“If I read inspirational words, they better have some pain to back them up. My strength for moving forward has never been… — Alfa H Copy Share Image
The critics could never mortify me out of heart - because I love poetry for its own sake, - and, tho' with… — Elizabeth Barrett Browning Copy Share Image
“He said he'd hurt himself against a wall or had fallen down. But there was probably some other reason for the wounded,… — C.P. Cavafy Copy Share Image
“Casy said, "It'll be a short one." He bowed his head, and the others followed his lead. Casy said solemnly, "This here… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“I told you in the course of this paper that Shakespeare had a sister; but do not look for her in Sir… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“We thought everything would be forgotten, but I still remember your claws running down my back. I wonder if you still think… — Zaeema J. Hussain Copy Share Image
“What do I care, in the dreams and the languor of spring, That my songs do not show me at all? For… — Sara Teasdale Copy Share Image
You're a poem?' I repeated. She chewed her lower lip. 'If you want. I am a poem, or I am a pattern,… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
a. Critics: people who make monuments out of books. b. Biographers: people who make books out of monuments. c. Poets: people who… — Cynthia Ozick Copy Share Image
“You cannot devote your life to an abstraction. Indeed, life shatters all abstractions in one way or another, including words such as… — Christian Wiman Copy Share Image
“How can the poem and the stink and the grating noise - the quality of light, the tone, the habit and the… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“Accordingly, since a good nature and the Holy Spirit were joined, he had to become a distinguished poet, and there is no… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
“ Poetry And it was at that age... Poetry arrived in search of me. I don’t know, I don’t know where it… — Pablo Neruda Copy Share Image
And we may be led, then, upward through more Powerful forms of poetry, past columns With peeling posters on them, to the… — John Ashbery Copy Share Image
My friends tell me that I am an intruder, that I don't really write when I attempt poetry. But those of my… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
“When I thought of archives-documents stored and studied-I though of poets, writers, politicians, scientists. But why shouldn't the archives of the eaters… — Robin Sloan Copy Share Image
“Your true soul and body appear before me. Whoever you are, now I place my hand upon you, that you be my… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
“Before you were born, And were still too tiny for The human eye to see, You won the race for life From… — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image
“There are moments in every relationship that define when two people start to fall in love. A first glance A first smile… — Colleen Hoover Copy Share Image
I remember films I made at university, which are unbelievably pretentious. Poetry that I'd written that I delivered to camera, against a… — Julian Barratt Copy Share Image
“Tanto gentile e tanto onesta pare la donna mia,” he whispered, the words from Dante’s La Vita Nuova flooding from his lips.… — J.M. Darhower Copy Share Image
“No matter how busy we may believe we are, we have the wonderful opportunity presently of investing time with loved ones. For… — Tom Althouse Copy Share Image
My all time favourite films - one is 'Mary Poppins,' and the other one is 'Pakeezah.' 'Pakeezah' was an Indian film. The… — Art Malik Copy Share Image
“i love good cries, loud sobs that soak your pillow that kind that come at the end of a perfect book you're… — Madisen Kuhn Copy Share Image
“Your brokenness will strengthen you. Every fiber of you! It doesn’t seem so, especially in the currents of being ripped apart, but… — Melody Lee Copy Share Image
“When by me in the dusk my child sits down I am myself. Simon, if it’s that loose, let me wiggle it… — John Berryman Copy Share Image
Even if you walk exactly the same route each time - as with a sonnet - the events along the route cannot… — A. R. Ammons Copy Share Image
By poetry we mean the art of employing of words in such a manner as to produce an illusion on the imagination;… — Thomas B. Macaulay Copy Share Image
Art and poetry cannot do without one another. Yet the two words are far from being synonymous. By Art I mean the… — Jacques Maritain Copy Share Image
I am grown old, and have possibly lost a great deal of that fire, which formerly made me love fire in others… — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
“I spent hours yesterday talking of little but medical symptoms and insane asylums. And you listened as though it were poetry and… — Loretta Chase Copy Share Image
Poetry fills clubs, halls and venues. Poets and poems can talk to the deepest feelings and to the silliest. It can be… — Michael Rosen Copy Share Image
“Some take pains to be biblical, but many [Christian financial teachers, writers, investment counselors, and seminar leaders] simply parrot their secular colleagues.… — Randy Alcorn Copy Share Image
I used to hide my real emotions in gobbledegook, like in In His Own Write. When I wrote teenage poems, I wrote… — John Lennon Copy Share Image
Reading [poetry], you know, is rather like opening the door to a horde of rebels who swarm out attacking one in twenty… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
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In the mind of all, fiction, in the logical sense, has been the coin of necessity;—in that of poets of amusement—in that… — Jeremy Bentham Copy Share Image
You run into people who want to write poetry who don't want to read anything in the tradition. That's like wanting to… — Gary Snyder Copy Share Image
Cultural criticism finds itself faced with the final stage of the dialectic of culture and barbarism. To write poetry after Auschwitz is… — Theodor Adorno Copy Share Image
“He had been searching for it his entire life. He had devoted himself to poetry to find it. Now, in the middle… — Roman Payne Copy Share Image
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