“we want it visible to show when even the most visible joy will reveal itself only when we have transformed it within.… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
There are dozens of young poets and fictioneers most of them a little insane in the tradition of James Joyce, who, however… — Sinclair Lewis Copy Share Image
The aim of science is to make difficult things understandable in a simpler way; the aim of poetry is to state simple… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The day arrived,when myriad teary rivers flow and the muted wind faintly died in his tears—an altar for the beloved one's departure,for… — Nithin Purple Copy Share Image
I'm proud to say I'm the only Slaughterhouse member who has not rewritten a verse yet, and that's the ongoing joke in… — Joe Budden Copy Share Image
Often you've read another poem that you think is so beautiful that you'd like to make something like that. And so you… — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
“(I pull the second to last item out of my bag. Her purple hair clip. She told me once how much it… — Colleen Hoover Copy Share Image
“In the Bible, God uses several different types of writing to convey his truth. There are narratives (often with commentary), preaching and… — J Stafford Wright Copy Share Image
I wanted a perfect ending. Now I've learned, the hard way, that some poems don't rhyme, and some stories don't have a… — Gilda Radner Copy Share Image
“1 Cain lifts Crow, that heavy black bird and strikes down Abel. Damn, says Crow, I guess this is just the beginning.… — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
To my sweetheart, My love for you is like a clear sky after a cloudy morning, the dew in the dawn, as… — Ash Sweeney Copy Share Image
It was not the purpose of poetry to record anything and everything, to merely describe either the outer world or some subjective… — Kathleen Raine Copy Share Image
“Consider, for example, how the following verse (4:34) regarding the obligations of men toward women has been rendered into English by two… — Reza Aslan Copy Share Image
“Larinas – profesorius, kuris moka lietuvių kalbą, o Šišova – poetė, kuri kiaurai pažįsta Cvirkiuką ir girdi, kaip skleidžiasi gėlelė. (Larinas is… — Petras Cvirka Copy Share Image
With mimicry, with praises, with echoes, or with answers, the poets have all but outsung the bell. The inarticulate bell has found… — Alice Meynell Copy Share Image
A poem I write is not just about me; it is about national identity, not just regional but national, the history of… — Natasha Trethewey Copy Share Image
Rather, the collapsing between act and condition, "I am" with "I do," feels like authenticity, an authenticity of being. The muse rewarded… — Shirley Geok-lin Lim Copy Share Image
“Then they were all standing and applauding, yeah, they were giving him a fucking standing O, and in their faces he saw… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Poetry is a tree with very deep roots and while there may be excitement about this or that new little branch, you're… — Joan Larkin Copy Share Image
Criticism is infested with the cant of materialism, which assumes that manual skill and activity is the first merit of all men,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“On that day the goosebumps on our skin will read the braille of glory in God's presence. Slander and persecution will remember… — Preston Perry Copy Share Image
“Logograms pose a more difficult question. An increasing number of persons and institutions, from archy and mehitabel to PostScript and TrueType, come… — Robert Bringhurst Copy Share Image
“Girl in the wind blowing wide open the closed doors of my life - which way are we going? Standing against the… — Christy Brown Copy Share Image
In America, a metrical poem is likely to conjure up the idea of the sort of poet who wears ties and lunches… — Joseph Brodsky Copy Share Image
I think there are things in my story that have helped my creativity. Your father being killed, for instance, is one of… — Roger Waters Copy Share Image
“A swift rhythm is played out by my hands, a cadence known only to those who have strung tobacco. To many, the… — Brenda Sutton Rose Copy Share Image
“He reaches for his pen. He yawns and puts it down and picks it up again. I shall be found dead at… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
Poetry is perhaps the oldest art form. We can go back to an age-old idea of naming things, the Adamic impulse -… — Nick Laird Copy Share Image
Film relates to almost every other form of expression, but poetry is a bit abstract in its strength and sometimes even the… — Jim Jarmusch Copy Share Image
I went from one to the other holding my sorrow - no, not my sorrow but the incomprehensible nature of this our… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
At four lines, with the quatrain, we reach the basic stanza form familiar from a whole range of English poetic practice. This… — James Fenton Copy Share Image
“Heav'n from all creatures hides the book of Fate, All but the page prescrib'd, their present state; From brutes what men, from… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
The medium of poetry is not words, the medium of poetry is not lines-it is the motion of air inside the human… — Robert Pinsky Copy Share Image
“The life of a poet lies not merely in the finite language-dance of expression but in the nearly infinite combinations of perception… — Dan Simmons Copy Share Image
“Very early on, near the beginning of my writing life, I came to believe that I had to seize on some object… — Zbigniew Herbert Copy Share Image
“do you want to know how to seduce the night? this is not a poem about the stars or the moon because… — Christopher Poindexter Copy Share Image
“Poetry is the perpetual endeavor to express the spirit of the thing, to pass the brute body and search the life and… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“And there are plays – and books and songs and poems and dances – that are perhaps upsetting or intricate or unusual,… — David Mamet Copy Share Image
TV news is as bloody as Shakespeare but without the intelligence and the poetry. If you watch television news you know less… — Garrison Keillor Copy Share Image
“Socrates: “The corruption of the best things are the worst things.” Or, “The best, when corrupted, become the worst.” As one of… — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
