There is a certain standard of grace and beauty which consists in a certain relation between our nature, such as it is,… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
“I believe in reverencing anything in the life of man which has the testimony of the ages as being unexcelled, whether it… — C.B. MacDonald Copy Share Image
ELEGY, n. A composition in verse, in which, without employing any of the methods of humor, the writer aims to produce in… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
“I beg for a moment of peace in this flicker, a moment of stopping, one moment of stillness. I beg not to… — Imants Ziedonis Copy Share Image
As I began to perform - songs, poems, sketches or conjuring tricks - I began to learn what children run with and… — Michael Rosen Copy Share Image
You want a poem to unsettle something. There's a deep and interesting kind of troubling that poems do, which is to say,… — Tracy K. Smith Copy Share Image
I lost many literary battles the day I read 'Their Eyes Were Watching God.' I had to concede that occasionally aphorisms have… — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
“Degraded bird, I give you back your eyes forever, ascend now whither you are tossed; Forsake this wrist, forsake this rhyme; Soar,… — Edna St. Vincent Millay Copy Share Image
Poetry is not the language we live in. It's not the language of our day-to-day errand-running and obligation-fulfilling, not the language with… — Tracy K. Smith Copy Share Image
After I'd produced about two dozen pen and ink drawings, one evening I decided that they needed poems to accompany them. I… — Jack Prelutsky Copy Share Image
“She walked among the stars, The princess of the heavens, Looking for the one who caught her crystal tears That spilled out… — Kallista Pendragon Copy Share Image
“trees [-] Inside their wooden samurai armor they are geisha beauties, each one a ‘person-of-the-arts,’ limbs dancing, arranging flowers, carrying the wind’s… — A. A. Attanasio Copy Share Image
But Carroll's were more convoluted, and they struck me as funny in a new way: 1) Babies are illogical. 2) Nobody is… — Steve Martin Copy Share Image
“The beauty of man is often the child that lives on in him. Source: The River Goddess by Vijay Singh Only humour… — writer-filmmaker Vijay Singh Copy Share Image
Theres something inside me waiting to explode, I am writing this now to let you know. Every heart has a song, and… — Raina Chapman Copy Share Image
I did a weird thing when I was about 24. For four years I had written quite a lot of poetry, and… — Cliff Curtis Copy Share Image
Writing fiction, for me, is a more indirect form of self-exploration than writing verse. When I'm working on a novel I'm moving… — Nick Laird Copy Share Image
“It is you who are unpoetical," replied the poet Syme. "If what you say of clerks is true, they can only be… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
For most of human history, 'literature,' both fiction and poetry, has been narrated, not written — heard, not read. So fairy tales,… — Angela Carter Copy Share Image
The poet's, commonly, is not a logger's path, but a woodman's. The logger and pioneer have preceded him, like John the Baptist;… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
It is never the thing but the version of the thing: The fragrance of the woman not her self, Her self in… — Wallace Stevens Copy Share Image
“In The Sunset Sky The sunset sky dazzling with the golden hues, Taking bow in brilliant sparkle of experience Is it not… — Soma Mukherjee Copy Share Image
The middle class is doing fine in fiction. But it's not what gets me going. I love the working class, and everyone… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
These days, I find I'm applying a little more patience to my process. If I look back on my work, I can… — Ani DiFranco Copy Share Image
I have never reached certain levels of fame, like Lindsay Lohan did, or even Brittany Murphy. My career has always been this… — Amber Tamblyn Copy Share Image
The reason I shift gears constantly, why I'm doing an opera, why I've done essays, why I've written poetry for years that… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
I think the nature of songwriters is that they are philosophers, and philosophers have a bent towards poetry and songwriting, so I… — Tom T. Hall Copy Share Image
One does not read a poem by Gwendolyn Brooks with hopes that it will grant him a career in engineering; he does… — Clint Smith Copy Share Image
In the language of poetry, where every word is weighed, nothing is usual or normal. Not a single stone and not a… — Wislawa Szymborska Copy Share Image
I think that when you're writing plays, and I think it's also true with novels, it helps to have an ear for… — Tony Kushner Copy Share Image
“I've tried to keep pleasant," Mabel went on. "You don't know how I've tried. I have that verse pinned up on my… — Bess Streeter Aldrich Copy Share Image
I didn't know how to weigh ideas about poetry. Nothing in the life I lived as a student - and later as… — Eavan Boland Copy Share Image
“Poetry ~~ No definition of poetry is adequate unless it be poetry itself. The most accurate analysis by the rarest wisdom is… — Henry Daid Thoreau Journal 26 Jan 1840 Copy Share Image
“Mathematicians still don’t understand the ball our hands made, or how your electrocuted grandparents made it possible for you to light my… — Jeffrey McDaniel Copy Share Image
“ Серафимы I Резнею кровавой на время насытясь, Устали и слуги, и доблестный витязь И входят под своды обители Божьей, Где теплятся… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“When a poet settled down to write a poem, could he foresee the lines he would write? Did his head constantly spin… — Alysha Speer Copy Share Image
“But mostly, finally, ultimately, I'm here for the weather. As a result of the weather, ours is a landscape in a minor… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
“It is warmer here. Can you see the light? Trust it. It is safe. It has lived a long time. It has… — Donna Goddard Copy Share Image
“There’s plenty of room for strangeness, mystery, originality, wildness, etc. in poems that also invite the reader into the human and alive… — Thomas Lux Copy Share Image
“You're asking yourself if you will ever get over it. - I don't believe we ever do. Getting over something implies you… — Alfa H Copy Share Image
![“trees [-] Inside their wooden samurai armor they are geisha beauties, each one a ‘person-of-the-arts,’ limbs dancing, arranging flowers, carrying the wind’s music, the calligraphy of their roots pure poetry, rhyming earth and berth.” quote by A. A. Attanasio](https://sms4smile.com/q/i/903/a-a-attanasio-2-98832_music_trees-inside-their-wooden-samurai-armor_999814.jpg)
