“We wanderers, ever seeking the lonelier way, begin no day where we have ended another day; and no sunrise finds us where… — Kahlil Gibran Copy Share Image
Everyday, things are getting better Here one day I'll be going backwards Until that day, I'll just wonder Why have I not… — Ramandeep Singh Copy Share Image
What is the beauty of the haiku is that it is not simplistic. The beauty of the haiku I just said is… — Sonia Sanchez Copy Share Image
I have made a long enough descent into the void to speak with certainty. There is nothing but beauty--and beauty has only… — Stephane Mallarme Copy Share Image
I don't doubt that at the dawn of martial arts, the main goal was to beat up one's opponents in the most… — Daniele Bolelli Copy Share Image
“I love you." Lightning. Once it has forked, hot-white, from sky to earth, there is no going back. It's time. I feel… — Ally Condie Copy Share Image
Mandelstam's style is not singular. He could be stately and traditional, ribald and funny, hectic, elegiac. He could handle abstractions and ideas… — Christian Wiman Copy Share Image
Rare almost as great poets, rarer, perhaps, than veritable saints and martyrs; are consummate men of business. A man, to be excellent… — Arthur Helps Copy Share Image
I don't believe a poet has a better hold on truth or morality than a fiction writer has. And I don't think… — Colum McCann Copy Share Image
“I have finally taught Dean that he can do anything he wants, become mayor of Denver, marry a millionairess, or become the… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
“Reluctance Out through the fields and the woods And over the walls I have wended; I have climbed the hills of view… — Robert Frost Copy Share Image
A number of people have written poems about Trump already, and I salute them. He is so beyond anything we could have… — Mary Jo Salter Copy Share Image
“Quiet friend who has come so far, feel how your breathing makes more space around you. Let this darkness be a bell… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
“What we encounter in works of art and philosophy are objective versions of our own pains and struggles, evoked and defined in… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
“Begun in fire, ending in ice. The poet was wrong; ice was a better destroyer than fire, particularly if you were in… — Dana Stabenow Copy Share Image
When I wrote 'East,' I wanted a completely earthy, very sexy, very violent play, so I wrote in verse. I found it… — Steven Berkoff Copy Share Image
“..giving power to negative thoughts or fears was bringing ideas to life in physical world,idea in mind became emotion in heart,emotion turned… — Christina Westover Copy Share Image
If a man is called to be a street sweeper, he should sweep streets even as a Michaelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
“If I could go back in time to when I wrote sad little poems, I’d punch myself right in the fucking face… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“ Only In Sleep Only in sleep I see their faces, Children I played with when I was a child, Louise comes… — Sara Teasdale Copy Share Image
Love is when ssomebody gives you a shoulder to cry on. Love is soomebody makes you laugh when you're sad. Love is… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
[On The Waste Land:] Various critics have done me the honor to interpret the poem in terms of criticism of the contemporary… — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
“Here’s a hand to the boy who has courage To do what he knows to be right; When he falls in the… — Phoebe Cary Copy Share Image
“There are objects made up of two sense elements, one visual, the other auditory—the colour of a sunrise and the distant call… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
There have been many poets who have lived at the fifth center of creativity and never gone ahead - many painters, many… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
“ Ars Poetica A poem should be palpable and mute As a globed fruit, Dumb As old medallions to the thumb, Silent… — Archibald MacLeish Copy Share Image
“Outside the street’s on fire In a real death waltz Between what’s flesh and fantasy And the poets down here Don’t write… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
I believe that from that Earth emerges a musical poetry, which is by the nature of its sources tonal. I believe that… — Leonard Bernstein Copy Share Image
In Among the White Moon Faces, I wrote about my desire to be a writer as rooted in my obsessive hours of… — Shirley Geok-lin Lim Copy Share Image
I went to a prep school in Chicago, and my dad and mom worked really hard - even though we lived in… — Michael Pena Copy Share Image
“The gestures poems make are the same as the gestures of ritual injunction — curse; exorcism; prayer; underlying everything perhaps, the attempt… — Frank Bidart Copy Share Image
Poetry leads us to the unstructured sources of our beings, to the unknown, and returns us to our rational, structured selves refreshed.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The spirit must be freed from tethers so strong and feelings never put to rest, so that the lift of life may… — Thomas S. Monson Copy Share Image
Much of the magical effect that poetry gives of rendering everything it touches pellucid comes from the necessity of compression that it… — Laura Riding Copy Share Image
The Poet's License! 't is the right, Within the rule of duty, To look on all delightful things Throughout the world of… — John Godfrey Saxe Copy Share Image
Poetry is one of the most full ways of discovering what it feels like to be a human being in this particular… — Alison Hawthorne Deming Copy Share Image
When I was 18, I lived in Greenwich Village, New York, for nine months. At that time, I wanted to change the… — Christian de Portzamparc Copy Share Image
“How long your closet held a whiff of you, Long after hangers hung austere and bare. I would walk in and suddenly… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
“The Chinese poet George Wu ... recorded on his comlog: "Poets are the mad midwives to reality. They see not what is,… — Dan Simmons Copy Share Image
“She was resilient A brave soldier when life tested her It didn't matter that she did strange things like stand tall under… — M.J. Abraham Copy Share Image
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