I went to Havana, and I was like, "Wow, there's culture everywhere!" That was one thing that I did notice when I… — Aaron McGruder Copy Share Image
[To become a poet] The most important thing is to pay attention. The next would probably be to read; it's so important… — Nikki Giovanni Copy Share Image
“ A Pause of Thought I looked for that which is not, nor can be, And hope deferred made my heart sick… — Christina Rossetti Copy Share Image
nature has not changed. The night is still unsullied, the stars still twinkle, and the wild thyme smells as sweetly now as… — George Sand Copy Share Image
“Poets to come! orators, singers, musicians to come! Not to-day is to justify me and answer what I am for, But you,… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
“What if we spoke every word as if it was our last? Would we hurry to impress the masses with our wisdom?… — Elizabeth Novak Copy Share Image
“A slave was cheaper than a mule. Slavery, despicable topic, rarely appeared in poetry or onstage or in the paintings that decorated… — Eduardo Galeano Copy Share Image
The poetic function is the set towards the message itself, focus on the message for its own sake which by promoting the… — Roman Jakobson Copy Share Image
If I were poet now, I would not resist the temptation to trace my life back through the delicate shadows of my… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
As soon as I start to write I'm very aware, I'm trying to be aware that a reader just might well pick… — Billy Collins Copy Share Image
“Why do philosophers in the South so often end as newspapermen, poets as doctors? Maybe they crave what's found in pain and… — Josephine Humphreys Copy Share Image
“I'll remember you, he thinks, and as the gun carriage, with its coffin and its dented helmet pass him by, he closes… — Anna Hope Copy Share Image
“Contemporary theologians are not accustomed to think of poetry, literature, and plays as theological discourse. In the contemporary era, where faith is… — Michelle A. Gonzalez Copy Share Image
“And the bush hath friends to meet him, and their kindly voices greet him In the murmur of the breezes and the… — A.B. Paterson Copy Share Image
When power leads man towards arrogance, poetry reminds him of his limitations. When power narrows the area of man's concern, poetry reminds… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
Poetry died as a commercial form and then it died as a serious art form. No one serious touches it. It used… — William Monahan Copy Share Image
The Greek tragic mask is one of my main metaphors for the role of the poet. The eyes of the tragic mask… — Tony Harrison Copy Share Image
It has always seemed to me a great honor to be called an Irish poet. I don't think I will ever lose… — Eavan Boland Copy Share Image
“No hay posibilidad de verse a si mismo en un espejo, sin conocerse ya, pues sino no es verse, sino ver sólo… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Did you know Grandfather would give the poems to me?” I ask. “We thought he might,” my mother says. “Why didn’t you… — Ally Condie Copy Share Image
The way something looks or sounds is also what it means. Words as visual and aural phenomena, which mainly poets, not critics… — Masha Tupitsyn Copy Share Image
“a flower knows, when its butterfly will return, and if the moon walks out, the sky will understand; but now it hurts,… — Sanober Khan Copy Share Image
“His name was George F. Babbitt. He was forty-six years old now, in April, 1920, and he made nothing in particular, neither… — Sinclair Lewis Copy Share Image
I would go to an aunt's house, and she would let me play music, and she had 'The Last Poets' album. At… — Gza Copy Share Image
I think of everything that I want to say and then I think of the way that I can say it most… — Helen Frost Copy Share Image
“The next morning I took the screen out of that window, and hid it in the back of my closet, where it… — John Green Copy Share Image
I love you but I can't be with you, you came to late into my life, my love is taking already by… — Glen Rambharack Copy Share Image
The verses talked about other Prophets as brothers preaching the same unifying script of mankind, showing every man and woman the way… — Cat Stevens Copy Share Image
Poetry, song, stories, art, our reverence for nature, are key to our survival as a species, and to the survival of all… — Michael Tobias Copy Share Image
The incredible cinematography makes 'A Walk to Beautiful' almost like a poem; there is a tenderness on display that seems to emanate… — Abraham Verghese Copy Share Image
When I was young, I struggled with authorship: with everything the word meant and failed to mean. Irish poetry was heavy with… — Eavan Boland Copy Share Image
As a reader with next to no knowledge of classical mythology, I approached 'The Aeneid' just as I would a contemporary poem… — Sally Rooney Copy Share Image
Good poems ask us to have complex minds and hearts. Even simple-of-surface poems want that. Perhaps those are the ones that want… — Jane Hirshfield Copy Share Image
“Her close friends have gathered. Lord, ain't it a shame Grieving together Sharing the blame. But when she was dying Lord, we… — Kris Kristofferson Copy Share Image
Emily Kendal Frey's The Grief Performance is a book that condenses a journey of finding and re-finding loss into beautiful packages. The… — Dorothea Lasky Copy Share Image
We call those poets who are first to mark, Through earth's dull mist the coming of the dawn, Who see in twilight's… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
But you have to understand that I consider myself a very modest artist, or whatever, and not of importance really at all… — Ian Hamilton Finlay Copy Share Image
Scholars of the Hebrew bible define something they call wisdom literature and I would say clearly the poetry of wisdom is something… — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
We need more true mystery in our lives Hem- he said. The completely unambitious writer and the really good unpublished poem are… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
“Conditioned to ecstasy, the poet is like a gorgeous unknown bird mired in the ashes of thought. If he succeeds in freeing… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
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