“I work all day, and get half-drunk at night. Waking at four to soundless dark, I stare. In time the curtain-edges will… — Philip Larkin Copy Share Image
“I would lie for hours by the window gazing down upon the black lake and up at the mountains silhouetted against the… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
People have explored these questions ['Why am I here?', 'What is life about?'] in poems, not that they found their answers, but… — Gwee Li Sui Copy Share Image
I think we will always have the impulse towards visual poetry with us, and I wouldn't agree with Bly that it's a… — James Laughlin Copy Share Image
“darkness falls upon Humanity and faces become terrible things that wanted more than there was. all our days are marked with unexpected… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
The religion of the short poem, in every age and in every literature, has a single commandment: Less is always more. The… — Charles Simic Copy Share Image
“You ask if I will write a poem I could, I suppose write the most splendiferous one of all but not right… — Sanober Khan Copy Share Image
To write poetry is to be very alone, but you always have the company of your influences. But you also have the… — Billy Collins Copy Share Image
Also, I liked John Cage's music. I liked it for its craziness, the use of silence, the boldness-anything to get me away… — Kenneth Koch Copy Share Image
“I know metal. I... I don't understand half of what goes on around me. I don't get jokes or sunsets or poetry,… — Leigh Bardugo Copy Share Image
I've lived in a preindustrial (rural Argentina) as well as an industrial world. You experience a different sense of time in a… — Shoshana Zuboff Copy Share Image
“Perfection" Every oak will lose a leaf to the wind. Every star-thistle has a thorn. Every flower has a blemish. Every wave… — R.H. Peat Copy Share Image
On the one hand, I have wanted to supply documentation on myself by including material relevant to my emotions and ideas in… — Edmund Wilson Copy Share Image
The best poems take long journeys. I like poetry best that journeys--while remaining in the human scale--to the other world, which may… — Robert Bly Copy Share Image
End rhymes are not enough. Every word-sound in a poem should find an echo in another, neighbouring word's sound to achieve what… — Anne Stevens Copy Share Image
“But other scenes pay off, including a heart-clutching moment when an infected Felix, riding the subway, spots a man who is sicker… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
For all the years I'd spent talking about pictures, the truth was that I had no idea how to draw or what… — Adam Gopnik Copy Share Image
And still it is not enough to have memories. One must be able to forget them when they are many, and one… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
“Read for yourselves, read for the sake of your inspiration, for the sweet turmoil in your lovely head. But also read against… — Adam Zagajewski Copy Share Image
“It’s stranger than every strangeness And the dreams of all the poets And the thoughts of all the philosophers, That things are… — Alberto Caeiro Copy Share Image
“Poetry and Philosophy (The Sonnet) Good poetry is but philosophy, Good philosophy is but poetry. It is only the majority amateurs, Who… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“If this turns to friendship, it only means That one of us will suffer. That when we meet after the worst of… — Cyril Wong Copy Share Image
"The Dream of a Common Language" by Adrienne Rich. I carried it the entire hike. On my first night, when I felt… — Cheryl Strayed Copy Share Image
“THE METAPHYSICAL POETS Had we but world enough, and time, This coyness, lady, were no crime (Andrew Marvell, To His Coy Mistress)… — Ronald Carter Copy Share Image
My dream is that people will find a way back home, into their bodies, to connect with the earth, to connect with… — Eve Ensler Copy Share Image
“The lunatic, the lover, and the poet Are of imagination all compact: One sees more devils than vast hell can hold, That… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
“Oh Susie, I often think that I will try to tell you how very dear you are, and how I'm watching for… — Emily Dickinson Copy Share Image
The birth of a true poet is neither an insignificant event nor an easy delivery. Complications generally begin long before the fated… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Still In the fall, I believe again in poetry if nothing else it is a movement of the mind. Summers ball together… — Jaakko A. Ahokas Copy Share Image
The true men of action in our time those who transform the world are not the politicians and statesmen but the scientists.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The Bible is not just one book, but an entire library, with stories, songs, poetry, letters and history, as well as literature… — John Drane Copy Share Image
“Darwin, landing in Brazil in 1832, had a similar reaction, colored by his reading of his predecessor." Humboldt's glorious descriptions are &… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
“One of the things I tell the writers with whom I work is, man, when you finish a draft of a poem,… — Andre Dubus III Copy Share Image
“It is the poets, artists, and musicians that will carry us through the pandemic attacks into a new reality. They are the… — Erik Pevernagie Copy Share Image
“The best work in literature is always done by those who do not depend upon it for their daily bread, and the… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
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Poetry may make us from time to time a little more aware of the deeper, unnamed feelings which form the substratum of… — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
I play guitar; you'll find me at home strumming 'Vincent' on the guitar. I also read a lot of poetry, and Shakespeare… — Dave Legeno Copy Share Image
I think many people (like myself) prefer to read poetry mixed with prose; it gives you more to go by; the conventions… — William Empson Copy Share Image
Poetry can add its grain to an accumulation of consciousness against the idea that there is no alternative - that we're just… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
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