“Here they have no time for the fine graces of poetry, unless it freely grows in deep compulsion, like water in the… — Iain Crichton Smith Copy Share Image
Nature doth thus kindly heal every wound. By the mediation of a thousand little mosses and fungi, the most unsightly objects become… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Plot, rules, nor even poetry, are not half so great beauties in tragedy or comedy as a just imitation of nature, of… — Horace Walpole Copy Share Image
Only those of our poets who kept solidly to the Shakespearean tradition achieved any measure of success. But Keats was the last… — Amy Lowell Copy Share Image
When you see the poet laureate saying that every child should have read 'Ulysses' and that you're just giving up on children… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
“dear J: I feel lucky that I didn’t fuck you the first time we met in Houston, but luckier that I didn’t… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
“In Ancient Greek literature male poets tend not simply to portray women as lecherous but to attribute to them a species of… — Sappho Copy Share Image
“Pagan At home in the countryside I make the decision to leave your book --overdue at the library-- face up, 'promiscuous' out… — Alice Walker 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
I know just how to whisper, I know just how to cry, I know where to find the answers, and I know… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“and you without your sadness is like the ocean without water, the sky without the sun and the stars. it just doesn't… — Ashley Rose Copy Share Image
“I never will be sober while desire guides me, lured by darkness to distant light, where sky gods celebrate those who love night glory, who dare once… — Don Hynes Copy Share Image
There's never been a culture without poetry in the history of the world. In every culture, in every language there is expressive… — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
“I loved you unabashedly in the rain, you were real, raw, accustomed to pain. I loved you mostly in the rain, where… — Melody Lee Copy Share Image
When a poem might become a song, then certain parts are repeated and might become a refrain or a chorus, so they… — PJ Harvey Copy Share Image
“Deep within our hearts lies the deepest mystery the inner core of our divine power of endless love the ocean of eternal… — Ramon William Ravenswood Copy Share Image
Chloe Honum's brilliant first book The Tulip-Flame traces an identity forming within radically divergent but interlocking systems: a family traumatized by the… — Claudia Emerson Copy Share Image
“A BRIEF INTERLUDE It’s been three years since I’ve spent the night with someone who liked me enough to get breakfast in… — Trista Mateer Copy Share Image
“What would I do if you never came here?' But I was ALWAYS coming here. I thought about one of my favorite… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
“The laws of the Islamic state would be derived first from the Koran. But since only about six hundred of its six… — Geraldine Brooks Copy Share Image
“Love is a chemical reaction, But it cannot be fully understood or defined by science. And though a body cannot exist without… — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image
“These prophetic verses certainly would apply to the United States. Twenty-two of our states have ports or harbors through which flow the… — John Price Copy Share Image
It's very hard to look in a mirror and see anything which resembles what one feels one's self to be. I think… — Jorie Graham Copy Share Image
“A prominent citizen in a small city State, such as Athens or Florence, could without difficulty feel himself important. The earth was… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Maeterlinck says that compared with ordinary truths mystic truths have strange privileges - they can neither age nor die. Beauty is eternal… — Florence Earle Coates Copy Share Image
In reading, in literature and poetry, I found an artistic freedom that I didn't see at Woolworth's. I would read everything from… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
A banker warned the British poet Robert Graves that one could not grow rich writing poetry. He replied that if there was… — Robert Graves Copy Share Image
Dealing with poetry is a daunting task, simply because the reason one does it as an editor at all is because one… — Peter Davison Copy Share Image
“If I could only keep up my spirit- if I could only play the game according to the sportsman's code which Rita… — Edmund Wilson Copy Share Image
“In the early 1920s, Lewis hoped to be remembered as an atheist poet, whose bitter and forceful condemnations of an uncaring and… — Alister McGrath Copy Share Image
“Remember the year I stopped eating apples? Remember the summer I kept bringing home abandoned chairs? A lucid Vincent wrote to his… — Olena Kalytiak Davis Copy Share Image
I think we've come to a kind of splinter period in poetry. These tiny little bright fragments of observation - and not… — Conrad Aiken Copy Share Image
“You may fancy yourself safe and think yourself strong. But a chance tone of color in a room or a morning sky,… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
A particular ikon an aid to devotion may be itself a word of art, but that is logically accidental; its artistic merits… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
A farmer, a hunter, a soldier, a reporter, even a philosopher, may be daunted; but nothing can deter a poet, for he… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“I am too alone in the world, and yet not alone enough to make every moment holy. I am too tiny in… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
A poet trains himself to stand out in a storm and be struck by lightning. If he is lucky enough to be… — James Dickey Copy Share Image
I liked the kid who wrote me that he had to do a term paper on a modern poet and he was… — Howard Nemerov Copy Share Image
“Criticism is like politics: if you don't make your own you are by default accepting the status quo and are finally yourself… — Annie Finch Copy Share Image
If I had life to live over again, I would give my life to poetry, to music, to literature, and to art… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
