“Martin Luther arrived at his earthshaking conclusions imbued with biblical exposition. As a professor, he taught the book of Psalms verse by… — Alister E. McGrath Copy Share Image
A certain construct of emotions that really define who you are and who you will become and I feel very much that… — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
I was the audience he wanted to reach. Gram Parsons' writing brought his own personal generations poetry and vision into the very… — Emmylou Harris Copy Share Image
Kill what you can't save what you can't eat throw out what you can't throw out bury What you can't bury give… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
There's an old poem by Neruda that I've always been captivated by, and one of the lines in it has stuck with… — Taylor Swift Copy Share Image
“Have you ever noticed that all four of the greatest poets in the world are Muslim? And yet all the Muslims you… — Aravind Adiga Copy Share Image
Sometimes I just start humming something, find a melody I like a lot, and if it sticks around for a couple days,… — Jack Johnson Copy Share Image
You have to follow where the poem leads. And it will surprise you. It will say things you didn't expect to say.… — Philip Levine Copy Share Image
“Now I become myself. It's taken Time, may years and places; I have been dissolved and shaken, Worn other people's faces, Run… — May Sarton Copy Share Image
It was early on in 1965 when I wrote some of my first poems. I sent a poem to 'Harper's' magazine because… — August Wilson Copy Share Image
A thought transfixed me: for the first time in my life, I saw the truth as it is set into song by… — Viktor E. Frankl Copy Share Image
I got a head full of headaches, a heart that's full of woes. I'm constantly singin' them down home blues, and not… — Aceyalone Copy Share Image
“For grammar it [poetry] might have, but it needs it not; being so easy in itself, and so void of those cumbersome… — Philip Sidney Copy Share Image
Clouds are poems, and the most moving poems linger on the blackboard so long, written in cursive so lovely, they also exist… — Ann Beattie Copy Share Image
In life, the number of beginnings is exactly equal to the number of endings ... In poetry, the number of beginnings so… — Mary Ruefle Copy Share Image
I came from the time of so-called New Criticism - the poem in itself, the writing in itself - but around that… — Vito Acconci Copy Share Image
So we start with an oversignifying reader. Those texts that appear to reward this reader for this additional investment - text that… — Don Paterson Copy Share Image
I would say there are different kinds of poems. There are things that poets in the history of poetry hit upon when… — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
“Those of us who have been true readers all our life seldom fully realise the enormous extension of our being which we… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“I've written you sixty-seven love poems. Here’s another one for you. But really, for me. These poems are the candles that I… — Kamand Kojouri Copy Share Image
Nothing says you care for me better than offering to torture my enemies." He grinned. "No sense doing things halfhearted. And to… — Maria V. Snyder Copy Share Image
She knew the intensity of adolescence, and knew no cure for it except growing up. And then one has age and experience,… — Sara Paretsky Copy Share Image
“take my words read my poetry make my thoughts breathe life why should distances matter? between us there may be oceans there… — Avijeet Das Copy Share Image
“I have emotions that are like newspapers that read themselves. I go for days at a time trapped in the want ads.… — Richard Brautigan Copy Share Image
Eroticism is first and foremost a thirst for otherness. And the supernatural is the supreme otherness. This is perhaps the most noble… — Octavio Paz Copy Share Image
The dreamer whose dreams are non-utilitarian has no place in this world. In this world the poet is anathema, the thinker a… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
Has the painter not always gone to an art school, or at least to an established master, for instruction? And the composer,… — Paul Engle Copy Share Image
Part of what made the Macintosh great was that the people working on it were musicians, poets, and artists, and zoologists, and… — Steve Jobs Copy Share Image
“There are all kinds of pedants around with more time to read and imitate Lynne Truss and John Humphrys than to write… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
When I was 15 or 16 playing in groups, we used to sit in the car and try to write the lyrics… — Tom Petty Copy Share Image
“From the first note I knew it was different from anything I had ever heard… It began simply, but with an arresting… — Deanna Raybourn Copy Share Image
Of all the art forms, poetry is the most economical. It is the one which is the most secret, which requires the… — Audre Lorde Copy Share Image
“But oh, mesdames, if you are not allowed to touch the heart sometimes in spite of syntax, and are not to be… — William Makepeace Thackeray Copy Share Image
I write poems from dreams pretty frequently. It's limiting to think the poem has to come from a sensical lyric "I" stating… — Matthea Harvey Copy Share Image
The mathematical question is "Why?" It's always why. And the only way we know how to answer such questions is to come… — Paul Lockhart Copy Share Image
“Of course! the path to heaven doesn't lie down in flat miles. It's in the imagination with which you perceive this world,… — Mary Oliver Copy Share Image
“Maybe it's animalness that will make the world right again: the wisdom of elephants, the enthusiasm of canines, the grace of snakes,… — Carol Emshwiller Copy Share Image
The problem with writing a book in verse is, to be successful, it has to sound like you knocked it off on… — Dr. Seuss Copy Share Image
“ A Psalm of Life Tell me not in mournful numbers, Life is but an empty dream! For the soul is dead… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
When I finished high school, I didn't have much direction - I was a Deadhead kid who ended up bumming around London… — Elizabeth Marvel Copy Share Image