“To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best day and night to make you like everybody else… — E.E. Cummings Copy Share Image
“The thought of our past years in me doth breed Perpetual benediction: not indeed For that which is most worthy to be… — William Wordsworth Copy Share Image
The art of poetry consists in taking the poem through draft after draft, without losing its inspirational magic: he removes everything irrelevant… — Robert Graves Copy Share Image
“there were more children there than Scrooge in his agitated mind could count, and unlike the celebrated poem, not every forty children… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
So the physicality of that and the just the sheer lack of urban noise and machinery - just the wind, the water… — DJ Spooky Copy Share Image
“Someday the Sun will explode, and what about our journalism and poetry then? Well, so what? To hell with our exploding Sun.… — Bruce Sterling Copy Share Image
“I was, I remember, nineteen years old, wrote poems, still wore no proper collar, ran out in the rain and snow, always… — Robert Walser Copy Share Image
I want to understand the piers of language and music and comprehension that can hold up a building even when what the… — Jane Hirshfield Copy Share Image
“Now, standing here, it is clear as day: more than anything else, you want to find words for what you feel and… — Bilal Tanweer Copy Share Image
I started moving away from poets like Wallace Stevens and Hart Crane and started reading poets like, again, Karl Shapiro, Howard Nemerov,… — Billy Collins Copy Share Image
The reason why we do maths is because it's like poetry. It's about patterns, and that really turned me on. It made… — Marcus du Sautoy Copy Share Image
A poet is a nightingale, who sits in darkness and sings to cheer its own solitude with sweet sounds; his auditors are… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
No matter how much we learn, there is always more knowledge to be gained. In this connection I am reminded of a… — A. Ray Olpin Copy Share Image
“I don’t exist metal pressed to pages spilling blood, ink in vein each thought rages Sunlight shooting through a forest of pines… — Abby Musgrove Copy Share Image
“The poet Rumi saw clearly the relationship between our wounds and our awakening. He counseled, “Don’t turn away. Keep your gaze on… — Tara Brach Copy Share Image
Too many poets write poems which are only difficult on the surface, difficult because the dramatic situation is easily misunderstood. It's not… — Miller Williams Copy Share Image
“I [...] suggest considering Byron as a Scottish poet – I say ’Scottish’, not ’Scots’, since he wrote in English. The one… — T.S. Eliot Copy Share Image
When oxygen and sulphur dioxide are mixed in the presence of a filiament of platinum, they form sulphurous acid. This combination takes… — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
“T]here arises an insight, which the poet must learn through other people. There is no insurmountable solitude. All paths lead to the… — Pablo Neruda Copy Share Image
Love, according to our contemporary poets, is a privilege which two beings confer upon one another, whereby they may mutually cause one… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
“ Gospel The new grass rising in the hills, the cows loitering in the morning chill, a dozen or more old browns… — Philip Levine Copy Share Image
Hindi film songs lack poetry, and even musically, they aren't appealing at times. Their lyrical qualities aren't strong. I sometimes feel that… — Kumar Sanu Copy Share Image
Literary fiction and poetry are real marginalized right now. There's a fallacy that some of my friends sometimes fall into, the ol'… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
“The Greek word epos means simply “word” or “story” or “song.” It is related to a verb meaning “to say” or “to… — Homer Copy Share Image
“In the streets, the children scream, the lovers cried, and the poets dreamed,” he crooned, putting down the metal grill tongs to… — Alexandria Clarke Copy Share Image
“I want to run out of the world, not into a monastery—I still have my strength—but in order to find myself (that… — Søren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
The poem 'What Teachers Make' is not without its detractors. This one person wrote to me and said: 'Gee, Mr. Mali. You… — Taylor Mali Copy Share Image
Now more than ever, as the role of memory in our culture erodes at a faster pace than ever before, we need… — Joshua Foer Copy Share Image
In 1945, just at the end of World War II, the American poet Muriel Rukeyser wrote a remarkable book called The Life… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
“And now we who are writing women and strange monsters Still search our hearts to find the difficult answers, Still hope that… — May Sarton Copy Share Image
“It still is on the run, time that is. Sometimes it seems like everything’s changing; my whole world is rearranging. Everything’s different,… — Amanda Leigh Copy Share Image
“I walk alone, absorbed in my fantastic play, — Fencing with rhymes, which, parrying nimbly, back away; Tripping on words, as on… — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
Most poetry is the utterance of a man in some state of passion, love, joy, grief, rage, etc., and no doubt this… — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
“Those green irises were like gentle pools of brilliant meadows of sage and green-envy coneflowers swaying in a warm breeze. HOLY fuck.… — Christine Zolendz Copy Share Image
“ One Day I Wrote Her Name Upon the Strand One day I wrote her name upon the strand, But came the… — Edmund Spenser Copy Share Image
The aesthetic event is something as evident, as immediate, as indefinable as love, the taste of fruit, as water. We feel poetry… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
“I carry your heart with me (I carry it in my heart)I am never without it (anywhere I go you go,my dear;… — E.E. Cummings Copy Share Image
If a poem is written well, it was written with the poet's voice and for a voice. Reading a poem silently instead… — Robert Pinsky Copy Share Image
When the Negro musician or dancer swings the blues, he is fulfilling the same fundamental existential requirement that determines the mission of… — Albert Murray Copy Share Image
“The words of the true poems give you more than poems, They give you to form for yourself poems, religions, politics, war,… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
![“I [...] suggest considering Byron as a Scottish poet – I say ’Scottish’, not ’Scots’, since he wrote in English. The one poet of his time with whom he could be considered to be in competition, a poet of whom he spoke invariably with the highest respect, was Sir Walter Scott. I have always seen, or…” quote by T.S. Eliot](https://sms4smile.com/q/i/15a/t-s-eliot-2-1761_byron_i-suggest-considering-byron-as-a-scottis_1943548.jpg)
![“T]here arises an insight, which the poet must learn through other people. There is no insurmountable solitude. All paths lead to the same goal: to convey to others what we are.” quote by Pablo Neruda](https://sms4smile.com/q/i/153/pablo-neruda-435_journey_t-here-arises-an-insight-which-the-poet_1586122.jpg)
