First, I do not sit down at my desk to put into verse something that is already clear in my mind. If… — C. Day Lewis Copy Share Image
“On the meridian of time there is no injustice: there is only the poetry of motion creating the illusion of truth and… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
Yet truth will sometimes lend her noblest fires, And decorate the verse herself inspires: This fact, in virtue's name, let Crabbe attest,-… — Lord Byron Copy Share Image
“Comme certaines musiques Le poème fait chanter le silence, Amène jusqu’à toucher Un autre silence, Encore plus silence. As certain music The… — Eugène Guillevic Copy Share Image
The highest reach of science is, one may say, an inventive power, a faculty of divination, akin to the highest power exercised… — Matthew Arnold Copy Share Image
“She would make me tell her, too, all about the poems that I meant to compose. And these dreams reminded me that,… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
That's how it is with relationships, it's a part of life, and all the great love songs and poems and films have… — Jane Green Copy Share Image
“Pearl introduces an original story, in a form which was to become one of the most frequent in mediaeval literature, the dream-vision.… — Ronald Carter Copy Share Image
There are some good things and some fantastic ones in Auden's early attitude; if the reader calls it a muddle I shall… — Randall Jarrell Copy Share Image
“Sometimes the thought of his mother working so hard while he did nothing would come suddenly upon his and he would rush… — E. Nesbitt Copy Share Image
“The nature of poems Is a matter of words and deeds An intimate encounter of voice In the ache of the heart… — Kendall Dana Lockerman Copy Share Image
“A Kite is a Victim A kite is a victim you are sure of. You love it because it pulls gentle enough… — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
Verses are not, as people think, feelings (those one has early enough) -- they are experiences. For the sake of a verse… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Laiva on lastattu kuulla meri on lastattu laivoilla maa on lastattu merellä ja keulaan kiinnitetty. Kuu laskee unien metsät kuu valaa rantojen… — Hannu Kankaanpää Copy Share Image
“when you're young a pair of female high-heeled shoes just sitting alone in the closet can fire your bones; when you're old… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
“Once I dated a woman I only liked 43%. So I only listened to 43% of what she said. Only told the… — jeffrey mcdaniel Copy Share Image
“Sometimes the universe works in a really weird way. You hate the people who love you, and you love the people who… — Altruistic Copy Share Image
I like to borrow a metaphor from the great poet and mystic Rumi who talks about living like a drawing compass. One… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The way I mainly use the Internet is keeping in touch with poets that live far away. My main interest is contemporary… — John Burnside Copy Share Image
“Haleine contre haleine, échauffe-moi la vie, Mille et mille baisers donne-moi je te prie, Amour veut tout sans nombre, amour n’a point… — Pierre de Ronsard Copy Share Image
Those ancients who in poetry presented the golden age, who sang its happy state, perhaps, in their Parnassus, dreamt this place. Here,… — Dante Alighieri Copy Share Image
I have no connections here; only gusty collisions, rootless seedlings forced into bloom, that collapse. ... I am the Visiting Poet: a… — Marge Piercy Copy Share Image
Wildness we might consider as the root of the authentic spontaneities of any being. It is that wellspring of creativity whence comes… — Thomas Berry Copy Share Image
“May your love for me be like the scent of the evening sea drifting in through a quiet window so i do… — Sanober Khan Copy Share Image
In his youth, Wordsworth sympathized with the French Revolution, went to France, wrote good poetry and had a natural daughter. At this… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
All things that are living are expression and therefore part of the inherent symbology of life. Art, therefore, that is encumbered with… — Marsden Hartley Copy Share Image
A work of (whatever) art can be either 'received' or 'used'. ...'Using' is inferior to 'reception' because art, if used rather than… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
When we started reading books to Raffi, I included some Russian ones. A friend had handed down a beautiful book of Daniil… — Keith Gessen Copy Share Image
Standing before you as the advocate of the lower races, I declare what I believe cannot be gainsaid...that just so soon and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Shy gold begins to peep through the sombre green - the wattle's wedding dress - and Spring is near. Then suddenly it… — C. J. Dennis Copy Share Image
“In spite of all the progress we seem to have made, human emotions stay the same. Deep inside our hearts, we don’t… — Kyoichi Katayama Copy Share Image
Humor is, I think, the subtlest and chanciest of literary forms. It is surely not accidental that there are a thousand novelists,… — Leo Rosten Copy Share Image
“And so the little poet poetized away his never-ending poem and even the silliest woman could poetize with him. But they couldn't… — Nescio Copy Share Image
I liked Yeats! That wild Irishman. I really loved his love of language, his flow. His chaotic ideas seemed to me just… — Chinua Achebe Copy Share Image
“ Two Kinds of People There are two kinds of people on earth today, Two kinds of people no more I say.… — Ella Wheeler Wilcox Copy Share Image
American poetry has been part of a culture in conflict…We are a people tending toward democracy at the level of hope; at… — Muriel Rukeyser Copy Share Image
Every writer must reconcile, as best he may, the conflicting claims of consistency and variety, of rigour in detail and elegance in… — Julian Coolidge Copy Share Image
My poems and prose are not often in direct conversation with each other, but there's so much crossover - everything that comes… — Alex Lemon Copy Share Image
Your lover is like a favourite song,he makes you come alive,his words are soothing and his reasoning to you is poetry,his moves… — Ganda Wickliffe Copy Share Image
In recent poems, I have abandoned the theme of not being able to write for an even more obsessive subject, the nature… — Shirley Geok-lin Lim Copy Share Image
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