“I suspect that the age of letters is waning, for our time. It is the age of Panama Canals, of Sandra Bernhardt,… — Henry James Copy Share Image
“The aim I have set before me in this book is to give back to English readers the understanding of and delight… — Janet Spens Copy Share Image
“Oh, Youth may listen patiently, While sad Experience tells her tale, But Doubt sits smiling in his eye, For ardent Hope will… — Anne Brontë Copy Share Image
“When people talk about poetry as a project, they suggest that the road through a poem is a single line. When really… — Dorothea Lasky Copy Share Image
Nobody, I think, ought to read poetry, or look at pictures or statues, who cannot find a great deal more in them… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
“Only Fact is Me (Sonnet 2655) I'm the impulse before the language, I'm the reason before the science, I'm the pulse before… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
'The Odyssey' is a great poem to refugee-dom... Odysseus is not entirely a refugee... he's somebody who's blown off course. The entire… — Lawrence Osborne Copy Share Image
[In response to Alfred Tennyson's poem "Vision of Sin," which included the line "Every moment dies a man, every moment one is… — Charles Babbage Copy Share Image
A statue of Apollo in a museum does not seem naked, but attach a tie to its neck and it will strike… — Yuri Lotman Copy Share Image
The poets aim is either to profit or to please, or to blend in one the delightful and the useful. Whatever the… — Horace Copy Share Image
Men propound mathematical theorems in besieged cities, conduct metaphysical arguments in condemned cells, make jokes on the scaffold, discuss a new poem… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Life is empty. Life is meaningless. When we take a life, we arn't taking anything of value. Wetboys are killers. Thats all… — Brent Weeks Copy Share Image
“Ô, Muse of the Heart’s Passion, let me relive my Love’s memory, to remember her body, so brave and so free, and… — Roman Payne Copy Share Image
Often as a poet I find that I am somewhat outside an experience I want to hold onto, consciously taking mental notes… — Natasha Trethewey Copy Share Image
I've learned to rely on the strength I inherited from all those who came before me-the grandmothers, sisters, aunts, and brothers who… — Oprah Winfrey Copy Share Image
“She hauls her desire from the anguish of thorns, whispering: sunlight abides in you. She is followed by the aroma of a… — Fatena Al-Gharra Copy Share Image
“If it falls to your lot to be a street sweeper, sweep streets like Michelangelo painted pictures, sweep streets like Beethoven composed… — Martin Luther King Jr Copy Share Image
Why do writers, say, give up a job in economics and decide to write poetry? Or, why do they give up a… — Vikram Seth Copy Share Image
“Where are you hiding my love? Each day without you will never come again. Even today you missed a sunset on the… — James Kavanaugh Copy Share Image
“When no one is looking, I swallow deserts and clouds and chew on mountains knowing they are sweet bones! When no one… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
My love for you runs so deep, It is hard for me to even sleep. Every time I see your eye, All… — Nit Copy Share Image
“In the world She once knew, the notion of "becoming" was tied to external markers. People expected her to find fulfilment in… — L. Rose Copy Share Image
“I have heard what poets write about women. They rhyme and rhapsodize and lie. I have watched old sailors on the shore… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
“Naive enough to set off in pursuit of Truth, I had explored - to no avail - any number of disciplines. I… — Cioran Copy Share Image
“The Faerie Queene was intended by its author to be a philosophical poem and was so regarded by his contemporaries and immediate… — Janet Spens Copy Share Image
“→ "He carries in his eyes a pearl; from the ends of days and from the winds he takes a spark; and… — Khaled Mattawa Copy Share Image
How much money you get, depends on lots of extraneous things. It depends on how good you are at turning poetry into… — Robert Bringhurst Copy Share Image
I think there is a great difference, in that when the poet is reading you get the whole personality of the person,… — James Laughlin Copy Share Image
“On the edge of a laughing teacup Did Kubla Kat decree The the corn fritter festooned with medals Shall make the brownies… — Francesco Marciuliano Copy Share Image
I worked with John Maybury on The Jacket and I think he's an extraordinary film-maker. I read the first drafts of this… — Keira Knightley Copy Share Image
“The Woman Poet // Die Dichterin You hold me now completely in your hands. My heart beats like a frightened little bird's… — Gertrud Kolmar Copy Share Image
Love. The world is so full of love. Love fills the sky. Love is spread all over the ground. Music is love… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“I love you for what you are Though your heart bears scars From life's harsh tempests I would not wish it unblemished… — Mark Caney Copy Share Image
God's poet is silence! His song is unspoken, And yet so profound, so loud, and so far, It fills you, it thrills… — Joaquin Miller Copy Share Image
“It’s found in a Bible verse: “And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your… — Barb Raveling Copy Share Image
“A statue of Arturo Prat, hero of the Chilean Navy, surveyed it all. From under his statue I look up onto those… — Brian Keenan Copy Share Image
So I realized when I was successful in a piece, it was because I didn't abandon a notion early on what it… — Andy Wilkinson Copy Share Image
I love painting and music, of course. I don't know nearly as much about them as I know about poetry. I've certainly… — Kenneth Koch Copy Share Image
“The thing I admire most about you is no matter how hard, or how much the world has tried to beat you,… — Nikita Gill Copy Share Image
“And yes, there is a hierarchy. There is a difference between painting a back fence and writing a poem, but only one… — Audre Lorde Copy Share Image
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