“Adam and Eve didn't know what they would win or what they would lose until they'd both won and lost it. It's… — Tiffany Reisz Copy Share Image
“We are all born with genius. It's like our fairy godmother. But what happens in life is that we stop listening to… — Milton Glaser Copy Share Image
“But all this was beside the point. What scared Amy was the mere fact of what looked inescapably like recreational malevolence. The… — Jincy Willett Copy Share Image
“Miss Honey gives us a little song about each word and we all sing it together and we learn to spell it… — Roald Dahl Copy Share Image
She has her own glamour, Willy lad. All poets do, all the bards and artists, all the musicians who truly take the… — Emma Bull Copy Share Image
THE POET A moody child and wildly wise Pursued the game with joyful eyes, Which chose, like meteors, their way, And rived… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“71. Rare Things -- A son-in-law who's praised by his wife's father. Likewise, a wife who's loved by her mother-in-law. A pair… — Sei Shōnagon Copy Share Image
There is all this stuff about how sensitive poets are and how in touch with feelings, etc. they are, but really all… — Matthew Zapruder Copy Share Image
“I've noticed a fascinating phenomenon in my thirty years of teaching: schools and schooling are increasingly irrelevant to the great enterprises of… — John Taylor Gatto Copy Share Image
I think that I have less conviction than ever that poetry matters - that poetry changes or saves anything or anyone. But,… — Daphne Gottlieb Copy Share Image
“The beauty of New York rests on a completely different base. It's unintentional. It arose independent of human design, like a stalagmitic… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
What good does it make when you write love poems about someone who dosen't love you back? When I was little I… — Asami Emogu Copy Share Image
There won't be any poetry you can read. There won't be any beautiful songs you can play. There won't be any exotic… — Jiyyah Copy Share Image
“It is characteristic of poetic language that it gives us not simply the denotation of a word, but a whole cluster of… — Terry Eagleton Copy Share Image
“You alone in Europe are not ancient oh Christianity The most modern European is you Pope Pius X And you whom the… — Guillaume Apollinaire Copy Share Image
“T. S. Eliot and Jean-Paul Sartre, dissimilar enough as thinkers, both tend to undervalue prose and to deny it any imaginative function.… — Iris Murdoch Copy Share Image
“A poet is not somebody who has great thoughts. That is the menial duty of the philosopher. A poet is somebody who… — Mark Forsyth Copy Share Image
“perhaps you know that Ingeborg Bachmann poem from the last years of her life that begins "I lose my screams" dear Antigone,… — Anne Carson Copy Share Image
Robert Frost really started this whole thing rolling. He was, I believe, the first poet who started going to colleges. Before that,… — Billy Collins Copy Share Image
“I believe in being a poet in all moments of life. Being a poet means being human. I know some poets whose… — Forough Farrokhzad Copy Share Image
I want to be remembered as an artist that gave you a piece of me, as opposed to some surface bullshit. I… — Drake Copy Share Image
“As to her rank, she should be at the very least a princess, seeing that she is my lady and my queen.… — Miguel de Cervantes Copy Share Image
“When I have fears that I may cease to be Before my pen has glean’d my teeming brain, Before high piled books,… — John Keats Copy Share Image
“Falling in love is easy. Staying in love is the challenge. The pursuit of loving another person is a selfless one. Sacrifice… — Jason Versey Copy Share Image
“When you are incapable of speaking, Then words are searching for you. When you are incapable of smiling, Then happiness is searching… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I wanted to be a poet when I was 20; I had no interest in fiction or biography and precious little interest… — Peter Ackroyd Copy Share Image
“And even if she were, even if we had our answer, whatever it was, what would we do with it? How would… — Amy Boesky Copy Share Image
“The twenty-four-hour diner, the station waiting room and the motel are sanctuaries for those who have, for noble reasons, failed to find… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
“ Words Be careful of words, even the miraculous ones. For the miraculous we do our best, sometimes they swarm like insects… — Anne Sexton Copy Share Image
I know that in some ways I operate from a kind of antiquated interest in imagery, while many contemporary poets are not… — Martha Ronk Copy Share Image
“She told her journal about me passing by her in the parking lot, about how on that night I had touched her-literally,… — Alice Sebold Copy Share Image
“Nineteenth-century preacher Henry Ward Beecher's last words were "Now comes the mystery." The poet Dylan Thomas, who liked a good drink at… — John Green Copy Share Image
“On 9 Jan 2024 at 16:30 Wajid Shaikh wrote this poem on the same maze Where they had met- Milenge tujhse hum… — Wajid Shaikh Copy Share Image
“He loved three things in this life: Vespers, white peacocks, And old maps of America, Didn't love children crying, Raspberries with tea,… — Anna Akhmatova Copy Share Image
“the next time you hear someone in a workshop remarking on how good a particular free-verse line or passage sounds, scan it.… — Annie Finch Copy Share Image
“My turn now. The story of one of my insanities. For a long time I boasted that I was master of all… — Arthur Rimbaud Copy Share Image
In the Western tradition, the first writers were teachers and historians, vastly traveled, who spiced their reports with fantasies. They were also… — F. Sionil Jose Copy Share Image
One of the qualities essential to being good at reading poetry is also one of the qualities essential to being good at… — Christian Wiman Copy Share Image
A lot of poems seem, in some sense, to pull the outside world into the interior. They aren't perhaps emotion recollected in… — Robert Bringhurst Copy Share Image
“Right words are born in courage, which results from our struggle to make sense of our various predicaments. Cheer is what words… — William Meredith Copy Share Image
![“It is characteristic of poetic language that it gives us not simply the denotation of a word, but a whole cluster of connotations or associated meanings...[but] if connotation is a kind of free associating, how can a poem ever come to mean anything definite? What if Shakespeare's line 'Shall I…” quote by Terry Eagleton](https://sms4smile.com/q/i/c8b/terry-eagleton-1660_connotation_it-is-characteristic-of-poetic-language_2347225.png)
