Never use the word 'audience.' The very idea of a public, unless the poet is writing for money, seems wrong to me.… — Robert Graves Copy Share Image
“Verse 12 [of Ex. 12) tells us that the judgment of Yahweh is not only on the Egyptians but also on their… — Ben Witherington III Copy Share Image
I think of myself primarily as a reader, then also a writer, but that's more or less irrelevant. I think I'm a… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
“More than nakedness, for there is no cover to take. The fire in your eyes is ringed with water; wide and cool.… — Donna Goddard Copy Share Image
I don't know if we ever have enough distance to "see" our own trajectory. We're in the muddled middle of it. Who… — Dorianne Laux Copy Share Image
“We spend so much time listening to the things people are saying that we rarely pay attention to the things they don't,"… — Clint Smith Copy Share Image
The way a source strains toward the light, toward the air. Its laboring work, its effort, its black passageways like despair. That’s… — Anna Kamienska Copy Share Image
“No matter even if you are cold, I like you better than anybody in the world. One time I said that you… — Sinclair Lewis Copy Share Image
“So many things I had thought forgotten Return to my mind with stranger pain: Like letters that arrive addressed to someone Who… — Philip Larkin Copy Share Image
“April is the cruelest month, breeding Lilacs out of the dead land, mixing Memory and desire, stirring Dull roots with spring rain.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Poetry is a lousy form of activism; it doesn't really change much. And maybe we can point to one or two historical… — Daphne Gottlieb Copy Share Image
Heres to the boys who self harm¦ To the boys with quiet lips, and screaming minds. To the boys who think a… — REAM Copy Share Image
“Light itself was your first love: you paint only as a means of telling about light... Ink and catgut and paint were… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“I suppose that's how it looks in prose. But it's very different if you look at it through poetry…and I think it's… — L.M. Montgomery Copy Share Image
The borderline between prose and poetry is one of those fog-shrouded literary minefields where the wary explorer gets blown to bits before… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“Clarissa will be bereaved, deeply lonely, but she will not die. She will be too much in love with life, with London.… — Michael Cunningham Copy Share Image
“To the poet, Every act is poetry; From cutting the grass, To cleaning a headstone. From walking, To breathing. Every act is… — Eric Overby Copy Share Image
“What appears in the former statue of Apollo, however, cannot simply be equated with the Olympian of the same name, who had… — Peter Sloterdijk Copy Share Image
Sarajevo was this beautiful city, very cosmopolitan, multiethnic, full of wonderful people, artists and writers and poets and Serbs and Muslims and… — Janine di Giovanni Copy Share Image
“A Poem By Max White is the color of little bunnies with pink noses. White is the color of fluffy clouds fluffing… — James Patterson Copy Share Image
“2.07 WALK OF LIFE Life but like a cycle that you be riding, You will fall if you ever stop peddling, Life… — Munindra (Munnan) Misra Copy Share Image
“I know poetry is not dead, nor genius lost; nor has Mammon gained power over either, to bind or slay: they will… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
“If you're reading this book, there is probably an artist or band whose music you have an intense personal relationship with. I… — Steven Hyden Copy Share Image
When you translate poetry in particular, you're obliged to look at how the writer with whom you're working puts together words, sentences,… — Marilyn Hacker Copy Share Image
“Have compassion for everyone you meet even if they don’t want it. What seems conceit, bad manners, or cynicism is always a… — Dr. Katinka van der Merwe Copy Share Image
LOVE CAN TRAVEL MILES AWAY POEM Love Can Travel Miles Away Just Like Time Does During Night & Day But As Love… — SangFroid Shaalu Copy Share Image
The National Endowment of the Humanities is the reason we have in northern Nevada every January a cowboy poetry festival. Had that… — Harry Reid Copy Share Image
I was raised in a strict fundamentalist household, and I always say that gives you a muscle of belief. I want to… — Barbara Hamby Copy Share Image
“As far as I was concerned, I wrote songs; chords and beats and lyrics, verses. and bridges and hooks. But then, as… — Gayle Forman Copy Share Image
The beautiful vagabonds, endowed with every grace, masters of all climes, and knowing no bounds - how many human aspirations are realized… — John Burroughs Copy Share Image
When I first started doing my stand-up act, I played the banjo, did comedy, magic tricks, juggled, read poetry. I stuck it… — Steve Martin Copy Share Image
When I was a freshman in college I went to Grinnell College in Iowa. I brought my poems to my freshman humanities… — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
“officers composed their orders in rhyme, using a standardized system known to every soldier. The Mongol warriors used a set of fixed… — Jack Weatherford Copy Share Image
I have always thought of poetry as an act of celebration. Just by nature of writing a poem you are taking the… — Sarah Kay Copy Share Image
Poetry operates by raising our curiosity, engaging the mind by degrees to take an interest in the event, keeping that event suspended,… — Joshua Reynolds Copy Share Image
“Did I live the spring I’d sought? It’s true in joy, I walked along, took part in dance, and sang the song.… — Roman Payne Copy Share Image
“Eleven or twelve hundred years ago the poem Beowulf explored the contradictions of treasure: jewels and gold that when they have been… — Suzanne Keene Copy Share Image
You have made me ashamed of the wasted years. You have made me acknowledge that no darkness has ever been deep enough… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
In the eyes of others a man is a poet if he has written one good poem. In his own he is… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The forms of the short, written poem as they have been developed in English over the past few centuries can be usefully… — Robert Scholes Copy Share Image
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