Turn pimp, flatterer, quack, lawyer, parson, be chaplain to an atheist, or stallion to an old woman, anything but a poet; for… — William Congreve Copy Share Image
“And so ended his affection," said Elizabeth impatiently. "There has been many a one, I fancy, overcome in the same way. I… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“Every poet knows that the gift of the gods is not fire but language. “Man dwells poetically on this earth,” Hölderin wrote.… — Rob Riemen Copy Share Image
“On the inspiration for Never Love a Stranger: “[The book begins with] a poem from To the Unborn by Stella Benson. There… — Harold Robbins Copy Share Image
There's no telling from poem to poem where this brilliant 'conversation' about maleness and gender will lead---there are poems about husbands and… — Nancy Eimers Copy Share Image
The major poets of New Jersey have all suffered, whether it's Whitman, who lost his job for 'Leaves of Grass,' or William… — Amiri Baraka Copy Share Image
I find myself with a camera a lot, like taking pictures. I love writing scripts for my videos. That excites me. Anything… — Rich Homie Quan Copy Share Image
As the falcon launched trustingly heavenward is lost to view, the course of the higher poetry often soars beyond the ken of… — Henry Theodore Tuckerman Copy Share Image
A poet or novelist will invent interruptions to avoid long consecutive days at the ordained page; and of these the most pernicious… — Shirley Hazzard Copy Share Image
“I? What am I?" roared the President, and he rose slowly to an incredible height, like some enormous wave about to arch… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Like the musician, the painter, the poet, and the rest, the true lover of flowers is born, not made. And he is… — Celia Thaxter Copy Share Image
Poetry is not the proper antithesis to prose, but to science. Poetry is opposed to science, and prose to meter. The proper… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
“i will wade out till my thighs are steeped in burning flowers I will take the sun in my mouth and leap… — E.E. Cummings Copy Share Image
There is to me a daintiness about early flowers that touches me like poetry. They blow out with such a simple loveliness… — Nathaniel Parker Willis Copy Share Image
“from "Semele Recycled" But then your great voice rang out under the skies my name!-- and all those private names for the… — Carolyn Kizer Copy Share Image
“Paris and Helen He called her: golden dawn She called him: the wind whistles He called her: heart of the sky She… — Judy Grahn Copy Share Image
“In 1914... [German] history, poetry, dream and the individual moment were all combined in one exhilarating sensation...The nation was a creation of… — The Rites of Spring Modris Eksteins Copy Share Image
“THE POETRY TEACHER The university gave me a new, elegant classroom to teach in. Only one thing, they said. You can’t bring… — Mary Oliver Copy Share Image
We are only midway through the central verse of our youth when we see ourselves begin to blacken. ... We had been… — Anne Carson Copy Share Image
“Claire spoke often in her poetry of the idea of "fittingness": that is, when your chosen pursuit and your ability to achieve… — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
Spoken word poetry is the art of performance poetry. I tell people it involves creating poetry that doesn't just want to sit… — Sarah Kay Copy Share Image
“Love, that is first and last of all things made, The light that has the living world for shade, The spirit that… — Algernon Charles Swinburne Copy Share Image
We must begin to understand the nature of intertextuality . . . the manner by which texts poems and novels respond to… — Henry Louis Gates Copy Share Image
“It isn’t possible to love and to part. You will wish that it was. You can transmute love, ignore it, muddle it,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
America's liberal arts universities have long been safe zones for leftist thinking, protected ivory towers for the pseudo-elite who earn their livings… — Ben Shapiro Copy Share Image
“The daily routine of most adults is so heavy and artificial that we are closed off to much of the world. We… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“there was something musical about Ronan when he swore, a careful and loving precision to the way he fit the words together,… — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
He has achieved success who has lived well, laughed often, and loved much; Who has enjoyed the trust of pure women, the… — Bessie Anderson Stanley Copy Share Image
“The decapitation of Medusa by the Greek hero Perseus, assisted by the patriarchalized Goddess Athena, was painted on pottery, carved as bas… — Joan Marler Copy Share Image
The whole history of modern poetry is a continuous commentary on the short text of philosophy: every art should become science, and… — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Copy Share Image
“It is the very nature of language to form rather than inform. When language is personal, which it is at its best,… — Eugene Peterson Copy Share Image
Architect, Astronaut, Composer, Writer, Artist, Poet, Love, Lover, Friend, Guide, Perfect Clarity, Complete Madness, Captain, Slave, Passion, Indifference, Hate, Joy, Full, Empty,… — Eric Nickel Copy Share Image
“Fat people are not here as a foil to boost your own self-esteem. Fat people are not your inspiration poem. Fat people… — Lindy West Copy Share Image
“it is the blood of the peasant, the sweat of the weaver, the flesh of the artisan, the words of the poet,… — Anand Neelakantan Copy Share Image
An artist in my eyes, is someone who can lighten up a dark room. I have never and will never find difference… — Eric Cantona Copy Share Image
“I envision a style: a style that would be beautiful, that someone will invent some day, ten years or ten centuries from… — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
“Science has discovered that, like any work of literature, the human genome is a text in need of commentary, for what Eliot… — Jonah Lehrer Copy Share Image
“Blaisedell, the poet, had said to him, 'You love beer so much. I'll bet some day you'll go in and order a… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“The dead, Your Honor, do not agonize over their crimes and do not long to be happy, as you know. If from… — Hassan Blasim Copy Share Image
Perhaps the efforts of the true poets, founders, religions, literatures, all ages, have been, and ever will be, our time and times… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
![“On the inspiration for Never Love a Stranger: “[The book begins with] a poem from To the Unborn by Stella Benson. There were a lot of disappointments especially during the Depression—fuck it—in everyone’s life there are disappointments and lost hope…. No one escapes. That’s why you got to be…” quote by Harold Robbins](https://sms4smile.com/q/i/f0f/harold-robbins-13319_books_on-the-inspiration-for-never-love-a-stra_3148993.jpg)
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