“Every poet and musician and artist, but for Grace, is drawn away from the love of the thing he tells, to the… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“The German poet Goethe once said that "he who cannot draw on three thousand years is living from hand to mouth." I… — Jostein Gaarder Copy Share Image
“People think genius a fine thing if it enables a man to write an exciting poem, or paint a picture, But in… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
I don't think of poetry as a 'rational' activity but as an aural one. My poems usually begin with words or phrases… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“Dante's poem, Langdon was now reminded, was not so much about the misery of hell as it was about the power of… — Dan Brown Copy Share Image
Poetry, my dear friends, is a sacred incarnation of a smile. Poetry is a sigh that dries the tears. Poetry is a… — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
“When our eyes met, I felt your intake of breath. I knew then I wasn't alone in my feelings. You were trying… — Alfa H Copy Share Image
I've always felt alone and isolated, and living on the West Coast, there's no poetry community out here, and if there is,… — Victoria Chang Copy Share Image
The second was some rather bad poetry, but it was short, and I forced my way through by gritting my teeth and… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
The majority of American writers today have chosen passive non-resistance to things as they are, producing sloughs of poetry about their personal… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
when ... I've thought of madness, it seems most easily explained to me as poetry in action. A life of symbol rather… — Helen Eustis Copy Share Image
When I was in graduate school, my thesis included both poetry and essays. Influenced by the personal essays of James Baldwin and… — Stephen Vincent Benet Copy Share Image
“The world deprived of clear-cut outlines, of the up and the down, of good and evil, succumbs to a peculiar nihilization, that… — Czeslaw Milosz Copy Share Image
“Silence is my defense. The protector whom I trust. A sturdy shield, A loyal safe-keeper, A sentinel, impassable. Silence is my refuge.… — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
In the Nordic countries, there are hardly any societal problems, but we writers are bloodthirsty people like anyone else, so we have… — Hallgrimur Helgason Copy Share Image
I see poetry as a path toward new understanding and transformation, and so I've looked at specific poems I love, and at… — Jane Hirshfield Copy Share Image
“What madness, to love a man as something more than human! I lived in a fever, convulsed with tears and sighs that… — St. Augustine Copy Share Image
Do you know, Considering the market, there are more Poems produced than any other thing? No wonder poets sometimes have to seem… — Robert Frost Copy Share Image
“The Sufi way is through knowledge and practice, not through intellect and talk. As Prince Dara Shikoh says, in a Persian poem:… — Idries Shah Copy Share Image
“…she made a poem on it at once, the lines singing themselves through her consciousness without effort. With one side of her… — L.M. Montgomery Copy Share Image
“For the poetry of a text is largely produced by the fact that the wild chaos of the universe is therein, at… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
I don't think poetry needs to be "easily understandable." First of all, there are often complexities of syntax, form, unfamiliar absences, etc.,… — Matthew Zapruder Copy Share Image
“In the balance of verse 51:7, though, Jeremiah gives us a further insight into the influence of the Daughter of Babylon on… — John Price Copy Share Image
“This wobbly world host to insects and lint and a thousand pithy ways to feel unserious each minute It brings about a… — Erin J. Watson Copy Share Image
“My mother was the best and most beautiful woman who ever lived. She was clean, and good, and always helped "the poor… — Gene Stratton-Porter Copy Share Image
Downtime is where we become ourselves, looking into the middle distance, kicking at the curb, lying on the grass or sitting on… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
What I responded to, on the page, was the way a poem could liberate, by means of a word's setting, through subtleties… — Louise Gluck Copy Share Image
“For it is a peculiarity of persons who lead rich, emotional lives, and who (as the saying is) live intensely and with… — Stella Gibbons Copy Share Image
Happy you poets who can be present and so present by a simple flicker of your genius, and not, like the clumsier… — Henry James Copy Share Image
“If I ever some day write an epic poem -- or somehow find my imagination fertile enough to write a novel without… — Anne Gédéon LaFitte, Marquis de Pelleport Copy Share Image
“Havin loved enough and lost enough, I'm no longer searching, just opening, no longer trying to make sense of pain but trying… — Mark Nepo Copy Share Image
We all dream profusely every night, yet by morning we've forgotten ninety percent of what went on. That's why poets are such… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
“Yes,’ he cried, ‘you have killed my love! You used to stir my imagination. Now you don’t even stir my curiosity. You… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“A wounded heart that loves even more is immortal, it only survives and blooms time after time. If you happen to live… — Nicola An Copy Share Image
“Poetic justice, with her lifted scale, Where, in nice balance, truth with gold she weighs, And solid pudding against empty praise. Here… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
“Though science makes no use for poetry, poetry is enriched by science. Poetry “takes up” the scientific vision and re-expresses its truths,… — L.P. Jacks Copy Share Image
A poem makes clear without making simple. Poetry's language carries what lives outside language. It's as if you were given a 5-gallon… — Jane Hirshfield Copy Share Image
“Eliot, huh?" she says. The thin fabric of her long T-shirt brushes my arm. "Is everyone in your family named for a… — Brad Barkley Copy Share Image
“ (About her age when her first poem was published...) As a poet, it's fair to say that I was a 'late… — Donna J. Stone Copy Share Image
“Own it! The truth is...unhappiness stems from our propensity to blame other people. If you can accept that you are completely responsible… — Jason Versey Copy Share Image
