When I first began writing, it was not in screenwriting but in poetry. That form was so evocative, all about the image… — Lisa Joy Copy Share Image
“Now the next I will is in John, seventeenth chapter, twenty-fourth verse: “Father, I will that they also, whom Thou hast given… — D.L. Moody Copy Share Image
INCOMPOSSIBLE, adj. Unable to exist if something else exists. Two things are incompossible when the world of being has scope enough for… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
“I remember the morning you walked back from the sea, dirty trousers rolled, your feet pale as prisoners, poems and broken shells… — Catherine Bateson Copy Share Image
“I think language beautifully full of the poetry of immanent clarification of some small pinprick of what living might mean. Fuck. Why… — Jill Talbot Copy Share Image
“Memories of the outside world will never have the same tonality as those of home and, by recalling these memories, we add… — Gaston Bachelard Copy Share Image
“THE SCRIBE Under the wings Of the feathered Goddess And in the middle Of the three dancing women, The scribe comes alive… — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image
Nothing is as universal as some good scatalogical humor. I try to shift the frame in which people think about poetry from… — Sarah Kay Copy Share Image
When we have read a book or poem so often that we can no longer find any amusement in reading it by… — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
“verse shows the divine connection of the blowing of the shofar with Yom Teruah. In the New Testament, we see the blowing… — Mark Biltz Copy Share Image
“Art is long. Life is short, but it deserves our attentive devotion. Embrace life. No person has a monopoly on wisdom. Despite… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
“The Persian poet Rumi says, The breeze at dawn has secrets to tell you. Don’t go back to sleep. You must ask… — Elizabeth Lesser Copy Share Image
It is that holy poetry and singing we are after. ... It is the wild singing we are after, our chance to… — Clarissa Pinkola Estes Copy Share Image
Italian is a very different poetic situation and there are these hard and fast rhythmic periods, settenari, ottonari of seven and eight… — Jonathan W. Galassi Copy Share Image
“I just didn’t get it— even with the teacher holding an orange (the earth) in one hand and a lemon (the moon)… — Denise Duhamel Copy Share Image
“She’s always made her own bed, even when no one else was home, and nowadays she does the same for her soul.… — Broms The Poet Copy Share Image
“Jerome doesn't have a clue. He in fact avoids the poets, with their petty feuds and righteous poverty. Endlessly competitive and introspective,… — Chris Kraus Copy Share Image
“ Q: As a poet what distinguishes you, do you think, from an ordinary man? A: Only the use of the medium… — Dylan Thomas Copy Share Image
I'm partial to epic poetry, which might be surprising given that I don't write poetry at all. The combination of rollicking storytelling… — Jennifer Egan Copy Share Image
Hauntings are memes, especially pernicious thought contagions, social contagions that need no viral or bacterial host and are transmitted in a thousand… — Caitlín R. Kiernan Copy Share Image
“بسم اللە الرحمن الرحیم إِنَّ رَبَّكُمْ اللَّهُ الَّذِي خَلَقَ السَّمَاوَاتِ وَالأَرْضَ (فِي سِتَّةِ أَيَّامٍ) ثُمَّ اسْتَوَى عَلَى الْعَرْشِ يُغْشِي اللَّيْلَ النَّهَارَ يَطْلُبُهُ… — Kamaran Ihsan Salih Copy Share Image
“Love was a word that poets and songwriters used. They vested the emotion with tremendous powers over the human heart and mind,… — Sandra Brown Copy Share Image
“A skillful literary artist has constructed a tale. If wise, he has not fashioned his thoughts to accommodate his incidents; but having… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
Mandelstam is the sort of poet who comes along very, very rarely. Even the two Russian poets whose work is often linked… — Christian Wiman Copy Share Image
“I have been the meaning of rape I have been the problem everyone seeks to eliminate by forced penetration with or without… — June Jordan Copy Share Image
“It commenced — ‘“Can I view thee panting, lying On thy stomach, without sighing; Can I unmoved see thee dying On a… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
In Bonn, where I studied for a year, I changed from classical to Romance philology, taught there by its great founder, F.… — Paul Heyse Copy Share Image
“imagine your heart is just a ball you learned to dribble up and down the length of your driveway back home. slow… — Brionne Janae Copy Share Image
“Listen, we’ll come visit you. Okay? I’ll dress up as William Shakespeare, Lucent as Emily Dickinson, and beautiful ‘Ray’ as someone dashing… — Tim Cummings Copy Share Image
Buzzing at the Sill is from a Theodore Roethke poem called "In a Dark Time." I'd heard a small part of it… — Peter van Agtmael Copy Share Image
Everything that is dead quivers. Not only the things of poetry, stars, moon, wood, flowers, but even a white trouser button glittering… — Wassily Kandinsky Copy Share Image
I've had people explain to me what one of my poems meant, and I've been surprised that it means that to them.… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
Short stories and some short novels are close to poetry--with the fewest words they capture the essence of a situation, of a… — Gina Berriault Copy Share Image
I think of something quite different from a snapshot. I know of a lot of poems, some very fine ones, that are… — Robert Bringhurst Copy Share Image
“Nexus I wrote stubbornly into the evening. At the window, a giant praying mantis rubbed his monkey wrench head against the glass,… — Rita Dove Copy Share Image
One of my favorite poets, Neruda, writes close to the bone. Though I know only a little Spanish, I like to compare… — Anita Diament Copy Share Image
“And this is what being an artist means, being a poet? To sacrifice yourself for your art, sacrifice your heart for your… — Charlotte Eriksson Copy Share Image
The three states of the caterpillar, larva, and butterfly have, since the time of the Greek poets, been applied to typify the… — Humphry Davy Copy Share Image
“I do nothing, with as little shame as satisfaction. It is the state that suits me best. I write the odd poem… — Samuel Beckett Copy Share Image
When I see that the nineteenthcentury has crowned the idolatry of Art with the deification of Love, so that every poet is… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
