The poet's perspective of life, the musician's sense of harmony, the artist's eye of proportion and relationships ~ these are all shared… — Michael Tierra Copy Share Image
Sometimes a poem appeals to me technically, just because of the way a line feels on my lips. Sometimes it is because… — Frank Skinner Copy Share Image
I visited the Museum of Modern Art last spring and spent time with David Alfaro Siqueiros's painting, 'Echo of a Scream (1937).'… — Adrian Matejka Copy Share Image
I wouldn't say I'm a very controlling person. For instance, when I talk to the actors, I don't tell them exactly what… — Alejandro Amenabar Copy Share Image
Most people are much better at saying things in letters than in conversation, and some people can write artistic, inventive letters, but… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
I think there's a certain poetry to having your body reflect what you feel inside of you. Perhaps you have a feeling… — Arca Copy Share Image
It is the most annoyingly painful feeling in the world when there is someone willing to write until their fingers have ached… — Needa Muy Copy Share Image
The only thing that can save the world is the reclaiming of the awareness of the world. That's what poetry does. By… — Allen Ginsberg Copy Share Image
I look at the great poets of the Soviet Union, like Anna Akhmatova, who endured far worse then anything we've seen or… — Sara Paretsky Copy Share Image
The Bible is very resonant. It has everything: creation, betrayal, lust, poetry, prophecy, sacrifice. All great things are in the Bible, and… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
“the inlet our friend looks as he did when we first knew him, and until I wake I believe I will die… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
How could anybody think of Bach as 'cold' when these [cello] suites seem to shine with the most glittering kind of poetry,"… — Pablo Casals according to Eric Siblin Copy Share Image
“…The love of his youth Appeared as in a dream And this ageing lover Went mad with love. The youth robbed him… — Hafiz Shirazi Copy Share Image
“Not altogether a fool," said G., "but then he's a poet, which I take to be only one remove from a fool."… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
“…Let all lights but yours be nothing to me. Let the memory of tongues not unnerve me so that I stumble or… — W.S. Merwin Copy Share Image
“THREE BASIC TRUTHS Three things have a limited threshold: Time, pain, and death. While truth, love, and knowledge – Are boundless. Three… — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image
Reading the very best writers—let us say Homer, Dante, Shakespeare, Tolstoy—is not going to make us better citizens. Art is perfectly useless,… — Harold Bloom Copy Share Image
I realized Michael was right. I mean, I am always writing in this journal. And I do compose a lot of poetry,… — Meg Cabot Copy Share Image
“Odysseus is a migrant, but he is also a political and military leader, a strategist, a poet, a loving husband and father,… — Homer Copy Share Image
“Tell me it was for the hunger & nothing less. For hunger is to give the body what it knows it cannot… — Ocean Vuong Copy Share Image
“The most important lesson I took away from my year on the competitive memory circuit was not the secret to learning poetry… — Joshau Foer Copy Share Image
Certainly professionally, yes [I was interested more in history]. And literary criticism, the structure of poetry. But it is primarily as a… — Frank Moore Cross Copy Share Image
“Those who do not carry within them the soul of everything the world can show them, will do well to watch it:… — Remy de Gourmont Copy Share Image
“The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware. In this state… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
“Taking Off Emily Dickinson’s Clothes" First, her tippet made of tulle, easily lifted off her shoulders and laid on the back of… — Billy Collins Copy Share Image
The noblest art is the nude. This truth is recognized by all, and followed by painters, sculptors and poets. Only the dancer… — Isadora Duncan Copy Share Image
Women," Mat declared as he rode Pips down the dusty, little-used road, "are like mules." He frowned. "Wait. No. Goats. Women are… — Robert Jordan Copy Share Image
“She was the storm, could be found by the sea, sometimes lost in the tides. He was the calm, gently embracing her… — Melody Lee Copy Share Image
“Sam, Sam, quite contrary, bought a budgie, wanted a canary. Sam, Sam, quite contrary, kissed Suzannah, meant to kiss Marry. Sam, Sam,… — Chrissie Gittins Copy Share Image
“i could go if i wanted share the floorboards with someone in a place less haunted but i like it here and… — Savannah Brown Copy Share Image
“At the Sound of the Gunshot, Leave A Message That's what my friend spoke into his grim machine the winter he first… — Mary Karr Copy Share Image
“I charge you with a phrase from the gospel of John, Updike that is: Your only duty is to give the mundane… — John Blase Copy Share Image
“Nothing much bothered you for a while and you kept walking like a silhouette through this town, saying hi’s and goodbyes, acting… — Charlotte Eriksson Copy Share Image
We do not accept a religion because it offers us certain rewards. The only thing that a religion can offer us is… — Michael Polanyi Copy Share Image
“you told me once about how they used to build whole city states out of poems how everything you see here is… — John Dorsey Copy Share Image
“When all the world is old, lad, And all the trees are brown; And all the sport is stale, lad, And all… — Susanna Kearsley Copy Share Image
Out there people are working and arguing and laughing, living their beautiful, terrible lives, falling in love and having babies and being… — Kim Addonizio Copy Share Image
“A day will come when men will discover an alphabet in the eyes of chalcedonies, in the markings of the moth, and… — Alejo Carpentier Copy Share Image
I'm searching for a deep connection, my heart is open, I need that sweet affection, I'm so true it's past your comprehension,… — Cody Joseph Copy Share Image
Words too familiar, or too remote, defeat the purpose of a poet. From those sounds which we hear on small or on… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
![“How could anybody think of Bach as 'cold' when these [cello] suites seem to shine with the most glittering kind of poetry," Casals said. "As I got on with the study I discovered a new world of space and beauty... the feelings I experienced were among the purest and most intense in my artistic life!” quote by Pablo Casals according to Eric Siblin](https://sms4smile.com/q/i/808/pablo-casals-according-to-eric_artistic_how-could-anybody-think-of-bach-as-cold_2641239.jpg)
![“Certainly professionally, yes [I was interested more in history]. And literary criticism, the structure of poetry. But it is primarily as a historian that I work, although text criticism and literary criticism are very much a part of my interests.” quote by Frank Moore Cross](https://sms4smile.com/q/i/b7f/frank-moore-cross-14963_criticism_certainly-professionally-yes-i-was-inter_3110471.jpg)
![“The noblest art is the nude. This truth is recognized by all, and followed by painters, sculptors and poets. Only the dancer has forgotten it, who should remember it, as the instrument of [the dance] art is the human body itself.” quote by Isadora Duncan](https://sms4smile.com/q/i/370/isadora-duncan-7255_art_the-noblest-art-is-the-nude-this-truth-i_917024.jpg)
