“He could have told George a writer creates a character as a way to reveal consciousness, increase the flow of meaning. This… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
“Some have accused me of a strange design Against the creed and morals of this land, And trace it in this poem… — George Gordon Byron Copy Share Image
The study of social progress is to-day not less needed in literature than is the analysis of the human heart. We live… — Alfred de Vigny Copy Share Image
And poets, in my view, and I think the view of most people, do speak God's language - it's better, it's finer,… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
When Walt Whitman writes in seeming defiance of tradition, he needs tradition for his protection, for the butcher and the baker and… — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
“Everything comes down so pasteurized everything comes down 16 degrees they say your amplifier is too loud turn your amplifier down are… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
Hour of Stars (1920) The round silence of night, one note on the stave of the infinite. Ripe with lost poems, I… — Federico Garcia Lorca Copy Share Image
“It's possible to understand the world from studying a leaf. You can comprehend the laws of aerodynamics, mathematics, poetry and biology through… — Joy Harjo Copy Share Image
Yet poetry, though the last and finest result, is a natural fruit. As naturally as the oak bears an acorn, and the… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Dreams are the bright creatures of poem and legend, who sport on earth in the night season, and melt away in the… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
With most people, not describable as artists, all the finer part of their vitality goes into sex. They become third-rate poets during… — Wyndham Lewis Copy Share Image
The Gettysburg Adress has been included, of late, in several anthologies of poetry. It actually meets the major requirement of all poetry:… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
If I looked at some of these pieces as if this project was not spoken-word but just short anthology, I probably would… — Richard Meltzer Copy Share Image
“Whispering wind, a quiet breath exhaled across years of tiny, fragments of light. Glowing in the breeze, like silent fireworks, accentuating my… — Susan L. Marshall Copy Share Image
“They understood, as few have understood before or since, how fleeting life is and how pointless to try to hold on to… — Thomas Cahill Copy Share Image
Woke Up Today' is a number of different sections compounded together. There's the melodica solo section which is three divisions; there's the… — Jacob Collier Copy Share Image
“I used to think love was two people sucking on the same straw to see whose thirst was stronger, but then I… — Jeffrey McDaniel Copy Share Image
“This night shalt thou know the favour of the Gods, and behold on Parnassus those dreams which the Gods have through ages… — H.P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
“My heart gave me no respite, I was like a madman last night. All night I was beguiled, Indulged and fantasized. The… — Amir Khusrow Dehlavi Copy Share Image
Think about what artists, novelists and poets have in common: the ability to engage in metaphorical thinking, linking seemingly unrelated ideas, such… — Vilayanur S. Ramachandran Copy Share Image
Richard Lee calculated that a Bushman child will be carried a distance of 4,900 miles before he begins to walk on his… — Bruce Chatwin Copy Share Image
“I want to make of your life a monument For the days you lingered in sadness With high towers and wide gardens… — Emmanuelle Soni-Dessaigne Copy Share Image
Rhyme is a mnemonic device, an aid to the memory. And some poems are themselves mnemonics, that is to say, the whole… — James Fenton Copy Share Image
“It's corny, but I think poems are echoes of the voices in your head and from your past. Your sisters, your father,… — Paul Beatty Copy Share Image
“IMPROVIDENCE The other lives I might have led All now might as well be Dead. Survived by no one. Barren, without issue… — John Tottenham Copy Share Image
“Dylan [Thomas] I knew before and after he became famous. He was splendid, rapacious, demanding as a young man. To much has… — John Pudney Copy Share Image
“Once through this ruined city did I pass I espied a lonely bird on a bough and asked ‘What knowest thou of… — Khushwant Singh Copy Share Image
Virtue is as little to be acquired by learning as genius; nay, the idea is barren, and is only to be employed… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
Poets are not so scrupulous as you are. They know how useful passion is for publication. Nowadays a broken heart will run… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Winterson has her own unmistakeable voice, tuned to express her obsessional preoccupation with sexual passion raised to the power of revealed religion.… — Victoria Glendinning Copy Share Image
“He wrote you a poem?" Evelyn looped her hand around Georgiana's arm and led the way to the chairs lining one side… — Suzanne Enoch Copy Share Image
“The trick is to ride the wave, Fast, wide-open and in deep Now-magic. Free, burning fear for fuel Generous, knowing there is… — Jacob Nordby Copy Share Image
It's hot tonight and half the neighborhood is drunk. the other half is dead. if I have any advice about writing poetry… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
“kindness is the foundation for the body that you call home but there are moments when you begin to question whether or… — Tesia Lewis Copy Share Image
“Transformations All night he ran, his body air, But that was in another year. Lately the answered shape of his laughter, The… — Stanley Kunitz Copy Share Image
We're here to make a dent in the universe. Otherwise, why even be here? We're creating a completely new consciousness, like an… — Steve Jobs Copy Share Image
“ The Taxi When I go away from you The world beats dead Like a slackened drum. I call out for you… — Amy Lowell Copy Share Image
My heart born naked was swaddled in lullabies. Later alone it wore poems for clothes. Like a shirt I carried on my… — John Berger Copy Share Image
The poetry and transgression that was so much of surrealism's anarchic force has been recruited into mainstream culture. It has been made… — Graham Joyce Copy Share Image
The world still wants its poet-priest, a reconciler, who shall not trifle with Shakspeare the player, nor shall grope in graves with… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
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