Songwriting and poetry are so commonly birthed from underdogs because one can make even the ugliest situations admirable, or more beautiful than… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
“You are strange. A deep sea of mystery. Tangled mix of starlight and darkness. A beautiful mess, and I am devastatingly drawn… — Melody Lee Copy Share Image
The supreme question about a work of art is out of how deep a life does it spring. Paintings of Moreau are… — James Joyce Copy Share Image
I came to writing mysteries through poetry and still think that a well-constructed mystery is very much like a well-constructed sonnet. Both… — Margaret Maron Copy Share Image
“ Sounds Is Love of All, the World Sounds create soulful existence, When the oceans tide, it is sound; When fervency of… — John Shelton Jones Copy Share Image
Organized religion is sane and not silly when read as myth and poetry rather than science and law. Religion speaks nonsense when… — Rami M. Shapiro Copy Share Image
“I will paint you With a subtle shade of sadness Sitting on a blue chair In a long forgotten room Surrounded by… — Alacazam Copy Share Image
“The strings in her mind grew flatter, calmer. The shapes in the hologrid had changed. She heard the man's words, and yet… — Nancy Kress Copy Share Image
Or, to express this in another way, suggested to me by Professor Suzuki, in connection with seeing into our own nature, poetry… — Reginald Horace Blyth Copy Share Image
Research such as ours is driven by the human imperative to understand where we are. It motivates the study of our positions… — Jim Peebles Copy Share Image
“Art is the conscious making of numinous phenomena. Many objects are just objects - inert, merely utilitarian. Many events are inconsequential, too… — K.J. Bishop Copy Share Image
“A final caution to students: in making judgments on literature, always be honest. Do not pretend to like what you really do… — Laurence Perrine Copy Share Image
I had a country upbringing in a predominantly Maori community, and that contrasted with a very multi-cultured arts community in the Aro… — Taika Waititi Copy Share Image
“My friends, tonight we bring you something entirely different. Something special. The poets will rest, the sonnets will be silent, and what… — Charles Grant Copy Share Image
“Is there a better method of departure by night than this quiet bon voyage with an open book, the sole companion who… — Billy Collins Copy Share Image
“ Rocking Chair Sad is. Scared is. That is all. The rocking chair I live in rocks like a paper boat. Sometimes… — Andrea Gibson Copy Share Image
Scientists have power by virtue of the respect commanded by the discipline... We live with poets and politicians, preachers and philosophers. All… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
“One difficulty that people seeking to modernize hymnals and the language of worship inevitably run into is that contemporaries are never the… — Kathleen Norris Copy Share Image
I have a deep and ongoing love of Iceland, particular the landscape, and when writing 'Burial Rites,' I was constantly trying to… — Hannah Kent Copy Share Image
Sometimes, I think the best kind of poem is one in which there is an acute balance between what is humorous and… — N. Scott Momaday Copy Share Image
“The prose poem for me becomes a kind of chamber with no way out… a kind of hunt, because what is hunt… — Sabrina Orah Mark Copy Share Image
Poets often have a conscious awareness that they are struggling with the daimonic, and that the issue is their working something through… — Rollo May Copy Share Image
For me, to have had an impact with anything that you've done, whether it's a painting, a photo, a poem, or something… — Linda Perry Copy Share Image
The fact that I'm a woman is as important to my work as a poet as the fact that Ahmad Shāmlu was… — Simin Behbahani Copy Share Image
“I? I walk alone; The midnight street Spins itself from under my feet; My eyes shut These dreaming houses all snuff out;… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
“The poet Rumi writes, 'Find the real world, give it endlessly away, grow rich flinging gold to all who ask. Live at… — Gregory Boyle Copy Share Image
“...but doth not the person who expends vast sums in the furniture of his house or the ornaments of his person, who… — Henry Fielding Copy Share Image
“In the republic of poetry, poets rent a helicopter to bombard the national palace with poems on bookmarks, and everyone in the… — Martxedn Espada Copy Share Image
Most of the time I'm not really attracted to writing that's focused on filling and fighting it out within a well-defined container.… — Stephen Vincent Benet Copy Share Image
“We have calcium in our bones, iron in our veins, carbon in our souls, and nitrogen in our brains. 93 percent stardust,… — Nikita Gill Copy Share Image
There is nothing “still” in the remarkably visceral poems of Alexander Long's third collection, Still Life, and nothing is at rest in… — David St. John Copy Share Image
“Books, she thought, grew of themselves. She never had time to read them. Alas! even the books that had been given her,… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
The truth, I am convinced, is that there is no longer a poetical audience among the higher class of minds, that moral,… — Thomas Love Peacock Copy Share Image
“Before you ask others to respect your beliefs, you have to respect their beliefs. Do you respect others beliefs when you recite… — Wafa Sultan Copy Share Image
“Tis the wink of an eye, 'tis the draught of a breath, From the blossom of health to the paleness of death,… — William Knox Copy Share Image
“The next “I will” is in John, fourteenth chapter, verse eighteen: “I will not leave you comfortless.” To me it is a… — D.L. Moody Copy Share Image
I don't deny," he said, "that there should be priests to remind men that they will one day die. I only say… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The eye of the spirit can nowhere find more dazzling brilliance and more shadow than in man; it can fix itself on… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
I got a bit obsessed with the whole English language and was writing journals and poetry. I've always been intrigued about psychology… — Lara Pulver Copy Share Image
“(About "Black Debt" by Steve McCaffery) 'Impersonal' as this text is, it is by no means unemotional or uninvolved. We learn nothing--… — Marjorie Perloff Copy Share Image
