“Passing that fiery tree-if only she could; Be making love, Be making poetry, Be exploding, be speeding through the universe; Like a… — Alicia Ostriker Copy Share Image
“You are the wild Door to my peace Because you are an honest sinner I see you as my priest You can… — Amit Howard Copy Share Image
The good poet welds his theft into a whole of feeling which is unique, utterly different from that from which it was… — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
The quality of light by which we scrutinize our lives has direct bearing upon the product which we live, and upon the… — Audre Lorde Copy Share Image
“But I don't want comfort. I want God, I want poetry, I want real danger, I want freedom, I want goodness, I… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
The Holy Spirit can’t remind you of something you never read which is why it’s important to memorize scripture. When you have… — David Jeremiah Copy Share Image
“ Truth And if sun comes How shall we greet him? Shall we not dread him, Shall we not fear him After… — Gwendolyn Brooks Copy Share Image
“But the question is: Is this an appropriate use of this verse, to put God on the hook for a life of… — Eric J. Bargerhuff Copy Share Image
“We celebrate, we create, as citizens of Shatter. We hold a bond of unending happiness. This planet, at the edge of the… — L'Poni Baldwin Copy Share Image
“Usually when your imagination is bigger then one's comprehension, this normally means you've out grown the small circle. Get with like-mined people… — Takina Cupp Copy Share Image
I compelled myself all through to write an exercise in verse, in a different form, every day of the year. I turned… — Conrad Aiken Copy Share Image
One of my great surprises when I was in America was about twenty-five years ago in Harvard, hearing Randall Jarrell deliver a… — Stephen Spender Copy Share Image
“The general welcomes Tamburlaine receiv'd, When he arrived last upon the 1 stage, Have made our poet pen his Second… — Christopher Marlowe Copy Share Image
“...Yes, now the roads themselves are shattered As though they had fallen from a height, and the sky Is cracked like varnish.… — W.S. Merwin Copy Share Image
Christmas poem to a man in jail hello Bill Abbott: I appreciate your passing around my books in jail there, my poems… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
I thought my friends were damn fools, because they didn't know any better way of conducting their lives. Still they conformed better… — William Carlos Williams Copy Share Image
In a play, certainly, the subject is of more importance than in any other work of art. Infelicity, triviality, vagueness of subject,… — Henry James Copy Share Image
“To know how to say what others only know how to think is what makes men poets or sages; and to dare… — Elizabeth Charles Copy Share Image
“I believe in the flesh and the appetites; Seeing, hearing, feeling, are miracles, and each part and tag of me is a… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
With 'Love Shack,' once we put that chorus in, it did have more of a song structure. Even though the verses are… — Kate Pierson Copy Share Image
“In other words, after Winthrop has acquired all his butter firkins, food stirrers, and beer along with six dozen candles, twenty thousand… — Sarah Vowell Copy Share Image
“One thing to which I am most grateful Is that my work slumbers on,sweetly, Not yet discovered, And shall not conjure that… — Philip Wickham Copy Share Image
That is to say, epic poetry has been invented many times and independently; but, as the needs which prompted the invention have… — Lascelles Abercrombie Copy Share Image
Prophets, mystics, poets, scientific discoverers are men whose lives are dominated by a vision; they are essentially solitary men . . .… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Probably when I was about 16 or 17 I started writing. I wouldn't call it poetry, even though I've referred to it… — Aldous Harding Copy Share Image
After attending the gymnasium between my eighth and seventeenth years, I studied classical philology at Berlin University for two years under Boeckh… — Paul Heyse Copy Share Image
A poet, qua poet, has only one political duty, namely, in his own writing to set an example of the correct use… — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
“What though the radiance which was once so bright Be now for ever taken from my sight, Though nothing can bring back… — William Wordsworth Copy Share Image
I tried sex once with a woman and that woman was Gala. It was overrated. I tried sex once with a man… — Salvador Dali Copy Share Image
Because science flourishes, must poesy decline? The complaint serves but to betray the weakness of the class who urge it. True, in… — Hugh Miller Copy Share Image
When you wake up to the Divine Consciousness within you and your divine identity, you wake up simultaneously to the Divine Consciousness… — Andrew Harvey Copy Share Image
“Poetry, Shakespeare and opera, are like mumps and should be caught when young. In the unhappy event that there is a postponement… — Dimitris Mita Copy Share Image
I love rhymes; I love to write a poem about New York and rhyme 'oysters' with 'The Cloisters.' And 'The lady from… — Garrison Keillor Copy Share Image
I think my work has to do with a sense that we are attempting, all the time, to create a logical, rational… — Billy Collins Copy Share Image
“How did people come to chant rude poems while pulling certain ropes or gathering certain fruit, and why did nobody do anything… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“Romans 3:21-26 are the most important verses in the Bible. They reveal that God has provided for our salvation in the cross… — Desmond Ford Copy Share Image
Painting, like poetry, selects in the universe whatever she deems most appropriate to her ends. She assembles in a single fantastic personage,… — Francisco Goya Copy Share Image
“The artist’s artistic brush stroke of colour... Fractionally exists within the art canvas cover... Unaware of its existence in the art’s totality...… — Hugh Shergill Copy Share Image
Hence poetry is something more philosophic and of graver import than history, since its statements are rather of the nature of universals,… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
That love is a conflict seems to me obvious and natural. There isn't a single worthwhile work in world literature based on… — Michelangelo Antonioni Copy Share Image
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