“I knew he was the one when he mended my wings and looked forward to where they would take me. Embrace those… — Melody Lee Copy Share Image
“I like for you to be still: it is as though you are absent distant and full of sorrow as though you… — Pablo Neruda Copy Share Image
It is interesting to note that poetry, a literary device whose very construct involves the use of words, is itself the word… — Vanna Bonta Copy Share Image
We thought: we're poor, we have nothing, but when we started losing one after the other so each day became remembrance day,… — Anna Akhmatova Copy Share Image
“ Endymion The rising moon has hid the stars; Her level rays, like golden bars, Lie on the landscape green, With shadows… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
As poet laureate, I was asked to be a spokesman for literature. Then what I decided is I am a spokesman for… — Robert Hass Copy Share Image
“Sad Songs Once there was a boy who couldn't speak but owned a music box that held every song in all the… — Lang Leav Copy Share Image
“A species in which everyone was General Patton would not succeed, any more than would a race in which everyone was Vincent… — Susan Cain Copy Share Image
A great poet has seldom sung of lawfully wedded happiness, but of free and secret love; and in this respect, too the… — Ellen Key Copy Share Image
Candle lamp says to the firefly go away. Otherwise like me you will get burn, dont come near me! The firefly didn't… — Glen Rambharack Copy Share Image
“We say that the body is a temple, because we know that it’s nothing but mortal architecture without the self-regard of consciousness… — Valerie Jeremijenko Copy Share Image
The best thing about conceptual poetry is that it doesn’t need to be read. You don’t have to read it. As a… — Kenneth Goldsmith Copy Share Image
I would hardly change the sorrowful words of the poets for their glad ones. Tears dampen the strings of the lyre, but… — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
In an age when nations and individuals routinely exchange murder for murder, when the healing grace of authentic spirituality is usurped by… — Aberjhani Copy Share Image
“When the heart stops oozing blood & the outpouring is clear as water (so to speak) then you know you've turned the… — Grace Butcher Copy Share Image
No matter that I have inhibitions enough to fill all my pockets; I keep trying , hoping that one day I'll write… — Sarah Copy Share Image
There is an urgent need for Americans to look deeply into themselves and their actions, and musical poetry is perhaps the most… — Phil Ochs Copy Share Image
“The poem or the discovery exists in two moments of vision: the moment of appreciation as much as that of creation; for… — Jacob Bronowski Copy Share Image
That is why I love you. Youre like the sea. A temptation. An overwhelming feeling that pulls me in, just to feel… — Ali Bassam Copy Share Image
“Only if I knew that knowing it would bring a burden I could seldom carry and ferry among those I know, only… — Alok Mishra Copy Share Image
“When I composed those verses I was preoccupied less with music than with an experience—an experience in which that beautiful musical allegory… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
The cliché is dead poetry. English, being the language of an imaginative race, abounds in clichés, so that English literature is always… — Gerald Brenan Copy Share Image
“Though nothing can bring back the hour Of splendor in the grass, of glory in the flower; We will grieve not, rather… — William Wordsworth Copy Share Image
“The Vedas say, "All intelligences awake with the morning." Poetry and art, and the fairest and most memorable of the actions of… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“Look back with longing eyes and know that I will follow, Lift me up in your love as a light wind lifts… — Sara Teasdale Copy Share Image
I'd been in a couple situations where I'd seen bands realize that they didn't have to get a good take in order… — J. Robbins Copy Share Image
“There's no need to fear the oblivion after we're gone if we never cared about the oblivion that came before we were… — Tom Jokinen Copy Share Image
“When did we revert back to sticks and shields, Uniform uniforms, stylized agenda reveals, Hiding behind glass with nods to our reflection,… — Ross Caligiuri Copy Share Image
“Thoughts are such fleet magic things. Betsy's thoughts swept a wide arc while Uncle Keith read her poem aloud. She thought of… — Maud Hart Lovelace Copy Share Image
Even the greatest poets, I think, cannot quite get to the places that music can get to in the human - I… — Hugh Laurie Copy Share Image
“I loved them in the way one loves at any age — if it’s real at all — obsessively, painfully, with wild… — May Sarton Copy Share Image
The main thing for me is to consider sport at an equal level as you would consider mathematics or poetry at school.… — Vincent Kompany Copy Share Image
I was never a very popular one I once had dreams of becoming a beautiful poet. But a plan and a series… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In the circle where I was raised, I knew of no one knowledgeable in the visual arts, no one who regularly attended… — Shirley Hazzard Copy Share Image
June Jordan, who died of cancer in 2002, was a brilliant, fierce, radical, and frequently furious poet. We were friends for thirty… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
other artists - poets, painters, sculptors, musicians - produce something which lives after them and enshrines their memories in positive evidences of… — Charlotte Saunders Cushman Copy Share Image
“A taciturn writer, for instance, might produce only one short poem every ten years, which is unlikely to annoy anyone, whereas someone… — Lemony Snicket Copy Share Image
I was intentionally curbing the impulse to be funny and hiding the ability. I wrote any number of very serious attempts at… — Patrick deWitt Copy Share Image
The cloning of humans is on most of the lists of things to worry about from Science, along with behaviour control, genetic… — Lewis Thomas Copy Share Image
I hope you all find yourselves sleeping with someone you love, maybe not all of the time, but a lot of the… — Eileen Myles Copy Share Image
