“Our story is not only about exile and oppression and suffering. It is the story of thriving, of triumph, and of great… — Daniella Levy Copy Share Image
“The hidden well-spring of your soul must needs rise and run murmuring to the sea; And the treasure of your infinite depths… — Kahlil Gibran Copy Share Image
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“I define influence simply as literary love, tempered by defense. The defenses vary from poet to poet. But the overwhelming presence of… — Harold Bloom Copy Share Image
“Long ago, while journeying in the east, the man had a poem sent to his friends at home: Though we are as… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Women are not as sentimental as men, and are not so easily touched with the unspoken poetry of nature, being less poetical,… — Charles Dudley Warner Copy Share Image
As a guiding principle I believe that every poem must be its own sole freshly created universe, and therefore have no belief… — Philip Larkin Copy Share Image
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Your love is like the wind, whenever it blows it over-takes me. Caressing my heart with your hot burning compassionate love that… — Telisa McLaughlin Copy Share Image
Ignorance is in relationship to content; it is not just a spirit of ignorance. In verse 21 it speaks of "the truth… — Francis Schaeffer Copy Share Image
What makes authentic disciples is not visions, ecstasies, biblical mastery of chapter and verse, or spectacular success in the ministry, but a… — Brennan Manning Copy Share Image
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Writing for me is an ongoing practice of facing and countering fears. And so, in that sense, I have always been responding… — Jenny Johnson Copy Share Image
LEONINE, adj. Unlike a menagerie lion. Leonine verses are those in which a word in the middle of a line rhymes with… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
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The poet's discourse can be compared to the track of a charged particle through a cloud-chamber. An energised field of association and… — George Steiner Copy Share Image
“Duroy, who felt light hearted that evening, said with a smile: "You are gloomy to-day, dear master." The poet replied: "I am… — Guy de Maupassant Copy Share Image
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We read Charlotte Bronte not for exquisite observation of character, not for comedy, not for a philosophic view of life, but for… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
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I can't tell you where a poem comes from, what it is, or what it is for: nor can any other man.… — A. R. Ammons Copy Share Image
She sings the songs without words Songs that sailors, and blind men, and beggars have heard She knows more of love than… — Harry Chapin Copy Share Image
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Lots of the time, we just think of the Bible as history or life lessons or poetry or - unfortunately - a… — Jennifer Rothschild Copy Share Image
It is surprising to see what superficial, inconsequential reasonings satisfy the most part of mankind. A piece of wit, a jest, a… — John Arbuthnot Copy Share Image
I want to gesture toward a poetry of ourselves and others under the conditions of twenty-first-century absolutism, making us dimensional in a… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
“Poetry is mother-tongue of the human race; as gardening is older than agriculture; painting than writing; song than declamation; parables,—than deductions; barter,—than… — Johann Georg Hamann Copy Share Image
Engineering, like poetry, is an attempt to approach perfection. And engineers, like poets, are seldom completely satisfied with their creations. They notice,… — Henry Petroski Copy Share Image
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