the answer on what… — Chris DiSano Davenport Copy Share Image
During the last quarter of a century all the authority associated with the function of spiritual guidance ... has seeped down into… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
“I believe there is nothing that our better nature needs more absolutely than music, no other art of perfection possesses that strange… — Pauline Decaradeuc Heyward Copy Share Image
“Poetry, if it is not to be a lifeless repetition of forms, must be constantly exploring "the frontiers of the spirit." But… — T.S. Eliot Copy Share Image
“But that's a good match for the way I've always approached life. I've always believed in motion and action, in following connections… — Jay-Z Copy Share Image
“A poet is an unhappy being whose heart is torn by secret suffrings, but whose lips are so strangely formed that when… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Once outside the magic circle the writers became their lonely selves, pondering on poems, observing their fellow men ruthlessly, putting people they… — Barbara Pym Copy Share Image
Walter Scott has no business to write novels, especially good ones. It is not fair. He has fame and profit enough as… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“...Of the Hindu, of whatever caste, it may be said, as of the poet, nascitur non fit . His birth status is… — Lepel H. Griffin Copy Share Image
Im in the darkness, no way out. I'm stuck in a postion, where I cant get out. no need to hurt yourself,… — Patience Copy Share Image
“MOM Wholeheartedly, She loved me- And inspired me- With transcending devotion. It was a blessing- To have been her son, To have… — Giorge Leedy Copy Share Image
Part of what makes for good writing is an ear for what we would call the poetical. Poetry itself is another thing… — Tony Kushner Copy Share Image
One of the most treasured books that I own is Donald Allen's 'The New American Poetry, 1945-1960.' It was a totem of… — Peter Coyote Copy Share Image
![“The practice of buying off the Vikings will always be associated with Æthelred in particular… [but] it was not something which proceeded from Æthelred alone, and indeed it was not uniquely characteristic of Æthelred’s reign… In 991 Ealdorman Byrhtnoth rejected the option of paying tribute and…” quote by Simon Keynes](https://sms4smile.com/q/i/349/simon-keynes-140423_anglo-saxon-history_the-practice-of-buying-off-the-vikings-w_71645.jpg)
