Beauty is not all there is of poetry. It must contain the truth. It is not simply an oak, rude and grand,… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
“Cassia. I know which life is my real one now, no matter what happens. It’s the one with you. For some reason,… — Ally Condie Copy Share Image
“Writing a successful novel is a great challenge, and you have to be a bit of a poet, a bit of a… — Anis Shivani Copy Share Image
Certainly I'm participating in an already established and awesome tradition, but it's a tradition that sort of shoots up and through the… — Lidia Yuknavitch Copy Share Image
“Sadly, but certainly, a promising genre of literature in poetry that began with pomp and a loud thud, a banger and an… — Alok Mishra Copy Share Image
“In the visitor's book at Crome Ivor had left, according to his invariable custom in these cases, a poem. He had improvised… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Listening a cultivated person of today that jokes and almost boasts about his scientific ignorance, is as sad as listening a scientist… — Carlo Rovelli Copy Share Image
“Every second, every minute, every hour our bodies breathe in the manna of Heaven. Our bodies resonate with the love and power… — Ramon Ravenswood Copy Share Image
“If AP English via Miss Sweeney had taught Flannery anything, it was that life was brimming with various traumas and tragedies—the great… — Mary O'Connell Copy Share Image
“To create - a role, a poem, picture, music, a rapture in stone: great. But not for her. What she wanted was… — Gwendolyn Brooks Copy Share Image
A poet is a bird of unearthly excellence, who escapes from his celestial realm arrives in this world warbling. If we do… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I think, as poets, we are in the odd position of constantly defending our art form. Which is funny and also sort… — Ada Limon Copy Share Image
“I think there's a kind of desperate hope built into poetry now that one really wants, hopelessly, to save the world. One… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Love is a fire that burns unseen, a wound that aches yet isn’t felt, an always discontent contentment, a pain that rages… — Luís Vaz de Camões Copy Share Image
Madame V begins the lesson by reading aloud the first stanza of a famous French poem: Il pleure dans mon coeur Comme… — Sonya Sones Copy Share Image
'Who's been repeating all that hard stuff to you?' 'I read it in a book,' said Alice. 'But I had some poetry… — Lewis Carroll Copy Share Image
“My thinking, far from being clearer than a crystal, was tortuous. I would read the same passage over and over again only… — Kay Redfield Jamison Copy Share Image
“It is growing cold. Winter is putting footsteps in the meadow. What whiteness boasts that sun that comes into this wood! One… — Roman Payne Copy Share Image
“I mean, by such flightiness, something that feels unsatisfied at the center of my life — that makes me shaky, fickle, inquisitive,… — Mary Oliver Copy Share Image
Abstract reason, formerly the servant of practical human reasons, has everywhere become its master, and denies poetry any excuse for existence. Though… — Robert Graves Copy Share Image
“Ah, the freshness in the face of leaving a task undone! To be remiss is to be positively out in the country!… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
“I wouldn't be surprised if poetry - poetry in the broadest sense, in the sense of a world filled with metaphor, rhyme,… — David Byrne Copy Share Image
“In each human heart are a tiger, a pig, an ass, and a nightingale. Diversity of character is due to their unequal… — J.M. Smith Copy Share Image
“Poetry leads to the same place as all forms of eroticism — to the blending and fusion of separate objects. It leads… — Georges Bataille Copy Share Image
“As long as there are young people, and old people, too, who can imagine realities beyond seeing and touching, and as long… — Jack Smith Copy Share Image
“If a man has everything money can buy, yet woos you—with the complexity of a rose, the subtlety of poetry and prose… — Reena Doss Copy Share Image
The poem is not, as someone put it, deflective of entry. But the real question is, 'What happens to the reader once… — Billy Collins Copy Share Image
Whereas story is processed in the mind in a straightforward manner, poetry bypasses rational thought and goes straight to the limbic system… — Jasper Fforde Copy Share Image
“You think it's easy to forget someone who made you look forward to tomorrow... And I hope you never experience convincing a… — Alfa H Copy Share Image
I'm under my own construction, mental lockdown and there is no way to escape it. Watching out for self-destruction because the most… — Needa Muy Copy Share Image
“I write lots of poetry on a regular basis. In fact, it’s something that I rarely think about consciously, it’s just something… — Raven Howell Copy Share Image
“ She Dwelt Among the Untrodden Ways She dwelt among the untrodden ways Beside the springs of Dove, A Maid whom there… — William Wordsworth Copy Share Image
“How I hate this silk dress that conceals a poet. Written in the mid 9th century by a brave woman poet. Even… — Yu Hsuan-Chi Copy Share Image
I know that in a poem, even when the speaker is speaking from the poet's experience, there's always something that's borrowed, some… — Tracy K. Smith Copy Share Image
Perfectly and imperfectly entwined. A Love beyond measure, a hell of circumstance; I smile, as I cry, loving you all the same.… — Eric Nickel Copy Share Image
A township where one primitive forest waves above while another primitive forestrots below,such a town is fitted to raise not only corn… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“Maple. Maypole Catch and carry. Ash and Ember. Elderberry. Woolen. Woman. Moon at night. Willow. Window. Candlelight. Fallow farrow. Ash and oak.… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
“And then there is the poet Kenneth Koch, who while travelling in Kenya came to a railroad crossing at which this sign… — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image
Listening to music and lyrics and watching movies, I think, uses a lot of the same muscles we use in reading and… — Tracy K. Smith Copy Share Image
If you're feeling pain, express that to the Lord. If you're feeling worried, express those worries. One passage that gives me comfort… — Max Lucado Copy Share Image
