“in the poetry that opens his book the Preacher is not commenting on what life is like without Christ. He is not… — David Gibson Copy Share Image
In the Middle Ages, the troubadour poets invented the concept of courtly love--a fantasy love, a noble passion, which was also extra-marital… — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
Each poet probably has his or her own cupboard of magnets. For some, it is cars; for others, works of art, or… — Jane Hirshfield Copy Share Image
I didn't read poetry seriously until college, when I really began to devour it in a very intense way. I also discovered… — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
“Brisbane is so sleepy, so slatternly, so sprawlingly unlovely… It is simply the most ordinary place in the world…It was so shabby… — David Malouf Copy Share Image
If you agree with me that a poem can be as bountiful as a rich Victorian narrative, and as wise... then you'll… — Albert Goldbarth Copy Share Image
“ Apology I didn't mean to say so much to you. I should have thought to let the evening end by looking… — Mary Szybist Copy Share Image
There is an idealism associated with poetry I would not dispel but question. It doesn't change anything except within. It shifts your… — C.D. Wright Copy Share Image
It seems like every ten years there's a book that says that poetry used to be popular, and now it's not, but… — Robert Hass Copy Share Image
I got a lot of friends but there's only one of you, if I lost you I don't know what I'd do.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Since so much of the poetry machine is consumed in and with the mirroring and the reproduction of what is already preexistent,… — Fady Joudah Copy Share Image
“I scan my memory for fragments of the poem that are floating in my memory. “If you can dream—and not make dreams… — Dylan Allen Copy Share Image
She is unable to dream, think or love. In a woman, poetry never comes naturally, but always as the result of education.… — Edmond de Goncourt Copy Share Image
“Walter Scott has no business to write novels, especially good ones. — It is not fair. — He has fame and profit… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“For it has come about, by the wise economy of nature, that our modern spirit can almost dispense with language; the commonest… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“I know this much, is all, “ Franny said. “ If you’re a poet, you do something beautiful. I mean, you’re supposed… — J.D. Salinger Copy Share Image
“It is winter now, and the roses are blooming again, their petals bright against the snow. My father died last April; my… — Jane Yolen Copy Share Image
When you think of things that influenced your life, Mother Goose influenced more people than almost any other thing, the rhythms of… — Grace Paley Copy Share Image
If I were twenty or thirty years younger, I would start afresh in this field with the certainty of accomplishing much. But… — Eleanora Duse Copy Share Image
I am mistaken if a single epigram included fails to preserve at least some faint thrill of the emotion through which it… — Arthur Quiller-Couch Copy Share Image
“An anonymous GI poet added: Please Mr. Truman, won't you send us home? We have captured Napoli and liberated Rome; We have… — James T. Patterson Copy Share Image
“Through the mad mystic hammering of the wild ripping hail the sky cracked its poems in naked wonder, that the clinging of… — Bob Dylan Copy Share Image
“A poem exists only in the relation between poet and reader. And I'm in need of my readers, except that they never… — Mahmoud Darwish Copy Share Image
“ Music, When Soft Voices Die Music, when soft voices die, Vibrates in the memory; Odours, when sweet violets sicken, Live within… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
“~Dance~ My fingers dance On the set Of ivory & black pirouettes. I let go While my fingers fly, Making music through… — Rachel Nicole Wagner Copy Share Image
The reason Milton wrote in fetters when he wrote of Angels & God, and at liberty when of Devils & Hell, is… — William Blake Copy Share Image
If you examine the highest poetry in the light of common sense, you can only say that it is rubbish; and in… — Aleister Crowley Copy Share Image
The artist has some internal experience that produces a poem, a painting, a piece of music. Spectators submit themselves to the work,… — Samuel R. Delany Copy Share Image
“Twilight Surprise” poem: “The sky burns down, A rim of coals glowing gold and red, Limned with orange again And kissed with… — Elizabeth Barrette Copy Share Image
O, how much more doth beauty beauteous seem By that sweet ornament which truth doth give! The rose looks fair, but fairer… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
if you are not allowed to touch the heart sometimes in spite of syntax, and are not to be loved until you… — William Makepeace Thackeray Copy Share Image
There are three things, after all, that a poem must reach: the eye, the ear, and what we may call the heart… — Robert Frost Copy Share Image
“In math, the backwards E, ∃, means there exists. ∈ means part of a set. A line through that ∉ means excluded… — Katrina Vandenberg Copy Share Image
“My face in thine eye, thine in mine appeares, And true plaine hearts doe in the faces rest, Where can we finde… — John Donne Copy Share Image
“Paradise Lost is a poem. The old, blind bastard’s trying to sing to you. Listen, as the Isley Brothers say, to the… — John Edgar Wideman Copy Share Image
“I am sorry my words sometimes frighten the fireflies from your dreams, I am sorry that battalions of doubt have pitched camp… — Richard Jackson Copy Share Image
French is not a language that lends itself naturally to the opaque and ponderous idiom of nature-philosophy, and Teilhard has according resorted… — Peter Medawar Copy Share Image
About three years ago, I started an exercise in openness and inclusiveness to create new digital tools for magic - tools that… — Marco Tempest Copy Share Image
“He has forgotten how to hope. This hell of the present is his Kingdom at last. All problems recover their sharp edge.… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“For as long as there are poets, playwrights and men with hearts to break, tales will be told of the princess who… — Andrew Morton Copy Share Image
