“I dreamt that Earth was finished. And the only human being to contemplate the end was Franz Kafka. In heaven, the Titans… — Roberto Bolaño Copy Share Image
“I just can't help thinking what a real shake up it would give people if, all of a sudden, there were no… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
I'm educating myself more about world poetry. I know a lot about contemporary American poetry, so I felt I needed to learn… — Allison Joseph Copy Share Image
“the difference between poets and mystics . . . The mystic nails a symbol to one meaning that was true for a… — Neal Stephenson Copy Share Image
“How I used to love the dark, sad evenings of late autumn and winter, how eagerly I imbibed their moods of loneliness… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“How can I live without thee, how forego Thy sweet converse, and love so dearly joined, To live again in these wild… — John Milton Copy Share Image
“I've got this." Apollo stepped forward. His fiery armor was so bright it was hard to look at, and his matching Ray-Bans… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
“The poet and poetess have always had a rough time of it in the Republic. It has ever been their endemic luck… — Guy Davenport Copy Share Image
“Darkness my beloved home, I return! I return, not whole, but damaged. Fatigued by quixotic tendencies, The prodigal has come back famished.… — Zubair Ahsan Copy Share Image
But remember, boy, that a kind act can sometimes be as powerful as a sword. As a mortal, I was never a… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
“Great courage was required to engage in such an adventure. But George was in love and Freeheart was faithful. And as the… — Anatole France Copy Share Image
If I was a poet, I had become one because poetry, more intensely than any other practice, could not evade its anachronism… — Ben Lerner Copy Share Image
“…I went away from your side, in love without knowing it. Now I don’t know how your eyes look, nor your hands,… — Federico García Lorca Copy Share Image
It was difficult being a teacher and out of the closet in the '50s. By the time I retired, the English department… — Thom Gunn Copy Share Image
I want to be one of those people, be they writers, poets, musicians, who leaves clues for the next generation. The really… — Julian Casablancas Copy Share Image
“Surprised by joy—impatient as the Wind I turned to share the transport—Oh! with whom But thee, deep buried in the silent tomb,… — William Wordsworth Copy Share Image
Even if great poetry continues to be written, it has retreated from the center of literary life. Though supported by a loyal… — Dana Gioia Copy Share Image
No doubt, the poetry, overjoyed by swallowing the beverage of passionate thoughts, delights the mind. But she does not realize the sorrows… — Manmohan Acharya Copy Share Image
I started off in England and very few people knew I was Australian. I mean, the clues were in the poems, but… — Peter Porter Copy Share Image
“ Ego Tripping I was born in the congo I walked to the fertile crescent and built the sphinx I designed a… — Nikki Giovanni Copy Share Image
“December is a bewitching month. The grey of cold teases to explode into something worthwhile, into a dream of cold, a starlight… — Joseph Coelho Copy Share Image
For the crown of our life as it closes Is darkness, the fruit thereof dust; No thorns go as deep as a… — Algernon Charles Swinburne Copy Share Image
“Sometimes I Do In your light I learn how to love. In your beauty, how to make poems. You dance inside my… — Rumi Copy Share Image
The idea of a pseudonym had been flitting around my brain for a long time, along with its cognate, disappearance. In the… — Michael Redhill Copy Share Image
I'm coming from journalism, but at the same time I'm tempted by poetry, politics, and maybe the idea of being a witness,… — Raymond Depardon Copy Share Image
“Submissive Mind (Phil. 2). This chapter focuses on people, and the key verse says, “Let nothing be done through strife or vainglory;… — Warren W. Wiersbe Copy Share Image
“so sing, you birds for the fever is about to rise and the empty stalemate is over let the colors bleed back… — K.R. Albers Copy Share Image
When a reader enters the pages of a book of poetry, he or she enters a world where dreams transform the past… — Aberjhani Copy Share Image
“Here's another poem, like all others before and after, dedicated to you. There isn't anything left to be said but I will… — Kamand Kojouri Copy Share Image
I think the connection between poetry and theology, which is profound in Western tradition - there is a great deal of wonderful… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
I don't think writers are sacred, but words are. They deserve respect. If you get the right ones in the right order,… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
“We are carrying contraband words with us, memorized, tucked away in tattered journals and stored magically on disks in Anna's left pocket.… — Ivan E. Coyote Copy Share Image
I wanted to be a poet. I had a really romantic idea about what that would mean. My parents knew some poets,… — Lena Dunham Copy Share Image
Because I love narrative but am more lyrically inclined, I've learned that if I freight titles with narrative information (the who, what,… — Anna Journey Copy Share Image
Creativity is contagious. And so is banality. Criticism is an art in itself. Don’t let the dullness around destroy the creativity within.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“So what? We’re supposed to whip Titus? Kill him? That would be Law.” “Would it? Or would it just be vengeance?” “You’re… — Pierce Brown Copy Share Image
“More than that, the iPod became the essence of everything Apple was destined to be: poetry connected to engineering, arts and creativity… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
“ Jeremy Bentham startled the world many years ago by stating in effect that if the amount of pleasure obtained from each… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
The general ideas which are expressed in sketches, correspond very well to the art often used in poetry... every reader making out… — Joshua Reynolds Copy Share Image
“As a romantic ideal, turbulent, impoverished India could still weave its spell, and the key to it all - the colours, the… — Alexander Frater Copy Share Image