“She offers me a bull’s-eye sweet, which she’s stashed in her apron pocket with a half-dozen half-smoked Afton butts—a mix of flavors… — Christina Baker Kline Copy Share Image
“A poet or philosopher should have no fault to find with his age if it only permits him to do his work… — Arthur Schopenhaur Copy Share Image
“When books go out into the world, they take on a life. Sometimes that life is a quiet and dusty one, waiting… — Frances Mayes Copy Share Image
“I didn't trust it for a moment but I drank it anyway, the wine of my own poetry. It gave me the… — Lala 14th Century Persian Poet Copy Share Image
“Would you like some warm Spring pie? Then, take a cup of clear blue sky. Stir in buzzes from a bee, Add… — Paul Kortepeter Copy Share Image
In Irena’s head the alcohol plays a double role: it frees her fantasy, encourages her boldness, makes her sensual, and at the… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
He is the straight to video sequel to your summer hit movie. He is the verse to that song on the radio… — Pete Wentz Copy Share Image
“Which the Chicken and Which the Egg? He drinks because she scolds, he thinks; She thinks she scolds because he drinks; And… — Ogden Nash Copy Share Image
Written in support of abolishing the Corn Laws, it became Elliott's most famous poem. The Peoples Anthem When wilt thou save the… — Ebenezer Elliott Copy Share Image
I try to presume that no one is interested in me. And I think experience bears that out. No one's interested in… — Billy Collins Copy Share Image
“I will forever walk alone in a world overflowing with those that will never understand my meaning of “Learning to See” I’m… — Michael Jones Copy Share Image
People need what they think of as a poem to be read at their bar mitzvah, their wedding, a funeral, whatever. And… — Joan Larkin Copy Share Image
The difference between prose logic and poetic thought is simple. The logician uses words as a builder uses bricks, for the unemotional… — Robert Graves Copy Share Image
You’re trying to take something that can be described in many, many sentences and pages of prose, but you can convert it… — Satya Nadella Copy Share Image
the true art of the gods is the comic. The comic is a condescension of the divine to the world of man;… — Isak Dinesen Copy Share Image
I think vampires have gotten maybe a little bit silly in the last years where they're all wearing crushed velvet and reading… — Josh Hartnett Copy Share Image
“What is the world? What is it for? It is an art. It is the best of all possible art, a finite… — N. D. Wilson Copy Share Image
Emily Dickinson calls previous poets her kinsmen of the shelf. You can always be consoled by your kinsmen of the shelf and… — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
“Old Man River! That seems far too austere a name For something made of mirth and rage. O, roiling red-blood river vein,… — Tracy J. Butler Copy Share Image
“Song of myself A child said What is the grass? fetching it to me with full hands; How could I answer the… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
“I want to ask you, as clearly as I can, to bear with patience all that is unresolved in your heart, and… — Anita Barrows Copy Share Image
“By becoming poets of physical and mental height, we can create new values and build new forms of life, defying the tyranny… — Erik Pevernagie Copy Share Image
Love seems to beautify and inspire all nature. It raises the earthly caterpillar into the ethereal butterfly, it paints the feathers in… — John Lubbock Copy Share Image
“Lyric poets are always corrupting the young, making them choke in self-pity and indulge in reverie. Dirty sex and direspect for authority… — Charles Simic Copy Share Image
“Cut off from the land that bore us, Betrayed by the land we find, Where the brightest have gone before us, And… — Capt. Bartholomew Dowling Copy Share Image
“The poet doesn’t know what the poem, finally, will be “about” when he uses the word’s etymology as a starting point before… — Natasha Sajé Copy Share Image
“Shall I speak of the consequence One, that your attention causes? Words you utter keep me stunned, My heart stops up at… — Zubair Ahsan Copy Share Image
“Be silent and safe — silence never betrays you; Be true to your word and your work and your friend; Put least… — John Boyle O'Reilly Copy Share Image
One of the things I've always thought is that if I were to write a poetics, it would have to do with… — Martha Ronk Copy Share Image
... imaginary gardens with real toads in them ... ... if you demand on one hand, the raw material of poetry in… — Marianne Moore Copy Share Image
“The poet who sees himself as a hero or a prophet, or a priest of the socio-political forces to which he is… — Michael D. O'Brien Copy Share Image
No man was ever yet a great poet, without being at the same time a profound philosopher. For poetry is the blossom… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
“An editorial in the Los Angeles Times [1923] wistfully asked, 'Will eating chestnuts by crackling log fires become one of the lost… — Susan Freinkel Copy Share Image
Most songwriting like poetry takes a careful selection of words. Sometimes you're just channeling something and a selection of words come out… — Vance Joy Copy Share Image
“To a Familiar Genius Flying By Reveal yourself, anonymous enchanter! What heaven hastens you to me? Why draw me to that promised… — Vasily Zhukovsky Copy Share Image
“Then may I ask you to swear by whatever gods or saints your religion involves that you will not reveal what I… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
The mysterious thing about writing poetry is that when you're - when things are going poorly, when you're not thinking well, even… — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
'Ageism,' or whatever you want to call it, is a very English phenomenon. You don't get it too much in many other… — Paul Weller Copy Share Image
“Sticks and stones will break my bones but names will never hurt me.” This is a lie. What we say matters. The… — Jason Versey Copy Share Image
“I Worried" I worried a lot. Will the garden grow, will the rivers flow in the right direction, will the earth turn… — Mary Oliver Copy Share Image
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