The writing of a novel or short story or poem or whatever should elevate the audience, not drag the writer down to… — Caitlín R. Kiernan Copy Share Image
“Apollinaire said a poet should be 'of his time.' I say objects of the Digital Age belong in newspapers, not literature. When… — Roman Payne Copy Share Image
Can poetry be a form of social change? I don't know the answer to that. I do think art can have a… — Dawn Lundy Martin Copy Share Image
I do not remember-that is the point-the first impulse that pumped and shoved most of the earlier poems along, and they are… — Dylan Thomas Copy Share Image
“Choice, and all its attendant energy, is a characteristic of youth. It is before one chooses that one feels desire and longing… — Mary Ruefle Copy Share Image
“Life is like that. You think you’re just slogging along and then something reminds you that just getting up in the morning… — Ada Limon Copy Share Image
And thus, in full, there are four classes: the men who feel nothing, and therefore see truly; the men who feel strongly,… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
the ordinary man's experience is chaotic, irregular, fragmentary. [He] falls in love or reads Spinoza, and these two experiences have nothing to… — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
“ My Floating Sea " "Pastel colors reflect in my opening eyes and draw my gaze to a horizon where the waters… — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
The mystic purchases a moment of exhilaration with a lifetime of confusion; and the confusion is infectious and destructive. It is confusing… — Basil Bunting Copy Share Image
“Years ago I used to pick a word of the day randomly out of an dictionary/thesaurus to write poetry. I learned then… — DragonPoetikFly Copy Share Image
“I breathed him in and tasted him, his lips stronger than I’d expected. He could spout scripture and I could spout poetry,… — Vee Hoffman Copy Share Image
“…be awake to the Life that is loving you and sing your prayer, laugh your prayer, dance your prayer, run and weep… — Alla Renee Bozarth Copy Share Image
“Please take your time. I want you to kill me slowly so I can write my last poem to my wife's heart.… — Mahmoud Darwish Copy Share Image
History shows us that in times of people feeling like they are in need of some sort of rebellion or protests, the… — Lady Gaga Copy Share Image
Our father the novelist; my husband the poet. He belongs to the ages - just don't catch him at breakfast. Artists, celebrated… — Alan Bennett Copy Share Image
Poetry is a form of necessary speech... I have sought to restore the aura of sacred practice that accompanies true poetic creation,… — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
“Burn the verses, I'll write fiction - burn the fiction, I'll write music - burn the music, I'll adopt a new language… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“Who Am I? I’m a creator, a visionary, a poet. I approach the world with the eyes of an artist, the ears… — Sharon M. Draper Copy Share Image
The attempt to divide art and politics is a bourgeois which says good poetry, art, cannot be political, but since everything is… — Amiri Baraka Copy Share Image
“I was born into this torrid world a degenerate, eternally condemned a vessel of belligerency, destined to one day end. But despite… — Evan Guerra Copy Share Image
I'd always tended to regard song lyrics as sort of a bastard medium because they're subjugated under the music. If you were… — David Longstreth Copy Share Image
There is scarcely anything to which I am so feelingly alive as the honour and welfare of my country, and, as a… — Robert Burns Copy Share Image
“These are the three things—volume of sound, modulation of pitch, and rhythm—that a speaker bears in mind. It is those who do… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
My poems always begin with a metaphor, but my way into the metaphor may be a word, an image, even a sound.… — Stephen Dobyns Copy Share Image
As a poet or a novelist or a painter, you are pushing yourself all the time, always looking for a new way… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
Dreamlands Unbroken Trust! A liars supreme resource! Youre love! Youre innocents! Youre TRUST! Since youre above suspicion. You become the hottest asset… — Javaz Copy Share Image
“Occasionally I looked at the sky, where the stars were fading and the pink light of the morning was beginning to spread… — Viktor E. Frankl Copy Share Image
The gods weave misfortunes for men, so that the generations to come will have something to sing about.” Mallarmé repeats, less beautifully,… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
Oft morning-dreams presage approaching fate; And morning -dreams, as poets tell, are true, Led by pale ghosts, I enter Death's dark gate,… — Michael Bruce Copy Share Image
One of the most beautiful verses in the Bible about Heaven is in the 21st chapter of Revelation, the fourth verse. John… — David Berg Copy Share Image
“I won't be stuck in traffic 'til I see how rugged my path is And right now I'm loving how fast my… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
“Everybody in this room is bored. The poems drag, the voice and gestures irk. He can't be interrupted or ignored. Poor fools,… — Wendy Cope Copy Share Image
A lot of people mistake the persona that I create in poetry and fiction with me. A lot of people claim to… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
“It's one thing to remember, another to get stuck. Why don't people buy notepads and write poems instead of sit around on… — Oddný Eir Copy Share Image
“The stunning corpus of poetry produced during the war likewise paints a very different picture of how the conflict was viewed at… — Peter Frankopan Copy Share Image
“I mean this is the kind of love people dream about, poets write sonnets for, and well it's the kind of love… — DeAnna Kinney Copy Share Image
To a large degree, we are still bound to the modern scientific spirit, that characterizes reality merely by its material and mechanic… — Leonardo Boff Copy Share Image
With several different kinds of poetry to choose from, a man would decide that he would like best to be an epic… — Lascelles Abercrombie Copy Share Image
... where the Greeks had modesty, we have cant; where they had poetry, we have cant; where they had patriotism, we have… — Thomas Love Peacock Copy Share Image
![“the ordinary man's experience is chaotic, irregular, fragmentary. [He] falls in love or reads Spinoza, and these two experiences have nothing to do with each other, or with the noise of the typewriter, or the smell of cooking; in the mind of the poet these experiences are always forming new wholes” quote by T. S. Eliot](https://sms4smile.com/q/i/18e/t-s-eliot-633_art_the-ordinary-man-s-experience-is-chaotic_93688.png)
