“Dreams! in their vivid coloring of life, As in that fleeting, shadowy, misty strife Of semblance with reality, which brings To the… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
“Baudelaire" When I fall asleep, and even during sleep, I hear, quite distinctly, voices speaking Whole phrases, commonplace and trivial, Having no… — Delmore Schwartz Copy Share Image
In pursuing certain virtues - colorful local effects, personae and personality, juxtaposition, close calls with nonsense, uncertainty, critiques of ordinary language -… — Stephen Burt Copy Share Image
My own emotional health issues were bullying me during the time I was drafting that poem. It was a pressure I couldn't… — Gregory Pardlo Copy Share Image
And treating poetry as a performing art emphasizes its ephemerality. A printed poem can be endlessly reprinted, photocopied, scanned, uploaded, cut and… — James Arthur Copy Share Image
The Astonishment Tapes will now take its place within the growing field of international research about postwar American poetry's important contribution to… — Peter Gizzi Copy Share Image
“LXXIX When I die, I want your hands on my eyes. I want the light and wheat of your beloved hands to… — Pablo Neruda Copy Share Image
“No Child of Yours I saw a child hide in the corner So I went and asked her name She was so… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“On Pleasure Pleasure is a freedom-song, But it is not freedom. It is the blossoming of your desires, But it is not… — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
“…We love each other like this!… On my bed all in white, So white and vaporous like the flower of innocence, Like… — Delmira Agustini Copy Share Image
“I am the girl who spends hours huddled in a corner of a library, trying to find what you love the most… — Nikita Gill Copy Share Image
“If you’re going to love a poet you should know this. Our words are our truths. Our blood hums with verse. We… — Jeanette LeBlanc Copy Share Image
“There is a LOT of bad news every day. The world seems to be getting more and more crazy. So every time… — Marcy Ferro Copy Share Image
“People create poetry and mustard gas. We invent gods and monsters and gods that might as well be monsters. We act with… — K.J. Charles Copy Share Image
“Then her face tilted up to his, and he was looking into her eyes again. He had heard of drowning in a… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
For example, an author whose parents fled a war but he himself was born in the country where they fled to, and… — Sasa Stanisic Copy Share Image
Men are rapists, batterers, plunderers, killers; these same men are religious prophets, poets, heroes, figures of romance, adventure, accomplishment, figures ennobled by… — Andrea Dworkin Copy Share Image
Mathematics is a form of poetry which transcends poetry in that it proclaims a truth; a form of reasoning which transcends reasoning… — Salomon Bochner Copy Share Image
Poetry can unleash a terrible fear. I suppose it is the fear of possibilities, too many possibilities, each with its own endless… — Jim Carroll Copy Share Image
It should be emphasized that the balagtasan also served a higher social and political function. More than mere entertainment, it enhanced the… — Virgilio S. Almario Copy Share Image
No poet or novelist wishes he were the only one who ever lived, but most of them wish they were the only… — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
The very idea of a bird is a symbol and a suggestion to the poet. A bird seems to be at the… — John Burroughs Copy Share Image
Entering into writing a poem is an emotional endeavor for me as well as a spiritual and creative one. Having to write… — Richard Blanco Copy Share Image
“Teach me to sing and recite, To whistle and jingle and strum. Teach me to color and paint, To sculpt and weave… — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
For me, fishing and journalism touched the same places in my head. In comparison with that of poets, the fly fishers' and… — Howell Raines Copy Share Image
Sometimes he would advise me to read poetry, and would send me in his letters quantities of verses and whole poems, which… — Peter Kropotkin Copy Share Image
Usually the poems are written in one sitting. There's always a groping towards some satisfying ending. But I'd say the hardest part… — Billy Collins Copy Share Image
Poetry is a kind of distilled insinuation. It's a way of expanding and talking around an idea or a question. Sometimes, more… — Yusef Komunyakaa Copy Share Image
Satire is, indeed, the only sort of composition in which the Latin poets whose works have come down to us were not… — Thomas B. Macaulay Copy Share Image
“After the war, Lee described Traveller in a letter:"Fine proportions, muscular figure, deep chest, short back, strong haunches, flat legs, small head,… — Clint Johnson Copy Share Image
“How should all the apparatus of heaven and earth, from the farthest firmament to the tender bosom of the mother who nourished… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“Plato has given to all posterity the model of a new art form, the model of the novel --which may be described… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The private reader of listener can become an executant of felt meaning when he learns the poem or the musical passage by… — George Steiner Copy Share Image
These things, she felt, were not to be passed around like disingenuous party favors. She kept an honor code with her journals… — Alice Sebold Copy Share Image
For more than thirty years, Joe Eck and Wayne Winterrowd have been gardening with extraordinary, indeed legendary, results. Part memoir, part omnium-gatherum… — Philip Gambone Copy Share Image
“To fill the days up of his dateless year Flame from Queen Helen to Queen Guenevere? For first of all the sphery… — Algernon Charles Swinburne Copy Share Image
“This ploughman dead in battle slept out of doors Many a frozen night, and merrily Answered staid drinkers, good bedmen, and all… — Edward Thomas Copy Share Image
“Promise me no promises, So will I not promise you: Keep we both our liberties, Never false and never true: Let us… — Christina Rossetti Copy Share Image
“In my tradition, God revealed Himself in words and lives in stories and, no, you cannot touch or even see Him. The… — Jonathan Rosen Copy Share Image
“The truth is: I did want to be my dad's poem. I wanted to be his drawing, his novella, his most refined… — Alysia Abbott Copy Share Image
