“...in Aristotle...leisure is a far more noble, spiritual goal than work...leisure is pursued solely for its own sake...: the pleasures of music… — Francine du Plessix Gray Copy Share Image
You always have regime-friendly poets like Muhammad Mahdi al-Jawahiri, whose career basically spans the twentieth century. He's an anti-imperialist, friendly with the… — Elliott Colla Copy Share Image
Past and future monopolize the poet’s sensory and intellectual faculties, detached from the immediate spectacle. These two philtres become utterly clear the… — Andre Breton Copy Share Image
“DeLois lived up the block on 142nd Street and never had her hair done, and all the neighbourhood women sucked their teeth… — Audre Lorde Copy Share Image
“I've never met anyone who loves in the same way. But that's the beauty of finding the heart meant for yours. The… — Alfa H Copy Share Image
If it were thought that anything I wrote was influenced by Robert Frost, I would take that particular piece of mine, shred… — James Dickey Copy Share Image
Ice cubes makes your water cold, but it can't make your water wetter. Straws make it easy to drink, but can't make… — Ty Boyland Copy Share Image
“I squatted by the water as it flowed over the tumbled rocks, thought how far they must've come to have settled in… — Janet Fitch Copy Share Image
“You better ignore this. You better staple your eyes shut and put pot-lids over your ears and pinch your nose with vice… — B.J. Ward Copy Share Image
The Qur'an not only lacks any earthly punishment for someone who abandons Islam, it even includes verses that imply that such a… — Mustafa Akyol Copy Share Image
Heartbreak was the impetus to me writing poems and music in the first place. Over the years, I had my heart broken… — Jill Scott Copy Share Image
“The sun set beyond thesea, so says the poet - and when a poet mentions a sea, we have to accept it;… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Capturing the beauty of the conversion of the water into wine, the poet Alexander Pope said, "The conscious water saw its Master… — Ravi Zacharias Copy Share Image
Why should all virtue work in one and the same way? Why should all give dollars? It is very inconvenient to us… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Dreamlands Num! Poet loathes those dragged out, over inflated, work meetings! Never fails someone cant shut their mouth, No! Not even for… — Javaz Copy Share Image
This is what magic is. It's being able to speak in a voice which makes things happen, being able to speak in… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
Claudia Rankine's book-length poem 'Citizen' was nominated for National Book Critics Circle awards in the categories of poetry and criticism. It is… — Glenn Ligon Copy Share Image
“True recognition resonates... Within continuous... Any self elaborated recognition... Is frivolous... To know the particular... Requires a soul ocular... Into the deepest… — Hugh Shergill Copy Share Image
In its famous paradox, the equation of money and excrement, psychoanalysis becomes the first science to state what common sense and the… — Norman O. Brown Copy Share Image
“It was many and many a year ago, In a kingdom by the sea, That a maiden there lived whom you may… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
“I know you are reading this poem in a room where too much has happened for you to bear where the bedclothes… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
“That to the adolescent is the authentic poetic note and whoever is the first in his life to strike it, whether Tennyson,… — W.H. Auden Copy Share Image
“I Imagine Them turning some dog-eared page tapping out a drum beat on the dash sorting the laundry digging for a matching… — Nancy Boutilier Copy Share Image
Everybody nose dive, hold your breath, count to five. Back slap, booby trap, cover it up in bubble wrap. Room shake, earth… — Peter Gabriel Copy Share Image
“Very Like a Whale One thing that literature would be greatly the better for Would be a more restricted employment by authors… — Ogden Nash Copy Share Image
Any place you love is the world to you”, explained the pensive Catherine Wheel, who had been attached to an old deal… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“July 4th fireworks exhale over the Hudson sadly. It is beautiful that they have to disappear. It's like the time you said… — Frederick Seidel Copy Share Image
Bryan [Iguchi] had this beautiful philosophy about our connection with these incredible cycles. There's a line from one of his poems that… — Travis Rice Copy Share Image
“The campus, an academy of trees, under which some hand, the wind's I guess, had scattered the pale light of thousands of… — Ruth Stone Copy Share Image
I write first drafts with only the good angel on my shoulder, the voice that approves of everything I write. This voice… — Georgia Heard Copy Share Image
“All the same, we ought to point out that if the kinds of poetry and representation which are designed merely to give… — Plato Copy Share Image
I began to write poetry again in 1975, when I fell in love with another woman. I returned to poetry not because… — Minnie Bruce Pratt Copy Share Image
I invented animals and birds - I had about two dozen. After working on them for six months, I sat down and… — Jack Prelutsky Copy Share Image
“The view of the highway was so bad that you could not even see the next viaduct. Te moment it loomed out… — Janet Fitch Copy Share Image
“Human beings are members of a whole, In creation of one essence and soul. If one member is afflicted with pain, Other… — Muslih Al-Din Mushrif Ibn Abd Allah Al Saadi 1184 1283 Copy Share Image
“Their ghosts are gagged, their books are library flotsam, Some of their names - not all - we learnt in school But,… — Louis MacNeice Copy Share Image
“The perfect person does not exist. There is no woman or man you would meet who would make you write poetry. So… — Avijeet Das Copy Share Image
“Having set its mark on the generation before Cocteau’s, symbolism expressed a form of inner dissidence confronting the narrow-minded materialism and utilitarian… — Claude Arnaud Copy Share Image
The programmer, like the poet, works only slightly removed from pure thought-stuff. He builds his castles in the air, from air, creating… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Blossom In April the ponds open like black blossoms, the moon swims in every one; there’s fire everywhere: frogs shouting their desire,… — Mary Oliver Copy Share Image
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