“Hello," Life says, "Remember me? We started out together here When you were just a bundle Of innocent amazement. Remember how you… — Jacob Nordby Copy Share Image
As poetry is the highest speech of man, it can not only accept and contain, but in the end express best everything… — Conrad Aiken Copy Share Image
“Between two worlds life hovers like a star, 'Twixt night and morn, upon the horizon's verge. How little do we know that… — George Gordon Byron Copy Share Image
“Thinking has a quiet skin. But I feel the and of things inside it. Blue hills most gentle in calm light, then… — Laure Sheck Copy Share Image
A revolutionary poem will not tell you who or when to kill, what and when to burn, or even how to theorize.… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
I happen to believe that there are a lot of good poets around at present, but a poet like Alex Kuo, who… — Carolyn Kizer Copy Share Image
I don't know that I had a sense that there was such a thing as "the poetry world" in the 1960s and… — Robert Hass Copy Share Image
“It is true that biographical readings of the plays are dangerous, unregulated, prone to sentimentalization. It is absurd to cherry-pick passages of… — Charles Nicholl Copy Share Image
“The Final Poem A forge burns in my heart. I am redder than dawn, Deeper than seaweed, More distant than gulls, More… — Andrée Chedid Copy Share Image
“Any story told in this machine age must be a story of fragments, for fragments are all the world has left: interrupted… — Dexter Palmer Copy Share Image
I had no one to help me, but the T. S. Eliot helped me. So when people say that poetry is a… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
“Mr Rutger cornet de Groot. Never read any American poetry or any other foreign poetry, which is why he always mentions 2… — Martinus Hendrikus Benders Copy Share Image
“Poetry survives because it haunts and it haunts because it is simultaneously utterly clear and deeply mysterious; because it cannot be entirely… — Louise Glück Copy Share Image
When I first encountered the poems of Jon Woodward, I was stunned into the state that is my life's joy-I was in… — Mary Ruefle Copy Share Image
Poetry is that sentiment of the soul, or faculty of the mind, which enables its possessor to appreciate and realize the heights… — Orson F. Whitney Copy Share Image
People have a very limited idea of what being creative is - playing the guitar or the flute or writing poetry -… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
For the poet is a light winged and holy thing, and there is no invention in him until he has been inspired… — Plato Copy Share Image
External realities - worlds of politics, economics, law, war, interpersonal and social relations - are part of prose fiction. Fiction also includes… — Lawrence Joseph Copy Share Image
It is possible that scientists, poets, painters and writers are all members of the same family of people whose gift it is… — Gary Zukav Copy Share Image
“My hair smells of oceanic wind My eyes are two starfish The charming, turquoise sea is seducing me The rhythms of the… — Melody Lee Copy Share Image
You can be anything. You could be the President of the United States or the inventor of the next Internet or a… — Cameron Russell Copy Share Image
I joined the army on my seventeenth birthday, full of the romance of war after having read a lot of World War… — Walter Dean Myers Copy Share Image
“It is up-hill work to oppose our prejudices; we have a democracy, but freedom of speech is enjoyed only by the most… — Isocrates Copy Share Image
“Surely there can be but one rule of right, if morality has an eternal foundation, and whoever sacrifices virtue, strictly so called,… — Mary Wollstonecraft Copy Share Image
Hiroshima”, I find a few of the lines to be very poignant yet hopeful. These lines are: “But in Hiroshima, some people… — Sarah Kay Copy Share Image
“The distinctive features of the world's civilisations are not simply and solely the giraffe and the city of Rome, as the children… — Halldór Laxness Copy Share Image
Essayists, like poets, are born and not made, and for one worth remembering, the world is confronted with a hundred not worth… — William Ernest Henley Copy Share Image
In its use of words poetry is just the reverse of science. Very definite thoughts do occur, but not because the words… — David Daiches Copy Share Image
“Why did Baudelaire — why does anyone — write poetry, in the teeth of all the evidence that one wants you to… — Walter Martin Copy Share Image
“The heart contains passion but the imagination alone contains poetry,’ says Charles Baudelaire. This too was the lesson that Theophile Gautier, most… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
I'm not a poet, but I was in the poetry program. And I'm also not much of a nonfiction writer, at least… — John D'Agata Copy Share Image
“Writing consist of everything. whether your writing is of riddles, rimes, prose, trivial, general, of thought, or of feeling. indiscretions you've done… — Michael Stuckey Copy Share Image
“Whether they are poets, gardeners, fathers, priestesses, bank managers or a whole host of other ways of working in the world; the… — Sophie Cornish Copy Share Image
“The whole world goes on and on about love. Poets spend their lives writing about it. Everyone thinks it's the most wonderful… — Mark A. Roeder Copy Share Image
Mysteries do not lose their poetry when solved. Quite the contrary; the solution often turns out more beautiful than the puzzle and,… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“ Funeral Blues Stop all the clocks, cut off the telephone, Prevent the dog from barking with a juicy bone, Silence the… — W.H. Auden Copy Share Image
I recorded harp first or singing first. I recorded it all together. Part of the reason is that I don't know how… — Joanna Newsom Copy Share Image
Ireland is a land of poets and legends, of dreamers and rebels. All of these have music woven through and around them.… — Nora Roberts Copy Share Image
“Perhaps you have understood something of what I wished to have given you. That is, serenity, in every aspect of your work,… — Balasa Cantacuzinos Copy Share Image
“the phantom of the man-who-would-understand, the lost brother, the twin --- for him did we leave our mothers, deny our sisters, over… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
