“Most helpful, Mr. Caelum," she said. "Very, very useful information. And now, shall we hear from Saint Augustine?" I shrugged. "Why not?"… — Wally Lamb Copy Share Image
I don't aspire, but I would be very happy if one of my poems suddenly offered someone a shady rest stop, a… — Kiki Dimoula Copy Share Image
We'd like to just write nothing but lyric poetry. The trouble is, the individual is going along intent on his own personal… — Lawrence Ferlinghetti Copy Share Image
“There's an Edna St. Vincent Millay poem that's been rumbling around inside me ever since I first read it, and part of… — John Green Copy Share Image
I came from a very musical family, so I grew up singing karaoke with the family. My family said 'do this' and… — Cassie Steele Copy Share Image
Go now, verses, on your light feet, you have not trodden hard on the old earth where the graves laugh when they… — Hugo Claus Copy Share Image
“If we are related, we shall meet. It was a tradition of the ancient world, that no metamorphosis could hide a god… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“You can never rouse Harris. There is no poetry about Harris- no wild yearning for the unattainable. Harris never "weeps, he knows… — Jerome K. Jerome Copy Share Image
I have fallen in love with you my angel. I sought nothing of you but only to see that dazzling smile of… — Mahmoud El Hallab Copy Share Image
“Journeys are the midwives of thought. Few places are more conducive to internal conversations than a moving plane, ship or train. There… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
Munch writes poetry with color. He has taught himself to see the full potential of color in art His use of color… — Sigbjørn Obstfelder Copy Share Image
In my view, the composer, just as the poet, the sculptor or the painter, is in duty bound to serve Man, the… — Sergei Prokofiev Copy Share Image
“Enséñame a volar, mi mariposa hermosa,’ Tim said suddenly. ‘It’s from a poem I— Well, it’s from a poem.’ ‘What’s it mean?’… — Jay Bell Copy Share Image
The issues of poetry, and music, and dialogue with one another is the essential thrust of any song. The breakdown becomes the… — Thomas Hampson Copy Share Image
“You are the calmest, fiercest person I know, and that is enough to draw me into your world and woo me into… — Melody Lee Copy Share Image
There is a great difference, whether the poet seeks the particular for the sake of the general or sees the general in… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
“As a kid, I never was the type to color in the lines. I used to wonder, why do the lines even… — Justin Wetch Copy Share Image
“I cannot pretend that I understood my mother at the end of her life. I was trying to follow the goals she… — Liza Dalby Copy Share Image
Language can also be play and music and beauty and desire and grief and rage and truth without always having to be… — Ada Limon Copy Share Image
“And what they find is when they bring their pain or their doubt or their uncomfortable truth to church, someone immediately grabs… — Rachel Held Evans Copy Share Image
Where is Philosophy sleeping this saturday afternoon? Are the philosophers already dead? Are the poets gone from the planet? I look through… — Mariana Fulger Copy Share Image
Almost all the noblest things that have been achieved in the world, have been achieved by poor men; poor scholars, poor professional… — Albert Pike Copy Share Image
“He loved the curves on her body, her soft skin and pouty lower lip, her deep soulful eyes. He adored her voice;… — Melody Lee Copy Share Image
Frederick Turner comes across in his poems as a man of impressively broad experience, intellectual brilliance, and originality. … He’s at his… — Richard Tillinghast Copy Share Image
That's another pompous expression that is out of fashion, to say that poetry is a gift. It sounds pompous because you say,… — Derek Walcott Copy Share Image
“No man ever truly possesses a woman, anyhow," said Gidas moodily. "He has her body for a time if he's lucky, but… — Guy Gavriel Kay Copy Share Image
“Take down the walls. Otherwise you must live closely, in fear, building barricades against the unknown, saying prayers against the darkness, speaking… — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
“I saw everything crumble around me, every single daydream of wandering through the grammar school cloisters citing poetry, of my parents wiping… — Meera Syal Copy Share Image
“The townspeople took the prince for dead When he never returned with the dragon’s head When with her, he stayed She thought… — Jess C. Scott Copy Share Image
“Then came time for her to marry. She had nine suitors. They all knelt round her in a circle. Standing in the… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
“do you dare to step in- to the vulnerable black, stripped to the soul with human blindness – when the full and… — Beth Morey Copy Share Image
“Life may as properly be called an art as any other; and the great incidents in it are no more to be… — Henry Fielding Copy Share Image
“Love is an elixir, so poets claim, a frothy hormonal brew to cure what's ailing you. Drink it in. Sip it slowly.… — Ellen Hopkins Copy Share Image
“Writing poetry's,' I looked around the solarium, but Madame Crommelynck's got a tractor beam, 'sort of . . . gay.' '"Gay"? A… — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
“Claire spoke often in her poetry of the idea of ‘fittingness’: that is, when your chosen pursuit and your ability to achieve… — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
“But there was something more precious than his poems; something far away he didn’t yet possess and longed for—manliness; he knew that… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
This, in the end, might be the greatest social good of poetry: to get us to live differently, with a different sort… — Matthew Zapruder Copy Share Image
“They say my verse is sad: no wonder. Its narrow measure spans Rue for eternity, and sorrow Not mine, but man's This… — A.E. Housman Copy Share Image
“This is a uni-verse (”one song’). There’s one song playing everywhere and we are all notes in it. There are no “special”… — Derek Rydall Copy Share Image
The poet Muriel Rukeyser said the universe is composed of stories, not of atoms. The physicist Werner Heisenberg declared that the universe… — Rob Brezsny Copy Share Image
