“I'm in love with New York. It matches my mood. I'm not overwhelmed. It is the suitable scene for my ever ever… — Anaïs Nin Copy Share Image
“To write a poem...to paint an image on canvass from the contemplation of nature and life...is to be present again in this… — Deeper sense of presence Isabella koldras Copy Share Image
Whoever lives for poetry must read everything. How often has the light of a new idea sprung for me from a simple… — Gaston Bachelard Copy Share Image
It is the role of the artistic coder to question the coding languages, both through self-reflection and by using them for unintended… — Stephanie Strickland Copy Share Image
“In your light I learn how to love. In your beauty, how to make poems. You dance inside my chest, where no… — Rumi Copy Share Image
I take pride in never being rude to anyone on this earth, which contains a great number of unbearable villains who set… — Heinrich Heine Copy Share Image
Then, of course, there are those sad occasions when a poet or a writer has not grown, and one has to let… — James Laughlin Copy Share Image
“My tactic is to look at you To learn how you are Love you as you are My tactic is to talk… — Mario Benedetti Copy Share Image
Human bodies are words, myriads of words, (In the best poems re-appears the body, man's or woman's, well-shaped, natural, gay, Every part… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
I culled poetry from odors, sounds, faces, and ordinary events occurring around me. Breezes bulged me as if I were cloth; sounds… — Jimmy Santiago Baca Copy Share Image
Natalie Lyalin is writing some of the best poems in the world. There is an evil in her gorgeous poem-hearts. She must… — Zachary Schomburg Copy Share Image
“You take my breath away From mile away Hair, twice as nice Smile is your make up, angelic face You light up… — Patrick Cruz Copy Share Image
“The horses suddenly began to neigh, protesting Against those who were drowning them in the ocean. The horses sank to the bottom,… — Boris Slutsky Copy Share Image
The great Sufi poet and philosopher Rumi once advised his students to write down the three things they most wanted in life.… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
“ A Baby Elephant Right now my love for you is a baby elephant Born in Berlin or in Paris, And treading… — Nikolai Gumilev Copy Share Image
People get anxious about dividing sorts of poetry, say Confessionalism from political poetry. But Confessionalism is very much an expression of racial… — Shane McCrae Copy Share Image
“McIntyre’s tale may have predecessors, but it is unique. I strain for literary comparisons and think: Kipling, the classical Chinese poets, early… — Stephen J. Bodio Copy Share Image
“A Poem For Papa She visit you on any giving day. With only a few words to say. She bow her head… — Ray Price Billy Copy Share Image
“And this love of definite conception, this clearness of vision, this artistic sense of limit, is the characteristic of all great work… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“Robots are like Mars: they need girls. Boys won't do; the memesoup is all wrong. They stomp when they should kiss and… — Catherynne M. Valente Copy Share Image
When I met Bob Dylan, I was definitely impressed. This guy had come from the American folk world, but he was very… — Donovan Copy Share Image
I am a relatively rational being and I like to create order in poems. I like meter, I like rhyme, but ultimately… — Mary Jo Salter Copy Share Image
I'm fascinated by rap and by hip-hop. I think there's a lot of poetry in it. There's a lot of anger, a… — John F. Kerry Copy Share Image
“Young poets are too apt to consider themselves “children of the mist” – they must dwell apart from men and contemn their… — Deborah L. Halliday Copy Share Image
Never forget that the subject is as important as your feeling; the mud puddle itself is as important as your pleasure in… — Valerie Worth Copy Share Image
I think Don Henley is a brilliant contemporary rock writer. He would have been a fabulous poet if he weren't a musician.… — Don Felder Copy Share Image
In a sense, the first (if not necessarily the prime) function of a novelist, of ANY artist, is to entertain. If the… — Brigid Brophy Copy Share Image
Is there an aesthetic "fit" in my work between God and the world? The "I' in my poems has from the beginning… — Lawrence Joseph Copy Share Image
One hundred percent, all your Shakespeare training serves you in the work in musical theater today: specifically in modern musical theater, our… — Renee Elise Goldsberry Copy Share Image
There's something immediate about the experience of reading a poem - whether it's the music or some other element of it -… — Kevin Powers Copy Share Image
According to its doctors, my one intransigent desire is to have been a Confederate general, and because I could not or would… — Allen Tate Copy Share Image
Being in love is something like poetry. Certainly, you can analyze and expound its various senses and intentions, but there is always… — Muriel Spark Copy Share Image
“A people that doesn't live at the center of the world, as defined and described by its poets and storytellers, is in… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
It is not unusual to hear a religious leader, a philosopher, or a poet refer to man as having a divine spark… — Ezra Taft Benson Copy Share Image
“If I could have one friend, just one in all the world, I know that I would not seek out a boy… — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
That is a horrible thing in a way, but it is the one thing poets can bring back to experience, this intense… — Matthew Zapruder Copy Share Image
I do feel that a poem needs not just space, but, ideally, space around that space - space for meditation, reverie, subliminal… — Michael Longley Copy Share Image
“I look up upon a sparsely starred abyss Having wandered to this street corner In the middle of the night Watching the… — Justin Wetch Copy Share Image
“We must not be frightened nor cajoled into accepting evil as deliverance from evil. We must go on struggling to be human,… — Robert Hayden Copy Share Image
“Living in this skin is hard and painful, most of the times, because I never volunteered to take this on. The daily… — Charlotte Eriksson Copy Share Image
