“History deals with situations and figures not imaginary but real. It demands therefore a combination of qualities unnecessary to the poet or… — Norman Douglas Copy Share Image
“Ode to the Snuff Box This is a Gaelic poem in praise of a snuff box that was originally printed in 1780… — Michael Newton Copy Share Image
Poetry deserves the honor it obtains as the eldest offspring of literature, and the fairest. It is the fruitfulness of many plants… — Robert Aris Willmott Copy Share Image
It is a mistake to talk about the artist looking for his subject. In fact, the subject grows within him like a… — Andrei Tarkovsky Copy Share Image
“But no one ever explains how it's the little choices that send your life careening in another direction, like deciding to send… — Julie Gittus Copy Share Image
She breathed deeply of the scent of decaying fiction, disintegrating history, and forgotten verse, and she observed for the first time that… — Joe Hill Copy Share Image
Humans have a saying that "Beauty is in the eye of the beholder", which basically means that if you think it's beautiful,… — Eoin Colfer Copy Share Image
“Love, be mystical as the flickering blue flame of night as the fully-awoken moon beneath cobwebs of passing clouds amidst chanting high-tides… — Sanober Khan Copy Share Image
I don't think poetry will die, but I think that poetry does demand a certain kind of attention to language. It does… — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
“Sappho isn't really meant to be read. It's meant to be sung and there were dances for the songs, also. Sappho was… — Alexander Chee Copy Share Image
Every story, every poem, every written piece is about belonging. There is a me, there is a we, there is an us,… — Alejandro Zambra Copy Share Image
“Sometimes it’s great, and sometimes it’s shit. These are the things all the great philosophers just won’t tell you flat out about… — R.M. Engelhardt Copy Share Image
A writer is a person who cares what words mean, what they say, how they say it. Writers know words are their… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“Girls are cruelest to themselves,” observes Anne Carson in “The Glass Essay,” her brilliant long poem about the ravages of female anger,… — Maggie Nelson Copy Share Image
I tried to write you a poem today, but I had writer's block… so this all I came up with : roses… — Valeri Hernandez Copy Share Image
“Domestic If, when studying road atlases while taking, as you call it, your morning dump, you shout down to me names like… — Carl Phillips Copy Share Image
“I do not mean merely in its adding to enthusiasm that intellectual basis which in its strength, or that more obvious influence… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Most of us sleepwalk through our lives. We take all its glories, its wine, food, love, and friendship, its sunsets and its… — Jack McDevitt Copy Share Image
“But he goes all quiet. His ghost eyes roll / up in his head, white-on-white-on-white, / and he runs his shaking hands… — Holly Walrath Copy Share Image
It would be worth the while to select our reading, for books are the society we keep; to read only the serenely… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Writer’s block results from too much head. Cut off your head. Pegasus, poetry, was born of Medusa when her head was cut… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
“ON THE WATER by Yisrael Beider My brothers have reached the far shore, Landed on solid ground. I alone remain on the… — Yisrael Beider Copy Share Image
Those books of mine that are remunerative - I'm not talking about poetry here - take years to write, and I am… — Vikram Seth Copy Share Image
“COMING FORTH INTO THE LIGHT I was born the day I thought: What is? What was? And What if? I was transformed… — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image
The poem is neither here nor there, and with a girl's breast it can illuminate the nights. With the glow of an… — Mahmoud Darwish Copy Share Image
“I do think that all of us think in poems. I think of a poem as being deeper than headline news. You… — Naomi Shihab Nye Copy Share Image
The forties and fifties were years of high poet-incense; the language-flowers were thickly sweet. Those flowers whined and begged white folks to… — Gwendolyn Brooks Copy Share Image
If not then you must be trying to hear us and in such cases we cannot be heard. We remain in the… — Saul Williams Copy Share Image
“It is not that branches of knowledge fight with one another, not poetry with anatomy, but fallacies, i.e., people. When a man… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
My father, George, has also affected the choices in my life regarding films. I like films that take chances or say something… — Leonardo DiCaprio Copy Share Image
You panic button collector. You clock of beautiful ticks. You run out the door if you need to. You flock to the… — Andrea Gibson Copy Share Image
I love poetry. If my mind gets a bit tight or bound up with information or depressed with bad news, I find… — Mark Rylance Copy Share Image
“It is the kind of stoicism which had been seen as characteristic of Anglo-Saxon poetry, perhaps nowhere better expressed than in 'The… — Peter Ackroyd Copy Share Image
We poets don't tend to be certain a lot. Much of our art is made out of our own uncertainty. And there… — Sam Hamill Copy Share Image
“Paul speaks at one point of Christians as “God’s poem,” God’s “artwork.” We are his “workmanship,” say some of the translations of… — Wright, N. T Copy Share Image
Literature has been part of my life for as long as I can remember. I can't think back before a time that… — Alexandra Adornetto Copy Share Image
“15. “Master Filippus believes that three disciplines define us as humans,” Miri said while they walked to the peat pits. “History, Philosophy,… — Shannon Hale Copy Share Image
We learned a verse of this and that and we were having fun with the songs. Tommy would make up stories to… — Dick Smothers Copy Share Image
“SEPTEMBER 1, 1939 I sit in one of the dives On Fifty-second Street Uncertain and afraid As the clever hopes expire Of… — W.H. Auden Copy Share Image
France at the dinner table in faraway places; but here, among ourselves, in the family, let us face the facts: France is… — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
