With the question of the effect of a poem, the topic of investigation shifts from that of textual autonomy to textual reception… — Thomas Harrison Copy Share Image
I think that that's why artists make art - it is difficult to put into words unless you are a poet. What… — Alex Grey Copy Share Image
When I say God it is poetry and not theology. Nothing that any theologian has written about God has helped me much,… — John Haynes Holmes Copy Share Image
“I am so tired of waiting. Aren’t you, for the world to become good and beautiful and kind? Let us take a… — Langston Hughes Copy Share Image
The Bible is full of interest. It has noble poetry in it; and some clever fables; and some blood-drenched history; and some… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
O ye dead Poets, who are living still Immortal in your verse, though life be fled, And ye, O living Poets, who… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
“The period of general neglect of Eliot's poetry was one in which a revolution was occurring in the theory of interpretation. Existentialist,… — Jewel Spears Brooker Copy Share Image
“I don’t want safety or guarantees— I want a life worth living. I want to jump off a skyscraper And fashion a… — Justin Wetch Copy Share Image
“ The Infinite It was always dear to me, this solitary hill, and this hedgerow here, that closes out my view, from… — Giacomo Leopardi Copy Share Image
We're talking about an extremely prolific poet and songwriter and lyricist. That stuff comes off the top of her head. She [Joni… — Don Alias Copy Share Image
The fact that poetry is not of the slightest economic or political importance, that is has no attachment to any of the… — Graham Hough Copy Share Image
"Ageism" or whatever you want to call it, is a very English phenomenon. You don't get it too much in many other… — Paul Weller Copy Share Image
“Season's Greetings by Stewart Stafford Season's Greetings To those we are needing, While I am leading The Festive charge. Christmas love is… — Stewart Stafford Copy Share Image
We were not for underestimating magic - a life-conductor like the sap between the tree-stem and the bark. We know that it… — Freya Stark Copy Share Image
I just said let's get some poets on tv. And when they said that sounded unlikely, I made it worse. I said,… — Russell Simmons Copy Share Image
Take this squirrel, for instance. Ulysses. Do I believe he can type poetry? Sure, I do believe it. There is much more… — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
I think about all the people who have created something that lives after them - works of art, plays, music, films, literature,… — Seamus Dever Copy Share Image
I can blend words easily with my pen, and show concepts from deep within. Yet not everyone gets the message I send.… — Stanley Victor Paskavich Copy Share Image
“Since they weren't sleepy and nothing had been left unsaid, they began to read poetry to each other, taking turns like children… — Assia Djebar Copy Share Image
A painter must compensate the natural deficiencies of his art. He has but one sentence to utter, but one moment to exhibit.… — Joshua Reynolds Copy Share Image
“To say that a poet is justified in employing a disintegrating form in order to express a feeling of disintegration, is merely… — Yvor Winters Copy Share Image
“My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun; Coral is far more red than her lips' red; If snow be white, why… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
A fine lady; by which term I wish to express the result of that perfect education in taste and manner, down to… — Charles Kingsley Copy Share Image
“Here is another Inspirational Poem that gives peace and strength The mind always fights between the wrong and the right, Be aware… — Ron Sen Copy Share Image
With ferocity and extraordinary craft, Lizzie Harris has made a book of poems that resonates far beyond the personal stories it tells.… — Meghan O'Rourke Copy Share Image
“all hopes there, so close to each other, are pulled into the void every night; when a band of pale twinkles milking… — Munia Khan Copy Share Image
The two important facts I should say, are emotion, and then words arising from emotion. I don't think you can write in… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
“I never felt so...argh and grrr and hmmm before." Pauline laughed. "That's a godd one." I glared at her, throwing a croissant… — Natalie Herzer Copy Share Image
“But I don't want comfort. I want God, I want poetry, I want real danger, I want freedom, I want goodness. I… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
I think one of the things that people tend to forget is that poets do write out of life. It isn't some… — Rita Dove Copy Share Image
No words can express how much the world owes to sorrow. Most of the Psalms were born in the wilderness. Most of… — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
The Almeida's artistic director, Rupert Goold, brought me Mike Bartlett's 'King Charles III' with the slightly apologetic warning that it was in… — Tim Pigott-Smith Copy Share Image
I am an ordinary human being who is impelled to write poetry. ... I still do feel that a poet has a… — Gwendolyn Brooks Copy Share Image
I prefer to think of faith, as Coleridge says of poetry, not as the taking up of belief but as "the willing… — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
“Certainly imagery can be gleaned from the industrial world — what do Blake's "dark Satanic Mills," for example, owe to the natural… — Mary Oliver Copy Share Image
“All Nature seems at work. Slugs leave their lair— The bees are stirring—birds are on the wing— And Winter, slumbering in the… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
“He walked out the door and with each step my heart breaks. He'd be gone for days with long silences between each… — J.A. ANUM Copy Share Image
Not all poetry wants to be storytelling. And not all storytelling wants to be poetry. But great storytellers and great poets share… — Sarah Kay Copy Share Image
[M]editation is not just being silent—that is only one part of it… [I]t has to be creative. And when a poetry comes… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
“For you, my love, I would endeavor to pluck the stars from the sky, only to shower them at your feet.” “How… — Sylvain Reynard Copy Share Image
![“We're talking about an extremely prolific poet and songwriter and lyricist. That stuff comes off the top of her head. She [Joni Mitchell] will write exactly what she lives. If she puts some money in the soda machine, she'll write about putting money in the soda machine. "Dry Cleaner from Des…” quote by Don Alias](https://sms4smile.com/q/i/880/don-alias-49528_albums_we-re-talking-about-an-extremely-prolifi_2583415.jpg)
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