“In the small central square of Ljubljana, the statue of the poet stares fixedly at something. If you follow his gaze, you… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
“I could murder you with a poem, instead I’ll give birth to a galaxy of clones, and raise an army of poetic… — DeJuan Cuffee Copy Share Image
“Remove the Curtain of your Heart and see the Beloved sitting inside yourself. Close your Ears to the Outside and hear the… — Deborah Moggach Copy Share Image
When eyes sparked, beats were close to heart, and rain showered joy in path. When sky was blue, sorrow had no clue,… — Senoraroy Copy Share Image
What is a Poet? He is a man speaking to men: a man, it is true, endued with more lively sensibility, more… — William Wordsworth Copy Share Image
“In an enchanting encounter with the myriad books that I met in a cosy book shop today, I couldn't help but get… — Avijeet Das Copy Share Image
I find it strange that - at least in my take on it - the people who are the most alarmed about… — Billy Collins Copy Share Image
“THE SHADOWS Table of Contents Old Ralph Rinkelmann made his living by comic sketches, and all but lost it again by tragic… — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
“She needed this wedding—this perfect, minutely orchestrated wedding—to shout, This is who I am. To tell us all that she was not… — Joanna Rakoff Copy Share Image
The music community in Minneapolis is really incestuous so I've gotten the chance to work with a gang of people who have… — Nikki Jean Copy Share Image
'Memory.' 'Race.' 'Murder.' That's what they say about me. I am an elegiac poet. I have some historical questions, and I'm grappling… — Natasha Trethewey Copy Share Image
Don't be too harsh to these poems until they're typed. I always think typescript lends some sort of certainty: at least, if… — Dylan Thomas Copy Share Image
“These sermons of Jesus Christ are meant for your will and your conscience, not for your head. If you dispute these verses… — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
Being president is as difficult as writing the perfect poem. And being president is as effortless as writing the perfect poem. Always… — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image
“Once, probably, I used to think that vagueness was a loftier kind of poetry, truer to the depths of consciousness, and maybe… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
“I was missing you, but not for the person you were. I was missing you for the version of you I made… — Liz Newman Copy Share Image
At the beginning, there was no chance I'd get published so I thought I'd give it a go live. I had to… — John Cooper Clarke Copy Share Image
My grandmother was energetic and fearless - a talented poet and songwriter. She was also interested in chemistry and history and medicine,… — Salma Hayek Copy Share Image
You see Ive written like a million poems hoping that somehow maybe someway youll jump out of the page and be closer… — Rudy Francisco Copy Share Image
“White sheet of paper and the poet in me Got tempted as the thoughts from the heart started flowing, I scribbled “Presence… — Ramesh Sood Copy Share Image
I don't think I'd ever get any better as a poet if I didn't push myself, very deliberately, to grow. My best… — James Arthur Copy Share Image
The makers of fortunes have a second love of money as a creation of their own, resembling the affection of authors for… — Plato Copy Share Image
“I have not always been as now: The fever'd diadem on my brow I claim'd and won unsurprisingly- Hath not the same… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
“There's something narcissistic in the phrase "collected poems." Who's collecting them? The poem. How hard is that? That's not a real collection.… — Nicholson Baker Copy Share Image
“ The Laws Of God, The Laws Of Man The laws of God, the laws of man, He may keep that will… — A.E. Housman Copy Share Image
A comic writer should of all others be the least excused for deviating from nature, since it may not be always so… — Henry Fielding Copy Share Image
“Gannets I am watching the white gannets blaze down into the water with the power of blunt spears and a stunning accuracy--… — Mary Oliver Copy Share Image
“What is a poet? A poet is an unhappy being whose heart is torn by secret sufferings, but whose lips are so… — Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
He's not perfect. You aren't either, and the two of you will never be perfect. But if he can make you laugh… — Bob Marley Copy Share Image
“…[F]or the Lovers the place of worship Is the arch of the Beloved’s eyebrows. O Morning breeze, if you perchance Should find… — Amir Khusrow Dehlavi Copy Share Image
“Advice to a Young Poet Don’t spend yourself in the small copper coins of complaint and accusation. Don’t answer those in authority,… — Ondra Lysohorsky Copy Share Image
The Psalms are much more than poetry. Many of them bear the title, Maskil, or teaching psalm. They are thus intended to… — Ray Stedman Copy Share Image
“Poetry is jealous of you tonight, for as soon as I come to pen a few words, your perfume attacks me in… — Kamand Kojouri Copy Share Image
“Folks say I've never been quite right since - but they only say that because I'm a poet, and because nothing ever… — L.M. Montgomery Copy Share Image
In Matthew, chapter 6, verse 21, the scriptures teach us that where your treasure is, there will your heart be also. My… — Ted Strickland Copy Share Image
“There is also a fable told by Phaedrus, about how Simonides was once a victim of shipwreck. As the other passengers scurried… — Anne Carson Copy Share Image
“Even up until these final eons of time, we felt we could create anything. We could build ourselves a heaven. But why?… — Mark Z. Danielewski Copy Share Image
I have often said that I think children's books are like poetry. Finding the exact right words to tell a story is… — Rebecca Serle Copy Share Image
Instead of noting down things I’m unlikely to forget, I will write a poem. Even if I have never written one before… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
“I have seen it over and over, the same sea, the same, slightly, indifferently swinging above the stones, icily free above the… — Elizabeth Bishop Copy Share Image
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