“To the poet, Every act is poetry; From cutting the grass, To cleaning a headstone. From walking, To breathing... ...No matter the… — Eric Overby Copy Share Image
With me poetry has been not a purpose, but a passion; and the passions should be held in reverence: they must not… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
Who are you, reader, reading my poems an hundred years hence? I cannot send you one single flower from this wealth of… — Rabindranath Tagore Copy Share Image
Most people read poetry listening for echoes because the echoes are familiar to them. They wade through it the way a boy… — Wallace Stevens Copy Share Image
“You were nothing more than a daydream that a beautiful heart was bound to fall in love with, and daydreams aren't real… — Melody Lee Copy Share Image
I think there's probably always been visions and voices, and these were variously ascribed to the divine or demonic or the muses.… — Oliver Sacks Copy Share Image
I judge wisely...as if nothin ever surprise me, Loungin, between two pillars of ivory. I'm lively, my dome piece is like buildin… — Killah Priest Copy Share Image
A verse came to mind, one that has comforted Kari before. It was the shortest verse in the Bible: Jesus wept. If… — Karen Kingsbury Copy Share Image
Making verses is almost as common as taking snuff, and God can tell what miserable stuff people carry about in their pockets,… — Mary Wortley Montagu Copy Share Image
“By giving words the latitude she does, (Marianne) Van Hirtum emphasizes their contagious qualities: they become almost like viruses, with which it… — Michael Richardson Copy Share Image
“Reading poetry is like undressing before a bath. You don't undress out of fear that your clothes will become wet. You undress… — Kamand Kojouri Copy Share Image
In poetry, and in my study in graduate school, I was drawn to a particular poet, Theodore Roethke. I did a dissertation… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Artist Allen Crawford brings Whitman's undying text to new life in gorgeous hand-lettering and illustrations, transforming the 60-page poem originally published in… — Maria Popova Copy Share Image
I wrote this poem called “The Calvinist” to capture a glimpse of God’s sovereign intersection with the life of a sinful man.… — John Piper Copy Share Image
I had this idea for a long time to make a film about a poet in Paterson named Patterson. I wanted him… — Jim Jarmusch Copy Share Image
Painting (like poetry) chooses from universals what is most apposite. It brings together, in a single imaginary being, circumstances and characteristics which… — Francisco Goya Copy Share Image
“I write you poems because God spoke the universe into existence, so don’t ever let me hear you say that words are… — Upile Chisala Copy Share Image
“History’s smell. Like old roses on a breeze. It would lurk forever in ordinary things. In coat hangers. Tomatoes. In the tar… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
Lyrical poetry is not a big part of most people's lives. Twitter now becomes an interesting way of getting cared for language… — Teju Cole Copy Share Image
“Count,’ said Mrs. Leo Hunter. ‘Mrs. Hunt,’ replied the count. ‘This is Mr. Snodgrass, a friend of Mr. Pickwick’s, and a poet.’… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“We are the blood of the witches you thought were dead. We carry witchcraft in our bones whilst magic still sings inside… — Nikita Gill Copy Share Image
“When a battle is fought, all are anxious to know who are the victors. In these verses we are told who is… — D.L. Moody Copy Share Image
In medicine as well as in romantic poetry, it is the heart that is the center and controlling mechanics of life. If… — Henry Grunwald Copy Share Image
“ Why , instead of teaching her poetry and drama and needlework, had her governesses not taught the most important lesson anyone… — Mary Balogh Copy Share Image
“Clarissa, sane Clarissa-exultant, ordinary Clarissa- will go on, loving London, loving her life of ordinary pleasure, and someone else, a deranged poet,… — Michael Cunningham Copy Share Image
“If Laura was so prolific with poems, and in truth she was, then what was the problem with Megan’s request? Couldn’t Laura,… — L.L. Barkat Copy Share Image
The poetry of art is in beholding the single tower; the poetry of nature in seeing the single tree; the poetry of… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“Boy, this is your lucky day!" She clapped her hands. "You found yourself a librarian! I can help wit the figuring-out thing… — Joe Hill Copy Share Image
Rude poets of the tavern hearth, squandering your unquoted mirth, which keeps the ground, and never soars, while jake retorts, and reuben… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“Mr Earbrass was virtually asleep when several lines of verse passed through his mind and left it hopelessly awake. Here was the… — Edward Gorey Copy Share Image
How our story has been divided up among the truth-telling professions! Religion, philosophy, history, poetry, compete with each other for our ears;… — Laura Riding Copy Share Image
It's not realistic to imagine that any poem will last forever. Our species won't last forever! We try to capture and preserve… — James Arthur Copy Share Image
“Sonnet of Superpowers Poet's superpower is their pain, Philosopher's superpower is reason. Scientist's superpower is their brain, Artist's superpower is their vision.… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“So relax into life, breathe deep and let go. Attain what you need but don't sell your soul. For it's a treasure… — Mark Rickerby Copy Share Image
“There are other, savager, and more primeval aspects of Nature than our poets have sung. It is only white man's poetry. Homer… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Read. Read every chance you get. Read to keep growing. Read history. Read poetry. Read for pure enjoyment. Read a book called… — David McCullough Copy Share Image
I am gone into the fields To take what this sweet hour yields; Reflection, you may come to-morrow, Sit by the fireside… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
A lot of things appearing under my byline were written in one draft. But when I started to write poetry, I started… — Richard Meltzer Copy Share Image
“Pay to go inside Neruda's home A body lies there with no dome. But right there in the front hall Lean a… — Ana Claudia Antunes Copy Share Image
I do think that the long poem speaks for an inner need for continuity. We live in a time of so many… — Alison Hawthorne Deming Copy Share Image
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